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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-01-15
CURE FOR PESSIMISM.
Wilmington Messenger.

According to the Manufacturers
ditions OF the South would cure the
worst case of pessimism. 1t says
that everywhere is activity and dpros-
perity and the world at last recog-
nizes the fact that this section is des-
tined to become the center of indus
trial activity of this country. What
it has done and is now doing, it says,
are but hints of the future. It's iron
and coal industry are but in their in
fancy and their output nothing in
comparison with what it's inexhaust-
able beds of these minerals will yield
in the future. It's cotton mills, which
! noT consume 1000, 900 of the TO-
100000 to II 100000 bales it pro-
duces represent an industry OF only
Il few years growth. This newspa-
per predicts that the South will
eventually manufacture all the raw
cotton it produces, but by that time
the output OF the farms will have
doubled or trebled. The South has
supported the textile industry of
/ New England and of Old England.
She furnishes the raw material for
mills of an aggregate capital OF ST.
600, ,OOO,O 600. The last quarter OF a
century has seen the South doing
for herself what she has for so many
tions OF the two Notwithstanding
the manufacturers of her own raw
product, building the mills here and
reaping the larger profits from them
instead OF being content with the
smaller derived from the production
of the raw material. During the past
year the mills of the South have
added or made arrangements to add
to their equipment 100000 spin
dies and 81 900 looms, representing
an investment of over $40, O,OOO,O 900.
Another new departure which means
much for this industry at the South
is the establishment OF mills for the
! production Offancy weaves and prints
instead of sticking to the manufac-
ture of coarse fabrics alone. Much
of the investment represents the
earnings of the mills already estab-
lished, but some of it is outside capi-
| ldl. u large part DeluS DEouSht liltO
the South by parties at the North
who see that this seciOn is to become
the cotton manufacturing center of
the United States.
Next to cotton, the Manufacturers
Record says, comes the iron, steel
and coal industry. 1t goes on to de-
scribe the progress that has recently
been made in this direction, enumer-
ating the furnaces that have been
put in blast and the new plants
started and contemplated. Another
great factor in the buildingup of our
section is railway construction. The
paper says the railway construction
activity of the country has settled
in the South and Southwest. During
the past year out of a total of 5000
miles OF railway built in the United
States i 200 were in the South and
Southwest.
| A wonderful showing is made for
our section of the country in all lines
OF industry.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-01-15
EXCERPTS FROM THE DURHAn
HERALD.

Ii parents cannot prevent their
children smoking cigarettes and play
ing with toy pistols, pray what can
the law do?
The North Carolina Republican
who hopes to hold his job should be
able to occupy both sides of the fence
at the same time.
While the Governor is not and has
not beeu candidate no one could
blame him for accepting if it was Of
fered him.
A telephone is a great convenience
for the person who wants to ask fool
questions but how about the one who
is called upon to answer them?
If Mr.. Rockefeller will read the com
ments of the press he will disabuse
his mind of the idea that he receives
credit for his donations to charity.
Mr.. Whitaker should know that al
attempt by him to secure Federal
office will have a tendency to beal
out the claim made by the Democrats
that the independent movement wa.
; a Republican sideshOw.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-01-15
The Old Ways Best.

From the idle Comment" corner
of the Charlotte Observer we take
the following:
Outsiders sometimes laugh at the Eyes,
ma 'ams" and the ''yes, sirs,' OF the
South. and it is noticed that frequently
Southern boys and girls who attend the
Northern schools come back to face the
aged with a too-simple yes or no..
Lord forbid that the terms should pass.
They belong to the South-bplong to
Thomas Nelson Pages women; they are
port of the speech of the hovel and the
pundit caste. The words are used most
prettily by young women to cd women
and are the peculiar property of the rich,
soft Southern voice. They are the young
mans quiet show of difference to the old
man: the old mans occasional proffer of
dignified politeness to the young man
This speech-this habit OF language that
was learned in the old, old house with
the big white pillars-ran only be used
properly and gracefully down here. AnG
it must always he used down here,
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-01-15
1902 THE BEST YEAR IN HISTORY

New York, Dec 3Oth.-Bradstreet's
review of the business year to be is
sued Saturday next will have the fol
lowing to say:
"TO say that 1902 was the sbest
year this country has ever expert
enced, while truthful enough in the
main, does not suggest fully the
enormous strides which the United
States took in the year just closed.
Practically every branch of ordinary
trade and manufacture showed an
increase above the best of previous
years. and vet this immense enlarge
ment OF output was not sufficient of
itself to satisfy the growing-it might
be termed insatiable-demand for
all kinds of materials. In many
cases the usual foreign outlet for
products was, perforce, neglected by
the American producers, who confined
their efforts to supplying insistant
domestic demands, while in Others
foreign production was called upon
to reinforce domestic output with the
result that new currents and chan
nels were created in our foreign trade.
Export trade, therefore, shrunk,
while our imports expanded to un-
precedented figures The railroads
of the country, in their efforts to ham
die the business offered them. suffered
as never before from congestion
and complaint of interference with
production and distribution Of the
products of the farm, the mine, the
shop and the loom was practically
universal Industrial unrest was
naturally marked, as it always is in
times either of prosperity or dullness.
Speculation, it is true, felt the
checks imposed upon it by conserva,
tism, by short crops in the preceding
year, and last but not least by high
rates of money, but despite the fact
that stock market operators were
about one-half those of 1901. Bank
ing clearings, those usually reliable
guides, showed aggregates practi
cally equal to the hitherto unhearc
of totals of 1901. All this was ac
complished with a minimum of .fric
ton, as reflected in the form OF busi
ness embarrassment"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-01-15
MERE MEN.

Nelson kneass, who wrote the music
OF Ben Bolt to the words Of Thomas
Dunn English, died vagabond.
Stephen NJ. Griswold. bank president,
ex-state senator and churchman. will
soon complete fifty years as an usher
In Plymouth church, Brooklyn.
Civil Engineer Robert f. Peary has
reported for duty at the navy depart
ment Washington, but will not he as
signed until he fully recoyers from his
recent operation. He still uses crutches.
Signor Puccini, the Italian composer,
who has been fined several times for
driving his motor car at Il furious rate,
has been warned at Leghorn that he
will be prosecuted criminally II he per-
sists In breaking the law.
Henry L. Dawes, ex-United States
senator, although he has just cele-
brated his eighty-seventh birthday, is
still chairman Of the Dawes Indian
commission and from his home directs
the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes.
Representative Vincent Boreing of
the Eleventh Kentucky district Is the
only Republican elected in his state.
When Senator Deboe retires in March,
Mr.. Boreing will be the only Republic
an representative of the Blue Grass
State in congress.
Marquis Saigo Teugumichi, the dis
tinguished statesman who died of can
Ger recently in Yokohama, played such
prominent part in lberating Japan
from the rule Of the tycoon and in re-
storing the mikado that he has been
known as ''the oriental Garibaldi."
D. E. Thompson of Lincoln, Neb.,
has accepted the appointment Of min
lister to Brazil offered to him by the
president about month ago. Mr..
Thompson was the caucus candidate
for United States senator from Nebras-
ka two years ago. but withdrew in ia
vor of Senator Dietrich.
Charles J. Swanson. a successful
manufacturer of Minneapolis, cele-
brated his silver wedding a few days
ago. His employees called to congrat-
ulate Mr.. Swanson and his wife. As
each employee shook his employers
hand he received an envelope. In
each env>.Ci,e was deed for forty
acres of improved land in Anoka coun-
ty, Minn.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-01-15
PINFEATHERS.

Fresh bones not only contain lime,
hut also animal matter Of much value.
Turkeys are readily fattened on thick
boiled cornmeal and oatmeal mixed
with chopped suet.
Wet cornineal should always be CIV
en- TO the fowls fresh. When left stand
ing. it will soon sour.
In fattening geese give mixture OF
corn anai wheat and "a cooked mess
twice a day of turnips. potatoes and
chopped clover.
In cold weather hens are more liable
to get into the habit OF feather eating
than at any other time. Want OF exer
else and proper feeding are often thu
cause Of this annoyance.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-01-15
The Review of Reviews for Januarq.

The Review of Reviews begins a new
volume with one of it's characteristic
numb-rs-a publication that could never
by any possibility be mistaken for any
other magazine in the world-128 pages
as full of real news as the morning pa
per and yet as solid and we'll considered
as the best of he foreign quarterlies.
Venezuela is very mitch at the front at
the opening of the new year. and the Re
view net only gives space to n valuable
editorial discussion of the British and
German claims and the proposed modes
of adjustment, but opens it's pages to a
full presentation al the case of tine powers
against the little South American State,
as set forth by Mr.. A Maurice Low, a
we'll informed Washington journalist.
The 'man of the month in international
affairs is our minister to Venezuela, Mr.
Herbert W. Bowen A character sketch
of his typical diplomat of the american
school, written, it is understood, by an
intimate personal acquaintance, forms a
noteworthy feature of the January Re
view. Among the subjects engaging the
attention of Congress hardly one can be
named that is more important in its
BEARINGS on the public welfare than the
question of protecting the grazing lands
! of the West, from which comes the nu.
! tional meat supply. This is the theme ol
the authoritative and iudicious article
from the pen of DR.. f. Benjamin Andrews
who has made a special study of the
Western cattle situation. Dr. Andrews
article is accompanied by an exhaustive
| inquiry into the present advance in be
prices by Mr.. Fred c. Croxton, of the Ma
| tional Department of fLabor. Another q
the problems before Congressional o
currency-is clearly outlined in q papel
by Charles A Conant, describing the *
pedients secently resorted to by the Treas
ury to relieve the stringency in the none,
market. The rural free delivery service
the advantages Of which were emphasize
in President Rooseveit's message to Con
gress, is the subject of an illustrated al
ticle by Day Allen Wiley.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-01-15
THE COOKBOOK.

Use bacon fat for frying chicken or
game. 1t imparts a delicate 6avor.
Custard puddings require very slow
cooking. and very little sugar should be
added. as this causes them TO be we
terry.
One half cupful of sweet cream is
added by certain New England house
wives to the baked beans pot about q
half hour before it is taken from the
oven.
When purchasing roast of veal
have the DC.cher lard it with salt pork
You will hrd thai il makes the meat
juicy instead of dry and gives 1t fine
flavor that cannot be had in any othel
way.
Hominy balls may be served as 0
vegetable with the meat course Or witt
fruit sirup as q dessert. Form COLI
boiled hominy into balls. roll them In
egg. then in breadcrumbs and fry II
hot fat.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-01-15
THE sOUTn'S PROSPERITY.
Richmond Times.

One of the best evidences of pros
perity in the South is found in the
fact that a large Richmond dealer is
sending carload after carload of ag-
ricultural machinery into North and
South Carolina. There has been an
increase in this branch of trade during
the past year or two and more of
such machinery is now sold in year
than was sold in five or ten years a
while back. The farmers are pur-
chasing in order to be ready for The
spring and summer operations.
This means prosperity, and it
means something more. 1t means
that the farmers are learning that
they must employ modern methods
i'll carrying on their business. They
are learning that they cannot succeed
and yet work as their fathers and
grandfathers worked in other days.
They are learning that it is as neces-
sar.y for a farmer to have modern
equipment as it is for a factory to
have modern equipment.
But there is another reason for this
large increase in the purchase and
use of machinery on the farms. There
was a time when labor was plentiful
and farm hands could be had in
abundant supply at comparatively
low wages. But the situation has
greatly changed. Negroes have quit
the farms in large numbers to find
more profitable or at least more
agreeable occupations in other
branches of industry The farmers
of the South can no longer depend
upon the supply OF negro labor and
SO they are depending upon them
selves and their boys. and in order
to strengthen their hands and en-
large their capacity they are using
machinery. 1t is a sort of revolution
in the agricultural regions of the
South, but we believe it marks a new
era Of prosperity
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-01-15
A PLEA FOR THE NEGRO.
State Superintendent Joyner's Re-
port to Gov. Aycock.

RALEIGH, n c., January 3.-The
report and recommendations of the
State Superintendent of Public In
struction was placed in Gov. Ay-
cocks hands today. He makes a
powerful plea for the education of
the negro, saying: ''Solong as there
| dwells among us a weaker-a child
race-placed here in the providence
of God through no desire of their
own and without their consent, our
stronger race owes this race duty
which it cannot fail to discharge. To
take away from u weaker race by
Constitutional Amendment the right
of suffrage on account OF unfitness TO
exercise it and then virtually deprive
that race by Constitutional Amend
ment OF the means of ever acquiring
fitness for the exercise of this right
would do violence to the conscience
of the civilized world and would be
an act of injustice unworthy OF a
great and generous race. We must
deal with this question in the present;
we cannot brush it aside" The su-
perintendent says 20 out of 10 of all
the children in the State are absO-
lutely dependent for education upon
the public schools. The total amount
expended for each child of school
age, including local taxes, is $2.17,
while in the whole country the aver
age is S9.51. The average length of
white school term in the State is 80
days, colored IS days. The average
daily attendance in each school dis
tridt is 30 for whites and 81 for ne
groes. Consolidation of school dis
tricts is imperat;vely needed There
| is considerable sentiment for a COM
pulsory attendance law and it is in
creasing. Illiteracy is greatest in
the States which do not have such a
law. Reports from % counties in
which cotton mills are located show
in the cotton mill district that only
about two-fifths of the children ever
enter school and only about one
fourth are in daily attendance.
The time for action has arrived and
| earnestly recommend a law which
will require that no child under u
shall be employed or allowed to work
in any cotton mill or other factory;
that no child under IA who cannot
read and write shall be employed or
allowed to work in any cotton mill
or other factory, and that no child
under IA shall be employed or al
lowed to work at night in any fac
tory
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-01-15
OXFORD ORPHAN ASYLUM.
Annual Report to the Governor Shows
Very Encouraging State of Affairs.

RALEIGH, n. c., January 3.-Secre-
tary Rosenthal, of the trustees of
Oxford Orphan Asylum, today filed
the annual report with Gov. Aycock.
The report shows an excellent state
of affairs. There was an outbreak of
typhoid fever last summer, but only
one death resulted. There were two
other deaths during the year. Per
manent improvements amounting to
81, 500 were made. The water sup
ply is now ample. Electric lights are
needed, but the system will cost 81
76O and it will probably BE several
years before it is installed.
There are PAT pupils, 26 increase
over last year The full capacity is
26O. There were 129 applications
80 approved. The singing class
which made a tour of the State
raised S3,5S2. The annual cost o
maintaining and educating eacl
pupil was GAL. Donations in kinC
aggregate 81, ,215. The Masons gave
more than usual, churches, schools
and private individuals less.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-01-15
ABOUT SENDING BILLS.
People Should Not Take Exception at
Being Reminded of Their Indebted.
ness, But Should Pay Up and Thank
the Man Who Has Accommodated
Them by Extending Credit.
Gastonia Gazette.

Gastona Gazette.
The new year is upon US. 1t is a
time ofsending, receiving and settling
bills. We commend toall the follow
ing timely article on the subject
which we copy from the Biblical Re
corder The sending of bills is a
part of the regular routine OF aEell
conducted business. There areyktill
some people in the world wffo sstke
offense when they receive a simple
statement of an account they owe
they call it dun for money, and
don't like to be dunned. People OF
this kind who are as cOnsiderate OF
their credit as they want Others to
be of their feelings, will not place
themselve in position to be dunned.
However, the merchant doesn' t take
offense when the customer asks for
goods which are not his, and the Gus
toner certainly should take no
offense when the merchant simply
asks for the money which rightly be-
longs to him. If you get a dun that
hurts your feelings, Just settle up aud
you'll feel better. The article above
alluded to is as follows:
"North Carolina is probably the
only section in the United States in
which there are a large number OF
people who are so honorable that
they regard the presentation OF a
bill against them as Il reflection upon
their honor.
This is a survival OF the good old
days when money was easy, profits
large and life moved slowly. The
farmer bought freely from his mer-
chant and paid surely when it was
convenient without any urging what
ever. A bill was evidence that trust
was at an end.
"But this day has passed. Men
trust each other as much as ever.
But bills have a different significance
and are more necessary. They are
not q sign of distrust but of the need
to collect accounts. The world
moves faster now; money must flow
faster; profits are scant and collec,
tions must be prompt to save inter
est and discount.
nlle tnefe remain Hlen WHO uC
not wait for bills, the vast ma iority
will not pay until they have received
a bill. In towns and cities nearly
every one waits until a bill is re
ceived. We could wish it were other
| wise
This being so, bills must be sent
out. They must be sent out or ac
counts will not be collected, and loss
and ruin will follow. Quick ant
full collections are essential to sue
cess"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-01-15
Finds Way to Live Long.

The startling announcement of q dis
covrry that will surely strengthen life is
made by editor o. H. Downey, of Churu-
buSco, Ind"'I wish to state," he writes,
chat Dr. Kings New Discovery for Con
sumption is the most infallihle remedy
that | have ever known for coughs, colds,
and grip. It's invaluable to people with
weak lungs. Having this wonderful
medicine no one need dread pneumonia
Or consumption. It's relief is instant and
cure certain" Melville Dorsey guaran-
tees every soc and 81 90 bottle, and gives
trial bottles free.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-01-15
OUR NAVY.

Admiral O'Neil Is right. Our fighting
ships should be stronger and not 50
feet. We don't want a navy built sim.
ply to be able to run away.-New York
Commercial.
Ii Is folly for the country to go On
building ships without providing the
men needed to operate them. As It ID
new vessel can only be equipped BY
putting an old one out Of couonissioo.-
Philadelphia Inquirer.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-01-15
Fretful
Children

This getting up every night with
the baby, or some of the other
children, is all wrong.
Not that the children are to
blame. If it's the baby probably
his food is wrong, Vinol will help
his mother stand the strain of
nursing. l have often seen whole
families of older children keep the
parents awake o nights. First one,
then the other is ailing
These children seem vel enough
at times; but they are white,
hollow-eyed, often listless. with
irregular appetites, peevish and
fretful, wakeful at night, and con-
stantly taking cold.
The use of Vinol, in conjunction
with Vinlax to regulate the bowels,
will benefit these children almost
in day.
We know this because the ex-
amples are so numerous right
around home.
There is nothing in Vinol that
can hurt them. 1t is pleasant to
take, and the amount necessary to
give the children start costs but
little. Besides, if it doesn't do the
work, we will give you the money
back.
There is nothing SO good for
weak and tired mothers and ailing
children as Vinol. 1t gives them
4 start, and helps them keep it,
and it's splendid for old people.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-01-15
Dislocated Her Shoulder.

Mrs. Johanna. Soderholm, of Fergus
Falls, Mimi, fell and dislocated her
shoulder She had a surgeon get it back
in place as soon as possible, but it was
quite sore and pained her very much.
Her son mentioned that he had seen
Chamberlain Pain Balm advertised for
sprains and soreness, and she asked him
to buy her bottle of it, which he did. 1t
quickly relieved her and enabled her to
sleep. which she had not done for several
days. The son was 80 much pleased
with the relief it gave his mother that he
has siure recommended it to many
others. For sale at Parker's Two Drug
Stores.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-01-15
A Scientific Discovery.

kodol does for the stomach that
which it is unable to do for ITSELF, even
when but slightly disordered or over
loaded. kodol supplies the natural
juices OF digestion and does the work of
the stomach. relaxing the nervous ten
sion while the infiamed muscles OF that
organ are allowed to rest and heal.
kodol digests what you eat and enables
the stomach and digestive organs to
transform all food into rich, red blood.
W. ", Parker,
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-01-15
Cnres lBood and Skin Troubles,
Cancer Blood Poison-dreatest
Blood Purifier Free.

II your blood is impure, thin, diseased.
hot or full of humor-; if you have blood
poison. cancer, carbuncles, eating sores,
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Jumps, scabby. pimply skin. bone pains,
catarrh. rheumatism or any blood or
skin disease, take Botanic Blood Balm
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Describe trouble and special free medical
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