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although they cast an inconsiderable
number OF tickets thus split, the right
TO make protest in this manner Ia one
that should not be destroyed or abridged.
It might be OF the greatest value.
Certainly the courts should be ap-
pealed to for q decision on the legality
OF this provision Of the Election law, for
voting machines are coming into more
general use each year. The right to vote
for any man and against any man should
be preserved to every voter in the State.
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Political Assessments at the state Capital.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN--Sir: To IL
lustrate the desperate straits to which the
Odell clique Is put. and the herculean EFFORTS
they are making to avoid the disaster and
political death threatened by their exposure
and the opposition OF THE Sun and other
newspapers. the following facts speak for
themselves.
The employees. male and female. Of all
State departments are being assessed at the
rate OF about 40 per cent. Of their month
salary The women stenographers ana
others under civil service are not excluded,
and this includes to some extent-1 have not
yet learned how far--the employees OF the
Educational Department, which Odell so
successfully placed under political DONNA
ton.
couple Of Democrats have been dis
charged from the Department OF Education
without cause and although they were under
civil service, and part OF the office force is
being utilized for the purpose OF distributing
campaign documents. their salaries being
paid by the State. This is common In the
other departments but has not. until this
year, affected the Department Of Education.
1t will probably soon be possible to obtain
license to practise medicine or dentistry II
your pull" Is strong enough.
1t Is notorious that in Albany Mr.. Barnes.
n warm supporter OF Odell since the Governor
Chairman-Groceryman assumed control OF
the Republican party. has assessed every
thing In sight. from the Mayor to the keeper
OF a gambling house. He has assessed the
patrolmen each s27 out OF a monthly salary
OF s75. or SO per cent; the lremen proper
uonately the street cleaners IS out Of a weekly
salary Of 30, or over IS per cent. (most OF them
are put to work shortly before electionJ. and
1t is said that even the ohXwomen have had
to contribute. Mr.. Barnes holds position
under the national Government.
OF course, these collections are all neces-
sary. in order that Odelllsm may not depart
from the State capital. DEcRNCY.
ALBANY, Oct. 20.
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PIGTAILs WORN BY EUROPEANS.
Fashion Dated From the Reign OF Louis
XIV. OF France.
From the Lon don Globe.


The recent statement that the Grand Coun-
| Gil OF China is In favor OF the abandonment of
| the pigtail by all soldiers and students ia
| significant. John Chinaman without tail
! 10 be pulled Is likely to be in course of
| time a more business-like and formidable
opponent than in the past. though he has
never been despicable.
But antiauated and absurd as the wearing
OF the pi gtai now seems. It's disappearance
from England only dates from time well
within the memory of many men still living.
1t is true that public opinion brought the pig
tail into general disiavor in the early years
of the nineteenth century; but II contributor
to Notes and Queries" for 1855 records that
he saw the other day descending from a
small chariot in Cheapside Il venerable old
gentleman with n small screw of his gray
locks tied behind with a short riband." As
this was less than fifty years ago it will be seen
that we have less reason for contrasting
ourselves favorably in this respect with the
Chinese than many people remember or
suspect.
In Europe the fashion Of tying the natural
hair in queue seems to date from the reign
Of the Grand MonarQue." when the officers
Of the French Army tied their hair in summer.
but wore II loose in winter and indoors.
Thence the custom spread to Austria. and
hourished exceedingly Indeed, so extrava-
CANT did the fashion become that in the
eighteenth century so:L' unfortunate Prus-
sian troops wore the queue down TO their
heels, while Frederick ii. appeared on horse
back with a pigtail reaching the crupper OF
his saddle The French Revolution brought
about tho disappearance OF this, as OF many
other absurdities for the soldiers Of the re-
public had no time or money to spare for such
BARRIERS work, having sterner business on
hand which demanded all their energies. In
the British Army the pigtail was abolished
during or just after the Napoleonic wars. the
Royal Welsh Fusiliers, as the flash" still
worn by officers suggests. being the last regi-
ment to discontinue the fashion.
In the navy the pigtail was worn until
1928 The fashion is still recalled by the
name of the famous twist tobacco. Hood, In
one Of his punning ballads. uses the word in q
double sense:
His head was turned; and 80 he chewed
His pigtail till he died"
Lovers Of Marryat. too. will remember his
whimsical description OF the old salt whose
ma gniicent pigtail, the pride OF his life was
cut of by his amiable consort. with disas-
trous results to herself.
The custom OF wearing the pigtail may be
comparatively modern in Europe, but its
Plgtiiled Hittites were among the opponents
Of Rameses H., and from India comes
legendary account of the reason for the
grotssque fashion which Darwin might have
approved. The Rajae. we are told, Of a. GER
tain city of the Gujerat coast are styled long
OF the monkeys who helped Ramachundra
70 conquer India This lends an air Of re-
speotable antiquity to fashion which has
little else TO recommend IL.
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The Football situation.

The glory OF these autumn days. on which our
bards enthuse. Is In the woodlands, all ablaze with
vartegsted hues: but other colors will refuse 10
yield the palm TO these--thc ones the Feet Ball
players use TO bring them Victories The cham.
pionship this year may be. SO all the critics say,
between the Nays Blue and Gold and Army Black
and Gray: and only just the other day the Blue
and White went down before the Red and Blue a
array In sleepy ouskertown. But when the wood.
land goryis died and trees are brown and bare the
college colors In their pride will nutter In the air
The Eli warriors roundy swear the Crimson they
will do: the Orange and the Black declare they'll
deepen Ens Giue. And the War Game OF 1904
roes merrtly on.
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less defiance of the fundamental laws Of

less defiance of the fundamental laws Of
the sea.
The record Of this Baltic feet. which
should have reached Port Arthur last
spring, but which does not even hope
to arrive at vladivostok before the mid
die Of January, has exposed the Russian
Admiralty 10 ridicule and scorn. 1t has
now revealed, however, dreadful
capacity for mischief Built in tn
eclipse and rigg'd with curses dark" 1t
may be doomed to cause a national
catastrophe.
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The Tibetan Fsoteric Vote Solid for Rooss-
welt and Fairbanks.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-Sir: The learned
Tlbetsn occutist. the well known Count DE Sarst.
has made the following prophecy, based upon the
esoterc studies OF the Orient:
That Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt will be reelected
President OF the Republic and that great and very
important events will follow attended by signal and
widespread thumphs for American policy.
There will be great perturbaiions and even wars
In which the United States will have 10 Intervene
The Count thus expresses himself with regard to
the American people:
ct love the United states. whose citizen feel my
self In very truth 10 be. admire In them that spirit
Of reeu,ude and OF justice which Is rarely found
elsewhere"
May the day soon dawn when the world WIN
recognize this great teacher who has been sent 70
them by the masters OF the Orient and In place OF
persecutine him listen TO the doctrine OF peace.
Orient ~ ssoTKRro CENTRE. T.
Washington, Oct ~,
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THE STATE ELECTION.
For Roosevelt and Herriok. the, CiuzenS
Ticket.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-Sh: On cleo
tlon day hope TO take Ave votes into the
polling booth myself and four sons. and
while we shall vote for the Republican ma
tIonal ticket We shall cast our vote for Her
rick on the State ticket. and I am much In
debted TO The SUN for the suggestion:
-odelllsm" Is the low est form of politics and
every whit as bad as Tammany. 1t is the
duty Of Independent voters to split their
votes on the national and State ticket at the
next election. A TAXPAYER
BROOKLYN, Oct. 20.
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The Rospigliosi Case.

To TIE EDITOR OF TIE sUN-!sfr: beg leave
70 state that "A Catholic Priest" Is mistaken In
citing the Rosp,g mot RispgosD case. Princess
Marie Rospigliosi, nee Reid. divoIcee PArkhurst.
was only oivilly married by the sindaco Mayor
Of Lamporecchio, the Rospigliosi summer resi-
denee; the Church having until TO day absolutely
refused 10 sanction that marriage by the religious
ceremony. PACT, NOT FICTION.
CATHOLIC oJus. New York. Oct. %.
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calculator that the Democratic per-
oentage Of Of in the State election Of
1900 will be reached, with consequent
plurality Of 10000. II the plurality is
10000, probably the rosiest Tammany
expectation will be fulfilled.
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"Insolve ed" Kentucky Firm.

From ne Morehcdd AouutaineSr.
de Disslu,ion OF coparshlp hereto Resisting
Betwix Me aud more Jones In de barber profession
an heretofo dissolved. pussons who o must pay
70 de subscriber Dem what de arm Os must call
on Jones. a. de irm 10 insolved,
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1t is difficult to imagine the extent OF the
disaster which would ensue II one-half of
the Russian Navy should Unexpectedly
meet the other half on a dark night.
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Proof.

Knioker-So the Newriohes are getting culture1
Booker-yea, they have learned 70 speak OF .
house beautiful Instead OF beautiful house.
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publication irish TO hare rejected arfei returned thfp
must In all cases send camps for that purpose.
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Remember Furnaoeville and keep on re-
membering II for the next fifteen days.
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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1904-12-08
THE GOLD LEAF.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER s. 1904.
Thanksgiving by Proclamation.

N"w York World
One OF the lit tie peculiarities OF the
American holiday is that in the man
ner of IFS observance bears no rela-
ton to the event that it is supposed
TO commemorate.
Everybody that has money enough
TO buy a railroad ticket celebrates
the anniversary OF the nations indie
pendence by going out OF town to
avoid the noise.
Christmas has come to mean Il
minimum OF peace Oh earth and good
will to men and 81 maximum OF eX-
pensive presents that require months
OF rigid economy to pay for
Decoration Day is reverently OBJ
served bv two baseball games-oc-
casionallv for one ticket OF admIs-
sion.
Thanksgiving calls out free express
sions of gratitude for Il bOuntiful
harvest, and most OF them are per
functory. To the generality it spells
football and matinee performances,
with more or less Indigestion i'll the
cold gray dawn OF the morning after,
What kipling calls our "acrid Ash
attic mirth =" is never more painfully
displayed than in the observance OF
holidays. Perhaps we need a little
more of the simple life that Pastor
Wagner breaches. Certainly ii one
OF the Puritan fathers could see how
coldly materialistic we have made his
day Of Thanksgiving he would lavish
his hcarticst curses on n generation
of yiDprs
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1904-12-08
Passing Of the SpeIIbinder.
Thorn asvilIe Charity and Children.

Thomasyile Charity and Children.
The Charlotte News says 1.-THE
time for the four-hour political ora
tor has passed and gone. Wethink
this a true saying and rejoice. The
quality of the average political speech
has been poor-amazingly poor-the
main thing aimed at being cOnsump-
ton of time. We have rarely heard
n spellbinder who showed coherency
and clearness OF ideas. The main
thing was the mastery OF adjectives
in the abuse of the other party and
the abnormal and exaggerated pro
phecy Of evil il it got into power
The people are getting above that
drivel, and We hope they will demand
that there be a little more thought
and u little less wind in what the ora
tors have to say. Thirty minutes is
long enough for most men to tell all
they know Oh any given subject; and
the speaker who is able to pack solid
thought into small space will be the
speaker who will draw in the future.
The harrangue that lasted from two
to five hours belonged to an age
when time was not SO precious as 1t
is now. The crowd thus detained by
a gas-bag feels aggrieved, and so far
from being persuaded by it, will re-
sent it as an outrageous imposition.
We have only one man in North Car
DINA who can speak profitablv and
effectively for two hours on politics,
but there are many Others who mag
inc they can do so. The thirty min
ute speech is the coming speech.
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Would Make RooseveIt's Election
Unanimous.

ATLANTA. GA, Nov. 2l.-Jullus
Brown, Il son OF the late Joseph NJ.
Brown. who was Georgia ; war gov
norand also United States Senator
for years, is out in a card proposing
that the electors OF all Southern
States vote for Roosevelt and make
his election unanimous. lie makes
this proposition because he says
Roosevelt has been uniustly attacked
on the negro question, about the
Philippines, and, in fact, on all pub
lie vuiestiOna. Mr.. Brown says:
Now. | honestly believe, as a
Democrat, that the best thing for US,
the South, to do, is for Judge Parker
and the Democratic executive com
mittee to request the Southern cleo
tors to cast their votes for President
Roosevelt and make his election
unanimous. He is IL good man, hall
Southern, and we of the South ought
to be able to trust him
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A Southern Exhibit.
Manufacturers Record.


One of the most interesting and
suggestive summaries OF Southern
progress is the review i'll the Novem-
Der issue OF the Southern Field, the
publication OF the land and indus
trial department OF the Southern
Railway and the Mobile & Ohio Rail-
road, of developments i'll the terri
tory tributary to the $500 miles OF
these roads during the past three
years. The estimate of the review is
that in that time S34O,OOO,O 900, an
average of about $4,000 to every
mile OF road operated, have been in
vested in the territory traversed by
thetwo systems. OF the total 81 49,
OOO. 900 was invested in 226O indus
trial plants: in cotton mills, cotton
oil mills and industries dependent
thereon, S31 ,479,45O were invested;
in coal mines, iron mines, furnaces,
ETC., S21 ,349,O9S, and in numbering
and wood working $12, $780, $50,
while there has been an expansion in
tanning. in Portland cement produc-
ton and in various other industries.
Other investments have gone into
the capitalization of banks, insurance
and trust companies and into munic-
ipal improvements. This immense
investment, more than a third OF ~
billion of dollars, is but one OF the
many manifestations OF prosperity
in the South. noted also in the pur-
chase of improved farm machinery
and implements by farmers in many
sections and in the betterments OF
thousands of homes in city and coun-
try. To the money sent into the
South from other quarters has been
added much OF that coming to agri-
culture with the fair prices for cotton
during the past two or three years,
but the most gratifying phase OF the
situation, perhaps. is the fact that
these exhibits of the South's wonder
full advantages are attracting to 1t
an increasing number OF thrifty work
prs determined to make the most OF
them.
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A Word to Young Men.

The Germantown Lndependent ia
zette says it is strange that so many
young men i'll the full vigOr OF man
hood are content to plOd along the
busy thoroughfare OF life with open
mouths with hands in pockets, and
allow themselves to be smothered by
the dust raised by the lively hustler
on his march to success Get Il hump
on yourselves, boys. Wake up, Get
into the middle OF theroad and hustle
for success. twill do you good. Be
a man among men, and make the
world better FORTS having contained
Won
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1904-12-08
The Cosmopolitan for December.

7 he December (Crristmas) number OF
the fOSDlODOHfaH comes to us IN beau
tiful and approx riate cover which is but
the index OF an especially attractive con
tents Besides five complete and one
continued story, we turn to one illus
trated article after another to note that
each discusses a matter OF real timely
and vital Importance to both the men
and women of America. The contents
include The Present Cpheaval in
France" by David Graham Phillips;
The Passing of the Home in Great
American Cities by Charlotte Perkins
Gilman; "The Chase of the Wild Red
Deer on Exmoor Forest" by Clifford
Cordley; The Passing OF the Steam
Age" by Lewis Nixon; Some Churches
and Their Problems" by A Minister
Wife; The Theatrical Syndicate con
demned and defended respectively by Da-
vid Belasco and Marc klaw; Racial
Types OF Beauty by Gertrude Lynch;
Canning and Preserving" by Frederic
Williams The fiction is contributed by
Eliza Calvert Hail. \. NJ. Williamson
co-author of The Lightning Conductor
Herbert Shipman, Homer BassfOrd,
Jeanne Olive LoizeauX and John Brisben
Walker. James Whitcomb Riley has Il
two-page Christmas poem. The whole
number is superbly illustrated.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1904-12-08

One of our contemporaries notes
that another contemporary has re-
fused to accept liquor advertisements
and has thus been deprived OF several
thousand dollars worth OF business
of this character. This brings forth
special commentator for the high
stand, etc, etc. AS a matter OF fact,
very many newspapers in the State
refuse advertisements of this charac-
ter and have done so without calling
on the galleries and the grand stand
to bear witness how good they are
StateSville Landmark
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1904-12-08

Botanic Flood Go1na {.,.C.clis
Pleasant and eeto tre. Iho-or - stt,i 70; y5
Composed of Pure fotani: lFS ,enf ..os
Complete directions 50 with each bottle ,sass,pie
writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga: Describe yonf
trouble, and special free medical advice, TO suit ycus
ease, also sent in sealed letter.
For sale at Parker's Two Drug Stoi~s.
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Mr.. W. F. Beasley has just finished
picking out the cotton from 16 acres
and he informs Us that he got 16
bales, averaging 43O pounds each.
He sold it at an average of 94 cents.
Who says that farming doesn't pay?
-Louisburg Times.
The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-05-13
FAMILY TALES.
rom the lnslde.

A man was going on the coffee route
lust like his father" when a thought
ful wife made diet experiment with
him.
My husband while coffee drinlSer
came almost to deaths door with ner-
vous prostraton. stomach and kidney
disease. His father was coffee drink
er and died with Bright's disease
and my husband was apparently going
just like him, his symptoms were just
the same and medical aid did him
no good.
He had been a confirmed coffee
crank and | thought it was not doing
him any good 50 l induced him to quit
it and use Postum Food Coffee. In
two days he saw that at the end Of two
months he was actually a well man
with al symptoms Of kidney disease,
nervousness AMI stomach trouble gone.
There is no doubt on earth there ais
We're all due to coffee and they disap-
peared as soon as Postum was used
in place OF coffee our children also
love it and / think l cannot do with.
out it.
Fl must tell you about some Of my
borders who mere coffee drinkers and
nave benefited by using Postum in
place OF coffee. one lady was very
nervous and could not sleep; she got
better almost at once one gentleman
is certainly being cured Of stomach
trouble and nervousness and two other
! boarders have been entirely relieved
OF more or less tomaeh trouble which
they always complained OF while drink
ing coffee Another gentleman actual
ly used 70 walk the floor night after
night Of sleeplessness and pains in the
stomach after drinking coffee and he
has been entirely cured and now sleeps
sound and well on the Postum
My brother in law had been sick
OF what the doctor said was hears and
stomach trouble and came to visit me
and he had been using Postum but
short time when he began to i'm
prove and by the time he left for home
he looked ana felt like new man
which proved that all Of his troubles
had come from coffee" All the above
names given by Postum Co, Battle
Creek, Mich
Look in each pkg Tor lie famous
little book. The Road to MELVILLE.
The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-05-13
INVITATION FROM MoRGAN's
DRUG STORE.
Leading Brunswick Druggists Urge
You to Try Hyomei the Guarau-
teed Cure for catarrh.

Amy reader OF the News who suffers
with eatarrh or who aSubject to ca.
tarrhal colds. is inviiedA % Morgan 5
drug store for complete Hyomei
outfit on approval SO confident are
they that Hyomei will cure the worst
and most deep seated case of catarrh
that they will furnish full months
treatment Of Hyomei on trial.
While it would be unreasonable to
expect a chronic case Of catarrh, which
has been growing worse Tor years
could be cured Within month, yet
they feel sure that the thirty day
treatment will convince the user that
Hyomei is infallible in driving ca.
tarrh poison from the system There
is no dangerous stomach dragging
when Hyomei Is used. simply breathe
ats healing baisams through the neat
inhaler chat comes with every outfit
and the germ killing and health giving
air wiA penetrate TO the most remote
cells ia the air passages of the head
throat and lungs, and drive catarrhal
Eoisons from the system. Nothing
else will so quickly cure cold in the
aead or stop an ordinary cough.
Singers and public speakers will find
Hyomei invaluable. 1t strengthens
,he voice and gives it rich, clear
tone. Catarrhal deafness is cured
when Hyomei and the special Hyo
mel balm are used.
The complete outfit costs only one
dollar and if. after using, You can
say that it did not help you Morgan S
drug store will return your money.