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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-02-05
MORE EFFICIENT STATE MILITIA

Raleigh Post.
What is known as the Dick Militia
bill, the object of which is to make
more efficient the militia or State
Guard associations of the several
States and to bring them into closer
relations and harmony with the
National military system, is now a
law. Its salient points, as explained
by a contemporary, are:
''It authorizes the Secretary OF
War to issue to the organized militia
in the States and Territories, on the
requisition of the Governors, stand
ard service magazine arms in such
number as may be necessary to arm
them, and to set aside allotments
out of the annual appropriations for
the payment, subsistence and trans
portation of such portion of the
militia as shall engage in actual
field or camp service for Instruction.
Arrangements are made for the par
ticipatiOn of the militia in the en-
campment and maneuvers of the
regular army, and in other respects
efforts are made to promote the eftic-
iency Of the militia"
The State Guard is most necessary,
as it has proven even under adverse
conditions a most useful arm of the
public service Of the State, and this
action of the National government
to aid in providing for it's more
thorough equipment and higher eftic-
iency is not only proper but impor-
tant.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-02-05
Good Roads.

An exchange gives the following
valuable points on good roads.
Good roads have a money value to
the farmer as we'll as political and
social value.
The difference between good and
bad roads is often equivalent in the
difference between profit and loss.
Charles Sumner once said, "The
road and schoolmaster are the two
most important agents in advancing
civilization.
Good roads raise the value of farm
land and farm products, and tend to
beautify the country through which
they pass.
Bad roads constitute the greatest
drawback to rural life, and for the
lack of roads the farmers suffer more
than any other class.
Good roads, like good streets,
make habitation along them most
desirable; they economise time and
fare in transportation of products.
reduce wear and tear on horses,
harness and vehicles and enhance the
market value on real estate.
Life on a farm often becomes iso
lated and barren of social enioyments
and pleasures, and country people il
some communities suffer such great
disadvantage that ambition il
checked, energy weakened and in
dustry paralyzed.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-02-05
Building and Loan Associations.
Charlotte Observer,

charlotte observer.
The Spartanburg Heraldsays that
Spartanburg is the home of building
and loan associations and that they
have been more successfully man.
aged there during the past quar-
ter of a century than in any other
section of the South" This is u
broad claim, which, if put to the test,
could probably not be supported. We
have no doubt that the eSpartanburg
associations have been properly man.
aged, but none could have been bet
ter or more successfully directed than
those of Charlotte, which invariably
mature their stock on schedule time,
and sometimes earlier, and have
never lost a dollar Spartanburg is
to be congratulated upon its building
and loan associations; so is Charlotte
upon it's, so is every other town or
institutions. But the opportunity
offers here to warn people against
becoming stockholders in any con-
Germ bearing this name which is not
purely domestic in it's character
which is not managed absolutely and
exclusively by men of the community
The name is an honOred one and it
has been made the cloak of many
fraudulent affairs which, if not begun
for robbery, at least ended with this
result to it's stockholders. There are
not a few North Carolinians who can
testify to this, to their sorrow. Such
is the beneficence of these home in
stitutions, especially to the salaried
and wage earning people-the indus
trious and well-to-do of the popula-
tion-holding over the shareholders
as they do gentle whip which keeps
them up to the payment of the weekly
dues and thus inculcates the habit of
saving, that the general assembly
should hold it's protecting hand over
them and foster them byevery proper
means, while it would discharge an
equal duty by levying such tax upon
the foreign concerns as would forbid
them doing business in North Caro-
lima.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-02-05
TILLMAN MAY GET OFF.
Little Expectation Of Severe Penalty
For fiim-TriaI Some r1Onths Later
BY That Time Public Excitement
Will Have Cooled And Jury, it is
Thought, Will Not Punish Severity.
special Dispatch to Baltimore Sun.

Special Dispatch to Baltimore Sun.
COLUMBIA. S. c., Jan 25.-The kill
idg of Editor n. G. Gonzales by
Lieutenant-Governor James II. Till
man is not likely, according to popu-
lar belief here, to end in heavy pnn-
ishment for the slayer. Immediate
ly after the shooting, when it was
thought that Mr.. Gonzales was fa-
tally injured, a general impression
was that Tillman would go un-
harmed. Today the sentiment is
growing against Tillman, not SO
much because of the shooting itself,
but because of the manner in which
it was done and because of the high
official position he held, which ought
to have meant his observance of the
laws.
There are many persons who are
still of the opinion that nothing will
be done in the end toward furnishing
Tillman, and if a wager were made
at this time it would generally be
long odds that he would go unpun-
ished A great many seem to think
that the first trial, which will take
place at any time after April next,
will result in a mistrial, or possibly
a conviction of manslaughter, and
that the case will drag along on ap-
peals until everybody gets sick OF it
and that in the end Tillman will not
be punished.
The trial will, if it takes the ordi-
nary course, take place in this
county. The first session of the
court at which the case could be
tried will convene here in April, but,
as general rule, important murder
trials are never held at the first ses-
sion after the crime is committed, as
the counsel for the defence generally
finds some reasonable excuse to defer
a hearing so as to give public senti-
ment time in which to cool off. After
the first postponement there is likely
to be another, and then, when the
public demands a trial, a change OF
venue will possibly be asked, although
many seem to think that Tillman
will find Just as good a jury here as
anywhere else. Richland county
iuries are not prone to convict white
men of murder.
Of course, Tillman has friends and
a good many staunch advocates. II
the element of factional politics does
not enter into the case, there is a
likelihood of some punishment, but
if it can be made to appear that
there is any factionalism in it, it will
be almost impossible to get verdict
of anything but acquittal.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-02-05
BREAD THE OLD DAYS.
Richmond Dispatch.

RlcnHOHu DlPpalcn.
With good meal and a cook follow
ing the lessons and traditions of the
old regime delicious bread may be
baked, of Indian meal. But we have
grave doubts whether it can be baked
as well in a stove as in an open fire.
place; but, alas, of the latter only a
few remain.
The ashcake, of course, must have
ashes. They are Indispensable. As
well try to produce a mint iulep with
out mint On the other hand, flap
Jacks" need only Il well CREASED fry
ing pan, but skill is required to turn
them. This is done by pitching them
out of the pan into the air and
making them come down flap on the
other side. The corn pone may be
| cooked in a stove or range.
The hoecake was originally cooked
on a hoe in the fields and in the negro
cabin. A skillet will do we'll enough
for it, but it must be well CREASED at
the bottom. So, too. with regard to
egg or batter bread. As for corn
mullins, the appliances of a range
are admirably adapted to them.
We wish some millionaire would fl,
up Virginia country home in ante
bellum style, and among other thingf
have in it big open fireplace, 6
black cook in a gingham dress, will
a red bandanna on her head; an(
also have a half acre mint bed, III
ice-house and an old time garden fill
ed with raspberries and gooseberries
thyme, sage, currants and all the or
dinary table vegetables.
| When one of those old-time home
and gardens and kitchens is restoret
and the host and hostess have enter
ed into possession, We desire to b
listed as frequent guest, with re
served seat in the chimney corner
Then all we shall want will be th
zest, the appetite, the voraciousnes
we possessed when we could ca
eighteen rolls and five eggs for breal
fast and consume a whole watermelo
between meals. But, alas, it woul
be easier to restore old walls an
open fire-places than to bring bac
the digestion and storage capacity
a youth that gone, of a time that
past and never can return.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-02-05
Easy Buying.
Advertising World.


People like to buy where they find
1t easy to shop. They like to get
values at any season. They like to
obtain benefit for themselves and are
willing to'spend money, eveu if they
have but little, in order to get what
is a real bargain and desirable. They
will patronize the merchant who tells
them the worth ofwhat he sells. They
will come to the store where the goods
with values are the regular thing.
They will look to the merchant who
is always talking values and right
prices whenever they have a want
that must be filed. They like to buy
OF the man who tells them what they
want to know of prices, or goods, or
methods. They are willing to take
his word only when they think him
honest, and are anxious to have his
wares only when they understand
that he wants to sell to them, person
ally, or that he has something in
which he has confidence. They like
to have information which makes
it. easier to supply the needs of the
hour.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-02-05
RUMOR FALSE.
Raleigh Post

Raleigh Post.
A telegram was sent from this city
Saturday night to an Atlanta paper
stating in effect that convicts who
had been at work on a railroad in
Mitchell county had been subjected
to very severe exposure, and two Of
a squad en- route to Marion to take
the train for Raleigh had died, one
while on the march, the other after
reaching the train, from the severe
weather.
From an interview with Superin,
tendent Mann elsewhere in this paper.
the aforesaid rumor is made from
the whole cloth. As Shakespeare
would say: How this world and
some newspapers and reporters are
given to whopperizing,
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-02-05
"DOn't Know
How | Got
Such a Cold"

Most of us have heard this ex-
preston many times.
Did you ever notice that the
Don't know how l got it cold
is a bad one to get over! That
before you are through with the
hoarseness, the cough, the "tight
feeling" the general discomfort,
and the out of sorts sensations,
you are apt to have another such
cold, and SO on until it hangs on
for weeks?
These colds mean that your sys-
TEN is out of gear. They usually
preccde serious diseases like con-
sumption, bronchitis. They are
dangerous.
We have found a remedy for all
sorts of colds, coughs, that is not
a so-called cough-cure. 1t does
not stupefy with opium, nor fill
the system with vicious drugs.
1t is Vinol. We are perfectly
willing to tell any inquirers at our
store what it is made of and how
we came to take hold of it.
1t certainly does the work. Old
coughs go off like magic. 1t even
relieves people far gone in con-
sumption. People right in town
have proved it. We sell it subject
TO guarantee = money back if it
doesn't help you. Isn't it foolish
to put the matter off
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-02-05

The greatest hindrance to the
prosperity OF this section of the State
is the bad condition of the public
roads. There is more pressing need
for road improvement than for long.
er school terms. Public meetings
should be called in every township
at an early date and measures for
the Improvement of the public roads
discussed and petitions and memoir.
ais sent up to the Legislature. The
men we have sent to Raleigh to rep.
resent us in the general assembly
will not turn a deaf ear to our ap.
peals; all we need to do is to convince
them that we really desire better
roads, even if we have to pay more
taxes to make them.-ROanOke
ChOWan Times.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-02-05

Whether Tillman is punished or
not for the murder of n. g. Gonzales,
Tillmanism will be rooted out in
South Carolina. The influence OF
the Observation-Disclosures and his
faction received its death-blow from
the bullet he fired into the body Of
the unarmed, defenceles Gonzales. AS
to his trial for the murder no one
can predict what a South Carolina
jury will do, but public sentiment
outside the State has already de-
clared him guilty of murder in the
first degree.-Wilmington Messenger.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-02-05
Weak Stomach

causes a weak body and invites disease.
kodol Dyspepsia Cure cures and strength
ems the stomach, and wards off and
overcomes disease. J. B. Taylor, prom
says: "I could not eat because of a
weak stomach. lost all strength and
run down in weight. All that money
could do was done but all hope of recov-
cry vanished. Hearing of some wonder
ful cures effected by use OF kodal, [ con-
cluded to try it. The first bottle bene-
fitted me and after taking four bottles 1
am fully restored to my usual strength,
weight and health. W. W. Parker.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-02-05

One Minute Cough Cure gives relief in
one minute, because it kills the mcrobe
which tickles the mucous membrane,
causing the cough, and at the same time
clears the phlegm, draws out the inflam-
nation and heals and soothes the affect
ed parts. One Minute Cough Cure
strengthens the lungs, wards off pneu-
mona and is harmless and never fail
ing cure in all durable cases of Coughs,
Colds and Group. One Minute Cough
Cure is pleasant to take, harmless and
good alike for young and old. W. W
Parker
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-02-05

Remember John D. Stall
lings has moved next door
into the Lehman building,
where he will be pleased to
see and serve his friends in
future.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-02-05

comes as priceless boon, because it
cures womanly ills.
vFavorite Prescription establishes
regularity, dries weakening drains, heals
inflammation and liberation and cures
female weakness. 1t makes weak women
strong, sick women we'll.
rAfter my first child was bornD writes Mrs.
Jordan Stout of Fawcettgap, Frederick Co., Va.
tiny health was very poor for long time, and
last winter was SO bad with pain down i'll back
/ could hardly move without great suffering.
My husband got bottle of DIR. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription and vial of his Pleasant
Pellets which / used as directed. In four DAYS
greatly relieved, and now, after using the
medicine three months, / seem to be entirely
well. ] can't why it is that there are so
many suffering women when there is such an
easy way to he cured. l know your medicines
are the best i'll the world"
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets the IA
vorite family laxative. One Pellet
laxative, two Pellets a cathartic dose.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-02-05

Congressman A. c. Latimer re-
ceived the unanimous vote of both
branches of the South Carolina Gen
eral Assembly for United States Sen.
ator to succeed John L. McLaurin.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-02-05

The struggle over the Senatorship
is ended and Lee S. Overman, OF
Rowan, is the winner. The caucus
has done well. Mr.. Overman de-
served to win and the Democracy OF
the State is to be congratulated on
his Notwithstanding Landmark.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-02-05
THE LOW INN.
Henry Jerome Stockard in Presbyterian
Standard

henry jerome StOcktlfu In IfeSDytefl;
Standard
Pilgrim, what though, prone, belated,
You are Fastening but to win
Somewhere down the lonely valley
The low inn?
1t has housed full many a traveller
Peasant. monarch, prophet, Christ;
And the cheer that it dspenses
Has sufficed.
Drink the slumber-giving beaker,
And forget the hurting cold,
While the gradual shades of evening
Are unrolled.
Sleep, nor fear, for you shall waken
To the warden's s call at dawn:
And, a child, in some glad morning,
Journey on.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-02-05
ENGAGED.

Marriage is very largely an accident.
In few cases do men or women set up a
standard of manly or wornanly excellence
and choose by it. In most cases people
become engaged as the result of pro-
pinquity rather than because of any deep
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-02-05

rooted preference
And SO it often
happens that the
wife enters upon
the obligations of
maternity just as
thoughtlessly as
she entered on the
marriage relation,
because no one
has warned her
of the dangers she
faces.
Thousands of
women become
invalids for lack
of knowledge of
themselves. 1t is
to this large body
of women that DIR.
Pierce's Favorite
Pre- S CRYPTIC II
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-02-05

When two men get together each
talks about himself; when two
women meet they both talk about
some other woman.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-02-05
AND THIS CUP NARTH."
Idea of Negro Women Being Next
Door TO Them is Repulsive to Brook
lyn People.

New YORK, Jan. 2S.-rhe people of
the fashionable section of Brooklyn
have protested against the establish=
ment Of a colored branch of the
Young Women's Christian Associa-
tion in that part OF the city. The
Young Women's Christian Associa-
ton tried to purchase a house in
that section for a branch for colored
women and the residents promptly
met and protested to the owners of
the property that its sale for such a
purpose would decrease the value of
all the property in the neighborhood,
and would clear the neighborhood of
all it's better class of residents. All
said last night that if the proposed
Young Women's Christian Associa=
tion was established they would
move out Of the neighborhood.
1t looks now as if there will be no
cOlored branch in that section. The
residents say their wives and daugh-
ters shall not be forced to pass and
repass negro women on the streets
every day, almost at their doors, and
everything else aside, the mere idea
of these negro women and girls being
so close to them is horrible.
Senator Simmons is still hammer
ing away at the bill to create a life
time office for Senator Pritchard
after his term in the Senate expires
March, 4th next. The Senate iudici
ary committee takes up the Simmons
bill providing for another circuit
judge in this, the fourth district
Senator Simmons appears before the
committee and urges the Importance
of the measure. 1t is generally un
derstood in Washington City that
should the bill pass Senator Pritch
ard will receive the appointment
We are glad to see such friendship
and brotherly love existing between
our two Senators - Wilmington
Messenger.
I
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-02-05

AND what about Dancy, who is a
North Carolina negro and should
have known better.-Durham Herald.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-02-05

A writer signing the name of Rev.
James l.. White in a letter to the
Washington Evening Star says the
mass meeting at Lincoln Memorial
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-02-05

Stir up a mans wrath if you want
his candid opinion of you.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-02
The Foundation Of Health.

Nourishment Is the foundation OF
health-llfe-strength. Kodol Dys'
pepsia Cure Is the one great medi.
cine that enables the stomach and
digestive organs to digest, asssmi-
late and transform all foods into the
kind of blood that nourishes the
nerves and feeds the tissues. Ko-
dol lays the foundation for health.
Nature does the rest. Indigestion,
dyspepsia, and all disorders of the
stomach and digestive organs are
cured by the use of Kodol. Sold
by
Opera House Drug Store
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-02
working Night aud Day

The busiest and nightiest little
thing that ever wa made IS DR.,
Kings New uitz : Is These pills
change weakness Into strength
listlessness into energy, brain-fae
into mental power. They're won
dertu 10 building up the health
Only IS cents per box. Sold by D.
A. Henderson,.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-02
FIRST CHURCH OF
| CHRIST SCIENTISTS.
BOSTON, JUNE 2s-JULY HE

BOSTON, JUNE 2S-JULY 1903,
Very lOw Rates. Baltimore d. Ohio
Railroad.
Tickets on sale from all points
East of the Ohio River on June 10th
to 10th, valid for return not latter
than July and, 1908, inclusive.
For full information concerning
time of trains. fares and stop
overs, call on or address Tick
ct Agents Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road. July 21
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-02

Sistersville should have park.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-02
SPECIAL NOTICE

Store closes at noon Saturday, July 9TH
and will not open until the usual time
Monday A. M.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-01-15
THE sTockMAN'S FINNISH"

proved SIOCh bTeSueTS ASSOCldllou,
January IA, 1909
Gov. Stanley, referring to the in
crease of $4,000 900 in the value of
live stock in Kansas since 1898 and
the increase of more than $SO,OOO,OOO
in the principal agricultural products,
wisely strikes the key note of the sit
uation when he says:
IF halt is called in the movement
to purchase on time at the present
very high prices, it will be of great
benefit; in other words, if it has
tendency to keep our people from run
ming in debt for what they buy it will
result in much good
In other words, the Governor wants
the stockmen and farmers to prolong
and not destroy their good fortune.
The Governor probably does not
want to encourage any more BRASS
band cattle kins to work their credit
to the limit and beyond and then
make their finish in Mexico.
During every boom period in live
stock thousands of new people jump
on the stock train of prosperity with
out having much idea of where they
are going to get Off
The shining light of high live stock
prices attracts to their untimely finish
great flocks of would-be stockmen.
Do you recall the boys earless and
tailless pig?
How did he lose his ears, my son?'
Il pulled EN- off getting him to his
feed
Well what about his tail?'
"Oh, had to pull that off to get
him out of the trough
The highways and byways OF
cattledom are full of human pigs that
have lost their ears in getting in and
their tails getting out.
People who endeavOr to get into the
business when everybody else seems
to be doing the same thing and expect
to sell out in time to avoid losses when
everybody else seems to be getting out
are only apt to get the worst OF it,
both "gwine and comm"
After having caressed the buzz-saW
of boom prices on getting in and being
squeezed in the jam of enforced liquid
alton in getting out, your "ln-At-The-
Top and t-At-The-BottOm stockmen
can see some points in the colored
brothers exhortation when, with SOL
emnity he remarked: Oar am just
two ways, my belubbed bredren and
sistern. One of dem ways leads
straight down to destruction and de
udder straight down to damnation;"
and he can also sympathize with Old
Black Joe, and after adjusting his
specs so he can look over them at the
preacher, declares, eff dat am fax,
den dis heah darkey am gwine to take
to de bresh."
During the memorable year OF 1902,
when prices went up like rocket and
come down like the proverbial stick,
the stock business was marked by
some desperate finishes.
Speculative plunging in live stock is
not very different from speculative
n1un oinp in ANYTHING else.