The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-10-03

loiIcu diu pune ScICic1udH, III oildt Cil-
es from the fingers of the poor sports
man his little cane and his cheap
cigar; it lays at the feet OF the "dude"
his Enthusiastically royal robe of folly
and vanity, ard enables him to roll
up his sleeves like a man and engage
earnestly in the gainful pursuits of
life and there share in the health,
happiness and fortunes of these ad-
vancing times. Moreover, it's mis-
sion is to restrain the passions and
appetites of man from low to lofty
ideas; and when the minds and very
lives of all are acuated and filled with
the proper spirit of the creation OF
man and matter, when the human
family, all classes, all the people COM
mence to crave to live and enjoy that
high, civilized, industrious, honest
and pure life which education and re-
ligion establish, the grave problems
and burning questions Of today, such
as labor troubles, race antipathy
lynching, graft, and even railroad
rates, will he solved, answered and
settled once for all.
This benefcent hand Of progress is
seen and felt wherever the duty Of
man is faithfully performed. 1t is re-
markable how busy and Overcrowd-
ed the great paths oftratfic and com
merce are kept on land aud sea, home
and abroad, conveying and handling
and removing to and from the mar
kets of the world the great products
from the fields of agriculture, from
the mines in the mountains, from the
mills and factories and from the
crude forests at large.
Indeed we are always happy when
we see:
Fields of wheat so full and fair
Shining with a sunny air,
Lightly waving either way,
Graceful as the breezes play.
The building and identifying of the
mighty towns and cities, and the
broadening and extending the bull
warks OF the same, and the welding
OF the chisel and the axe, the shovel
and the pick, the ringing of the ham,
mer and anvil, tell the tale in every
community. a "busy workshop A
worthy insignia OF a noble and proud
people.
No longer does the old sickening,
sinful, idiotic and erroneous idea pre-
vail which once took possession of
almost all classes of men in this
country, that it is lowering and un-
becoming gentleman to take off his
coat in public as we'll as in private
and roll up his sleeves and hustle to
finish whatever his hands find to
be done in the line of his business. De-
rision and ridicule have lost their
fangs; no longer will the young men
OF today be frightened with their
ghostly shadows. The new fields of
opportunity, wealth and usefulness,
though hard labor it may be. are
drawing men with stronger cords
than the pressure of his necessities
can force him or the customs ofpride
can intimate.
We see upon the surface of the earth
and feel in the very air around us
that pleasant and alertful spirit of
expansion and development. Fifty
or sixty years ago, the goods We
wore on all occasions were carded
upon the laps of the women and spun
with a small spinning wheel turned
by one hand and tile thread thereof
manipulated from the spindle with
the other and then taken to "a great
wooden frame loom as large as ii
house in which the weaver would sit
for weeks, shooting the shuttle from
right to left, from left to right; in re-
verslng the machine with the foot
treadles below, it would change the
warp and filling as the shuttle would
dart across the loom taking Il month
Or so to card and spin and weave 8
or 10 yards of COW hair cloth; but
now one person can operate a hun
dred cards, spindles and looms. at
one and the same time, doing better
and more weaving in one hour than
was done for.nerly in ? years. These
Announcements are not mere talk nor
something out of your sight, for this
awakening impetus has struck this,
your own thriving little city.
Forty or fifty years ago Hender-
son was mere little hamlet on the
Raleigh 4 CASTOR Railroad, with
FIVE small stores: Messrs. james Fl.
Lassiter 4 Son, Parry Wyche, Lewis
klttle, and Dunn, Burwell and Par
ham, livery stable, and small bro.
kers exchange, managed by AIr.
West Reavis, a small depot, a ware
house little larger than the tobacco
and cigar stand near the railroad
crossing, and Ledbetter's Hotel with
adrummer dropping in now and then.
Her streets and sidewalks, not as
good as the public roads now; exam
Inc her today. Go into her bust
ness and Industrial departments and
tell to what magnitude she has ex-
banded. Look at her cotton mills.
her tobacco factories, her oil mill
and electric light plant; her water
works, her solid fronts of brick and
granite structures, her macad;lm
streets and granolithic sidewalks, her
hundreds OF palatial residences of
modern and costly architecture, OBJ
serve her fine schools and liourishiup
churches for both races: and one
OF the most reputable, u>xsy, aud
conservative newspaper published
IN the United States, whose editor
watches diligently the interests OF
the common good of his entire peo-
pie. The Henderson GOLD LEAF never
fails to let the world know of its peo-
pie, especially when they are doing
we'll. In word, just think of the
changed conditions.
fifty years SGD this Identical spot
was one OF the waste places of the
community, barren thicket used
DV the slave to hide from his mas
Ter TO while away a few moments
IN thae leisure and sport which
they could not otherwise get with
their fellows, enjoying a game of