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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-08-20
Lawyers and Editors.
News and Observer.

News and Observer.
Suppose the liquor dealers should
meet and decide to pay some editor
to give him the Use of his columns
for presenting their opposition to
closing up the shops where drunk
ards are made, and suppose an editor
would agree for specific sum to
their campaign. The editor would
be on the same footing us the lawyer
who would accept money to manage
their campaign. Wherein lies the
difference, if there is any? Nobody
would respect an editor who would
thus sell his columns. Is the lawyer
who for pay runs their campaign
any better than the editor who would
sell his columns?
This is a question that deeply con-
Germs the legal profession and the
whole community. The profession
of law is an honorable one. 1t has
always had the respect of the people
because it has deserved it. Latterly
for the truth ought to be told
too many lawyers have for money
lobbied Legislatures, Town COun-
ellis, County Commissioners; they
have sought to unduly control jury
men or pack juries; have accepted
pay for promoting political or per-
sOnal bOoms; and have for money
conducted campaigns for saloons in
prohibition or dispensary fights.
Compared with the whole number of
the legal profession, these have been
few in number Some of them have,
without reflection, become guilty of
this unprOfessional conduct. The re-
suit has been that their course has
injured the legal profession. 1t does
not stand as high in popular appro-
val as it did in 1890, let us say. 1t
is wrong that the majority of the
profession should suffer for the sins
of the minority, but the public do
not discriminate as they should, and
may not be expected to do so per-
fectly when men guilty of gross and
notorious unprofessional conduct
are not disbarred or even called to
account
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-08-20
The Wife Beater.


Fairbrother's Everything.
North Carolina has recently had a
sensational case-the case OF where a
railroad conductor, naturally pretty
we'll known to the general public,
whipped his wife with a razor strap.
Generally speaking the wife-beater
is doubtless the lowest scum that
mocks the name Gilman. The wretch
SO lost to all the demands of human
ity and decency who would strike a
towards blow at the woman he had
sworn before high heaven to love,
honor, and protect, forfeits at once,
ii not forever, at least until he makes
restitution by years OF penance and
humility, not only the respect, but
the recognition of his fellowmen.
There is not. in the muIti-cOlOred
catalogue of crime-unless it were in
cest or infanticide-a trespass that
is as ghoulish, despicable, SO utterly
brutal and wicked, as that compass
ed in Il blow from a husband to Il
wife. The brute should remember
that he has already taken and enjoy
ed from the cOnfiding woman Il
thousand times more than he can
ever give in return-when he won her
love and her heart and her soul and
her body-then it was and is up to
him to at least not do her bodily
violence He may have long ago
crushed her heart and bruised her
soul-left her mangled and despairine
i'll her mental anguish-but by the
gods of Israel! he should not be al
lowed to club her to a finish.
And yet the wobbly old law-the
law that will jerk Senegambian up
before the bar of Justice and sentence
him six months on the road for steal
ing a lamp chimney-places that in
fraction above the crime Ofwife- beat
ing. 1t may be that the law which
is more or less an ass-as has been
before observed-did not cOntem-
plate that a man would sink so far
in moral degradation as to beat or
assault his wife-but, however that
may be, the almost daily instances
of where men indulge in this grim
pastime certainly have been enough
to cause the law to take cOgnizance
of its laxity and do something.
1t is our private opinion that a
woman who would remain to be
struck the second time is not of much
fOrce-she should seize some instru-
ment of death and do the fiend then
and there-and surely plead self-de-
Tense and prove it-but if she is weak
enough to stay for the second whip
ping, then, indeed, is the demand for
the law more pressing.
The universal lynching parties are
all right under certain conditions
and if there were to be a few quiet
gatherings in the neighborhood of
the wife-beater's home the chances
are that there would be fewer women
with their bodies black and blue.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-08-20
THE BEAUTIFUL SAPPHIRE COUNTRY.
A Delightful Section In Which to
Spend Your Vacation.

Along the southern slopes and taheiands
OF the Blue Ridge Mountains, IN Western
North Carolina, at an average aititnde Oh
three Thousand feet, with broad ridges point
ing off from the main chain towards the
lowlands OF South Carolina and Georgia, Is
a country full OF delightful surprises 10 the
tourist, sportsman and health seeker. which
has been appropriately named The Grand
Sapphire Country No other State or region
contains so many grand waterfalls such
wide-sweeping mountain views and such
beautiful lakes.
The most interesting of the many attractive
features to be found are the Toxaway, Fair
field and Sapphire Lakes. Nowhere else IN
the South, at this altitude, are such bodies
of water All who visit these lakes are i'm
pressed with the wonderful beauty and great
varied character of scenery There are tow
ering cliffs, rising abruptly for thousand
feet from their shores, and cascades OF rare
beauty, falling directly into the lakes from
the lofty tableland surrounding. Some OF
the mountains in this vicinity range in height
from five to six thousand feet. Indeed, it is
the general verdict of widely travelled people
that in respect to the remarkable combna-
ton of the varied and attractive character OF
lake and mountain scenery this section is
unrivaIed by any in the world. Certainly
no other part of America has anything to
equal it.
Some OF the finest hotels in the South are
in this beautiful mountain country, the larg-
est being the handsome new TOxaway Inn,
which is open for the summer season and
will remain open the entire year.
Low rate summer tourist tickets are on
sale up to and including September both,
1903, from all principal points, with final
limit to return October 31st, 1903. Detailed
information can be had upon application to
any Southern Railway Ticket Agent.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-08-20
The GOLD LEAF.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1908.
AT EVENING.
BY EDw ARD LESLIE CONN.

feel the freedom of the universe
The liberal hand OF God, and hear the wings
OF seraphim descending from the hills,
And angels singing anthems in the air
While | am in the presence OF my God
How like the word OF God is solitude
And darkness! Faith and Hope and constant
Love
Adorn the troubled heart. the doubling mind
And weary soul oppressed with care and
wrong
As do the myriad multitudes OF stars
Make beautiful the grand majestic heavens,
And clouded oft, yet still beyond the clouds
Those steadfast eyes of heaven that watch
the night
Are there. Fin the Swallowed hours Of man
When storms of conscience rage, and phan
toms fright
Him from his former calm, or bring despair
Upon him: soon, ah! soon, again will come
The silent darkness with its purer air,
Its fresher power, and then may we decry
Upward, above our grasp but In our view
The mingled riches Of our armament,
The glories OF our life which brighter shine
When dread Affections, sorrow, even death
Have yelled with gloomy clouds the starry
way
OF life;-fOr life is but a heightened night
The day was full Of hatred and the scOrn
O1PnYIOuS IneU-IUe DihckeHftl tuTsc vi ear Ill
And so | came to worship in the DARK
TO let my prayers ascend from primal lanes
Christ -like-free from trade-mOnarchs despo,
lords
OF souls-emboaOme by the ieafy woods
Unknown to ak. (were | untouched by snD
And hear the tOilsomP NeuRe rush swiftly by
Here let me rest. Nor may my memory
Nor. too, keen reason, mar my sweet com
mune
With God, but may be entranced in thought
OF the Invisible, and learn to love.
MAY forget the nations, and the noise
OF ages-listening to the whippOorwill
Or distant mumblng OF the falls of Neuse,
May not the endless. feeting centuries.
Or rash ambition, or an ill-timed mirtlI
lntrude upon this tranquil, pensive rest,
And weak but earnest effort to attain
His unnttainable humility.
The rough-hewn rocks-like fragments of g
poem
The scintillating stars in perfect skies
OF praisr:--the streams incessant harmOnies
The hidden flowers scattered thro' the wood
With sweetest fragrance: and the transient
mlsts
SO gently waited i'll our faces while
Beneath us lies, perhaps, ii sepulcher;
Such is the life of all humanity,
That as we Will or strive to be we are.
Impending o 'cr and still surrounding us
There be refnlgent light and truth. and peace
And Hope transcending i'll the still night,
And beautiful visions, and fair dreams,
And beauty never known-wOuld we but see
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-08-20
Decayed Teeth.

What effect on the stomach is produced
by the constant swallowing of bacteria
and pus from diseased teeth, mingled
with decomposing particles of food, we
are, says the Family Doctor, unable to
determine, but it is reasonable to suppose
that gastric disturbances are greatly ag-
gravated, if not induced, by so doing. In
every community there are those who
are enthusiasts on the subject of pure air
and wholesome food, but whose mouths
are in such a neglected condition that
the air which passes through them is al
most as polluted as that of a crowded
tenement, and every mouthful of food
swallowed carries with it into the
stomach millions of bacteria The al.
most entire futility of sterilizing articles
of diet for patients in whose mouth
chronic Assesses exist, or whose teeth
are covered with tartar, mixed with
mucus and food in state of decomposi
ton, need hardly be mentioned.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-08-20
WOMAN AND MARRIAGE.
One OF the Strange Things of Life
That Woman Should be Content
to Live Forever With a Thing Like
a Man
/. E. Avery, in Charlotte Observer.

l. E. Avery in Charlotte Observer.
1t is rather odd that woman
should be content to livefOrever with
a thing like a man, isn't it? AS one
grows older he knows that such liv-
ing is the chiefest blessing, but he is
forced to conclude, without being
skeptical or unfair, that the woman
gives more than the man. IT'S an
old theme; and yet if you walk to the
square and stand ten minutes you
will see woman who is not properly
appreciated by a man. The injustice
has so thrived that it has become
natural, or seems natural, and yet
the everyday fresh evidence of it
kind of hurts, somehow. Women
the oldest women-retain girlishness,
and men forget this-forget, in their
ambition or business cares, that wO-
men do not lose sentiment, or dainty
fneness or wish for notice OF little
bits of feminine things There is a
man and he kisses his wife's hand
and admires her feet, and she is over
seventy and as happy as a queen.
Men fall into the terrible habit of
considering their wives as excellent
women and more ornamental and
useful than all the rest of the furni-
ture; and yet the most sensible wo-
man in the universe would blush in
her ninetieth year if her husband
whispered to her soft, tender moth
ings. For women do not grow old,
though the world may call them aged;
and it is in the complex nature of
woman to be unaffected by a tribute
to her character and practical man
agement, and to glow rapturously
over praise of cadence in her voice, or
a trick OF an eye-lash, or some little
half-hidden quality that is unimpor
tant and not the essence Of womanli-
ness. Women are littlerand tenderer
than men, and they exact not a great
deal A woman blesses u man with
a spirit of motherhood thatexagger-
ates every likeable quality and makes
grace out OF meanness; and the ana
lytical, sober-minded approval of a
maitland only that's enough to
justify her in committing murder.
Women feel that they must love
enough to supply all deficiencies. In
a purely sentimental way a man is a
dead-beat from the alter to t IA grave.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-08-20
Enforce the Law.
Journal and Tribune.


The only safety 10 Il State or a
community lies in Il last and fearless
enforcement of law Give criminals
an inch and they will take IL foot.
Permit {, minor law to be violated
and il will lead to the violation OF
greater ones. Wink at the law
against gambling and it will encour-
age the criminally disposed to do
something worse; close the eyes to
the illicit Sunday saloon and those
who may mediate larceny may con-
clude that the officials are Indifferent
generally. Steal an election and men
conclude that they may steal other
things, without committing greater
crime. Stick to the law. Enforce it
and punish offenders without regard
to their wealth or social position.
Render law breaking unpopular and
law-breakers of every sort Infamous.
When this is done, there will be no
such demonstrations as we have wit
messed in Breathitt county, and no
more violations that bring terror to
communities and disgrace to States
and cities.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-08-20

If all women are riddles the palmer
they are the more readily the men
give them up.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-08-20
Bryan's Abuse of Cleveland.

Charlotte Observer
The abuse of Grover Cleveland by
this man Bryan would be regarded
as outrageous if it were not so pitt
fully childish. The latest characteri-
zation of him is as a bunco steerer.
All this detractiOn is because Cleve-
land was elected President twice and
he failed twice. Meantime, under it
all, Cleveland sits steady in the boat
and says nothing. In this same
Ohio speech Bryan said that those
who had left the Democratic party
under his leadership "can never re-
turn until they repent and show that
their hearts and sympathies are
changed. This is another way OF
saying what he has said before, that
those who bolted him will never be
received back unless they come in
sackcloth and ashes. Fortunately
for the party nobody will hereafter
have to ask him on what terms they
may return. He is diminishing in
tiuence who grows smaller day by
day.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-08-20
Negro Equality and Negro Crime.

Progressive Farmer.
We are reminded just here of a
rather notable statement recently
made by Congressman Bankhead OF
Alabama, regarding the negro prob
lem and the ''new'' negro crime,
the new crime being that against
white women. 1t was, as he argues.
almost unknown before the days of
Reconstruction and political equal
ity" legislation. As to this. the
words of Majo Robert Bingham, of
our own Bingham School. may be
quoted:
at was almost unheard of in sla-
very. The whole manhood of the
South left their women in the hands
Of the negroes and went to the front
during the Civil War with the feeling
that the women were safe in the
hands of the slaves. And they were
safe, although on many plantations
there were a hundred negro men and
not a white man in mile. Nowoman
i'll the whole South was ever modest
ed by a negro during the Civil War
nor for Il number of years after
war;
The last clause quoted tends to
corroborate the argument of Con-
gresham Bankhead. The crime
against white women, he asserts,
did not begin until the negroes mind
had been filed with unwholesome
ideas of social and political equality,
the result Ofthe Reconstruction some
years after the war.
But all this has long been known.
The new claim put forth by the Ala
bama Congressman is that the 'new"
negro crime has greatly decreased in
his own State since the adoption of
its new Constitution, and that not a
case has been reported in Mississippi
since that State disfranchised the
blacks.
We do not know to what extent
the Bankhead doctrine is worthy of
acceptance, but it is at least highly
interesting. Our own opinion is that
the non-existence OF the crime before
Reconstruction was due quite as
much to the self-control developed
by the discipline of slavery as to any
feeling of humility.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-08-20

Mr.. ROOSEVELT did exactly right
in saying to the labor union of Wash
ington you cannot dictate the poll
cy of Government" Now let him
have the courage to say the same
thing to the trusts of the country
Farmville VA Herald.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-08-20

WE have known tobacco to bring
more than II was worth, but it must
be sorry crop that is not worth
more than five cents a pound-Dur-
ham Herald.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-12-23

WILEN'S Chocolates andbou bons
are the best al Thomas d MooTc's. If
Ladies fine Kid gloves only 15c at
Durhams. -
Trinity University adjourned to-
day at noon and will give the stu
dents a vacation uuil January 4.
Acting on suggestions made by
the grand jury the county commits
slouers are having repairs made on
the courthouse.
The National Steam Laundry an
nounces that then plant will not be
in operation Friday and Saturday of
this week -
K. Garrett, who lives near the
city, was here yesterday and said
his wife was visiting relatives at
Tyler.
Condo Mosley mas received a car
Of the famous Purina Feed for
horses and COWS. Phone ~ and get
a sack deliveted y
The city public schools will dis
miss tomorrow afternoon for the
holidays. They will take NJ again
Monday, January T.
Prayermeetipg at the Methodist
church begins tonight at = o'clock.
Don't you fail to be on hand and get
the fun benefit of This important
mid-week service.
J Henry Miller, the Ray gin man,
was in the city Yesterday and said
he bad siuned 100 bales this season,
He said be had on hand about 100
bales TO sell.
Mr.. J r. Fisher and Miss Dora
Norhies, a young couple, were unit
ed in marriage this morning by
County Judge Hawkins in his office
Al the court house.
W. G.. Davis of Freestoue county
came to WaEahachie yesterday to
have Lse mad stone applied L. a
wound received from the bite Of a
dog supposed II be mad The stone
adhered freely.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-12-23
iasnaas Fura j -.

rhziatnaas Kura i CO go II I
hasfls.
q. 4. PlnsOn Of the Clsnma A
try vas In the city yesterday :. IA
said he would probably have q num-
Der OF fine Plymouth Rock chickens
on exhibition at the poultry snow
here next month.
Jim Webb, who lives near Forces
ton, was here Tuesday and said he
had lately expended $500 In improve
ments on his residence. Mr.. Webb s
home is surrounded by 200 acres of
fine land and he is one among the
happiest farmers in Ellis county.
He well deserves the success he has
attained in agricultural pursuits.
Superintendent Todd, of the Rap
fist Sunday school requests the an
nouncement that there will be at
least one present on the tree tomor-
row night for each member of the
school, and that some one from
each family represented in the
school be present to receive 1t.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-12-23
VITAL STATISTS.


b Mosley and wife, Auburn,
November ~, girl.
Walter Wood and wife, Auburn,
December Z, a boy.
Tom Glenn and wife, near Red
OAK, December IA, boy.
W. P. sullivan and wife, near Red
oak, December II, boy.
T. J. Richard and wife, near
Saralvo, November Il, a boy.
A F. Howard and wife, near
Bardwell, December 4, girl.
r. \ Couch and wife, Waxa-
hachie, December 6, "a girl
W. I. Harlan and wife, WaKa.
hachie, November Il, girl
John 7. Naples and wife, Ennis
November rs, a boy.
John : TeIfair aud wife, Ennis,
November >, girl.
b. d. Fisk and wife, near Crisp,
November y, a boy
George Killain and wife, near
Bristol November .. a girl.
wW. b. Hanks and wife, Maypearl
December =, boy.
Allen Hail and wife, near Bristol,
November + a boy.
W. A. Burnett aud vie, Deem
Der II, hoy.
John Bearden and wife, Mavpearl
November 81, a boy.
George Coleman and wife, WaNa-
hachie, December ~, "A girl.
Sam 4. Vance and wife, Naxa-
hachie, December 10, a boy.
;. +. Chapman and wife, near
Oyilla, December -, a boy and a
gLrL.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-12-23
! SNAPSHOTS Il THE NEWS !.
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! DAILY HAPPEkhSGs OF THE
) CITY BRIEFLY ToLn<

SS~>~~~ I~~~~~~S
Dolls at cost. See Durham. q
Fireworks gafso. AT Will Moore
Hardware Co. e. %
Choice celery and cranberries at
Kelleher's. - %
Do not miss fhe game of football
on Trinity gridiron Christmas. 27
A. B. Yeager, job printer, phone 40.
tt
Ladies and childrens jackets at
cut prices at DurhBms. y
Choice celery and cranberries at
Kelleher's. 2S
When you want fireworks go to
the VIII Moore Hardware Co. p
Dallas VS.. Waxahaehie, heavy
weights, Trinity gridiron Nmas. y
Fine blankets and quilts at Dur
hams. y
WILEN'S chocolate cream drops
at Thomas d Moors's. If
Have you tried those Dixie Kisses
at Empire Bakery. If
The newest toy-the Worlds Fair
flying machine-at Durhams, 25c. p
! WILEl'S Vanilla marShmaIlows
+ at Thomas y Moore $. If
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-12-23

Flae imported tabI- linen aud mar
HAS AT special prices Durham. >
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-31

soldiers who have persisted in war
rush past in an Internal whirlwind.
There are many broken and twisted
bayonets and the spirits of dead dolls,
looking CHASTITY in the moonlight, look
at them pass.
This discourse left me perplexed.
$50, La Tulipe, it Is custom, a
solemn custom, is it? J have an in
finite respect for usage, customs, ira
ditions, legends, popular beliefs. We
call that folklore and re make
study of it that amuses us very much.
l see with pleasure, La 11lipe, that
you are traditioniste. 1 do not know
as l ought to let you go out of that
cabinet"
BE patient. l could not 30 under
your gaze without contradic. ing all
the laws of occultism. When on are
asleep, it will be easy for me to es-
cape on a ray of moonlight as l am
subtitle But there is no hurry; ] have
an hour or two to spare. If you ould
like, l will tell you story of the
olden time. 1 know more than ore"
Tell me one
One hundred and four years ago
this very day, 1 was on a table Wit
about a dozen comrades exactly like
myself Many of us were without
head or feet; we were the remains
of a box of soldiers purchased the
year before at the Saint-Germain fair.
The apartment in which we were was
hung with pale-blue silk. A spinet,
chairs with lyre-shaped backs, a ma
hogany writing-desk, a white bed or
namented with roses, all smiled with
tender grace. The lamp burned with
a soft light, and the flame in the fire
place seemed to beat like wings in the
shadows. Seated at the desk. in a
robe de chambre, her slender neck
bent under her heavy golden tresses,
Julie took out the letters that lay in
the drawers tied together with rib
bons.
Midnight sounded; it was the sig
nal of the passage from one year to
another. 1893 was ended.
BY turns, Julie looked at the flick
ering fire and at the letters; from
which pressed flowers dropped. 1t was
hard for her to burn them. 1t must
be done, for those letters, If found.
would send to the guillotine both their