The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1906-05-24
The Sentiment of Patriotism.
Sanford Express.

eHde dC uLe rate lt is now growing ana
expanding it will in few years be
larger than the great city OF London.
However, this was not what we star
ted out to talk about. Wenote from
the New York Sun that the Tennessee
Society, of New York, recently gave
a dinner, and had as one ofits speak
ers Mr.. Ralph H, Holland, president
OF the North Carolina Society. The
people from many of the States-pro-
badly all the States-who make New
York their home have their society.
They meet together to learn more of
each other and to discuss their ear
lier days, all ofwhich stimulates their
patriotism and love of their native
land. There may be some people in
New York and other large cities from
the South who are not proud that
they are from North Carolina, or
some other Southern State, but let
us hope they are few in number. In
his speech Mr.. Holland says, among
other things.
"a man rarely loses his interest in
the things and the people that were
his in his earlier days. | know two
or three men who wish to disclaim
connection with any community out
side OF New York, and apparently are
not interested in the affairs of the
soil that produced them. | do not
believe that even in these cases the
impulse has disappeared, but they
belong to the army of climbers, and
they think they can climb faster by
cOncealing the best asset they pos
sess. l believe they make a mistake,
for there is no sentiment of the heart
that commands such UNIVERSAL re-
spect and love as that of patriotism
and loyalty to ones native land.
A man who loses this, loses the best
part OF his nature Some men over
do it. The profession of patriotism
is tedious, but the sentiment itself is
splendid"
Splendidly said. A few weeks ago
when Governor Glenn spoke at South
ern Pines he declared that while he
loved every foot of soil embraced in
the Union, yet there was one spot in
one State that was little dearer to
him than any other place, and that
spot was his old home in Rockingham
County, North Carolina. All around
the Governor were grouped men and
women of Northern birth, and it is
needless to say that they applauded
to the echo, the expression of this
sentiment. At that moment they
were not thinking of the flag and the
Union, whose glory and strength the
but each was thinking about the old
home in Massachusetts, or Pennsyl-
vania, or some other Northern State
and each was a better North Caro-
linian because of his or her love of the
old home. If a man is a man he will
always have a kind of reverence for
the old home. This is the reason
many a man who goes away and
climbs returns and buys it back after
it has passed out of the hands of his
people.
A dose OF Pine-ues at bed time will usually
| relieve backache, before morning. These
beautiful little globules are soft gelatine
| coated and when moistened and placed in the
mouth you cdil keep from sWdHOWlnS
them. Pine-ules contain neither sugar nor
| alcohol-iust gums and resins obtained from
our own native pine forests, combined with
| other well known bladder, kidney and back
ache remedies. Sold by the kerncrMcNair
Drug Company.
| An Eastern shore farmer informs
us that he finds the free-seed pack
ages and the bundles of public docu-
ments sent him by his congressman
equally valueless. Both go into the
waste pile-Norfolk Tirginian-Pilot
Our experience with the free seeds
is that they are about as profitable
put in the waste pile as they are put
in the ground. Few of them ever
come up. Fact is the free seed bust
ness is a rank fraud upon the Gov.
ernment and the people-who get
them.