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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-15
FAVORITE ROUTE TO NEW YORK.
The Old Dominion Steamship Line
and Its Unsurpassed Service.

No more delightful trip can be
imagined than the '.outside route" to
New York and Boston Via the Old
Dominion Steamship line from Nor
folk. The vessels are first-class in
appointment, staunch and swift, the
officials courteous and attentive, and
the service all that could be desired.
One gets the benefit of a nice sea trip
without its roughness or attendant
disagreeable features and after Il good
nights rest arrives in New York next
day in good shape for sightseeing
attending to business or pursuing the
journey further if need be. If YOU
contemplate trip to New York or
Boston go by the Old Dominion
Steamship line.
Round trip from Norfolk, ticket
good for 80 days, $500, including
meals and stateroom berth Time
between Norfolk and New York Is to
20 hours. Steamers leave Company's
wharf, Norfolk, daily except Sunday,
at 200 p. nj. Returning, leave New
York, every week day, from Pier %,
North River, foot of Beach street. at
3 u. m.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-15
SCHLEY'S FOOL FRIENDS.
" sliington Post.

Washington Post.
It may be that we are dull OF per
ception. but really il seems to us
that this thing OF calling on Spanish
officers to certify TO Admiral Schle!
personal and professional worth is all
expedient of very doubtful pr"priety-
We already know what Atmiral
Cervera thinks about it, for that gal
liant and chivalric gentleman spoke
his mind during his sojourn in this
country. We know also that the
captains under Cervera were. all Of
them, ordered to concentrate upon
the Brooklyn as soon as they left the
port and to sink her at all costs.
Indeed, the results of the affair suf1i-
GENTLY prove this, for the Brooklyn
was struck oftener than all the other
ships put together. and two Spanish
vessels were Enthusiastically bent on
ramming her when Capt. Cook exc
cuted the famous ''loop" concerning
which there has been so much ugly
controversy. But, to be quite empha-
tic, the question before the court of
inquiry will be not what Cervera and
his captains think, but what the
American officers composing the trib-
unal may conclude after hearing all
the evidence.
We do not imagine for moment
that Admiral Schley himself is re-
sponsible, even in the remotest way,
for this lamentable folly. He under
stands. of course, that his vindication
must come from the facts as they may
be discovered by the investigation
and by the jud gment of the court and
the country as it is influenced by
those facts. To appeal from that
verdict to the opinions or the good
natured utterances of Spanish officers
who admired his prowess in action
and his considerate and generous
treatment of the vanquished after
ward will serve no purpose in his be-
half. On the contrary. it will suggest
both to his detractors and to the thus
far nprejudiced public who believe
in him and pray for his triumphant
acquittal, that his case is far weaker
than heretofore was supposed. 1t is
q great pity, on Schley's account
especially that certain newspapers
have adopted this mischievous and
foolish policy. If any persons of real
| Importance could be made to believe
that it enjoyed Schley's sanction or
had been inaugurated with his
knowledge and without his protest,
the effect upon the country would be
most unfortunate.
Bat. hoping as we do that the in
quiry may end in Schley's complete
vindication, and feeling certain that
| that result can be reached only
through the testimony of his fellow
officers and citizens, it is our belief
that no further prejudice against hin,
| will be created in fair-minded men
| by these ill-advised and silly publica-
tions. The American people will
await his justification by proper and
Legitimate methods, and meanwhile
will attach no more Importance to
the antics of Schley's pretended
friends than they have hitherto
attached to the rancorous accusa-
tons of his ambushed enemies
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-15
NEGRO DISFRANCHlSEN ENT.

Ripley, y. Y, Review.
The recent action of some of the
States of the South in DISTINGUISHING
a certain portion of their c0Iored pop
ulation has aroused discussion the
length and breadth of the country.
1t is a matter extremely lamentablc
that the race problem of the South,
and its attendant political problems.
are no nearer a solution than they
were in the days Of reconstruction fol-
lowing the war.
In fact, so far as the negro is con-
cerned, the act of enfranchising him
at first was crime almost as great
as that of enslaving him. For it
clothed him with the powers and re-
sponsibilities of government at a time
when he was no more able to assume
such possibilities than child. 1t
taught him to believe that the act of
voting entitled him to exalted places
and that hard work was unnecessary.
From an industrious slave he became
an arrogant and lawless freeman in q
large number of cases.
Upon the white people of the South
was forced the strange and unbear-
able condition of rule of their former
slaves, backed up by carpet-bag poll
ticians from the North.
Thus affairs have drifted on. To
one who has been in the South, OF
who has studied the situation. the
wonder is that a crisis has not come
long ere this, Acknowledgement made
of those not fitted for it.
In our opinion the people of the
South are the best friends Of the
colored man, and best able to cope
with present grave situations, despite
the croakings of the political dema-
gogues OF the North.
We have visited the thicklv settled
negro sections on both sides of the
Ohio river, and the status of the negro
being the same, we have found him
better treated South of the river than
North of it.
1t was not for the Negroes good that
the right of suffrage was first given
him, but to use him for party domina-
ton. Reasoning and unbiased men
of all parties in all sections of our
country know full well that to i'm
pose upon him unconditonally and
unpreparedly the use Of the ballot
was one of the gravest mistakes in
the history of our nation. At the
best, under the wisest control. il will
take years for him to recover from
the blow that carpet-bagism and the
false and nefsrious scheme of partisan
politics struck at his future welfare.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-15
TO MOUNTAIN AND SEASHORE RE-
SORTS
Via SeabOard Air Line Railway.

Before completing arrangements for
your summer trips or deciding upon
places at which to spend the summer, you
should call on Ticket Agents and Pas
senger Representatives of the Seaboard
Air Line Railway. They are specially
prepared to furnish information as to
lowest rates, quickest schedules and most
attractive routes to the Mountain Re-
sorts in Western North Carolina and
Southwest Virginia, also to the Seashore
Resorts of Ocean View, Virginia Beach,
Old Point Comfort. the great Eastern
Resorts along the Jersey Coast, and other
popular places reached via the Seaboard
Air Line Railway. This Company is
Offering lower rates than ever with per-
feet train service and fast through
schedules. 1t will interest and benefit
you to call on Seaboard Air Line Rail
way Agents.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-15
EXCURSION RATES TO BUFFALO
Via Seaboard Air Line Railway.

On account of the Pan American Expo
sitoD, the Seaboard Air Line Railway is
selling tickets from stations on its lines
to Buffalo at very low excursion rates.
This Company offers the choice OF two
routes, with the fastest and most con-
venient schedules ever njoyed to Buffalo,
either via all rail route through Rich
rnond and Washington, or through Ports
mouth and Norfolk, thence a delightful
sea trip to the East where connections
are made with the great Trunk Lines
direct to the Rainbow City. These routes
are positively the most convenient and
attractive to Buffalo, and it will interest
and benefit you to call on Seabonrd Air
Line Railway Agents before completing
arrangements for your trip.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-15

Paul Il. Rocksch, a sixteen-year-ol
boy of York, Pa, has invented Il de-
vice which many expert engineers de-
clare will revolutionize the business
of steam railroading. Rocksch's in
vention consists of three geared
wheels, connected with three small
cogs, which are fastened to the axles
OF the large drivers Of a locomotive.
The small cog wheels, it is declared,
will revolye three times as fast as
would the large drivers with the same
expenditure of power. This inven-
ton has been patented in the United
States, Canada, England and France
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-15
SPECIAL SUMMER RATES
Via SeabOard Air Line Railway

Round trip tickets will be sold from
Henderson to points named at the follow
ing rates: New York, via Old Dominion
Steamship Co, $19.75; Baltimore, Md,
via Old Bay line, $11.75; Washington,
DC, via Norfolk w ashington Steamboat
Co, $11.15; Boston and Providence, via
Merchants and Miners Transportation
Co, $24.75. Tickets on sale June 9Th to
September Both, good returning until
October 31st
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-15
WilIie'S Idea.

Isn't it awful how thin Mr.. Hen
peek is now" remarked Mrs. Cable
to her husband, land he used to be
so Stout
''Perhaps," chimed little Willie, re-
Numbering his trouble with his
bicycle tires. 'perhaps his wife for
gets to blow him up regular, like you
said she uster."
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-15
WEEKEND RATES
VIA SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY
To Old Point, Virginia Beach, Ocean
View, Portsmouth, Va.

Effective until Saturday, Sept. 2Sth,
1901, the Seaboard Air Line Railway
will sell weekend tickets to Old Point
Comfort, Virginia Beach. Ocean View
and Portsmouth. Va. at 800, round
trip. Tickets to be sold Saturdays and
Sundays, limited to return Monday fo.-
lowing date Of sale
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-15
NO USE TO KICK.
Winston Sentinel.

Winston Sentinel
The kicking of Washington City
negroes against the grandfather
clause" in the suffrage amendments
to the Constitution of Southern States
seems little peculiar. The Wash
ington City negroes are as effectually
debarred from the right to vote as are
the ignorant negroes in the South,
and this right was taken from them
by the Federal government. The diff
ference between the action of the
government and the States is that the
former DISTINGUISHED the whites of the
District Of Columbia, as we'll as the
negroes, in order to get rid of the cor
ruption and incompetency attendant
upon negro suffrage, while the States
complained Of guarantee the right to
vote to white men while getting rid
of large per centage of the trouble
some element. The States have
found the better way
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-15
rup epGIOE OF BLUE SKIES AND
RIVERS.
Annual Poem Read Before the North Car
oIiua Press Association at its Recent
Meeting In Greensboro, by j. d. Boone,
of the Waynesville Courier.

The following lines were suggested to
the writer few weeks ago while on
visit to the beautiful Nantahala section
of the Land OF the Sky" This locality
il situated along the Murphy branch OF
the Southern Railway, and is included IN
the boundary Of the proposed National
Appalachian Park. This was one OF the
three points visited last week by Hon.
James Wilson, Secretary OF Agriculture
in President Mckinley's Cabinet:
Out In the region of Rivers.
Up in the Land of Sky
Back to the tall. piercing Balsams,
Over where proud eagles fly;
Here, midst the beauties of nature,
Here where the Indians roam.
Lies the fair land of Already
The land Of the Redskins home.
Ii.
Here flows the wild Tuckaseegee
Into the proud Tennessee,
Meeting tho clear Nantahala,
In its rushing, splashing gler.
Here. in this Region OF Rivers,
Where the mountains kiss the sky,
The Cherokee maidens and chieftains
Were bound by the sacredest tie.
Ill.
Learning to love from Dame Nature,
The truest of teachers most true,
Worshipping their God and Creator
In the same glad manner they WOO,
Exempt from social requirement.
Excused from toll and strife,
They've naught to know but cOntentment,
They're enyiOuS of no other life
".
Encircled by wild mountain forests.
With fields that are fertile and kind
These children find plenty of leisure
For sport and diversion of mind.
Their streams, full of rcd, speckled
beauties,
With the dashes of spray and green,
All fringed with sweet rhOdOdendrOns
Presenting glorious scene.
Can Earth, in all its expansion,
With all its allurem6nts and ease,
Fen the milliOnaire'S coStlieSt mansion,
Offer half the inducements to please?
All, no! there is no place but Eden,
Untouched as it had been by man,
That can half way compare with this
Unchanged since the first great plan.
VI.
&c visit this land of enchantment,
This region Of Rivers and Hills,
This section OF ease and cOntentment,
With its ferns and its flowers and rillS,
Then tell me il what have written
Is half OF what might have been told
Then tell me if you are net Smitten
With the sights and the scenes you be
hold.
VII.
Thee, here's to the fair, du1ky maiden,
And her love-, so true and So brave,
TO the wales ant the hills flower laden,
Which cover the CherOkee'S grave;
10 the region OF Blue Skies and Rivers.
To the mountains and forests, 50 grand
To the Prince of all gifts and giyerS,
Who gave us this beautiful land
What some people call repartee
other people call squabbling.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-15

Muggins-''I hear you are living
entirely on health foods. Do you find
the diet bene1icial?"
Buggins Beneficial. Why, since
| have been eating that stuff even the
mosquitoes won't bite me-
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-15
THE BATTLE. OF KINGS MOUNTAIN,
BY ROSE kERSER.

paper read at the closing exercises Of
Henderson Graded School May 10, 1917
The year 1880 opened with a gloomy
prospect for North Carolina during
the dark DAYS of the Seven Years War.
Her troops had been in the tiercest Of
the enemy's fire in the capture Of
Stony Point. Her troops were order
ed back South, and in May her gal
liant soldiers were compelled TO lay
down their arms under Lincoln at
Charleston.
1t was a sad spectacle to see all OF
her regular troops and thousand Of
her militia prisoners of war, stripped
Of all her defenders, and all the result
of a Generals rashness; and to swell
the tide of disasters, company sent
to her aid by sister State was also
surprised and captured. and at that
time when the British were preparing
for another invasion of our State, not
single troop of drilled soldiers was
left to meet them, except two COM
panies of mounted infantry under the
brave and gallant Major Davie.
And yet when all Of her regular
troops were prisoners, North Carolina
did not join with sister State in
proposing to cease fighting the British
if they would allow her to remain
neutral during the remainder Of the
war.
There were still brave hearts who
| would not surrender, although alarm
ed, they were not without hope, and
knowing that the enemy were coming
in conflict she speedily called her
militia, and soon afterward the bril-
liant victory near Lincolnton revived
the dropping heart Of many gallant
| soldier, although it was struggle
| between neighbors and old friends,
and carried bitterness and sorrow to
many homes in North Carolina.
| Again we see hearts cheered when
| CORVALLIS, with his army, marched
into the ssHornet's Nest" as he called
it, being entrapped by the heroic
Major Graham, aud thus leading on
to the turning point in the great
struggle.
Six Colonies with only nine hun
dred men, during long and dreary
march, kept their saddles for thirty
miles, until they reached and sur
rounded Kings Mountain. On the
top of that mountain they found the
British strongly posted, determined
to hold and eager to fight, with one OF
the finest and bravest of English Off
GERS in command.
They fought hard and long like d
lion at bay, again and again theil
bayonets drove our soldiers down The
steep and rugged mountain side
again and again, taking no rest, hold
ing on TO bushes and trees. they re
newed the attack, almost exhausted
yet never murmuring. they were
urged onward, determined to capture
or die. AS the sun was sinking be
hind the Western hills, and the brave
English General. having received :
mortal wound, six hundred OF The
best of England's soldiers laid dowg
their arms to the brave band G
mountaineers as prisoners of war.
General Clinton could not write t<
England and say that North Carolin;
was English again, as he had writer
of South Carolina. For North Caro-
lima had fought when she had NJ
weapons, and did not surrender wheG
she had no defenders.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-15

The day will come when North
Carolina, from the mountains to the
seashore, will be one endless chain Of
blossoming farms, orchards and gar
dens, set like gems with busy cities
and towns: when the loom and the
spindle, and the forge and the anvil,
and the reaper and binder will sing
together the song of wealth and pros
perity; when the thoughts Of every
mind, and the cunning of every hand,
and the longing OF every soul, shall
be cultivated in thoroughly equipped
schools supported, esteemed and
cherished by the State.-George T.
Winston.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-15
King of the Trotring Turf.

At Columbus, Ohio, Cresceus, cham
pion of the trotting turf, added more
laurels to his fame by trotting a mile
in 2:O21, reducing by half second
his week-old record of 2:024 made at
Cleveland last Friday. The first half
was trotted in 500, the first time that
the distance has been covered in less
than one minute by trotter. The
time by quarters was 294, 594, 1901
and 2:O2l.
Weather prophets have been sheer
ed at ever since the days of Noah.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-15

\AIHEN YOU are feeling tired and
w out Of sorts you will find Hoods
Sarsaparllla will do you wonderful
good. Be sure to GET HOODS.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-15

IT will be very gratifying to every
editor in the State to see that his
work is being appreciated, and worthy
mention is being made of the same.
Joseph M. Morehead, in Saturdays
Greensboro Record, and William M.
Sheriff., in Saturdays Charlotte o.
serrer, have written complimentary
words of the North Carolina editors
1t is not fulsome hattery, but a
tribute of true worth to the men who
WELD the pen in our State. For one,
and in behalf of the fraternity, we
thank the gentlemen for their recog-
milton and encouraging remarks.
They are highly approximations
ham .Sun
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-15

Don't you ever feel that you'd
like to have a husband?" asked the
young bride.
No; 1 don't" snapped the spinster
1--WE got q parrot that swears and a
hired man that comes home drunk,
so what more do YOU want?"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-15

FROM letter from Admiral Schley:
Touching the matter of your refer
ence to medal, | have always be-
lieved that nations ought of right to
perpetuate the great events of their
history rather than those of the lives
OF participants, and leave to the judi
cial calm of historic judgment to per-
petuate in bronze those who NAV
have honored themselves by deeds Of
honor wrought for home. for flag, for
country. No, my maxim has been
steadfastly, through nearly half CEN
tury Of service, my country first, last
and all the time, after my love of
God"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-15
You Want ROckg

can furnish rough rock for all kinds
OF building purposes, such as walls,
foundations, underpinning, chimneys,
wells, &c. Quarry convenient and prompt
delivery made. Am in position to save
you money on large or small quantities.
r. J. SWITZERLAND
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-15

What some people call repartee
other people call squabbling.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-03-13
INJECTORS.

We sell the Garfield, and
guarantee them to give salts
faction.
The Marietta Mfg. Co.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-03-13
Noticeable Improvement.

There has been quite showing
made at the new Court House since
Monday by Mr.. Keith, superintendent
of Concrete Co. The scaffolding has
gone up so rapidly that the basement
interior looks like a complete woods
There also haye been several compli-
ments passed by passersby on the con-
dition of the side walk by the town
pump, where their Office is located.
On Saturday during the rain Mr.. Keith
and w. H. Kamins, time keeper, werc
busily engaged in cleaning the side
walk and the many patrons of the
town pump did not have to use skiffs
and small row boats to get to the
pump as before. We also wish tu
congratulate them for their neatness.
ADMIRER.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-03-13

Say! Those sickly, sinking, all gone,
pegged out feelings are the echoed
cry-pains from your overworked liver.
Cranberry Tone is a'liYer- r-bracer. Gran
berry Tone is blue mood chaser.
For that weary weakness take Gran
berry Tone"
For that drowsy, dreamy, lazy Ian
guor that saps the snap of life away.
Take Richardson's Cranberry Tone.
Cranberry Tone is drumming for
Health, taking orders along the route
of Sickness, to be shipped by the Get.
Well express line, on the road Recov-
cry.
The only thing that will do for you
is Cranberry Tone-a bottle or two
Will pink your soul with the fire ol
health, and bring you back to your old
time self.
Cranberry Tone has a taste of it,
own, and way of making a lazy liver
hump itself. Price 75c. bottles, 50
Prepared by yours for business.
WILL S. RICHARDSON,
Cut-Rate Druggist.
1877 Greene street.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-03-13
GEORGE B. SUNDERLAND,
DEALER in REAL ESTATE,

Has for sale or rent business or resi-
dence property in the city suburbs. II
you wish to buy, sell or rent call on
Mr.. Sunderland. Valuable farms for
sale on easy terms. Also lots or resi-
dences in Norwood. Rathbone. Glass
Plant, Fairview Heights or Mt Ever
EFT additions. Office on Second street.
opposite Union Depot