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CREATION OF CARS AND MICE.
An Italian Legend Involving st. Francis
dc Paula and the Devil.

An italian Legend Involving st. Francis
dc Paula and the Devil.
From the London Spectator: send
you translation l have made of an
Italian legend of how the cat was
created, written by Antonio de Nino
Many are the proverbs about cats in
the Abruzzi. ST. Francis de Paula per-
formed so many miracles that the devil
was made i'll with envy. Once he en-
tered the cell of st. Francis in the
shape of grand nobleman with a box
full of heavy gold pieces. Here,
Francis" said he, "take these, don't
remain In this miserable howell enjoy
life; it is strewn with roses, why do
you collect ali the thorns?" st. Francis
without much ado, raised his hand and
made the sign of the cross, whereupon
the fine gentleman disappeared amid
clouds of sulphur smoke. Another
time the devil led lovely damsels, bare
footed and lightly clothed, into the cell
of the saint, and then queens and en-
presses Of glorious beauty, covered with
jewels and wrapped in mantles of gold
tissue. But st. Francis stood there
like a log of wood, and at last made
the sign of the cross, when everything
disappeared. The devil was furious.
II must find some way to make this
stolid fellow lose patience" After
much thought he rubbed his hands
with delight. He created mice, and
they multiplied by thousands in the
wink of an eye. The cell of st. Fran
els was filled by them, and he tried in
vain to drive them out with his hands
and feet. But as he drove them out
of the door they swarmed in at the
window, and when he closed both door
and window they crep up through holes
in the brick floor or dropped down
through cracks in the ceiling. Then
they clambered up the saints tunic,
made beds in his straw mattress, play
ed pranks in his provision basket and
were generally offensive. At last St
Francis. after reciting fervent prayer
burst out laughing. The mice were
beginning to attack him in thousands,
when beautiful little cat was created
in the sleeve of his tunic. So he cried
to the mice, Il implore you to stop and
go your ways or you will repent it"
The mice answered by pushing their
noses against the bare skin of the
saint, as though they wanted to pierce
through him, so he drew the beautiful
little cat out of his sleeve, and it
sprang at the mice blessed with such
miraculous hunger that it swallowed
two at a time of the big ones and three
or four of the little ones. st. Francis
hoped they would have been exter-
minated. and rushed to stop up hole
in the ceiling (he had already shut the
door and the Window, but he was not
quick enough. A pair of mice es-
capped, and thus we have those tire
some mice all over the world. st.
Francis then uttered another prayer.
and his beautiful little cat was granted
"a companion They multiplied exceed
ingly, and have always been favorites
with devout old ladies because they are
a creation of st. Francis.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-11-28
JUST IN TIME.

It was to cure herself OF hopeless
passion that Helen Brown left the city
and its vanities for her Aunt Julia's
farmhouse. She had fallen in love
with man who ignored her very ex-
istence. although she was beautiful
and an heiress.
The quiet life on the farm gave her
too much time to think. SO when she
heard that the position of under
teacher was vacant in the country
school she applied for the place and
won it.
She expected to find her master
lubberly rustic, who wrote poetry for
the town paper, and was rather sur
prised when he turned out to be
young man of intellect, with refined
face.
How he dressed she was never quite
sure, for when she was in his company
she never thought of it, and when she
tried to think about 1t afterwards she
could not remember.
If 1t was homespun, then homespun
must be particularly becoming style
of cloth for a gentleman, and no man
was ever more suitably dressed than
Arthur Church.
And he is superior to any one l
have ever met-superior to them ALL!
she declared aloud. in the solitude of
her walk homeward. "Once, at least.
will say that to my own heart, for
though l do not love him l can at least
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-11-28
Qu-en Regents GIT.

The queen regent of Spain recently
donated 5000 volumes to the Tampa
Fla.) Casino library for the use of
members. The membership OF the
Casino is made up almost wholly of
Spaniards. and most all the books in
the library are Spanish. Some Of the
queens books have already been RS
ce!red spd the others will arrive socr.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-11-28
stu More counterfe,trne.

The Secret Service has just un-
earthed another band of counterfeit
ers and secured Il quantity of bogus
bills, which are cleverly executed.
Things of great value are always Sc
lected for imitation, notably Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters, which has many
imtators but no equals for disorders
like indigestion, dyspepsia and consti-
patton.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-11-28
For Every Household.

The sewing machine bargain adver-
tised by the John NJ. Smyth Co. in an
other part of this paper should interest
every housekeeper The firm is thor
oughly reliable, having been estab-
lished in Chicago over thirty years.
and anyone dealing with them may
be assured of square treatment Get
their mammoth catalogue of every
thing to eat, wear or use.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-11-28
L,feon Earth.

Lord Kelvin in lecture stated that
as result Of recent investigations 1t
was estimated that the earth had been
the abode CT life for about 30,000.000
years.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-11-28

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send for FREE S2.OO trial bottle and treatise.
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west Quickest time and finest equip
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Jones is a man OF domestic habits. -
"Then / pity him." " Why?" Because
a man of domestic habits can't live up TO
his reputation unless he stays at home
every night"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-11-28

New York has two great amusement
centers." What are they?" "Coney Is
land and Grants tomb.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-11-28

as your new play a comedy or a TRACE
dy?' Il can't tell until see how the audi
ence takes it."
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-11-28

Pisos Cure for Consumption is the best
of all cough cures.-George W.. Lott,
Fabucher, La, August 26, 1885.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-11-28

''Do you think ridicule crushes poets?"
ter and the bad poets to do worse"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-11-28

What is an era of good feelng?' ut
is when all the politicians who want Of
fees get them
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-11-28

THE GRIP CURE THAT DOES CURE.
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets removes
the cause that produces La Grippe. l.. w
Groves signature is on each box. 2oc.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-11-28

Have you any special method of hang
ing. pictures artistically." Yes; try not
to hang them upside down"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-05-11
OUR Philippine POLICY.

"Speaking of the considerations
which moved the American commits
sioners," writes Senator Cushman X.
Davis in The National Magazine Of
Boston for May, ''in agreeing to pay
the $20,00O,0OO to Spain the question
was one of general consideration.
We have never taken any territory,
without giving some pecuniary con-
sideration. but after going over
the whole ground, pro and con, and
taking into consideration the valu-
able islands of which we had de-
privcd Spain, it was thought to be
just to pay Spain the amount named.
The fact is that SPANS improvements
in the Philippines do not amount to
much. The forts are superannuated.
Their lighthouse system is barely
begun; the highways are wretched,
and the public buildings are poor
and in very bad condition. Spain
has not done as much for the Phil
ippines as she had done for Cuba, and
we all know how little she had done
for that island.
"A positive present opinion as to
the kind of Government, might be
changed by the development of
events. | should say that we should
provide Government with great
scope of administrative powers. to be
conducted from here, and comforting
local autonomy as freely as possible
in the cities and towns of the islands.
These matters will have to be adapt
ed TO the conditions as we find them
The Philippines should be no place
for the professional politician or the
office filler"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-05-11
WOMEN IN TROUBLE.
The Approach of Motherhood is the
no,os;o~. - N-rh Apviofv Tn ALL


Every woman breads the ordeal
through which she must pass in becom-
ing a mother. The pain and suffering
which is in store for her is a source OF
constant anxiety, fear and dread, to
saT nothing of the danger which the
coming incident entails. The joyous
nnticipa lions with which she looks for
ward to- baby's coming gives way to an
Understandable dread Of the ordeal when
she fully realizes the critical and trying
event which will soon approach and
have to be endured.
Women should hail with delight
remedy which insures to them i'm
munity from the pain, suffering and
danger incidental to child-bearing::
Such remedy is now offered, and
women need rot fear longer the hour OF
childbirth Mothers Friend"-is
scientific liniInent--and if used before
confinement, gently and surely prepares
the body for the great requirements
and changes it is undergoing, lnsureS
safety to both mother and child, and
takes her through the event with COM
parutive ease and comfort. This won
derful remedy is praised by every
woman who has used 1t.
What woman is not interested in
Mother'S FRIEND! ms WONDERFUL
remedy has been tested and its price
less value proven by the experience OF
thousands of happy mothers who
have used it during the most critical
period of wOman's lfe-the approach
and elimination of motherhood.
it has won their everlasting praise,
for it gave them help and hope in
:hcir most trying hour and when
most needed Every woman may some
daf need "Mother's Friend" This
little book. Before Baby is Born"
telling all about it, and when it should
he used will prove Of great interest and
benefit. 70 all expectant mothers, and
will lie sent free to any address upon
application to the Bradfield Regulator
Company, Atlanta, Ga.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-05-11
Encouraging Massacre.
(WinstOn JOurnal.)

Bloodthirstiness comes with Gus
tom. The Southerners have never
held the lives of the blacks to be of
any time to arouse public sentiment
there against man, if his color
happened to be black and his accus-
ers were white. The events of the
past year have tended to make men
care even less than before for human
life, and the outrages in the South
are chareageble. with more or less
directness, to the sentiments that
have been fostered during this period
OF war. The American government
has been unable to cope with these
outrages in the past and it is still
less able to protect the weaker race
under the present conditions. The
blacks think they would be justified
in demanding their rights at the
point of the bayonet. In the event
OF such an uprising the governmet
forces ought to be used to protect
these people who never came to our
shores of their own free will. who
have been down-trodden BY the whites
from the earliest American history,
and who are now outraged and
wronged at every Point.-Portta'ad
Erening Express, Apri{ 2SM.
This is one of the papers embraced
in the New England Press League
that was so disappointed in not being
able to have the people of Winston
contribute 5000 to a write up in the
League papers. The editorial above
quoted does not only encourage race
antagonism but expresses the opinion
that in the event of conflict between
the whites and blacks it favored the
national government using Federal
troops with bayonets to aid in mas
sacreing Southern people, because
they dared protect the chastity of
their women or sought to punish
those who had violated it.
The Journal is not of the opinion
that papers that contain such unjust
and bitter sentiments against a sec
ton are the kind to exploit the re-
sources and advantages of that sec
ton. and that this people cannot,
with proper regard for themselves,
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-05-11
Counties That Have the Old Form of
Government.
chatham Record }

True to their promises to restore
white supremacy to the negro ridden
counties of this State, the Demo-
Gratis in the last Legislature passed
an act repeating chapter 1875 of the
laws of 1895 and re-enacting chapter
II of The Code. This act applies
only to certain counties, as follows:
BERTHE, Caswell, Craven, Edgeeombe,
Franklin. Granville, Montgomery,
New Hanover, Pasquotank, Per-
quimans, Vance, Washington and
Warren.
This act thus restores to the above
named counties the system Of county
Government that prevailed all over
this State from 1875 to 1895. Under
a decision of our Supreme Court.
rendered at September term. 1897,
the Legislature can give different
system of county Government to
different counties. And accordingly,
the Legislature can appoint the mag
istrates and commissioners for the
above named counties and allow the
voters Of all the other counties to
elect their commissioners and mag
istrates.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-05-11
The Situation in LuzOn.
Philadelphia Record.)

General Otis ought not to stand
upon ceremony with the emissaries
sent by Aguinaldo to arrange truce
and negotiate surrender What is
desired is the pacitication of the Phil
ippines, and it would matter little
if the Filipino "Republic" should he
incidentally recognized bv entering
into relations with its ENJOYS for the
dissolution of the Aguinaldo Govern
ment. the disarmament of its armies
and the surrender of its war material
would undoubtedly be made condi-
tions of peace.
1t would be a mistake to send the
Filipino emissaries back with refu-
sal on an immaterial point of etiquette
and continue the fight to finish
when all that could be secured by the
utter humiliation of Aguinaldo's
host can now be attained by treaty
and without the sacrifice of another
precious American life. If Aguinaldo
has been deemed a good enough bel
ligerent to fight against he ought also
be considered as being possessed of
a sutficiency of the attributes OF
sovereignty to make him capable of
treating for his own surrender.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-05-11
The George Case.
(Danville Register.)

The acquittal of Mrs. Annie E.
George, who has been on trial at Can
ton, for the past twenty-five days
charged with the murder of George
ID. Saxton, is a surprise to many.
Even those who hoped she would
escape punishment hardly hoped for
more than disagreement Of the
jury. Owing to he-prominance So
cially of Saxton, who was brother
in-law of President Mckinley, and to
the fact that the trial was at Canton,
the home of Mckinley, it was hardly
expected that the jury would return
verdict of absolute acquittal, which
carries with it all the exoneration
that the law can bestow. There we're,
however, many doubts clouding the
case, and the evidence against the
woman was largely circumstantial.
A motive was proved, threats to kill
Saxton were proved, but there was
little direct testimony to fasten upon
the woman the guilt of the fatal act.
The plea of the defence was not
guilty, but testimony was introduced
to show that even if the woman did
kill Saxton there was provocation
amounting to justification. 1t was
shown that Saxton was a dissolute
man and that he had won the con-
tidence of the woman, who finally be-
came infatuated with him and at his
urging secured a divorce from her
husband with the idea of marrying
Saxton. The husband testified that
their married life was happy before
Saxton came into the home to wreck
it and blight their happiness. After
having induced the infatuated woman
to divorce herself, the wretch refused
to carry out his compact, and weary
ing of the woman coldly thrust her
aside. Whatever the woman's guilt,
Saxton's char acter and habits were
shown up in such hues as to ALLEVIATE
all sympathy from him, and to
justify the woman in killing him.
It is an old story of woman's weak
ness and mans duplicity, the mans
conduct being the less e1cusable of
the two. There is very general
feeling, as indicated by the jury's
verdict, that that woman served
Saxton right.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-05-11
You don't have to be carpenter
in order to frame an excuse.

There is sure cure for lynching
in North Carolina. 1t is possibly the
only one as yet known. 1t is for the
scoundrels who commit rapes and as
sassinate white men to cease their
crimes. That done public sentiment
will be too healthy, too just, too
humane to tolerate violence by mobs.
The jury system is the greatest
barrier to evenhanded justice. The
bubbles and lodges Of lawyers, and
the embarrassing legal technicalities
are all unfriendly to punishment of
crimes. One scoundrel escaping
Justice is provocative of lynching
for the very next similar outrage
upon a person or a community
Wilmington Messenger.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-05-11
NEGROES HAVE REVENGE.
They Kill Member Of Their Race for
His Efforts in Running Down Crimi-
nails and Consplrators.

Aft Thurman, q well known and re-
spectacle negro. was shot from am
bush and killed by men of his own
color near Leesburg, Ga. through
revenge-because of his activity in
exposing and running down negro
criminals and conspirators. A spe-
cial to the Atlanta Constitution says:
When George Bivins, George Fort
and Bill Holt, three negroes, outraged
Mrs. Maroney, in this county, few
months ago, they were run down by
Thurman, and it was through his
efforts that they were brought to
Justice and later lynched.
Thurman at that time expressed
himself as bitterly opposed to the
crime committed by the negroes, and
openly stated that he would use all
his efforts toward their capture,
which he did. His life was threaten
ed by friends of the dead negroes.
The lynched negroes friends had ar
ranged to kill three prominent white
men Of the county, who had made
threats against Bivins, Holt and
Fort, and were about to carry it out
when Thurman heard of it and began
to hunt out the schemers to prevent
the murders. He also succeeded in
completely trapping the nine con-
spirators when they turned the
tables and shot him dead in the road.
The parties were nearly all known,
and a number of arrests will be
made.
This part of the county has been
terrorized by band of outlaws for
several years, the three who were
lynched in January being their lead
ers. 1t was thought then that stop
had been put to their work, but now
it has broken out anew and o law
abiding negro who was trying to
assist in bringing criminals to justice
is shot down on the public highway.
An eye witness is always a nigh
witneSs-unless he is blind.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-05-11
The Negroes False Prophets.
Charlotte News.)

The Washington Post remarks:
The negroes have too many leaders
who never think of doing anything
for. their race until somebody is
lynched."
To this class belongs that bishop
who in New Jersey few days ago
advised the negroes to arm them.
selves for war against the white man.
1t is this class of leaders who shield
the negro law breakers, who say that
when they are punished for misdeeds
they are prosecuted. and who defend
the crimes of which they are guilty
III the negro makes the issue squarely
with the white man as to which race
shall remain on this continent, the
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-05-11
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The readers of the GOLD LEAF will be
pleased to learn that there Is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been able
to cure in all its stages and that is catarrh
Halls Catarrh Cure is the only positive
cure known to the medical fraternity Ca
tarrh being constitutional disease re-
quires constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally. acting
directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. thereby destroying the
80; foundation of the disease, and giving the
luton aI,Ot strength by building up the consti-
W VOTE. Inc proprssisting nature in doing its
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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-05-11
Wanted "Peepies" and Started to
Setting.
tLincOlntOn JOurnal,)

A little 5-year son of Mr.. Sid Man
ney thought it was about time to
have some little chickens-''peepies"
as he calls them-at his house. So,
the other day, he robbed all the hen
nests on the place, made himself a
nest and went to setting. He '.sot
and sot and sot" until late in the
evening his mother found him on
the nest and got him to come off.
The bosom of his breeches revealed
the fact that he had Matched scram-
bled eggs.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-05-11
blacks will be exterminated.

blacks will be exterminated.
The large ma ority of the white
people of the South are friendly to
the negroes and want to live in peace
with them. They are willing to give
the negro the ri ghts of life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness" but
they will never be bound in the thrall-
dom Of negro rule. There are ne
groes who are brutes and who COM
nit crimes for which hanging is too
good, and there are white men who
enjoy stirring up trouble with the
blacks without provocation.
The whites do not attempt to shield
the men of their own race who COM
NIT brutal crimes. Why should the
blacks take up the cause of every
murderer and rapist, as if it were the
cause of the race?
Lynchings and mob law are de-
plored by the vast majority Of the
whites, and they would be less fire.
quent if the negroes would assist in
bringing to justice the criminals of
their race.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-05-11

White Supremacy" was the slogan
OF the last campaign. 1t led to
victory. 1t must lead to the same
result again. The issue is not dead,
the danger is not removed. 1t still
threatens and if not torn up by the
roots. will eventually destroy. To
secure the supremacy OF your race
should be your political ambition
to adopt the proposed suffrage
amendment secures it for all time to
come. Let white Supremacy"
again be the watchword. Let the
battle be decisive. -Smithfield Herald.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-05-11

The views of Il competent critic
should never be despised. They are
always helpful But the erratic, UNI
reasonable and ignorant comments of
faultinding mischievous person
can never result in any good to any
one. They are simply the bad birds
of all communities whose odorous
beaks are always pecking into some
thing not their business. with the
hope of puncturing a bad hole
Winston Journal.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-05-11

The bottom appears to have been
knocked out of the Aguinaldo war
for independence. Heavily armed
and trained soldiers are too much for
poorly armed and undisciplined
troops even when standing up bravely
for their rights against invaders and
oppressors. We hope the butchering
will cease. There is no glory to any
powerful Government. much less to
so-called republic, in such cruel
war.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-05-11

Says an exchange: There are some
natures so selfish and sordid that
they envy the sunshine that falls
across the doorway of the widows
home. they would begrudge the
flowers that lie upon the coffin of a
dead friend. and who would regard a
word as wasted that let life and
laughter into the heart of the weary
and Respondent.