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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1904-08-18
Concentration.

The weakest living creature, by con
centrating his powers on u single OBJ,
ject, can accomplish something The
strongest by disposing of his over
many, may fail to accomplish anything
The drop, by continually falling, bores
Its passage through the hardest rock
The haSty torrent rus4lcs over it with
hideous uproar and leaves no trace be-
hind.-Carlyle.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1904-08-18

Note-t Daily except Sunday.
central Time. Eastern Time.
Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Cars an
oil through trains, New York to Atlanta.
Jacksonville and Tampa Tickets on snI" to
all points. Pullman reservations made upon
application to any Ticket gent of his tom
pany, or
u. p. SMITH, r. L. A.. f. B. BRADY Agent.
Raleigh, NC. Henderson, No.
{. b. RYAN, q. Z. A., j. NJ. BARR, =. 4 q N
Portsmouth. Va.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1904-08-18
Naturally

Van X.-Why are you going into the
soap business? De O-To clean up
some money, of course.-Detroit Free
Press
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1904-08-18
Debts OF Honor,

JOhnny-Pa, what is Il debt Of honor?
Pa-It is debt that is incurred in a
dishOnorable way, Johnny. - Boston
Transcript
Democratic messenger., 1904-04-09
LIBERTYTOWN.

Mr.. AMI Mr.. George Townsend. of
Queponco. spent Wednesday with Mr.
and Mrs. Parker Rayne.
Miss Ella Davis, of Parsonsburg, came
Tuesday to spend a few days with Miss
Cora Hastings.
Miss Annie Birmingham spent Satur-
day and Sunday with Miss Efile Jones,
of near Willards.
Mr.. Cleveland Jones, of Ironshirc,
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Dennis.
Miss Mamie Townsend; of Queponco,
spent Saturday and Sunday very pleas
antly with her grandparents. Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Ellis.
Mrs Della Ellis and our popular
school teacher. Miss Maggie Davis. went
to Georgetown. Del, Friday last. to visit
relatives and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Davis. of Parsons
burg. spent Sunday last with Mrs. Ade
line Hastings.
Mr.. Ira Brittingham spent Saturday
and Sunday with Mr.. Charley Jones, of
Willards.
Mr.. Parker 5. Rayne went to Powells-
vile on business. Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs Clay Powell visited
friends in Powellsville, Sunday
MIR. and Mrs. Bassett Timmons spent
Sunday with relatives i'll Berlin.
Democratic messenger., 1904-04-09
MELBOURNE.

After spending sometime with rcla-
tives and friends at this place, Hiss An
ME Coston returned to her home i'm
Philadelphia. Tuesday.
Mr.. Saunders Ardis visited Virginia
last Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. J. Reid and children
spent Sunday at the home of her pa
rents in Stockton.
Our farmers are very busy working in
their fields. We hope that they will
have success with their crops this year.
Providence permitting, there will be
preaching at Remson's VI. f. Church
Sunday afternoon by the pastor. Rev. f..
ii. Miller. of Stockton.
4 new mail route has been pat on the
from Pocomoke City TO NewChurch
N the way of Remson's school. which
Us a help TO the people. but hard ON the
postofiice at this place.
y little George Reid, while playing i'm
his fathers store Tuesday last. was bit.
ten by dog.
Mr.. Herbert burlington, VINO is at
tending school at Pocomoke. spent the
Easter holidays with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. J. w. burlington. of this
place.
Democratic messenger., 1904-04-09
SPRING DRESS GOODS

Assortment right up to date
in styles, and prices lower
than the larger cities.
Democratic messenger., 1904-04-09
iRONSHIRE.

Our minister. Rev. Matthews. is sick
at this time. We hope he will be out
soOn.
Mrs. Lucine Wooten visited Newark
"Wednesday of this week.
Messrs. Alfred aud Vincent Peters
came home Tuesday for the Easter holi-
days.
Miss Virginia West visited her sister
at Newark last Saturday aud Sunday.
Miss Lille Bradford is visiting Taylor
Vile
Miss Margie Bradford visited one of
her friends last "Wednesday evening.
Miss Gerda Wooten has returned
home from very pleasant visit in Pitts
ville
Miss Mamie Brittingham aud Miss
Ethel Smack visited Miss Gerda
Woottcn Sunday.
Mrs. Lorenzo Wootcn visited her
parents at Taylorvillc, Saturday and
Sunday.
Democratic messenger., 1904-04-09
SNOW HILL, MD. APR.
WORK OF LEGISLATURE.

Elsewhere i'm the MESSENGER
we give "A list of the principal
laws enacted by the Legislature
which completed its work and
adjourned Monday night. The
new election law, doing away
with the party designation ap-
plies to Worcester, Somerset,
Dorchester and numerous other
counties i'm the state. Baltimore
City and about one half of the
counties, being exempted from
its workings. No emblems or
names of parties will be printed
upon the tickets and it will be
necessary for man to have in
tclligence enough to know for
whom he wants to vote and to
be able to select his candidates.
The General Educational Bill
passed both Houses and now
awaits the signature of Govern
or Warfield. Among its pro-
visions is one stipulating that
no white teacher in any of the
public schools of the State shall
receive a salary less than $500
per annum; the minimum
county school tax shall be Is
instead of 10 cents: the school
year shall not be less than nine
months: there shall be an in
crease in the State school ap-
preparation of % per cent. max
ing an annual grant of 81 ,00O,-
900. The bill will make the
State school system uniform.
1t meets with public approval
although it will increase the
state tax rate considerable
In "a few weeks the MEssEN-
GER will publish for the benefit
of its readers the principal Acts
of the Legislature, just as soon
the Governor and other quail
fled officers select such laws for
publication as the general pub
lie would be interested i'm.
The Senator and Members
from Worcester County have
been prominent i'm the deliber-
ations of the Legislature and
have been Il credit to their con-
stitutents, SO we can say, well
done. good and faithful SER
wants.
Democratic messenger., 1904-04-09
WESLEY.

Mr.. Joseph Leonard, of Salisbury Wis
tied Mr.. Edward Smack this week.
Mrs. w +. Timmons spent the Eas
ter holidays with her mother i'll Berlin.
Mr.. a. Riley and two daughters. Mar
gle and Lillian, visited relatives at
Parksley, Va, Thursday and Friday.
Miss Annie Johnson has returned
home after an extended visit to relatives
and friends in Philadelphia.
Little Edith Adkins entertained Il
number of her friends Wednesday night
Miss Jennie johnson is visiting her
sister, Mrs. NJ. V. Owcry. in Washing.
ton
Miss Edna Peters visited at the home
of Mr.. 5 Il. johnson, during the holi-
days.
Miss Emma Riggin returned to her
school duties Tuesday, after spending
the Easter holidays with her parents.
Democratic messenger., 1904-04-09
IIOw's This:

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh that can.
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
+. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
We. the undersigned, have known
+ j. Cheney for the last l5 years. and
believe him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by his firm.
WALDING, KINNAN d MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internal
ly. acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces Of the system. Testi-
monials sent free. Price IS cents per
bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Democratic messenger., 1904-04-09

New rlattings. China or
Japan. Straw or other warp
at $500 to $3.50 per roll of
40 yards.
Democratic messenger., 1904-04-09

Get prices or see our stock
before buying. We can save
you money OH your every
day needs.
The Lamar register., 1904-08-31

of expressing its approval of the big
Campbell Brothers shows, which ex-
hibit here Monday, Sept. ~, is the
following from the Evening Herald
of Charleston, West, Va:
Every promise that Campell Bros.
made was fulfilled and more too.
The people we're astonished and
agreeably surprised. The show WAS
immense. The best circus acts ever
seen in Charleston we're given under
the big tents of the Campbell Bros
The menagerie and museum was
superb To particularize it would
require a page. The Campbell Bros.
are gentlemen and know how to
handle a large crowd and make
everybody feel at home and they
know how to please them.
The Lamar register., 1904-08-31

but each time the gamblers knew
just where they were Sat" The
races and relay races we're
featurers and 80 was the
riding of Luther Dennison and the
broncho busting contest.
The Lamar register., 1904-08-31

lessened, by the diversion of water
from the stream for irrigation in
Colorado.
In the first place it may be said
that the existence of an underfiow is
questionable. The theory has been
advanced to account for certain pc
culiarities possessed by the Arkan
sas river and several other Western
streams. Again, even if there is an
underfow, it does not necessarily
follow thatiss diminution in certain
parts of Kansas, notably in the GEN.
tral part around Wichita, is due to
the diversion of water from the river
in Colorado Following the course
of the stream, this locality is per
haps 300 miles from the Colorado
line. Nobody knows, and it is ex-
tremely doubtful whether anybody
can prove, what changes in the char
acter of the stream may take place
in the intervening distance. They
may be an underfow at Wichita and
none whatever in Colorado, or vice
versa. And if there Is an underfow
in tnst part of Kansas the water
may come from rains that fall east of
the Colorado line. The whole mat.
ter seems to be based on supposi
tion.
The attorneys for Colorado estab-
lished the point vew days ago that
several other streams which flow
across the plains have undergone
the same changes in recent years as
the Arkansas, though their waters
have not been appropriated for irri
cation. This is important, inasmuch
as the Kansas attorneys contend that
the diversion of water from the Ar
kansas in this state has resulted IN
narrowing the channel and lessening
the apparent flow as well as the IN /
derhow. The fact that other rivers,
which are not used for irrigation, are
in volume seems to
prove that the lessened flow of the
Arkansas may he due to the same
cause, namely, smaller supply ow-
ing in part to the greater ease with
which cultivated land absorbs the
rainfall, as compared with virgin
prairie land, which, when covered
with buffalo grass, sheds water like
a ducks back"
Another point in favor of Cobra
do Is that much of the water divert
ed for irrigation returns by seepage
to the stream from which it was
taken, thus tending to make the flow
more uniform. 1t is also an estab-
lished fact that the rainfall over an
irrigated region is heavier than over
an arid one, owing to the greater
amount of moisture which passed in
to the air by means OF evaporation.
This increases the flow of the streams
by replacing still more of the water
originally taken.-Colorado Springs
Telegraph.
Avery Complimentary Notice.
One of the most original com
ments, because of its emphatic way
The Lamar register., 1904-08-31

For some reason the cantaloupe
crop is little late in this section
this year. There has yet been only
a few cautaloupes shipped out, but
they were very fine and brought the
top notch price. 1t may be that the
cool nights of the past week have
retarded the ripening process, but
by the first of next week there will
be hundreds of crates ready for ship
ment.
The Lamar register., 1904-08-31
From the Holly News.l

Spencer, the Columbia building
and loan man of Denver, was in
Holly Monday looking after the
company's houses here, which, by
the way, are not in the best state Of
preservation, owing to the fact that
vacancy in house acts pretty much
the came as vacancy in the stomach
-something should fill it up.
The Lamar register., 1904-08-31

Another flood came down Sand
creek last Friday and took out over
a hundred feet of the Amity canal
Fortunately for the farmers, however
heavy rain fell the night before
covering nearly the entire district,
which will enable them to get along
very well until the canal can be re-
paired.
The Lamar register., 1904-08-31
County Notes
From the Holly ChieftainI

tFrom the Holly Chieftain
John Hess Of Butte creek was in
town Tuesday. He says the contin
uous rains this summer have caused
the grass and weeds to grow SO rank
in his locality that a few cattle have
recently died of blost.
The Lamar register., 1904-08-31
Tho Kansas Colorado water suit.

Tho Kansas Colorado Water suit.
The facts which the attorneys for
the state of Kansas will have to es
tablish in the suit against Colorado
over the waters of the Arkansas river
are of such unusual nature that their
substsntiation will be by no means
an easy matter.
From the character of the testi-
mony taken last week before com
missioner appointed by the United
States Supreme Court, it is evident
that they are trying to make it ap-
pear that there is an underfow, or
subterranean watercourse to the Ar
kansas river, by means of which the
adjacent soil is moistened and there
by made productive. They also hope
to show that this underfiow has been
stopped, or at least considerably
The Lamar register., 1904-08-31

Cantalonpes in this locality are
ripening very slowly, evidently
caused by too much lain aud irrigs
tion. Express shipments began
Monday and have been gradually in
creasing. No returns hsye yet been
received.
The Lamar register., 1904-08-31

Walter II. Morris has accepted a
responsible position with Lyon &
Coggings at La Junta during the
cantaloupe shipping season. Mr..
Morris is recognized as an expert in
this line Of work and is always sure
of a good place during the season if
he desires it. Mrs Morris will have
charge of the store during his alb
sence.
The Lamar register., 1904-08-31
Avery Complimentary Notice.

One of the most original com
ments, because of its emphatic way
The Lamar register., 1904-08-31

The two Grinrod boys who ran
away about two weeks ago, and who
were suspected Of attempting to de-
rail train on the Santa Fe railway
by driving spikes into the rail joints
just east Of the Arkansas river rail
way bridge at Amity, were captured
in Dodge City and were taken
through here Wednesday morning to
Lamar. A telegram was received
here Wednesday forenoon asking
the boys parents to come to Lamar
immediately If they wished to see
the boys before they were taken
away, 30 the probability is they have
confessed to committing the crime.
The boys are incorrigible, and much
sympathy is expressed for their par
ents who are respectable people and
m uch humilisted over the unfortun
ate affair.
The Lamar register., 1904-08-31

The threshing machine engine
that has been standing on a car on
the sidetrack at this station for the
past week awaiting shipment, is be
ing robbed of everything detatch-
able. Another week and there will
not be enough Of it left to pay de-
murrage.
The Lamar register., 1904-08-31
From the Amity OptimistI

Commander Booth Tucker will
pay farewell visit to Amity on
September 16, and remain over Sun.
day, the 18th.
The Lamar register., 1904-08-31

The Santa Fe railway company
loaded and shipped away the large
pile of tie plates which has been
standing near the depot in Amity
for over year. That disposition Of
them will be made is not known,
bnt the company has decided not to
use them this year, only on curves.
The Lamar register., 1904-08-31

Joel Knowlen and family returned
from their visit to Kansas last Thurs
day. Mr.. Knowlen is satisfied that
our Great Granada Country is the
best in the world and will now be
content to remain here.
The Lamar register., 1904-08-31
TFrom the Granada Timss.l

The Granada Melon Growers As
sociation is now shipping csDtaloup
es in car load lots.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-03-25
CHURCH AND FRATERNITY.

Unitarian church. Rev L. @. s. Os-
good, pastor. Service every Sunday at
1890; Sunday school at II. 45. Theme for
next Sunday, Palm Sunday" All are
welcome.
Universalist church, Reignold X Mar
win, pastor. Morning worship at 1890
o'clock, with sermon in Lenten series on
"Discipleship," H. The Disciple that
Betrayed Jesus" Sunday school at
1145 a. m; Senior Union at p. m All
are welcome.
At the Adventist Christian church.
Sunday school, noon; prayer meet
ing. ! p m. preaching by the pastor,
Elder l. NJ. Blanchard. go and 6; Thurs
day evening prayer meeting. 7.30. All
are very cordially invited to all the SER
vices.
Christian Science services in Market
block Sunday at 1915 a. m. Subject,
"Unreality." Text, Proverbs 1871. Tes-
timonial meeting, Wednesday at 40 p.
m. Reading room open Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday from to 5 p. m. All
are welcome.
First Baptist church, George b. Law
son, minister Morning worship, 1890.
Sermon by Rev. Albert a. Bennett of
Japan. Bible school, IL m. Evening,
730 sermon by the pastor on What the
church can do TO reach men" fourth in
series on The Church and Young Men"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-03-25
GRANGE NEWS.

The sugar for the annual sugar supper
will be obtained from the Joseph Miller
farm in Dummerston, which produces
some of the finest sugar made in this
country. There will be sugar on snow,
hot rolls and coffee hash and beans, cold
meats, salads. pickles, doughnuts. pies
and cake. All members of the Grange
are expected to contribute and to bring
food before 6 o'clock.
Protective Grange held a regular meet
ing Wednesday evening. p S. Eames
spoke upon Good Roads" and David
Perry gave an interesting paper on the
same subject, followed by a reading by
Miss Maggie Johnson, piano solo by
Miss Gertrude Barker, a song by Pauline
Miller, song by John Kennedy, who re-
sponded to an encore, song by Miss Eva
\. Sanders and reading by Miss Zetta
Weld.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-03-25
Two High Grade Theatrical Productions
Coming.

Two meritorious productions equal to
any ever seen in Brattleboro have been
booked by Manager Fox for appearance
here soon after the close of the Lenten
season. The first will be the complete
Broadway theatre presentation of More
than Queen made famous by Miss Julia
Arthur, with Miss Annie Sutherland as
Josephine, and William Humphrey as Ma
poleon, and the same organization and
original scenery, costumes and effects
that We're used in New York.
Following this attraction will come
Wilson * Barretts beautiful drama, The
Sign of the Cross" to be presented by the
original company, which is the only or
ganization appearing with the piece in
this country. The Sign of the Cross"
is n graphic picture of Rome in the days
of Nero, and is one of the most beautiful
and elaborate stage spectacles of the
present day. All of the magnificent
scenery, costumes and stage settings
from the Lyric theatre London, will en-
bellish the production Manager Fox as
sures the public that these two attrac-
tions will be beyond question the finest
offerings ever set before the Brattleboro
public.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-03-25

York, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs c. f. Reed of Central street
]. J. Rafftcr, travelling salesman for the
Eureka Rubber company has been as
signed temporarily to work in the home
office i'm Boston. lie has been in Boston
several weeks, returning to his home to
remain over Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. Jay II. Brink arrived
last week from Kearney. Neb where
they have been living some time. Mr.
Brink is already at work with his partner
Roy S. Washer, i'm the machine shop
which they bought recently of J. II. Rand.
DR.. and Mrs. George F. Barber re-
turned Friday from Montpelier, where
they attended the session of the Vermont
State Dental society last week DR.. Bar
Der was chosen first vice president of the
society. and a member of the committee
on state legislation.
Mrs. F. A. Phelps of Boston, whose
summer home is in Brattleboro, under
went Monday a serious operation at the
Massachusetts Homeopathic hospital in
that city. Many friends will be pleased to
know that the operation was entirely sue
cessful and that she is recovering
a. L. Cutter, formerly in charge of the
Household office in Brattleboro, left Bos-
ton this week with his daughter. Miss Ger
trude Cutter. who will be married at an
early date to Charles Blake of Boston,
who is in Pueblo Colo, for his health. Fred
Cutter who has been a student in the
Boston Conservatory of Music two or
three years, will go next week to Pitts
burg, Pa. where he will have an excel
lent position in church choir.
j. Melvin Thurber of Colgate univers-
ity came home Saturday for the Easter
vacation of 10 days Mr.. Thurber has
just been selected as one of the six men
from the junior class to compete in the
Grout oratorical contest April q. The
Grout contest is maintained by Edward
NJ. Grout, controller of New York city,
who graduated from Colgate in the class
of 1882, and is for two cash prizes of $50
and $40. Mr.. Thurber has been elected
delegate from the Colgate chapter of
Beta Theta Pi to attend the convention
of the national fraternity which will be
held in st. Louis July 1920, inclusive.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-03-25

In fairness, Mir. Clement, in criticisiug
the growth of state expenses, ought to
explain that "A large part of the increase
over former years comes from the cost
of caring for The pauper insane. For
merly, it was done by the towns, in
most unsatisfactory, not to say, inhu-
name, way. Would he have us go back to
the old method for the sake of saving?
Are not the state asylums justifyng their
existence: Randolph Herald.
In claiming an increase in the care of
insane Nil Clement was simply juggling
with figures. Under the old barbarous
custom the expense existed, but did not
appear in the accounts of the state. The
asylums are among the most deserving
of our modern institutions. They should
not be conducted eXtravaganty, and the
cheapness of their maintenance is not the
principal question. Tie inmates of our
asylums are simply diseased unfortunates.
and our main consideration should be
how well, not how cheaply, we can care
for them.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-03-25

Democrats who have prated about
protection ms the mother Of trusts and the
Republican party as the sponsor of plu-
tocrats were sadly disturbed last week by
the following six assertions on the editor
ial page OF the New York World, one of
the leading democratic papers in the coun-
try: That the antitrust law was framed.
passed and signed Toy Republican House.
Republican Senate ana a Republican Pres
ident that it remained "a dead letter
under Cleveland; that the first effort to
enforce il was made 10y Mr. Roosevelt, a
Republican President that the decision Of
the court was due to i've Republican
Judges. that the dissenting minority in
cludcd an the Democratic judges on the
bench The World advises the Democrats
under these circumstances, not to try to
make capital out of the trust question.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-03-25

Boston has new daily newspaper.
lIearsts Boston American, which is
link in the chain with which VIM. X.
Hearst has spanned the continent with
his great newspapers. the others b~lus
the New York Journal. Chicago Ameri-
can, san Francisco Examiner and Los
Angeles paper which was started re-
Gently. Hearst has established on sum
mer street one of the finest newspaper
plaI Is in the country and the men in
newsparerlom are guessing, none kno"-
ing and some fearing the outcome of the
publication in Boston Of a newspaper of
The New York Journal stripe.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-03-25

Every farmer in the state who is not
receiving the bulletins of the Vermont
Experiment station is derelict in his duty
toward himself. These publications con-
.ain information Of vital interest on
great variety Of farming subjects. Any
farmer may have his name on the regular
mailing list so that he will receive the
publications when they are issued by sim
ply sending lequest 10y postal card
to the Experiment Station. Burlington, VT.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-03-25
Edwin Arnold Dead.

Sir Edwin Arnold. g., the noted author,
died in London yesterday The best
known of his many woks i'm prose and
verse are Light of Asia" Light of
the World, and THE Voyage of Ithobal. 4"
lie was one of the first Enslishmen to APP
preciate the literary possibilities of
Japan, living for some Years near Toxic
His second wife was a daughter of Rev
w. II. Claiming of Boston and his third
wife was Japanese.