The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-05-18

l do not believe the people OF
North Carolina have yet realized
what is already at their doors. 1t
comes too at time when the liquida-
tion from the last panic has about
been completed. II comes at the be-
ginning of what will probably be the
three years of greatest industrial
activity this country has ever known.
Even one year ago. money would not
have been turned loose for the
launching of SO colossal a scheme.
The time is ripe now, and when men
of money looked about for a ripe
man, they found him in John Skel-
ton Williams. He has been twenty
years mastering finance as a science.
His railroad and security figures are
standard in the great banking houses
of Great Britain and the continent.
He is SO modest that one might pass
him for a clerk in his own office. Yet
his head is grinding up ideas all the
time. His recent interview in the
Manufacturers Record showed that he
could say big, broad things easily
with the result of reserve power left
upon the reader. To North Caro-
linians. who love the 'Seaboard as a
product of their sweat and blood, this
statement from Mr.. Williams will
come with special gratefulness:
''Our policy is to maintain the Sea.
board as an absolutely Independent
line, and there need be no fear as to
it's absorption by any other system.
1t will be abundantly able to take
care of itself and to play leading
part in every good work for the ad-
vancement of the South, and we hope
not only to retain all the friendly
interest given to its former manage.
ment, but to still further strengthen
its hold upon the good will of the
people," Upon the rock OF the
s.people" in North Carolina has the
management of the Seaboard system
rested ever since Mr.. St. John be-
came vice-president and manager
If there have been political upheavals
in the State, the programme of Mr.
st. John has been a distinctly bust
ness one in contradistinction to 8
political one. His training has
taught him that pulling cars on
tracks beats pulling legs in conven-
tions. Thus it will also be gratifying
to know that Mr.. st. John will be al
right hand of Mr.. Williams, with :
corps of men technically not theoret-
ically trained to the railroad work
If Mr.. Williams perceive the scope
Mr.. St. John will coincide with tn,
outlines in full training and force
and sympathy. Nearly all the ole
force remain in the operative de
partment. Mr.. L. S. Allen, the new
general passenger agent, has made
many friends ever since his re
cent arrival from lifelong training
in railroading. He is a young maj
and as strong as he is popular.
Railroads know that the South il
the cow that is going to give tn
most cream in it's future development
toward the colossal empire of thi
country's raw material. Morever
the railroads know the operative i
going to get closer to the raw ma
terial in the next ten years. Th'
next ten years, therefore, will witnes
an era of townbuilding in the Soutl
that was never seen bfore. Thus i'm
migration has come in the walks O
the broad policy of Mr.. st. John
With its enlarged power of useful
ness, the Seaboard comes to Nortl
Carolina and the South rather as
part of it's fabric than as a money
making stranger passing adroitl,
through its gates and out again.
MANY old scldiera now feel the effects c
the hard service they endured during tn
war. Mr. Geo. S. Anderson, of Rossvillt
York county, Penn, who saw the hardes
kind Of service at the front, is now FIRE
quently troubled with rheumatism {"
had a severe attack lately" he says, can
procured a hDttle of Chamberlain's Pal
Balm. 1t did SO much good that l woul
like to know what you would charge m
for one dozen bottles.'' Mr.. Anderso
wanted it both for his own use and I
supply it to his friends and neighbors, q
every family shornd have bottle of it j
their home, not only for rheumatism, br
lame back, sprains, swellings, cuts, bruise
and burns, for which it is unequalet