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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-03-09
HON. FRANK l. OSBORNE.
An Honest, Manly Man is the Senator
From Mecklenburg.
Concord Standard.)

Whether we all agree with Hon.
Frank /. Osborne or not in opposing
the establishment of the Charlotte
dispensary, whether we think it
more harmful to sell liquor from bar
rooms or from dispensaries, all must
admit his bravery and his determina
tion to keep his promises. The peo-
pie of Mecklenburg sent to Raleigh a
petition signed by over 5000 white
voters asking for the establishment
Of a county dispensary in Charlotte,
to take the place of several bar
rooms in that place. The Petition
contained the names of all the
preachers, nearly all the lawyers,
doctors and men of influence of every
calling in the county. The bill passed
the House by unanimous vote. But
when it reached the Sentate, Mr.. Os
borne said that in the late campaign
he had, with the knowledge and
concurrence of the Democratic mana
gers, promised, in order to secure a
united support to the Democratic
party and insure to the State white
supremacy, that there would be no
liquor legislation enacted for Neck
lenburg county. He said he had
made this promise and he intended
to keep it, if he could influence the
Senate to stand by him. In order to
scare or over-awe him, delegation
of 100 leading men went to Raleigh
made all kinds threats against Os-
borne and appeals to individual Sena-
tors and the committee having the
bill in charge.
Never, in our recollection has
such an onslaught been made upon
one man. The eyes of the State
were upou him. None but strong,
brave man could hold out against
such pressure. But he stood as firm
ly and undauntedly as Horatius stood
on the bridge defending Rome against
the hordes of invaders. The pledge
of himself and the pledge of his party
was at stake and in his keeping. And
he kept it. When the debate came
on his reply to Bob Glenn, the
champion of the other side, was
overwhelming. The Senators saw
he was right and stood by him nobly.
The vote was 81 to II. At time
when promises are so lightly held or
so easily evaded, the example of
Frank Osborne stands out as a beacon
light.
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The Salaries of State Officers Reduced
40 Per Cent.

The following reductions have been
made in the salaries of State officers:
State Treasurer, s., 250--was s, 900.
Chief Clerk to Treasurer. 81 $50
was 81, 800.
Secretary of State, 81, ,S00-was g.
500.
State Librarian, 5000.
Reporter of Supreme court. $3.50
was 81, 900.
Clerk to Supreme court, 5000 and
fees-was $500 and fees.
Secretary to Board of Public Chari-
ties IS day-was 81.
The Railroad Commissioners salary
| was not touched for the reason that
| it viii be fixed in the new Railroad
Commission Act.
The salary of the Superintendent
of the Penitentiary was not reduced
because that Office has been abolished.
The Labor Commissioner salary
and that of his clerk were reduced.
Salaries of judges, superintendent
OF asylums, superintendent OF the
State schools and colleges should
stand as they are.
The county officer fee bill is as
follows.
l. Fee of solicitors for atteding
each term of Superior court, from
500 to $15, and to pay nothing for
civil terms.
2. Appeal from clerk to Judge, for
docketing from SO to 80 cents.
3. Appeal to Supreme court, in
cluding certificate and seal, from 81
to 81.
4. Fees for auditing final settle
ment of any trustee required to
render accounts, maximum from $15
to $40: in case of contest, maximum
from $25 to $15.
5. Bond or undertaking, including
| justification, from 60 to so cents.
| 6. Capias, each defendant from 81
| to 20 cents.
Z. Execution and return thereon,
from so to 25 cents.
8. Indictment from each defend
ant from 60 to 40 cents.
9. Judgment, final, against each
defendant, including docketing, in
criminal actions, from 81 to so cents.
10. Juror ticket from 10 to cents.
II. Justification of sureties on
any bond or undertaking from SO to
25 cents.
| -. Notices from 25 to 10 cents.
13. Order for arrest from 81 to so
cents.
Il. Recording and copying papers,
per copy sheet, from 10 to 8 cents.
Is. Subpoena, each name from Is
to 10 cents.
16. Transcript of any matter of
record or paper on file, per copy
sheet, from 10 to 8 cents.
II. Registering any deed, with GER
tificate or private examination of any
married woman, containing not more
than three copy sheets, from 80 to 60
cents; and for every additional copy
sheet, from 10 to 8 cents.
IS. For issuing each notice re-
quired by the county commissioners
including subpoenas for witnesses,
from Is to 10 cents.
10. For recording each order OF
commissioners, from 10 to 5 cents; if
over one copy sheet, for every one
over, from 10 to cents.
20. Making out original tax list,
from 2 to cent for each name, and
for each name on copy made from 2
to 1 cent for each name.
21. For issuing marriage license,
from 81 to Is cents.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-03-09
Not The Question.
(FairbrOther'S FarragO.)

A newspaper which drifts into these
headquarters is discussing the ques-
tion which it propounds to itself,
which is the greater evil, whiskey or
cigarettes. We fail to find why any
particular evil should be compared
with another evil. 1t is admitted that
an evil should be avoided. So far as
whiskey is concerned, all agree that
it is an evil. and one time held the
boards as being the one foul blot on
mankind. But there are other evils,
and not least among them are cigar
cites, and other drug Affections and
addictions.
The cigarette evil is in it's infancy,
but as it attacks infancy, the evils of
it are the most threatening. The
average boy of to-day is becoming a
cigarette tiend. This is true, at least
of the city boy. The evil has not
reached the country to an alarming
extent. but, sadly enough. it is
spreading. The cigarette debases,
degrades and debauches youth. Look
at any of its victims and you will see
its blight. The eye shows it; the
hand shows 1.-THE whole constitu-
tion indicates that it is being dwarfed
and wrecked. Whiskey gets in its
work on adults, for the most part,
and therefore is not as dangerous as
the cigarette.
The boy who becomes saturated
with the cigarette poison is sure to
find premature grave or become a
tottering imbecile when he should be
in the prime of life.
Society is not yet fully aroused to
this growing evil, but it will be, we
hope, some day, and then the philan-
thropists who are now being applaud
ed for giving Of their ill-gotten gains
will by popular acclaim be voted the
most vicious foes ever turned loose
upon mankind. The question is not
which is the greatest evil, but what
shall be done to save the youth Of the
land?
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-03-09
$l5 AZ $50 10

Total. $l5 AZ $50 10
In the first table it costs more to
grow cotton in North Carolina per
acre than in any State but Louisiana.
We get our figures from the Rich
mond Times which makes an inter-
esting comment upon the summary
given, from which we take the fol-
lowing:
1T will be observed that when
these estimates were made the aver
age price Of cotton was 6.7 cents per
pound, whereas much of the last
crop was sold for 5 cents per pound
and even less. If therefore it cost
$50 per bale of 500 pounds to produce
cotton, and the farmer receives only
$25 per bale with few dollars more
for his seed, it is evident that the
cotton planter will soon come to
grief. One or the other of the two
things must happen. Either the
price of cotton must advance or the
cost of cotton must be reduced.
'.There are two ways OF reducing
the cost of production. One is by
decreasing the sum OF money en-
ployed in producing a bale of cotton
and the other is by making the same
area of land yield more cotton"
1t cites the case reported in the
Charlotte Observer Of a North Caro-
lima farmer growing cotton at p
cents:per pound. Such very instances
may be found. We have often cited
the case of Mr.. l.. b. Manning, OF
Halifax, who grew three good average
bales on one acre. But such cases
are almost too rare to form an excep-
ton to rule. We do not believe
that cotton can be generally culti-
waited in North Carolina at present
prices with profit to the planters. A
few good farmers can grow 50 bushels
of corn on the uplands, and raise 80
and 40 bushels OF wheat to the acre,
and make 500 pound bale or more
to each acre, but comparatively there
are not many OF these at present in
North Carolina. When it is con-
sidered that a great many farmers
buy all their costly fertilizers and
neglect almost altogether to make
home manures, and thus add much
to the actual cost of production, it
will be believed that there is not
much money for cotton growers at
4! or 5 cents pound.
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Incentive to Manufactures.
lWilmingtOn MeSSenger.l

Mr.. ID. A. Tompkins, the we'll known
Charlotte man of business, in a re-
cent article shows how to get the
most profit and benefit from raw
materials in North Carolina. His
figures may look ''little steep" but
he is practical man and he may be
very close to the mark. We remem-
Der that some fifteen years ago we
showed what great loss was sus-
tanned to North Carolina by selling
off to outsiders of the North our for
ests, and especially our more valua
bic and finer timber to be manufac-
tured elsewhere into carriages, bug
gies, furniture, etc, and resold to
our people at a profit three or four
times greater than the original pur-
chase money. Mr.. Tompkins said:
..Shipped as raw cotton in bales
the Southern crop is worth about
$500, 900, 900.
The cotton crop OF North Carroll
ma alone is about Ground numbers)
100000 bales. This at cents would
yield $15, 100000.
..If manufactured into the average
Of mill products now made in the
North Carolina mills, it would yield
$40, 100000.
with as good school facilities for
textile work as the State now has for
agriculture, the value of the crop
could be increased to an average
value of 60 cents pound, at which
it would yield $3.50, 100000. Add
to this the value which would be
given to perishable farm products
(now without much value) such as
turnips, peaches, apples, potatoes,
etc, and also the value of auxiliary
manufactures, such as trouser facto-
ries, broom factories; all of which
are sustained by the cotton factories
directly or indirectly, and we would
easily get another $150,OOO,OOo
value"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-03-09
Notice..

The First Edition of 1.-THE Empire OF
the South" having been exhausted, II
Second Edition will be ready for distribu
ton by or about March 10th, 1899.
1t is handsome volume of about 200
pages descriptive of the South and it's
vast resources, beautifully illustrated,
and regarded by critics as the most CON-
plete production of it's kind that has
ever been published.
Persons wishing to secure this work
will please enclose to the undersigned %
cents per copy. which amount approx
mates the cost Of delivery. Remittances
may be made in stamps or otherwise.
Address all communications on this
subject to W. A. Turk. Genl Pass. Agt.,
Southern Ry., Washington, D. c.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-03-09
HENDERSON, 3, 1893.

would-be farmers in Mecklenburg
county Mr.. j. +. Caldwell has forged
his way to the front. He has made
money by sturdy licks and energetic
efforts. He does not have to tell the
story of his success-his neighbors do
it for him. H. +. C.. BRYANT.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-03-09
"THE BROWN MANS BURDEN,

lSOOn after the appearance OF RudyaI
kipling's poem "The White Mans Blu
den,' the following lines we're written /
Henry Labourche, editor of the Lond6
Truth, and cabled to an American new
paper, under the heading of "The Brow
Mans Burden" An address to Il
United States By a lingo Stripping
1t is very clever parody and W
doubtless delight those who are Oppose
to annexation of the Philippines
Pile on the Brown Mans Burden!
To crafty your greed,
90 clear away the 'niggers,'
Who Progress would impede,
Be very stern, for truly
'IiS useless to be mild
With new-caught, Sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.
Pile on the Brown Mans burden!
And if ye rouse his hate,
Meet his old fashioned reasons
With MaximS-up to date
With shells and Dum-dum bullets
A hundred times make plain
The Brown Mans loss must ever
Imply the White Mans gain.
Pile on the Brown Mans burden!
Compel him to be free!
Let all your Manifestos
Reek with philanthropy!
And if with heather folly
He dares your will dispute,
Then in the name of Freedom
Don't hesitate to shoot.
Pile on the Brown Mans burden!
And if his cry be sore.
That surely need not ink you,
Ye've driven slaves before.
Seize on his ports and pastures,
The fields his people tread;
Go make from them your living
And mark them with his dead!
Pile on the Brown Man burden!
Nor do not deem it hard,
If you should earn the rancOur
Of course We yearn to guard.
The screaming of your Eagle
. Will drown the victims sob;
Go on through fire and slaughter!-
There's dollars in the job.
Pile on the Brown Mans burden!
And through the world proclaim
That ye are Freedom agents
There's no more paying game.
f-And should your own past history
Straight i'm your teeth he thrown,
| RetOrt that Independence
Is good for Whites alOne.
Pile on the Brown Mans burden!
With equity have done;
Weak, antiquated scruples
Their squeamish course have run;
And though it's Freedoms banner
| You're waving in the van.
| Reserve for home consumption
The sacred "Rights of man,
| And il by chance ye falter,
Or lag along the course;
| If as the blood flows freely,
| Ye feel some slight remorse;
HE ye to Rudyard Kipling,
Imperialism's prop,
And bid him for your comfort,
| Turn on his JingO stop!
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-03-09

As the season of the year when pneu
monia, la grippe, sore throat, coughs,
colds, catarrh, bronchitis and lung troubles
are to be guarded against, nothing lis
fine substitute will answer the pur-
pose" or is Just as good" as One Minute
Cough Cure That is the one infallible
remedy for all lung, throat or bronchial
troubles. Insist vigorously upon having
it if something else" is offered you. Phil
II. Thomas.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-03-09

For frost bites, burns, indolent sores
eczema, skin disease, and especially Piles
De Wits Witch Hazel Sa1ve stands first
and best. Lookout for dishonest people
who try to initiate and counterfeit it. It's
their Endorsement of good article
Worthless goods are not Initiated Gel
De Wits Witch Hazel Salve. Phil Ii
Thomas
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-03-09

"A GREAT record of cures, une-
~ qualled in medical history, proves
Hoods Sarsaparilla possesses merit un-
known to any other MEDICINE. /.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-03-09

electric street car line, writes that his lit
tie daughter was very low with Group, and
her life saved after all physicians had
failed, only by using One Minute Cough
Cure Phil IL Thomas
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-03-09
The Local CrRSuS.

Go into any thriving, bustling town
and watch the tides as they ebb and
flow, and you will discover that the
man who is in the swim for the time
being is there because he has made
the people believe he has what they
need He advertises the wares on
his shelves. the bargains he has to
offer, the skill he has to exercise, or
the grand chance his neighbors are
all looking for. He knows we'll that
the paper published in his town goes
into its homes and will be read there;
that through its columns he can talk
to the inmates of those homes; and
he gives it his story to repeat at every
fireside. The result is, his store is
crowded, his trade flourishes, he is
forced to enlarge his premises to
meet the growing wants, and fortune
smiles above his thresholds; he be-
comes at length the local Cresus.
There is not a busy, active, prosper
Gus, growing community on this con-
tinent to which this picture will not
apply.-Proftable ADVERTISING.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-03-09
SOUTH'S COTTON CROP.
THE COST OF PRODUCTION UNDER
CHANGED CONDITIONS.

Some Instructive Figures on the SUBJ
iect as Given by the Statistician of
the United States Agricultural De.
partment-Costs more to Raise q
Bale of Cotton In North Carolina
Than Any Other State but Louis
lana.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-03-09

Only woman who thinks before
she speaks can economize Oh talk.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-03-09
GREAT TRUNK LINE.
FLORIDA CENTRAL AND PENINSULAR RAILROAD

Passes Under Control of Baltimore and Richmond Capital
ists Owners of the Georgia and Alabama and Seaboard
Air Line Systems-Plans Looking to Closer Union of
These Properties and the Building of Connecting Lines
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-03-09

Another table will interest. 1t
shows the cost by item to make cot
ton in the several States named. 1t
will be seen what the average is in
the ten States:
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-03-09
SUCCESSFUL FARMING.
WHAT A AMECKLENBURG TAN HAS
DONE

In the Way of Taking rlOney on the
Farm-An Experience That rlay be
Worth Something as an Object Les
son to Others-J. r. Caldwell in the
Role of Dairy lyman and Agriculturist
What May be Accomplished by In
teIIigence, Economy, etc.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-03-09

AOOD'S Sarsaparilia is the One
True Blood Purifier, Great Nerve
Tonic, Stomach Regulator. To thou
sands its great merit l0 KNOWN.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07
Heller, Revived.

Helen Revived.
Helen Of Troy, In other days
About thee in Trojan fields
The lords of Greece and llium
clashed
Through ten long years their
hostile shields!
The centuries have passed and yet
The hearts Of men are unchanged
sith;
Today we see two hostile hosts
Contesting about Ladysmith!
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07
Forcing Business.

Forcing Business.
Coster Irritable through lack Of
trade) Buy box O. cough lozenges
-'ang yer!
Bystander-I haven't got cough.
Coster-Well. fight me, an buy
some stun for black eyes!-Tit-Bita.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07
GOOD Nose For News.

Henry whispered the maiden in
some embarrassment, as they stood
in the hallway where the young and
handsome reporter was preparing to
say good night, tits dreadful of me,
know. but I've been eating on
IONS"
Great Scott, Fannie!' he ex-
claimed. ''You don't think that's a
scoop on me, do you? I knew that
as .soon as I came Chicago
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07
He Knew Better.

s He Knew Better.
Fond Parent Remember, my son,
the man who drinks never gets
ahead.
Son (who had been out the night
hefore) He doesn't, Ell? That's all
you know about it.-Philadelphia
Record.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07
Doing Wen.

Doing Well.
Zones. do you think you will do
as we'll in the coal business as you
did in the ice?'
Yes; in summer my prices made
people hot, and in winter my bills
will make their blood run cold
Detroit Free Press.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07
Recognized It.
an elephant down in Rangoon,
Learnt to play on the big bassoon.
But the elephants wife.
Departed this life
Ere he'd got to the end Of his ttoon.-

Recognized It.
Bill-That's my rich uncle. Isn't
he q mean looking man?
Tll-Yes; now you come to speak
of It, there is family resemblance.
-Yonkers Statesman.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07
Fastidioas.

81 grant you he is not man Of
much education, but he is deeply in
earnest. He is a man of pronounced
convictions"
5 "He has the worst mispronounced
convictions 1 ever heard. Chicago
Tribune.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07

Brooks-It is admitted that suc-
cessful novel nowadays must please
the women.
Russell-It's q wonder, then, that
somebody doesn't write one that
tells in the first chapter how the
story ends.-Harlem Life.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07
Happy Thought,
Depends on the Season.

stiggins: Here she comes the darling grill"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07

Depends ON the Season.
What pretty bicycle skirt" he
said, for he was nothing but an ig-
norant man.
She looked at him scornfully.
ut was bicycle skirt last sum-
mer," she said, but now it is part
of my rainy day costume. wish
you would try to get things right
once in awhile. Chicago Evening
Post"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07
surprissed.

II see that the clothing belonging
to Mrs. Aguinaldp that was captur-
ed by our troops was packed in bar
rels.'
why, from the Filipino pictures
I've seen supposed they could be
packed in bonbon boxes."- Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07
Third Day out.

You ought to be over it by this
time" said the seasoned traveller,
trying to persuade his friend to
come to the table. and your stom-
ach should be as tough as oak"
But 1t isn't responded the land
lubber, with feeble effort to smile.
TITS sick o. more" Chicago Trib-
une.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07
A Possibility.

A Possibility.
Larry-Be htvvins, Dinnyl Thot
ould hin is ATTN sthray tacks. ",
Dinny-Maybe she is goin to lay
q carpet. Who knows?-Chicago
News.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07

Never mind the small pup when his
howlings begin
He bowls to get out just to howl to
get in.
Chicago Record.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-12-23
American Railway Service.

1t is beyond question that American
railroads today furnish the best SER
vice in the world at the lowest rates
OF fare, at the same time paying their
employees much higher wages than are
paid for similar service III any other
country on the globe. In the United
States the first-class passenger fares
last year averaged 2l4 cents per mile,
although on some large railways the
average was several miles less than
two cents per mile; in England the
first-class rate is four cents per mile;
third-class fare for vastly inferior ser
vice Is two cents per mile, but only
on certain parliamentary trains. In
Prussia the fare is 2.99 cents per mile.
Our passenger cars excel those of for
eign countries in all that goes to make
up the comfort and convenience of
journey Our sleeping and parlor car
system is vastly superior TO theirs;
our baggage system is infinitely better
than theirs and arranged upon a much
more liberal basis. American rail-
roads carry $50 pounds of baggage
free, while the German railroads carry
only So pounds free The lighting of
our trains is superb, while the light
ing of trains on most foreign lines is
wretched.
| may be pardoned for citing two ex-
amples of what l mean by the unsur-
passed passenger train facilities OF
American railways:
A single locomotive recently hauled
a passenger train OF sixteen cars, nine
of which were sleeping and parlor
cars, from New York to Albany, dis
lance of 143 miles, in three hours and
fifteen minutes which is forty-four
miles per hour. and is the regular
schedule time of this train. The train
weighed 1,S32.000 pounds, and was
1,212 feet--or nearly quarter of a
mile--in length. -From the Home
Journal