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The sun., 1899-04-30
COney.


Back come the Turks of tho Plaisance,
Their high priest and their camel.
FstiIna and her woDdrous dance,
The ready dimes TO trammel.
Return unto each music hall
Its dramatis persona.
Not one day younger than last fall
The season = on at Coney!
Upon the sands again arc seen
The wagons Of milk shakers.
The guess.your.weisht the lung machine,
The hammer swinging fak!rs;
And beach photographers restArt
Their rcOnHCrsaEiOne
OF "tntype-ou.a button" art;
The season 3 on at Conoy!
The sunday sandwiches are brought
Out from their winter resting.
% wee upon the !ellow CAuRht
Attempting their diGestngD
Aud thIlsty man again ia wroth.
on purchasing pony,
To Ind II principally froth!
The season + on at ,ney.
once more the chutes are shooting and
The wooden steeds are prAncing,
Once more the music Of the baud
Invites you to free dancing:
The Bowery blossoms ntylge,
The cops have blindness stony,
And all the indications say
The season 3 on at Coney
w.P. BouRKE.
The sun., 1899-04-30
The Soldiers Protest.

From The Columbia IS. C) Daily Record
Ye talk about the burden.
Oh, men of craven soull
OF empire forced upon you,
And prate OF freedoms goal.
Ye call us to abandon
What freemens blood has won;
Yc ask us to dishonor
The father In the son.
Think ye half savage peoples
Have learned to hold the rein
Ger skittish stceds of freedom,
From lessons taught by. .spaini
Think ye that this is freedom
To loose. without restraint.
And leave unbridled passion
All unborn age to taint?
II We call license freedom,
Then give to blood and lust
The lands our arms have yanquished.
The cause ye once called Just.
Aye. leave to fraud and rapine
And petty bandit laws.
lntutored souls we've rescued
From SPANS tyrAnnic claws.
1t was not OF our seeking.
This strife OH which were bent;
No heeting thirst for glory
our arms to conquest lent.
But in the page Of nations
Our name has been enrolled.
And honor now compelleth
Whate er we've won to hold.
Why need we care. though others
Look on with jaundiced eyesr
our power. all right compelling.
Shall ne'er release the prize.
We lightly reck that towards
Would yield to braRRart force;
But forward, stlll undaunted,
We keep our onward course.
Our onward course and upward.
Through each succeeding age,
Shall flame glorious beacon
For savage and for sage
Too long we've toiled III silence
For selfish gain and greed.
Bowed TO the golden idol,
And lived by mammon's creed.
But wide, and even wider,
Our power shall now eItendI
We come with dual purpose
As victor and AZ friend.
Beneath our starry banner
Lies freedom for the slave;
Our watchword Peace and Honor"
We conquer but to save.
SCKs CORNER. April Is. MEM
The sun., 1899-04-30
Meadow Frogs.
From the atlantic Monthly.

From the Atlantic Monthly.
Ere yet the earliest warbler wakes
or coming spring to tell
From every marsh n chorus breaks
choir invisible
As though the blossoms underground
A breath of utteranco had found.
Whence comes the liquid melodyi
The summer clouds can bring
No fieshcr music from the sky
Than here the marshes sing.
MetEinks the mistI about to rise
Are chanting their rain prophecies.
john B. TABB.
The sun., 1899-04-30
STEiMING EAR UP THE NILE

Egyptian Gunbonts Ascend the Upper River
for the First Time In Fourteen Years.
For the first time in fourteen years Egyp-
tian gunboats have ascended the Upper Nile
into the Equatorial and Bnhr. ell Ghazal prov
inces. A vegetable barrier now ohstructs
part OF its course. but otherwise the great river
of Egypt is again omen 20 the whites from
source to mouth and it is doubtful IL another
fanatcal revolt will close IL against all the
world. The gunboats which Kitchener sent
from Omdmrmnn nfier the anrrendor Of En-
The sun., 1899-04-30
A Paradox.

From the RAJ MdH Gazette.
'Tis paradoIical, but true.
That love is blind. and seeth. too.
Love blindY That cannot be.
Else had he not led me
10 one 40 fair.
Love blindY That must he be
To make one such as thee
My presence bear.
That love is blind yet seeth. too.
Is parado1ical, but true.
The sun., 1899-04-30

On the third day after Il brilliantly successful
first night OF q comedy written by the cleverest
playwright in England and produced by a we'll
known actor. the Bishop OF Wakefield declared
at public meeting that it was "thc most i'm
moral stage play which had ever disgraced tho
stage Of this country" At first the question
suggested itself. What was there between man.
agcr. author and Bishop that this magnificent
advertisement should be given tho play? But
Mr.. Hare. Mr. Pinero and DR.. Eden are. like
Brutus. Cassius and the others. all honorable
men; and there is no doubt that the Bishop
spoke from the fulness OF honest conviction.
lie had not seen the play. The Gay Lord
QueX." but he had read the notices. re-
porter helped him to ease his mind later on.
and the Bishop talked:
mo. l should not care to go and see the
play. The reviews Of it l read were quite suf-
iicient Tor me. | do not think that it would
serve any good purpose were | TO attend the
play personally. Besides. | do not believe in
Bishops attending playhouscs. although have
myself dono such thing even since was
made Bishop
"On the representation that Mr. Wilson Bar
rctt's The Sign OF the Cross was q most
powerful aid to persons not in the habit of at
tending church. made by a lady friend OF mine,
i accompanied her to see this production
must HDNtN'I' SiS llluI was greatly ulbHp-
pointed. ! had been led TO believe that this
representation OF the faith and struggles OF
the early believers on Jesus Christ was u great
influence for the cause Of Christ in the present
day; but did not find that this was the ease
| considered The Sign of the Cross u snowy
drumatiHation-alto too snowy to do any
thing toward leading people to q higher life
Il think it impossible for anv one to read the
critiqucs OF The Gay Lord Uuex without its
being apparent what an appeal was made to the
evil passions uf men and women. Line after
line Of the criticisms plainly showed that the
play was nothing more nor less than an appeal
to the passions. What l objected to was the
whole tone otthe play. The reviews OF 1t plain
ly show that it depends, first. foremost and all
the time. for its success a series OF situations
between men and women which carry suEges-
| tiveness to unheardof lengths. II you care
fully read the eritQues you will see that the ref
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-08-31
Law Abiding North Carolina.
Charlotte News. }

While lynchings are of frequent
occurrence all around us, happily
North Carolina has been singularly
free from such disturbances, says
the Durham Herald. While North
Carolina has her share of negro popu-
lation and our white men are as read V
to avenge insults or wrongs to their
women as any. the Herald thinks that
our negro population is of higher
standard morally than those of other
Southern States.
As whole the negro population of
North Carolina is more orderly and
law-abiding than that of any other
State in the South, and when the
negroes do not follow the advice of
the Republican bosses the races dwell
together in peace and amity.
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How 1t Looks In Print.

This is the way great many boys
quarrels begin, and, happily. it is the
way good many end:
Huh. | amt afraid CT you.
Well, amt afraid of you, either.
You'd better be.
Pooh!
III give you something to pooh
for.
You will, hey?
Yes, will.
Better try it once.
Well, can do it.
Well, you can't.
Do you think I'm afraid of you, or
anybody like you?
Well, if l couldn't whip you with
one hand I'd sell out.
Oh, yes; it's easy to talk.
| can do it.
Just try it once.
I amt afraid of you and your whole
family thrown in.
Talks cheap.
You touch me once, and see what's
cheap.
Touch you? Bah! If l touch you
once you'd never know what touched
you.
Well, do it then, smarty.
You say much, and | will.
| dare you to.
Better look out, / never take dare.
| dare you! | dare you!
You had better shut up.
Cowardly calf. Took a dare!
| amt through with you yet, you
big
Look out what you say.
Hit me? I'd smile to see you hit
me.
Yes; but you might smile on the
wrong side of your mouth.
You try hitting me and see.
Bah.
Oh, it's easy to say bah!
Say much more and I'll give you
one.
You will?
Yes.
l dare you!
They separate, and an hour later
are seen arm-in-arm, one of them
having been given five cents. which
he has spent for gum-drops and
"diyided eyen'' with his late and
fierce foe.
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Children Escaped rliracuIousIy.
(High Point Enterprise

a minister came into the Enterprise
Office last Monday with the fragments
of the covering of an umbrella. These
strips of cloth were all that was left
OF an umbrella which was struck by
lightning while is was being carried
from the field to the house by the
two little girls of Mr.. Franklin Over
man whose home is near Cane Creek
in Alamance county. The little girls
were in the field when the cloud came
up and they raised the umbrella and
both taking hold of the handle start
ed for the house. All in Il second,
their little brother who was in the
porch, not far away. saw the light
ming strike the umbrella and the lit
tie girls thrown to one side of the
path He gave the alarm and their
parents were soon by their sides.
The children were both apparently
dead and their clothes torn partly
from their bodies. In few minutes.
however. one rallied and then the
other. and at last accounts both were
alive and there were hopes of their
ultimate recovery. The handle of
the umbrella was torn into Splinters
The neighbors are wondering how
the children escaped instant death.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-08-31

Now is the time to buy those beautiful
prints cheap at II. THOMASON'S.
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BANKER PONIES KILLED.
The Storm Drowned all Those off Core
SOund-Fearful Horror Wrought by
the Terrible Gale off the North Caro-
Ira Coast.
(Releigh Post.

Met Representative Frank Thomp-
son. of Onslow, at the office of his
brother, Secretary of State Thomp-
son, last evening.
He had just arrived here from a
portion of the scene Of the terrible
wreck caused by the rain and wind
storm off the Eastern coast of North
Carolina a few days ago, partial ac-
counts of which have appeared in the
telegraphic columns of this paper.
Mr.. Thompson declares that the
accounts printed by no means depict
the awful carnage of life. crops and
property wrought by this awful
storm.
Scores of the dead bodies of fisher
men have been found along the coast
near the North Carolina and Virginia
line, and off Core Sound the wreck
was complete.
BANKER PONY "COLONY" DECIMATED
In the marsh, represented on the
map by that narrow strip Of land
separated from Carteret county
proper by Core Sound, there has for
many years grazed and grown a large
colony of Banker Ponies" at one
period numbering thousands but OF
late years limited to not more than
1000 altogether, perhaps, judging by
the number secured at the recent
pony pennings."
Il understand, said Mr.. Thomp-
son. ''that all of these ponies were
killed during the recent gale and
storm-drowned, principally, sup
pose"
Probably many others, confined to
other marsh pastures, were also
drowned; but whether SO or not, the
Core Sound colony is said to be com
pletely decimated.
MANY LIVES LOST.
The reports Of the loss of human
life printed in the Post and other
papers have not been exaggerated
Mr.. Thompson added.
The bodies Of scores of fishermen
had been found casually when he left
that section, and it is probable that s
hundred or more of this class of meT
lost their lives in this storm.
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THE GOLD LEAF.
HENDERSON,. y. G.
THURSDAY, AUG. 81, 1899.
WHEN | HAVE TIME.
U0ndOu Christian Endeavcr.)

When have time, so many things III do
TO make life happier and more fair
For those whose lives are crowded with
care;
I'll help to lift them from their dies pair,
When | have time.
When 1 have time, the friend 1 love 50
Shall know no more these weary, toling
days;
I'll lead her feet in pleasant paths
always.
And cheer her heart with sweetest words
of praise.
When ! have time.
When you have time? The friend YOU
loved so dear
May be beyond the reach of all your
sweet intent
May never know that you 50 kindly
meant
70 fill her life sweet content,
When you had time.
Now is the time! All. friend, II" longer
wait
To scatter loving smiles and words of
cheer
To those around whose lives are how 50
dear;
They may not need you in the coming
Now is the time
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*Daily. tDaily rX. Sunday

For Tickets, Sleepers, etc, apply ic
agents or
II. S. LEARD, Soliciting Passenger Agent,
Raleigh Nc
f st. John, Vice President and Gen. Mgr
V. K. McBee, General Superintendent
H. w. B. Glover. Traffic Manager.
l.. 5. Allen, Gen. Pass. Agi
General Offices: Ports mouth, Va
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STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, J..
LUCAS COUNTY.
Frank }. Cheney makes oath that he is
the senior partner of the firm of +. j. Che
ney IL Co, doing business in the city of
Toledo, county and State aforesaid, and
that said firm will pay the sum of one hun
dred dollars for each and every case of
catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of
Halls Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence this 9th day of December, A. d.
1886. A. w. GLEASON.
SEAL. Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Send for testimo-
malls, free.
az Sold by druggists. 15c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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The Summer Season Should be Taken
With a Grain of Salt.

The way to the seaside is by the Sea-
board Air Line. Saturday and Sunday
excursions from May Goth to September
oath to Virginia Beach, Ocean View and
Old Point Comfort, round trip $3.50 via
the Seaboard Air Line Tickets will be
on sale Saturdays and Sundays, good to
return following Monday, from Raleigh,
Boykihs, Durham, Lewiston and inter
mediate points.
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Highest Market Prices Guaranteed the Seller

interest
~ anu
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S, s, s, FOR The BLOOD


blood BY upon it. and not with the various
instead suffering which gradually but
scroua Cancer Blood ol
blood
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S. S. S, Is the Only
Remedy Equal to this
Obstinate Disease.

any blood trouble, and fails
dawn to the OF the disease thus permanently
OF the faint
The consequences which Scrofula surely leads
should impress upon those afflicted with it the vital ia
portance Of wasting no time upon treatment which
not possibly effect In where the wrong
treatment has been relied upon, complicated ganduar
dwellings have resulted for which the doctors insist that
y dangerous surgical operation is necessary
Mr. Ii. e. Thompson, Of Milledgevle, Ga, writes: "a
tad of ScrOula broke the glands neck
which had to be lanoed and caused much suffering
was treated for long while, but the physicians
able to cure me, and my condition bad when
began their treatment Many blood remedies used
but without effect. Some recommended s. S. S., and
began to improve had taken a few bottles
Continuing the remedy, was cured permanently
and have had sign of the disease return" Swift
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70 The Township Trustees:

wish to urge you to keep COM
pletc and accurate record Of all your
official acts. Purchase a book and
keep an account with the County
Board Of Directors as to the amount
OF money this Board apportions to
your township at each time. The
Township Trustees may pay for re-
cord book and stationery for their
Secretary out of the township fund
received from County Board of Direc-
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DE SURE that your blood is rich
= and pure. The best blood purifier,
enricher and vitalizer is Hoods Sarsa-
parilla. Be sure to GET HOODS.
Gilpin observer., 1899-05-11
SHARKS AND DEAD WHALE.
All Anxious for Bite of the Huge
Carcass.

All Anxious for . Bite of the Huge
Carcass.
The presence Of any large quantity
of easily obtainable food is always suf-
ficient to secure the undivided atten-
tion Of the shark tribe, says the Ma
tional Review. When cutting in"
whales at sea have often been amazed
at the incredible numbers of these
creatures that gather in short space
of time, attracted by some mysterious
means from heaven only knows what
remote distances. 1t has often oc-
CURED to us, when whaling in the
neighborhood of New Zealand, to get
a sperm whale alongside without a
sign Of a shark below or a bird above.
Within an hour from the time of our
securing the vast mass of flesh in the
ship the whole area within at least an
acre has been alive with seething
multitude of sharks. while from every
quarter came drifting silently an in
calculable host of sea birds, convert
ing the blue surface of the sea into the
semblance of plain of new fallen
snow The body of a whale before an
incision is made in the blubber pre-
sents a smooth, rounded surface. al
most as hard as India rubber with an
parently no spot where any daring
eater could find toothhold. But. obliy-
ious of all else save that internal an
guish OF desire. the ravening sea-
wolves silently writhed in the density
OF their hordes for a place at the
bounteous feast. Occasionally one pre-
eminent among his fellows for enter
prise would actually set his lower law
against the black roundness OF the
mighty carcass and. with a steady
sinuous thrust Of his 1.-THE tail, gouge
out therefrom mass OF n hundred
weight or so. IL he managed to get
away with it. the space left presented a
curious corrugated hollow. where the
serrated triangular teeth had worried
their way through the tenacious sub
stance, telling plainly what vigorous
force must have been behind them
But It was seldom that we permitted
such premature toll to be taken of our
spoil. The harpooners and officers
from their lofty position on the cutting
stage slew scores upon scores by sim
ply dropping their keen-edged blubber,
spades upon the soft crowns of the
struggling fish. the only place where n
shark is vulnerable to instant death.
The weapon sinks into the creatures
brain, he gives conclusive writhe or
two, releases his hold and slowly sinks.
followed in his descent by knot OF
his immediate neighbors. all anxious
to provide him with prompt sepulture
within their own yearning maws.
Gilpin observer., 1899-05-11
DICK RODNEY;
Or. The Adventures of
An Eton Boy.
Rx JAMES GRANT.
Rx JAMES GRANT.
CHATTER XIII.-(Continued.)

CHATTER RXIII.-(Continued.
What are you about?" asked Wes-
ton. angrily.
"Greasing the sling of the fore-yard,
SIR"
"Oh-I thought you were making
hay, you are so slow about it. You
have been staring ahead for the last
twenty minutes, at least"
Because 1 think l see something"
said the seaman, annoyed by the nau-
tical taunt.
"Something?" reiterated Weston.
What is it? A church or windmill
going before the wind?"
Neither, sir-but boat adrift."
How does it bear, Ned?" asked
Hislop, starting into the rigging.
or the starboard bow, about two
miles off,"
On hearing this the telescope was
resorted to, and we could plainly
enough see a white object, which the
intervening waves, as they rose and
fell, hid from us at times; and there
was great diversity Of opinion. for
one Of the crew maintained that it was
harbor buoy adrift.
1T must have drifted long way to
have come here" retorted Carlton,
'and If you have your grandmother's
spectacles about you, wipe them clean,
put them on, and look again-for can
see plainly enough that it is a boat"
Then we shall overhaul it," said
Weston; "Hislop, prepare to lower
ours, and to lay the fore-yard aback."
The Eugenie's course was shaped to-
ward it., and when within a quarter of
mile the foresail was laid to the
mast, the brig hove in the wind, and
the stern boat lowered; Hislop, Tom
Lambourne, two other hands and I
manned her and put off to inspect
and report upon what we could dis
cover. And so, with many surmises as
to wrecks, boats getting adrift or be-
ing washed away from their davits,
and SO forth, we pulled swiftly toward
her, all stripped to our shirt sleeves,
for hot West Indian sun was blazing
in cloudless sky, and the air seemed
still and breathless.
Gilpin observer., 1899-05-11
"You are a physiosnomIst." sus-

you are q physiognomist." sug-
gested.
Don't know what kind Of mist
that may be. Master Rodney; but this
know-there Is always something
cunning and dangerous in fellow who
looks over your shoulder, as that Span
lard does, when he should look at your
eyes,"
Antonio had an excessive dislike for
deck duty by night. He exhibited q
strange dread Of being left alone, and
could scarcely be prevailed upon to
look over the vessels side, always
shrinking back as II he expected to see
something hideous rise out of the sea.
Weston suggested that perhaps his re-
cent suffering had unnamed and rem
dered him nervous, but the crew
thought otherwise.
In his sleep Antonio frequently dis
turbed the men in the forecastle hunks
by his mutterings, his wild dreams,
outcries, and sonorous Spanish MALE
dictions.
was at the wheel on a calm and
lovely night lit was the 18th of Jan
uary), when we were off the beautiful
ouOlC VI IllopdHlOld. i remember well
that Cape Samanna bore west by
south, and Cape Cabron west by north.
for my task of steering was new to
me, and Weston's orders were ito keep
her full and by"-that is, as close to
the wind as possible without making
the canvas shiver.
l could see the lights that glittereo
in the distant villages that studded the
low but fertile peninsula OF SAVANNA
All was still and quiet in the ship anc
around it. Soothed by the solemnity of
the hour and the vast solitude of the
sea, my heart was full, ard busy mem.
ory brought before me loved faces and
voices, places and scenes, that were
far away, in dear old England.
The brig was gliding through the
water rapidly, but imperceptibly, and
almost without sound; the men OF
the watch were leaning over the bull
wark to leeward, and the air, the sea
and all aloft and below seemed to
sleep in the moonlight; not reef
point battered on the taut canvas, and
scarce wavelet rippled save in the
dead water astern that marked ths
white wake Of the Eugene.
Suddenly shrill and piercing cry
rang out upon the night, and Antonio
the Cuban rushed out from the fore.
castle with the widest terror ex-
pressed in his black eyes: his visage
was pale and CHASTITY, and the perspira.
tion glittered like bead drops on his
clammy brow. With his bare feet he
stumbled over the chain cable, which
lay coiled up on the deck, for on that
afternoon we had hauled it up and
bent 1t to the working anchor.
He came running aft in his shirt,
brandishing knife in his hand, and
exclaiming in fierce and then implor-
ing accents:
who says 1 did it? Who dares tc
say so?"
Then, letting his arms drop as he
skunk back to his bunk, we heard him
groan out:
Eel cuchillo-el cuchillow (the knife
the knife.)
Hence, under such circumstances. II
may easily be supposed that among
the crew there fioated strange and
dark surmises as to the past life of
Antonio ell Cubano.
(To be continued)