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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-08
CARDS UP HIS SLEEVE.
Admiral Schley Prepared to Give Some
People a Surprise.

Salt Lake, July 29.-Capt. Thomas
Schley, of the Twenty-third Infantry,
eldest son of Rear Admiral Schley,
has outlined some points that will be
brought out in the court Of inquiry,
according to the Herald. Capt. Schley
is stationed at Fort Douglas. He
says that some startling facts will be
brought to light if the whole truth
shall become known and that the
regulations of persons other than his
father are likely to suffer.
II have just written to my father"
said Captain Schley, that l thought
he should spare no one, and that he
should withhold none of the facts in
his possession about Admiral Sampson
or anybody else"
Although he hasn't had letter
from his father since the court Of in
quiry was ordered, Captain Schley is
familiar with the questions at issue
and pointed out some of the facts
that will be urged in the Admiral's
defence.
When the court of inquiry meets"
| said Captain Schley, II would like to
have the privilege OF asking Adj
miral Sampson just one question:
If the battle of Santiago had resulted
in defeat, to whom would the blame
| be attached?'
This, l think, tells the situation
in nutshell. If Admiral Schley had
| lost the battle he would have been
| blamed. He won it and he should
have the credit.
| The aecusuations that are made
are ridiculous when they are investi
| gated. Take, for example, the charge
OF disobedience of orders in May 1898.
An attempt has been made to saddle
the responsibility on my father. The
fact is that he has letter from Ad-
miral Sampson, telling him to do
exactly what he did, and this letter
will be produced at the inquiry. At
the time he was maintaining the block
ado off Cienfuegos. Secretary Long
wired Admiral Sampson, strongly ad-
vising that the blockading fleet 60 to
Santiago, in the hope of finding the
Spanish fleet there. Admiral Samp-
son sent the dispatch to Admiral
Schley with a note in which he said:
"After duly considering this tele-
gram, | have decided to make no
change in the present plans; that is,
that you should hold your squadron
off Cienfuegos."
This letter was suppressed.
Regarding the maneuvers of the
Brooklyn at the time of the battle,
Captain Schley says:
The facts all 60 to show that this
was the best move under the circum-
stance. The part played by the
Brooklyn in the battle certainly COM
pares favorably with that of the New
York.
"If this inquiry is full and fair,
declared Captain Schley, 'some facts
will be disclosed that will startle the
public. My father has several strong
cards up his sleeve, and | trust he
will make use of them all"
Coptain Schfey enlisted in the army
in 1884 and was appointed second
lieutenant in the Twenty-third In.
fantry seven years later He has
served with his regiment all through
its campaigns in the Philippines
where he has earned his captaincy
Since his return from the Philippines
he has been at Fort Douglas.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-08
NORTH CAROLINiANS MAKE GOOD
SOLDIERS.
Wilmington Messenger.


North Carolina young men are APP
preciated as soldiers. The naval de-
partment likes them for the navy.
Commander e. N. West gives praise.
He writes:
While lying off Fort Monroe just
prior to the Spanish war. Admiral Sicard
and myself attended many battalion drills
at the fort, which was then two bat
talon post. We We're struck by the re
markably fine appearance of the men as
to size, health, soldierly bearing. intelli-
gence, and everything that goes to make
up good soldier. Admiral Sicard in
quired Of the general commanding where
he recruited such fine men, and was told
that 9 out of 10 of the men came from
North Carolina. where their recruiting
agents had been active. He continued
that he found men from that State most
amenable to discipline and as good sol
diers as had ever been under him. He
confirmed Sicard's opinion fully as to
their qualities.
And that reminds US of converse
ton with MIR. Wallace, the oldest
member of the Petersburg bar, in
1866. In company with the late Rev.
DR.. Thomas H. Pritchard, the pastor
of the First Baptist church in that
historic little city, and afterwards
pastor of the First Baptist church in
Wilmington, we were dining with Mr.
Wallace After dinner we were all
sitting on the porch. Mr. Wallace
said that General A. P. Hill was
kinsman of his wife, and while Grant
was beleaguering Petersburg, he
often took meal with them. Once,
sitting where we now are, | asked
him which troops in the Army of
Northern Virginia he regarded as the
best. He surprised me with his
answer, as he was Virginian by
birth, and so am l. He said, North
Carolinians are the best why SOP
inquired. His reply was, They are
as brave as any men, and being more
obedient to authority, they are better
soldiers. They will do what you tell
| them to do'' OF course we were
| pleased at this testimony. Governor
Vance told us in 1872 1--WE believe it
was), at Trinity College, that he had
recently met General Wade Hampton,
of South Carolina, at Charlotte, and
he said to him: "Vance, l do not
know how it was, but the best sol
diers l saw in the war were from
North Carolina" We published these
opinions quite twenty years ago,
when DR.. Pritchard and Senator
Vance were living. We could pro.
duce other testimony of similar
kind from officers of rank not natives
| of this State.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-08
BACKWARDNESS OF OUR PEOPLE
AS NEWSPAPER READERS.

Raleigh Biblical Recorder
Editor Poe, of the Progressive
Farmer, has brought out paper en-
phasizing the backwardness of the
people of North Carolina as news
paper readers. The proportion of
papers circulated in this State to the
population is far behind the average
in the United States. We agree that
this is to be regretted; it is evidently
not good sign. 1t is due to the
fact, we think, that so large proper
ton of our population is illiterate;
and the free school is, therefore, the
first recourse of the enterprising pub
Usher. 1t may be said, in passing,
that the failure to read papers is not
in itself a great curse. The human
race did get on very we'll before the
day of papers. 1t is very probable
the reading of papers so extensively
has debauched far and wide the finer
susceptibilities Of taste. None who
have formed the habit will do without
their papers; but if they would, and
would replace them for the most part
with more thoughtful literature, they
| might register a distinct advance in
culture. One-tenth of ones reading
is about as much as ought to be
devoted to current affairs. Let the
balance he given to more serious and
to more entertaining reading. North
Carolina knows nothing of the curse
of the New York dailies She has
been saved so far. The opportunity
is thus presented for her to actually
gain by her backwardness by guard
ing the taste of her people against
deteriorating literature. AS she
comes to read papers, let her be ex-
| horted also to read books more.
Great Britain buys about 1900
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-08
A STATE RICH IN MINERALS AND
GEMS.
Charlotte Observer.

Charlotte Observer.
The time is not far distant when
the fact that North Carolina is one of
the richest States in the Union in
minerals and precious stones will be
much more generally known than is
the case at present. The mineral re-
sources of the State have been adver-
tised in many ways in years past, but
mining is slow business and not so
much progress has been made in the
development Of our underground
wealth as the variety and abundance
of the mineral beds would justify.
When we consider the richness of the
field and the certainty of profta BILE
returns, the slow development of the
mining industry in this State is =
matter of surprise. Rich as North
Carolina is in gold veins, that metal,
while not the least, is certainly not
the most important production.
In yesterdays paper a very inter-
esting extract was given from the re-
port of State Geologist Holmes in re-
gard to the mining industry of this
State in 1900. in which it was shown
that the total value of the different
minerals produced in 1900, including
coal and granite. was $751,931. Prof.
Holmes SAYS that there was greater
activity last year in the development
of mines and mineral properties in
this State than at any time in 10
years. This was general and confined
| to no one mineral. There was re-
opening of old copper and iron mines
and search for new properties. The
high price of copper has kept up.
The demand for corundum, tale, mica
and monazite is attracting much at
tention TO the deposits. Many fail
ures in this State in mining ventures
are due to overcapitalization, and
show that mining must be done on
gold mines have been opened, most OF
the work was done in old ones, some
of which were operated quite exten,
sively, vet the year was one of develop
ment rather than of actual mining.
Successful, and in some instances
extensive, mining operations are
shown in pottery clays, lump pyrites
manganese. corundum, garnet, mica
land it is said the North Carolins
mica is superior to any in the worldly
tale, pyrophylite, graphite, hiddenits
rhodolite, monazite, tungsten, Qo1
hardening steel, product of Cabar
rus county,, samarskite, iron. coal
gold, silver, copper and granite
white, blue and pink marble, brown
stone and other building and monu
mental stones. The list serves t.
give an idea of the mineral resource
of North Carolina and it is encourag
ing to know, as intimated by Prof
Holmes, that there is a growing activ
ity in the mining and marketing o
this vast source of wealth. In in
stances where previous operation
have proved failures, the cause wa
generally attributed, and perhap
Justly, to bad management. In min
ing, as in any other industry, practi
cal business sense is necessary to sue
cess. When this is applied to tn
mineral beds of this State. success
almost certain to follow. If the mir
ing industry could be revived on
sound basis it would he a fellow
factor with the textile industry i
adding to the prosperity Of the Stat
and the wealth of our people.
The pace that kills is not the pac
of the messenger bow
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-08
WHEN LYNCHING WILL STOP.
MOrgantOn Herald

MorgantOn Herald.
Lynching will stop in this State
when there is an end of the Internal
crime that invokss it, and not before.
Parsouic he-virgins and fish blooded
officials may cry anarchy" puritanic
pennv-a-liners may damn the South
as savages, but the law stands re-
corded in every Saxon, Southern heart
that when a black devil assaults one
of our women he takes the short cut,
across lots. to perdition. Try him by
law? Would you try mad dog?
Yet the mad dog is merciful compared
with this unspeakable tiend. The vic
tim of rabies dies at least respected;
the innocent victim of the black
demons lust lives life of amending
| agony. Force her to face the court,
to suffer a second death of shame and
torture by recounting her outrage, to
| submit to the examination by some
shyster lawyer, to risk the laws un-
certainty and delay, to run the gaunt-
| let of the pardoning power, the chance
| OF escape? Put the villain in Jail and
let the sentimental stiles slobber
over him and send him horseshoe
| geraniums; mount him on the scat
fold and let him blister his dirty
throat with the lie that he is going
straight to glory? No, no. brothers,
let the poor woman suffer in silence:
take the hell-hound to the scene of
the villainy and let his sentence leap
from the hot lips of an avenging Win
chester. Lynehing can be stopped.
1t ought to stop. And the way to
stop it is to stop the crime.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-08
TO MOUNTAIN AND SEASH0RE RE-
SORTS
Via Seaboard Air Line Railway.

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, 1901-08-08
WEEKEND RATES
VIA SEABOARDA 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 $500, round
trip Tickets to be sold Saturdays and
Sundays, limited to return Monday fol
lowing date OF sale.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-08

WANTED TRUSTWORTHY MEN
and women to travel and advertise for old
established house of solid financial stand
ing. Salary. $3.50 q year and expenses, all
payable in cash. No canvassing required.
Give references and enclose self-addressed
stamped envelope. Address, Manager, 355
Caxton Bldg, Chicago.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-08

Iruisms are usually too self-evi-
dent to be palatable,
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-08

Every school has its room for i'm
provement.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-08
HEDULE IN EFFECT JUNE 10, 1901
You Want Rock?

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. SOUTHERLAND.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-08

The pace that kills is not the pace
of the messenger boy.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-08

Great Britain buys about II. O(
tons OF German toys annually.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-05
THE MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.
FOREIGN PORTS


Dunne Head. March 3-Passed. steamers IIekla DAM.
Svennsen New-York for Chrtstiansand. etc; Primers
lE3D. Gladstone New-fork for lsth and
Dundee.
Neyy-York for Dublin: 4th. Barbarossa cGer). Mentz.
Lizard March PA ,sed steamer British King Br),
riddle Antwerp New York
Tory Island March Passed. steamer Sardinian Brl
Johnstone New York for Glasgow
Arrived, steamer John Bright tt}rl
Myness New-York
Shields March o-saied. steamer Asia 'Ger) Segelken.
Hun, March 8-saled steamer Consuelo CBr). Watson.
New-York.
Isle Of Wight March 4Passed, steamer Hotham Newton
(I3rl Andersen York FOR Bremerhaven
Antwerp March ARRIVED. steamers British Prince CBr
smith NewYork; 4th. Noordiand 'Heig'' Doxrud
Aarhuus March Sailed Christine DAM. Lar
New-York.
Schlsefer. New-York. ,,.,,-. -
Dinklage Rotterdam for New York
Gibraltar March 4-Passed. steamer California (Brb.
blake Naples for New-York.
Malta March ARRIVED steamer Pocahontas Br) James,
Yorkfo Venice etc
Naples 2S-Arrived steamer Aler Cier). Nilhelmi
Alexandria New-York
3-Sailed steamer Powhatan tBr), Harm
den (from Trieste and Fiume) New York
CalIesen Yokohama via Hogo, Shanghai. etc for
Jana March ARRIVED. Auguste Victoria Ger
Kaempn, New-York via ports Ton Orient cruise).
valentine New-York; Phidias tBr). Allen New-York.
La Cusvra March ARRIVED, Caracas, Wood
rick. New-York via Porto Rico
Huelva Feb 26-sailed steamer Mora CBr) Nicholson,
New-York.
Bermuda :. II m-sailed Trinidad CBr).
Fraser, NeY-York.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-05
WHAT Is GOING ON TO-DAY.

Sportsmen's Show. Madison Square Garden.
Municipal Assembly. regular meeting. afternoon.
Annual dinner Irish Revolutionary Brotherhoo ID.
Sturtevant House. evening
Meeting German American League, United Char
ities Building evening.
Social Reform Club No. As University Place. S
p. m.
New-York Entomological Society. regular meet
ing. Museum Of Natural History, n. m.
New-York Historical Society. regular meeting
No 10 Second-aVe. evening.
Columbia University lecture How Pompeil Was
Destroyed by the Rev. II. q. Spaulding, Cooper
Union. p. m.
Board Of Education free lectures. =. m: Cathe-
dral School Hall. No III East Fiftieth-st.. Irish
Music" Mrs. Helen ODonnell; American Museum
OF Natural History. From the Monumental En-
trance 10 the Bridge of Alexander III" Professor
William r. Goodyear Institute Hall. No. 2lS East
One hundred and-sixth-st.. Story of the Sun and
Planets Miss Mary Proctor
New-York tribune., 1901-03-05
A TIDY Sum AS BACK PAY.
GEORGE sTEINsON. FORMER PUBLIC SCHOOL
TEACHER ENTITLED TO $4,000
FROM THE CITY

Judgment in favor Of George Stenson, former
public school teacher in Long Island City
tered by direction of Justice Scott in the Supreme
Court yesterday. for $1,000 Stenson asserted that
he received a license from Superintendent Jasper,
and that ii renewed a the expiration of the
period for which 1T was granted. A subsequent re-
newal was refused Steinson regularly reported for
duty. and demanded his reinsta tement and finally
brought suit for eleven years salary The suit
was tried before Justice McAdam who dismissed
his complaint. and appeal was taken to the
Appellate DIVISION which reversed Justice Nc
Adams ruling. The Corporation Counsel then
stipulated that should the Court of Appeals affirm
the decision of the Appellate Division he would
consent to judgment in Steinson's favor The
Court OF Appeals upheld the Appellate Term and
Steinson then applied to Justice Scott for iudg-
ment Justice Scott said the stipulation left him
New-York tribune., 1901-03-05
NEW-YORK CITY.

The monthly meeting of the Chamber Of Com
merce will be held Thursday. at 12:So p. m.
Luncheon will be served at 130 o'clock.
Professor William H. Goodyear will deliver the
first of three fully illustrated lectures the
and architectural features Of the Paris Exposition
at the Berkeley Lyceum this afternoon at 3:30
O'Clock.
The schoolmasters' Association will hold It's next
meeting on Saturday at 1890 a m. No. u West
Forty-fourth-st. THE Teaching Of English in
Schools will be discussed by Professor E. E. Hale.
of Union College
The New-York Genealogical and BioRraphca So
ciety will meet Friday evening al No 236 West
Fffty-eighth-st-. when ". l. Scandlin will present
Photographic views of In and about New
York fifty years ago.
The Charity Organization Society appeals for 1000
provide a monthly pension for a widow, with
a deserted wife and six children. the eldest but
nine years old. The earnings Of these mothers are
insufficient for such large families and in order
prevent the breaking up OF the homes and scat
tering the children the pensions needed until
the older children become wage earners. ANY
money for these cases sent to the Charity Or
ganization Society. No 1O5 East Twenty-second-st..
will he duly and publicly acknowledged.
Corporation Counsel Whalen has appointed a
successor TO the late Thomas Nolan. who was As
sistant Corporation Counsel in the Bureau Of Pen
alties. The appointee is Henry Clark Johnson. Of
No 143 West Thirty-fou -th-st. Mr. Johnson's sal
ary will be 5000 year
The Department of Buildings has condemned and
ton, Durlands old academy. at Fifty-ninth-st and
the Grand Circle AM the academy has been
moved to the new building at No. West Sixty
sixth-st.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-05
DOES NOT EXPECT a STRIKE
GENERAL MANAGER OF BROOKLYN
RAPID TRANSIT SAYS THOUSANDS
ARE WILLING TO TAKE
PLACES OF MEN

There vas no strike yesterday morning at >
o'clock by the Brooklyn Bridge employees of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. as had been
expected in certain quarters. and there no
interruption of bridge traffic. The police re-
serves which had been held in readiness all
night for an emergency. were released at =
g. nl as there was nothing for them to do. and
So far as could he learned there was no indica-
ton that any strike would take place yester-
day.
John c. Brackenridge. general manager of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, told Trib
une reporter yesterday afternoon that the only
grievance the men had the taking away Of
their passes They We're allowed. however. to
ride free in uniform on the elevated and surface
cars The company. said Mr Breckenridge,
would not recede from the position it had taken
He had been talking to bridge employees yes
terday afternoon. and from what he had heard
from them he declared he was convinced they
would not strike. He had also talked with
bridge employees Saturday afternoon and
advised them that they would he foolish to
strike. as there were 800 men only too glad
20 I'LL their places and that if they did strike
they would not be re-employed. There We're
only 1O3 on the bridge who might strike. and If
they did So their places would be filed so
quickly the public would not know that any
strike had occurred
Mr.. Breckenridge asserted that no request had
been made by himself or any other representa-
tive Of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company for
the police 10 hold men in reserve. and he had no
icea where the notification came from. The COM
pany did not consider the situation critical
enough to call upon the police. and did not be
lieve there would be any strike.
Bridge Commissioner Shea said yesterday that
he had not heard there was any prospect of 4
strike, but that he could assert his authority
If there should be strike and the company
placed incompetent or incapable men in charge
of the cars al the jeopardy Of life and limb.
II is said that committee from the Protective
Association of the employees of the company ap-
psaled 10 the Central Federated Union and that
a committee from the union, accompanied by
men from the company were in conference with
Mr.. Rossiter Sunday night relative to griev-
ances
New-York tribune., 1901-03-05
IDENTIFIED AFTER BURIAL.
BODY FOUND IN EAST RIVER on FEBRUARY l3
WAS THAT OF WALDoRF-AsToRIA
DETECTIVE.

The man who was taken from the East River
At Twenty -ninth-st. on the morning OF February
q, and who was buried in the Potter's Field
identified yesterday afternoon. Michael Nor
ris, Of No. 3El East Thirty-second-st. and his
brother Frank. of No. 22i East Thrty-second-st
called at the morgue and made the Identification
saying that the man Michael Doyle thirty five
years old. of No. 22l East Thirty-second-st. He
was a detective al the waldorf-Astoria
The men said that Doyle had not been seen since
FEBRUARY y when he left his house saving that
ne was going 10 Plainield \. j. for several day
on q visit Morris said that Doyle was In good
etanolnS al the Waldorf, and that his salary for
the month OF January is stin al the hotel He p,ss
New-York tribune., 1901-03-05
HOME NEWS.

PROMINENT ARRIVALS AT THE HOTELS
ALBEMARLE- F. P Fish of Boston: r C. Err
win Of Hartford BI+CKINGHAM-Dr. II. W.
Ring. of New-Haven GILSEY-Dr. f. S. Carroll,
of Buffalo HOILAND-Ex Governor Frank :.
Black % Troy. IMPERIAL-S. Harrison Wagner,
Of New-Haven. PLAZA-Dr- J. Miller Moore
L. s y SAVOY-Professor John Dewitt. Of Prince
ton. VICTORIA-Judge J. ]. Riley, of Lexington,
XIV WALDORF-Count and Countess Chambrun,
of Paris: General George S Fields. of Buffalo; eX-
Congressman James Kerr. IF Pennsylvania.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-05
SCARCITY OF WATER DTScrssPn

REVOLUTIONS PASSED ENDORSING PROPOSED
RESERVOIR IN FOREST PARK
There WAS a meeting Of the representatives Of
the several insurance companies in Brooklyn held
fn the Of the Manufacturers Association
Montague-st. Brooklyn, yesterday afternoon. TO
discuss the scarcity Of water In that borough
Resolutions indorsins the proposed storage reser-
voir in Forest Park Were passed. and will be taken
70 Albany to-day by Alfred T. White.
A permanent committee water supply was an
pointed. which VIII cooperate with similar COM
Tnittees Of the Manufacturers Association. the
Citizens Onion and the Brooklyn League
Controller Coler was present at the meeting but
did speak IL is said that he came under the
nnisa pprehension that there would be Rama DO
sentiment cropping out in the meeting He ex-
pressed much qualification when he learned that
he was mistaken.