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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-10
Success of Rural School Libraries in
North Carolina.

Not only does the rural school library
develop the reading habit-it develops it
along right lines. Since, as Emerson
says, 1.-The ancestor Of every action is q
thought" how important it is that the
literature that is to provoke thought be
wholesome and well balanced! In our
city libraries fiction has much too large
a place; many women and young people
read nothing else But while these rural
libraries contain a few great novels, the
chief effort is to develop a proper appre-
citation of choice works of science, travel,
natures study, poetry, history, biogra-
ply and mythology Even if the child
formed the reading habit outside the
school, it would still be worth while for
the State to have these libraries for the
sole purpose of turning his new-found
love of literature into new channels OF
truth and beauty.
Nor have the boys and girls been
the only beneiiciaries of the new move
ment. 1t has opened up anew world for
many of the parents, and has done meal
culable good in continuing the education
of persons too old or too poor to longer
attend school. The superintendent OF
schools for Durham county says that
the books are used almost as much by
the parents as by the children themselves,
and the Pitt county superintendent says
that the libraries have caused hitherto
Indifferent parties to become deeply in
terested in reading and in the education
of their children. 1.-The peculiar value OF
the school library" as the New York
Evening Post rightly observes, Lies in
the fact that it educates the younger
generation as well as the older
All in all, the North Carolina plan has
proved a strikingly successful innova-
ton, and we are moved to wonder that
our educational leaders did not long ago
perceive the value of rural library work
or. realizing it, did not think of the ease
with which it may be conducted in con-
nection with the public school. We are
now not far from the time when no
house where children meet for study,
whether in town or country, will be re-
garded as even tolerably equipped with
out small collection of the best books
From Rural School Libraries in North
Carolina,' by Clarence H. Poe, in the
American Monthly Review of Reviews
for SeDtember
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-10
Land of Milk and Honey.
Charlotte Observer.

That is an alto gether delightful
picture our intere sting Sparta cor
respondent paints in his letter printed
this morning, rela tive to the pleas
ure people get out of life in that sec
tion-which, by the way, is one of
the garden spots of the State. After
telling of the things which go to
make NE pleasant the writer says:
"We are just living along over here,
trying to serve the Lord and honor
our dear old State" Enjoying life,
serving the Lord, and honoring the
dear old State, and yet having an
easy time as they go along-indeed
that is most alluring, and yet it is
doubtless true in every respect. But
even SO, man must be brought up
to love such things, or he will soon
tire of them. One who is used to
''toiling in the hot cotton fields, or
dreary rising to the uncanny notes
OF the 4 o'clock Whistles would soon
grow weary of the luxurious living
OF the Spartans. He may be Giving
too fast to appreciate the good
things as they cOme,' but it is a
way some of us have. We like to
look on peaceful pictures, but unless
one is born and reared to it they
soon cease to satisfy.
The letter i'll question here follows:
Our farmers Sin these parts are
making hay these days. These farm
ers live easier on much less work
than their Eastern and Southern
neighbors. They raise an abun-
dance of hay on their rich meadows
and mountain sides. DrOves of fat
cattle Craze on the pastures, and
ever and anon flocks of sheep watch
the passers-by. Many fine colts spend
their summers in the pastures, and
are wintered on the hay. Large
fields of buckwheat await the reap
ers, and now the song of the thresh-
ers is heard on the hills There is no
tOiling in hot cotton fields or drearv
rising to the uncanny notes of /
o'clock whistles. Our people live at
home, famed i'll summer by cooling
mountain breezes, and warmed in
winter by roaring fires. There is no
rush through life. The people just
go along with the days. We. are in
the land of milk and honey, buck
wheat cakes and maple syrup. The
land produces well, the farmers save
it well, the women prepare it well and
the children live we'll We are Just
living along over here, trying to
serve the Lord and honor our dear
old State. We are not living too
fast to appreciate things as they
come.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-10
A Dog That Helps His Owner Do Bust
ness.
Greensboro Record.

Greensboro Record
According to those who have seen
him. Guild & Co., who are doing
sewer work for the city, have about
the smartest dog ever in these parts.
When a Joint of sewer pipe is to be
put in the ground it is necessary to
swipe it and clean it out. To do
this a large mop is used; tied to the
end OF the mop is a rope which must
be run through the Joint and then it
is pulled through. This no-tailed
dog does the job. He takes the end
of the rope in his mouth and darts
through the pipe, bringing it out at
the other end, then he helps the men
pull it through. But the little rascal
is even smarter than this. He walks
around where the men are at work
just as if he were boss and if he finds
man doing nothing he sets up a
barking and yelling SO that the fore
mans attention is called to the fact
that a man is killing time.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-10
How to Be Happy.

elected.
The simplest recipe for happiness is
to make other persons happy. This
rarely fails. We are so eager to do
some great thing that we are apt to
overlook opportunities which occur
every day for doing little kindnesses.
4 few flowers or a simple delicacy
daintily served to one of the "shut-
ms; the loan of books to hungry
souls who count them luxury, they
have no money to buy; a drive into
the country for a poor woman whose
days are spent in household drudg-
cry; full pay to the seamstress or
washerwoman when her work is
done; an unexpected interval of leis-
ure to faithful employee by now
and then cutting short the prescribed
hours of labor; a bright, cheerful
good morning to Il laboring man,
with a kind word about his work
and welfare-these are all trifles, take
little time, cost very little money,
give little trouble, but they brighten
the drudgery of a work-a-day life.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-10
Education and Business.

Itfi1h
A young lady OF our acquaintance
who has Il turn for business and is yet
in the midst of her college course, re-
marked the other day that she was
undecided about completing her
course and explained that she did
not intend to teach but to devote
herself to a business career Our
young friends will permit us to say
that few mistakes are SO common
and so disastrous as this Of cutting
short the improvement of their minds
Oh the ground that they do not eX-
pect to enter the learned professions.
Sometimes short cut to business or
technical preparation to make a liv-
ing is enforced by circumstances. OF
that we do not speak. The mistake
which we deplOre is made by the
young man or woman who has the
chance OF thorough education and
surrenders it under the impression
that, in the business world, it is a
superfluOus luxury. Such an idea
springs out of a misapprehension of
what education in itself is and OF
what it does for it's beneficiaries We
cannot now discuss these questions.
We must be content with a brief
statement.
The bottom idea in education is
development. Its aim is character
and efficiency. 1t is IL liberalizing
and an charging influence. There is,
therefore, in an educated man more
of manhood, i'll an educated woman
more of wOmanhOOd, than in the
uncducated That is, more of ca
pacity to set to any task whether of
learning or of business; and it goes
without saying that the task is better
done Besides drawing out ones
native powers and putting one in
control OF them, education does this
other invaluable service: it stocks
the mind with ideas. Accordingly,
the educated person is reSOurceful, is
able to find a path through the
tangfe of unfamiliar circumstances,
is not non-plussed by a new situation
Obviously this enlarged capacity
and this stock of ideas go as far
toward insuring the success of the
puoihCoo 'tlitti bS tlity ~ Goh Ill u
insuring the success of the career of
scholarship. In the future, even more
than in the past, the prizes of the
Industrial and commercial world will
be won by educated men and women.
We must remind our young friends
of another and IL higher cOnsidera-
ton. 1t it to be hoped that we aim,
not simply to make living, but to
live. \ man is more than his calling.
The merchant is not all merchant.
He is a man besides, and as much a
man when he smiles behind the
counter He has, indeed, merchant
needs and duties; he has also human
needs and duties, which are more
important. The boOk-keeper, the
salesman, the mechanic, and the
farmer, as well as the professional
man, Are members of society with
social and civic responsibilities. Sup
posing the bread-and- butter ques-
ton to be settled by an apprentice.
ship or il short cut to business, what
OF these parental, social and religious
obligations which fall upon all alike!
What preparation for them can be
got out of this quick trip across lots
to pick up the tools of urlivelihoOd!
Better think long before giving up
the chance of the fullest training
better not give it up at all.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-10

Some First Occurrences That People
Should Know.

Envelopes were first used in 1889.
The first steel pen was made in
1880.
Postoffices were first established in
1864.
The first lucifer match was made in
1929.
Kerosene was first used for lighting
in 1926.
The first steamboat piled the Hud-
son in 1907.
The first balloon ascension was
made in 1888.
Omnibuses first appeared in New
York in 1890
The first locomotive was run in this
country in 1920.
The first watches were made at
Nuremberg in 1477.
The first English newspaper was
published in 1888.
The first complete sewing machine
was patented by Elias Howe, Jr., i'll
1916.
The first Union flag was unfurled
on January l, 1776, over the camp
at Cambridge
The first newspaper printed in the
United States was published in Bos-
ton on Sept. %, 1870.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-10
Rules for Married Folks.
st. Louis Dispatch.

st. Louis Dispatch.
In denying a divorce to Mrs.
Gladys B. LANCE. of Edgebrook, yes
terday, Judge John W. McElhinney
outlined the obligations OF married
persons. His rules follow:
A wife should be fully emancipated
from her mother.
1t is the duty of both to forsake
father and mother and cleave to each
other
The husband is the head of the
family, and it is the wife's duty to
live where he chooses, in the style he
adopts and the abode his station in
life iustifies.
Every presumption is in favor of
the wife's innocence; she is probably
surer OF the path of virtue than he.
Let him trust her as he expects to be
trusted and mutual confidence will
inspire both TO be true
= The husband should not sulk. He
should be proud of his wife if others
admire her, instead of being jeal-
Gus.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-10
Doctor Named TripIets.

NORFOLK, August 26.-Mrs. Orange
Coles, Of Lola, gave birth to triplets
and DR.. j. II. Womack, the attend
ing physician, asked permission to
name them. The request was grant
ed and the babies, which are all boys,
will be called Leon, Alphonse and
CASTOR. The mother and boys are
doing finely and the babies are re-
ported as sprightly as infants three
weeks old.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-10
The GOLD LEAF.
THE LAST INN.
By THEODORE ROBERTS.

Some day III come to that still place
And bid the yintner smooth my bed;
No hurry of departure there
No viking when the morn is red.
The same kind trees will sing to me
Day after day, night after night;
The wind that wanders in the grass
VIII bring no tidings OF the fight.
From that still Hosiery OF Rest
I'll mark the seasons pass along,
And clean forget the things unWOn-
The pain Of the unfinished song.
No man will come when dawn is chill
CThe false hopes OF my dreams to break
To tell me that the horses wait
Or Of some hest that must take.
Night will not find me iourneying
(Where pallid roads in dusk are set)
On some FOOLS errand down the world
Hag-ridden by an old regret.
Noon will not find me clustering
About the ante room OF kings
meddler caring not what comes
But junketing with many things.
Some day I'll turn my horses head
TO that still Hosiery OF Rest,
And vex no more the South and North
With matters OF the East and West.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-10
So He Would.
Raleigh Post.


If Booker Washington would just
contine himself strictly to the Tus-
keegee Institute for the next ten years
without a break, he would do himself
and his race everlastingly more good
than by any other course he could
follow or speech he &C uld make. Let
him try it for few years at least
He has tried his other plans ad
nauseum ad disgustibus adj disturb
bus.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-10

We hold to the opinion that if
statue OF any Southern man is re-
fused merely because he was a Con-
fedrrate soldier, all the Southern
States should refuse to contribute
statues, leaving the places vacant
until such time as narrow sectional
prejudice shall no longer rule the
country.-Montgomery Ala. Adrer-
tiSer.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-10

You seem to know a great deal
about married life, said woman of
the world to a youthful admirer. Are
you married?
No. but my father is, replied the
youthful admirer, with a blase air.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-10

She-How did Alice happen to mar
ry that man with one arm?
He-Oh, its that craze she has for
remnants. She thought he must be a
bargain.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-10

He always has host Of friends;
The hardest hearted his smiles will
soften,
For popularity depends
On treating fellows well-and oftenl
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-10

Is Pins were first manufactured in this
country soon after the war of 1912
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-30
Potatoes IN Hills or Drills?

The Michigan agricultural expert
ment station i'll 1892 carried out "a
experiments with potatoes in hills and
drills, u-ng Two varieties Equal
amounts of seed We're used for equal
areas, and each potato was cut into
four pieces Tie Early Ohio gave an
average of COZ bushels per acre in drills
and 1915 in hills. The Rural New York
er No. yielded 80 bushels In drills and
Isl bushels in hills At the Wisconsin
station in 1890. experiments were made
With Early Rose Seeding potatoes in
hills and drills In this instance, 81
drilled rows yielded 1886 pounds of
merchantable ard 343 pounds of small
potatoes, against 1922 pounds OF mer-
charitable and 2.s3 pounds of small po-
tatoes from the 81 rows of hills, the
exact area is not stated Expert
ments were also made by the New
York State station at Geneva in 1889.
The results uniformly favored planting
in drills. The general result of field
tests seems to indicate that the diff
ference in yield when planted in hills
or drills is comparatively small where
equal amounts Of seed are used, altho
slightly in favor of drilling. 1t would
SEEM therefore, that the question of
planting In hills or drills may be set
tied entirely apart from the question
OF yield.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-30
Compressed Fodder.

A new grass is being sent out from
the experiment stations In Washington
and Oregon. known as dry alfalfa. 1t is
said to be peculiarly adapted for lands
where water is scarce Its character
istic is that it does not send down a 10
or 12-foot tap root to find water but
trusts to a web like tangle of fine roots
to absorb the moisture from the sur
rounding earth. This alfalfa has been
tested at PendletOn and In the Grande
Ronde Valley and in Klickitat county.
and the results are said to have been
excellent.
The experiment stations declare that
zoe pounds of ground corn and cob meal
go just as far as 100 pounds of pure
corn meal, the cob giving it more bulk
and rendering it easier of digestion.
The days of large cattle ranches have
gone, and the cattle farms with their
thousands of acres in the states are no
longer profitable, under the changed
conditions of production. The small
farms must raise, feed and mature the
beef cattle of the future.
When fed for any considerable length
of time upon any one ration, animals
will tire of it to a more or less ex-
tent. This is one of the reasons why it
is not wise to make corn or anything
else an absolutely exclusive ration, even
at fattening time.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-30
NEW YORK SITUATION.
Mcclellan. Tammany Candidate.
Thought to Have Fighting

New York, Oct. 30--.W-ith the cleo
ton only five days away, even the best
informed people in New York are un-
certain as to who will be the next
mayor. Surface indications point to-
ward the Tammany candidats, and the
betting, which a week ago was strongly
in favor of Low, is now slightly in
favor of Mcclellan. This indicates lit
tie, however. because every one knows
that since the days of Boss Croker,
Tammany has been in the habit of us
ing It's campaign fund on bets. If the
bets turned out loosine ones the fund
stood good for it, but IL they won, the
individual leaders always pocketed the
money and this was AMI still is recog-
nized as perquisite OF 'Tammany hall
politics.
So far as the logic Of the situation
goes. l should say that Tammany had
slightly the best of It, New York is a
democratic city under all normal con-
ditions, and Colers maio-..y in the
five boroughs last year was $4,000 in
round numbers. This, of course. was
an entirely extraordinary condition, not
likely to be repeated, but it is a pretty
big handicap for the fusion ticket to
overcome, Ii is this which results in
an atmospheric condition best explain
ed by the statement heard on every
hand that "Tammany is in the air"
Most of the nren about town and in
the hotel Hobbies and harrooms are
Tammany sympathiZers because the
fusion element more distinctly repre-
sents the home and resi- ience districts
The result is that most of the hot air
valves are worked by trammany men
and this accounts for the prevailing
opinion that Mcclellan is certain OF
election.
The chances are that neither man is
at all sure to win and While | believe
the indications are little bit more
favorable to Mcclellan than to Low,
the condition of uncertainty has been
such as to provoke a fevArish amount
of work on the part of the fusion man
ayers which may in the long run pull
Low out of the hole.
One great problem III the present
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-30
EMPHATIC TALK.
The Kind That Carries Conviction I,
Every MarshaiItown Reader.

Conviction must follow such emphat
lie proof as is given here. The testi
mony of Marshalltown residents SHOULD
satisfy the most skeptical. Here is
Marshalltown case. Read it and see /
doubt can exist in the face of this evi
dence:
Mr. S. B. Rlce. painter Of 312 Rail
road street. says: II. in common with
nearly all painters, experienced a good
deal of difficulty from the effects of the
component parts of the paints, and like
all painters incurred a great deal OF
difficulty IN finding any medicine OF
preparation competent to check those
effects. l tried quite a few before ]
procured Doan's Kidney Pills at the
Mcbride & Will Drug Company. but ]
never found anything to equal the re-
suits obtained from them. 1t will be a
boon to painters to learn that there is a
medicine to be had in Marshalltown
which will bring speedy relief to those
suffering from kidney ailment. Tha.
medicine 1 emphatically declare to be
Doan's Kidney Pills"
For sale by all dealers. Price so cents
per box Foster Milburn Company,
Buffalo, N Y, sole agents for the
United States.
Remember the name, Doan's, and
take no substitute.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-30
NORMAN WILLIAMS WANTED.
Charged With Topography Be Guilty
Of Greater Crime,

StciS So WIN DC SutIly
Of Greater Crime.
Portland, Ore, Oct 30.--The fedora,
grand jury yesterday returned an in
dictnent in the United States district
court that brings to Light for the first
time the details of what was probably
a double murder. Tie indictment is
against Norman Williams, charging
forgery in affixing a false signature of
Miss Alma Nesbitt TO a relinquish-
ment for q homestead claim in Wasco
county, but underneath the entire pro-
cedure lies strong circumstantial ev-
idence that murder followed the for
gerry to cover up detection of the crime
The matter was brought before the
grand jury by United States Inspector
A. r. Green, of the interior depart
ment.
Years ago Norman Williams and Miss
Alma Nesbitt We're friends in Omaha,
Neb., and came west together. They
took up adjoining homesteads in Wasco
county and lived there about a year
Then Alma Nespitt's mother came west.
In March, 1900 Williams met Mrs Mes
bitt and daughter ar Hood River and
started to drive them to their home
stead, twenty miles distant After leav-
ing Hood River the women were
never seen again, and the police be-
lieve that they We're killed. Ii is sup
posed that Williams Il; in Canada.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-30
American Hens Ahead.

Australian hens are still being beaten
on their own ground by the. three pens
Of American fowls which Miller Purvis
of Chicago, caused to be entered in the
egg laying competition at the Hawkes.
bury Agricultural College, near sgd
ney. Seventy pens Of six hens each are
competing. 1t is learned that the in
vading fiocks hold first. third and sew
enth places in the competition, which
was started last April and will contin-
ue until March. With a record of 270
eggs in the first four months, six hens
from Nebraska lead their nearest Aus
tralian competitors by thirty eggs. AT
the end of the present contest, another
competition will be inaugurated with
100 pens entered-ten from the United
States. ten from England, three from
Canada, three from New Zealand and
the rest from Australia.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-30

il little al time until II is dis
solved into fac dry powder Put the
lime into a wooden bucket or keg ana
mix it in about one quarter OF the milk,
the oil in which the pitch must be pre-
viously dissolved over n slow tire and
cooled, to be added a little at time,
then the rest Of the milk and after
wards the Spanish white. Min thor
oughly and strain thru 4 common wire
milk strainer and it Will be ready for
use. This quaint ty is sufficient for more
than SO square yards two coats. BY
adding q very small quantity of lamp
black first dissolved in milk and thor
oughly mixed very handsome lead
color carr be obtained. Ii stone color is
desired. after II king in the lampblack
add small quantity of yellow ochre
and Venetian red separately, first dis
solved in milk While using stir fire.
quently keep it in solution. OF course
this is not a zinc or white lead paint but
is fairly valuable covering.