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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-12-12
Common Sense Gifts.
Washington Post

Washington Post.
The fact is that plain, everyday
common sense must be mixed with
generosity, and where there is a lack
of this most desirable commodity
the custom is certain to be abused.
But because some people lack COM
mon sense, lack the courage ana
manliness to restrict their giving
within their means, or permit a false
pride to lure then onin an attemptto
out-do some one whose admiration
more than friendship they crave, Is
not sufficient reason for abolish
ing the custom altogether. Nor is it
likely that the very people who might
thus be saved from embarrassment
or extravaganza would be any bet
ter off. Lacking in common sense,
or the prey of an overweening vanl-
ty, they would be certain to become
the victims of some other form OF
abuse, SO why consider them?
No organized movement will furn-
ish common sense to those who lack
it, or protect them from the effect OF
their deficiency. Therefore, let the
custom OF Christmas presents be per-
petuated and let those who feel
tempted to commit extravagances
realize the fact that it is the senti-
ment which accompanies a remem-
brance and not the intrinsic value of
the gift which constitutes it's value to
the recipient; that pretty Christ
mas card given in the true spirit is
worth more to real friend than
jewels, whereas the individual who
stops to consider the value of pres
ent is really not worth remembering
at all.
| This is the season of decay and weakened
vitality; good health is hard to retain. If
you'd retain yours fortify your system with
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea, the surest
! way. &c. Tea or Tablets. Parker's Two
/ Drug Stores.
The fact that turkeys are plentiful
doesn't seem to have occurred to the
people that are fixing the prices
/ Baltimore Sun.
!
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-12-12
HOLIDAY SHOPPING.
THOUGHTS ABOUT THINGS WHICH
THE SEASON BRINGS.
WHAT TO BUY AND WHERE TO
GET THE BEST.

A Directory of Dealers Who Display
Their Wares and Present Their
Claims to Gold Leaf Readers-Aa
Tastes, All Wants, All Purses, c.
tered to by the Enterprising, Pre-
gressive Spirited rlerchants OF Hen
dersOn.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-12-12
A. ". GHOLSON & co.

No need to go or send out of town
when you want anything in the jewell
~ line. In the well appointed estab-
lishment of A. ". Gholsnn & Co.,
jewelers. and opticians, Henderson
has as creditable and up-to-date u
iewelry store as can be found in towns
of much larger size, where every de-
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-12-12
THE PIRIE-DAVIS co.

We may live without a great many
things in this life that we think are
necessary to our comfort and happi-
ness, but eating is not one of them.
1t is an established fact that wemust
eat to live although we have seen
some folks whose greatest concern
seemed to be to live to eat. But no
matter whether we eat to live or lire
to eat it is common to US all to like
something good to eat. And Won
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-12-12
PRYCE T. JONES.

Did it ever occur to you how much
a mans stationery has to do with
his success in business? There must
be something behind the stationery
to be sure but the neatness OF the
letter head or bill head used, the at
Effectiveness OF the card or circular
sent out, have great deal to do
with the impression formed of the
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-12-12
BURROUGHS-ALSTON co.

The Burroughs-Alston Company,
O'Neil Block, have the best line of
stuff i'll farmers supplies they have
ever carried. Also big line Of shoes
and general merchandise of all kinds
at lowest prices. They deal in the
substantial things OF every day re-
quirement-things to eat and wear
and of utility in the household and
about the farm. Dry goods. notions.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-06

the depression and We are in it to stay,
There will be no falling back, Each
step that we are taking is firm. Under
meath the whole situation there is in.
dustrial stability. There is too much
work to be done and too great capacity
for doing it to allow long.dnwn de.
preston"
Coming from such source this sounds
unusually good. We will have to con-
cede his sincerity in making the state
ment on the ground that under pending
conditions any insincerity on his part
would likely react on any ulterior pro-
gram he may have up his sleeve. The
people generally do not like nor trust
Mr.. Hartman, and ordinarily he is no
prophet of theirs; but he has never been
classed among the fools, and by reason
OF this exemption, is entitled to full
faith and credit in declaration that
is admittedly as sound as it is welcome.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-06
HOUSE WILL DISSOLVE.
Barring Bros. of London and New York
Will Close.

NEW YORK. Dec. 5.-'The New York
banking firm OF Barring and Company
which has existed since the worldwide
Barring Crisis in 1890. is dissolved janu-
ary |. The firm was organized at the
time of the crisis in the affair Of the
London firm of Barring Bros. and Com
pany, Limited, which shook the financial
world, and succeeded the firm OF kid
der, Peabody and Company of Boston,
as the American representatives Of the
great London house. In 1906 Thomas
Barring, brother OF the head of the Lon
don house, who opened the American
branch. returned to London and was
succeeded by Huge Barring, his nephew,
who has now been called to England.
Kidder, Peabody and Company will again
become the agents of Barring Brothers
and Company and will establish an office
in New York.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-06
SOME CALIFORNIA NERVE.

The Fruit Growers Association of Cal
ifornia has memorialized the Congress
of the United States to repeal the Chin
ese Exclusion Act because it is essential
to the safety of that great industry, as
no other labor is available in all that
State for the picking and packing of the
fruits. This is genuine nerve; the sort
that is propagated in this Twentieth
century year OF 1907 by the very merry
lest combine on the whole Pacific Slope.
This group of men would Orientalize
the Pacific west and eventually tn:
whole country, simply to save them
from the necessity OF paying a wage
that would bring the white labor of the
state into their patches, fields, orchards
and vineyards.
1t is an outrage that such a PROPOSE
tion should be sent up to Washington;
and it is to be hoped it will reveiye such
lambasting on its route through Con-
gress as will forever stand as rebuke
and reproach to other swinish concerns
to whom the profits of business are Of
more moment that the peace and pro-
gress of the section and of the nation
itself.
For years it has been known that no
selfFespecting white person had any
place or chance in that particular in
dustry in California and the beggarly
policies of the combine have sunk to a
point where it cannot command even
the Chinks, who are deserting the work
under the code of reduction that has
been instituted to cut their miserable
scale and compel them to live and labor
under conditions lower than thay wer,
injured to in their own country.
1t is simply another manifestation
OF the spirit of cinch that possesses the
corporate life of the country, and of the
lev indifference that would sacrifice any
thing and everything to the wretched
doctrine OF self.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-06
PRODUCT IS GREAT.
Reports in Northwest Show Average of
$1,000 For Each Family.

CHICAGO, Dec. 5.--Answers to a cir.
cular letter sent out by c. R. Erwing OF
Chicago to editors of agricultural papers
in various sections of the country, show
that the nations land products are Of
such volume and value as to insure a
speedy end of the financial stringency
provided they can be turned into cash.
Mr.. Erwin, who is president of an ad.
vertising agency, sought first hand in
formation and was surprised at the uni
iormly favorable report.
Kansas, according to Arthur Capper Of
the Mail and Breeze, has $200,O0O,0 ,000
worth of grain and the bank deposits OF
the state aggregate $l65,000,OOO.
Reports from the l25,OOO square miles
of territory which have Spokane as a
center, give the value Of products there
as $77,O00,000, an average of over $1,000
for each family in the district. These
figures include wheat, dairy products
live stock, poultry, mines and lumber
Wool high, mutton soaring, cattle
bringing fair and crops high prices il
the showing made in Montana.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-06
TROUBLE IN TOY HARBoR.

The British ship Port Patrick broke
away from her dock up in Portland's
artificial little harbor the other day and
caused dread and CONSERVATION without
end among the harbor officials and
bridge tenders and the masters and crews
of the other vessels strung along the
toy channels in the narrow little Will
lamette, but was finally rounded-up and
secured before she had hurt herself or
any Of her neighbors.
This is but another illustration OF the
fallacy of trying to create something out
of nothing. There is but one real harbor
on the Oregon coast at this time and
that is at the mouth of the Columbia,
between Tongue Point and the Pacific
Ocean; and it is here, in that natural
haven, with worlds of water and chan
nel-room and shelter and space for move.
ment of vessels, that the commerce of
oregon should be berthed, discharged and
eargoed. Just why the supreme advant-
ages of the great bay at this end Of the
river should be ignored and the l00.mile
haul up two rivers to an insufficient and
inadequate "harbor" be maintained, to
the loss and cost of every vessel making
the trip, is one OF the questions that
will settle itself upon just such bases as
the runaway Britisher set up the other
day. Someday Portland will discover
that she can handle all her commerce
from this end, with infinitely greater ex-
pedition and measurably less cost, and
she will attend to the matter as sht
should. Astoria is quite ready to assist
at any time in this behalf.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-06
Good Cough Medicine for Children.

The season for coughs and colds is
now at hand and too much care cannot
be used to protect the children. A child
is much more likely to contract diph.
liberia or scarlet fever when he has
cold. The quicker you cure his cold the
less the risk. Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy Is the sole reliance of many
mothers, and few Of those who have
tried it are willing to use any other
Mrs. r. r. Starcher, Of Ripley, w. Va,
says: 81 have never used anything other
than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for
my children and it has always given
good satisfaction This remedy contains
no opium or other narcotic and may be
given as confidently to child as to an
adult. For sale by Frank Hart and lead
ing druggists
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-06
With Oregon Timber Fifty Foot
Fence Could be Built.
CONSERVE FOREST WEALTH
Oregon's Vast Area Of Timber VIII Last
With Reasonable Handling For More
Than $50 Years-Markets Of World
Pay S4S,ooo,ooo to State.

PORTLAND, Ore. Dec. 5,--Recent
government warnings as to the exhaust
ion OF the forests OF the country cause
little concern in Oregon. which has 30o,-
100000. feet OF standing timber, more
than any other state in the union, and
one. sixth OF the entire supply OF the
United States. AT the present rate OF
consumption, not allowing for any new
growth. oregon's timber supply would
last $50 years. At sl2 per 1000 feet. the
states timber is now worth $1,000, ,000,'
900, or more than the total amount OF
money in circulation in the United
States.
The most productive area lies west OF
the Cascades, where the average OF
standing timber is 1900 feet to the acre,
but many tracts are found that Yield
$4,000 feet, and single logs that in the
form OF sawed lumber are worth from
$50 to 800 are commonplace. Six hund
red sawmills. employing $4,000 men. be.
sides 1000 men in the logging camps,
produce two billion feet OF lumber every
year, for which the worlds markets pay
Oregon nearly $45,OoO,OOO for forest pro
ducts OF all classes.
Federal withdrawal of extensive forest
reserves and the states new laws for
the protection of its forests are depended
upon to prolong indefinitely the exist
ence OF Oregon's timber supply as its
principal source OF revenue. The fact
that there is enough timber in Oregon
to build solid board fence so feet hign
around the entire United States only
makes her more determined to conserve
this vast forest wealth.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-06
HONOR PRINCE.
Chinese Potentate Accorded Many Kow
Tows by japanese.

TOXIC. Dec. 5, P. M.-Prince Puhin.
a special envoy from China, who is re-
turning the recent visit of Prince
Fushimi of Japan to that country, ar
rived here this evening. He was wei.
coined at the depot by Prince Fushimi,
representative of the Imperial household,
cabinet ministers, the Chinese minister
and hundreds of Chinese students, amid
much enthusiasm. He was driven to the
Shiba palace, where he will be enter
tanned during his visit, which will last
a week. Many functions have been ar
ranged in his honor.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-06
PAYS BIG RENT.

NEW YORK, Dec. 5.--The Broadway
Theater building, located on Broadway
between 40th and 4lst streets, has been
leased to Felix Isman, of Philadelphia.
for a long term of years beginning in
May, 1909, when the present lease ex-
pires. The rental is said to be $4,000
a year. The theater was leased to Jacob
Lit in 1889 at a yearly rental of $40,
600. 1t is understood that Mr.. Isman
intends TO convert the theater building
into department store. The property's
assessed valuation today in $l,322,0O0.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-06
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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-06
COFFEE

Insist on the roaster's
name; never mind the
country it grew or is said
to have grown in.
Your grocer returns your money II ysp asnt
lie Sehilling's Best we pay him
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-06

The largest monument in the world
is being erected to the memory Of Vic
tor Emmanuel II. in Rome. If Ramesis
II. were still living he could be depended
upon to beat it.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-06
HARTMAN GETS CHEEKY.

E. H. Hartman has said it!
He is quoted in the press dispatches
as saying: 1--WE are in the rebound from
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-06
DEVELOP WATERWAY.
Railroad Magnates Urge Action
for Rivers and Harbors.
FACILITATE TRANSPORTATION

James ]. Hill and President Finley on
the Southern Railway Point Out Press.
ing Need Of Immediate Development OF
country's Waterways.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-06

1t is doubtful whether there is mil.
lionaire in the world an angel would re-
gard as rich.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-04-13

(Herewith is a continuation of
Nine. Sarah Bernhardt's remark
able interview granted to the News
paper Enterprise association cor
respondent at her home in Paris.)
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-04-13
THE MAN WITH THE HUNCH
"Oh, | just had a hunch.'


That is the way the successful man often explains a
particularly wise and remunerative his part to
the friends who want to know how he did it. Lucky
dog the less successful remark they walk
Was he lucky? Or did he simply little of the
ordinary amount of brains with which he endowed.
Where did he get the hunch
His ''lucky' inspiration came from habual, ntell-
gent use of brains. The lucky dog simply put two and
two together and believed that they made four. He
blned logic with contidence-and wOn
The without the bunch is what he is for two
reasons. Either he is too indolent to put two and two
together else after he had put them together, he
afraid that he had made mistake and that they made
something else beside four.
logical mind, the alert to benefit the owner,
almost without his conscious voon is product of
full training.
If you complaining that you never have had any
lucky lunches set yourself to grasp the full meaning
OF minute incident that arises in connection with
each day work Do this every day Do not let each day
be complete in itself Relate each day with its complex
activities to each other day Soon you will discover that
incident of today has direct bearing upon some in
cdent of other day. You may be the only person
who has made this discovery If You energetic you
will use it to your advantage.
And there you Your lucky ''huncl' has come.
Try it, Don't be eavying other lucky dogs. Make your
self an object for envy
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-04-13
BY FRANCIS WARRINGTON
DAWSON
Copyright, 1907, by the Newspaper
Enterprise Association.

Copyright, 1907, by the Newspaper
Enterprise Association
Nine. Bernhardt's statement rela-
tive to the failure of the American
government to provide a national
conservatory and theater led me to
ask this question:
you then consider the stage an
educational medium"
THE most wonderful of ALL" she
returned energetically. Nowhere
is the thought of an author brought
as near to the population at large.
One has to be on the stage and feel
a vast audience hanging on ones
words to realize the full Importance
of this. Therefore it is that | op-
pose any play containing an i'm
moral teaching, as it merely be-
comes an instrument for sowing
corruption broadcast. Each play
should, on the contrary, leave
some elevating impression that
can be carried away and pondered.
The most striking instance
can think Of to show how this eff
feet can be produced is found
doubly in my two later plays, the
most different one can imagine,
yet like In their results on the pub
lie La Verge d'Avila' and Les
Bouffons'
Both are in verse, a style sup
posed to be quite out of vogue in
France; yet both are among the
most marked successes of recent
years. La Verge d'Avila' is an
ambitious play dealing with his
tory, religion, politics, science,
psychology: it has its moments OF
doubt and passion, but strong re-.
ligious lesson stands out at the
end. Les Bouffons,' on the con-
trary, is all charm and grace and
freshness, aspiring only to leave
faith and contentment in the
beauty and rightness of life and
of things.
These two plays, with their diff
ferent themes, therefore inspire a
sense of quetude to the audience
when leaving, to remain with them
after they have gone. To this | at
tribute their success, and from it
can be derived not only the moral
of play-writing, but of what will
meet with appreciation. The play
which inspires an unsatisfactory
feeling at the end rarely draws peo.
pie; it is, as | have said, the sense
of quietude which takes"
Lies Bouffons' is to be staged
in America before long, with
Maude Adams, is it not? What do
you think Of her? Can she play the
part?"
"Maude Adams is charming and
exquisite, and | admire her very
much. Her freshness and beauty
are quite irresistible; parts where
she can turn these qualities to ad-
vantage are the ones in which she
excels. uBt she was not made to
interpret strong passions or to stir
audiences by their means. Her 'Aig-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-04-13
TRY To FIGURE
THIS OUT
Have you solved the Rachel Roe

Have you solved the Rachel Roe
puzzle?
Have you been able to figure out
what combination of marriages re-
suited in the mixup? Rachel said,
My daughter is her fathers step
sister and she is my aunt. One of
my sisters is my granddaughter
and my husband is my grandfather.
also am my own grandmother"
At first it looks impossible,
doesn't it?
But it isn't It's as simple as
well, as simple as it looks after you
solve it.
Here are what some readers
think:
Editor, The Press: If. as Rachel
said, one Of her sisters was her
granddaughter, it came about be-
cause Rachel married her grand
father. Rachel admits in the puz-
zle that her husband is her grand
father. As the wife of a grand
father is grandmother of her grand
parents (of whom Rachel is one)
she is her own grandmother. Very
simple. X. w. II.
Editor, The Press: The whole
crowd should have been in the
penitentiary. H. M.
Editor, The Press: If Rachel's
daughter was her fathers step
sister, of course that accounts for
the child being her aunt. But 1t
is not possible for ones stepsister
to be ones daughter There is a
mistake somewhere in the puz'
zle. N. r.
Editor, The Press: Your puzzle
| appears to show a complicated re-
lationship, but this Is because OF
the wording. Rachel and her mo-
Their married grandfather and
grandson. The mixup Is not real
as the conditions Rachel explained
do not exist, except by the applica
ton of tho rules. c. S.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-04-13

lon,' for that reason, while fasci-
mating characterization, had nj u the
force Rostand intended for il and
was, indeed, an entirely different
person.
II think Maude Adams was not
so much an eagle as a sparrow
but such a perfectly delightful lit
tie sparrow that one could not but
love her! am sure she will make
a big hit in my role of Jacasse in
Les Bouffons. which will give her
opportunities for her youthful
charm.
But here, again, her interpreta-
ton will doubtless be different
from NINE Jacasse, always a
chatterer, may become in Ameri-
ca something of parrot; but
Maude Adams will not fail to make
him the most enhancing little paro-
quet imaginable, and people will
simply fall head over ears in love
with him.
Your fight with the American
theatrical trust does not seem to
have left in you any bitterness
against Americans, at least" | con-
tinued.
ION the contrary" Nine. Bern
hardt exclaimed, throwing out her
arms. at gave the public an OPP
portunity for showing me a devo-
ton which | had never dared hope,
and so l have nothing to regret in
my experience. | must say, how
ever, that | was glad to see the
state laws had condemned the trust
so that | may not encounter the
same difficulties when l go to
America again, as I certainly shall,
though have not yet made definite
plans as to the period.
Il am indignant over the play
'Paris-New York which Rejane
has just produced, and which
consider an unjustlfiable libel on
Americans. 1t is hard to forgive
from a French actress. |, for one,
would never stage a play of the
kind. If there is one nation which
French actors and dramatic an.
thors should treat with respect
and affection, it is America lon &C
count of the warm welcome always
made to use and the esteem in
which we are held as opponents of
our art. 81
Even If the theme of Paris
New York were true, it would be
ungenerous: but it is a lie. What!
An American woman engaged TO
one man and giving to another a
guarantee of sincerity which con-
sists of nothing less than h erself?
No! 1t is sheer nonsense. know
American women; they may give
everything else they have, but
never that"
Nine. Bernhard had shak EN- her
head so fiercely in her indignation
that several long strands of tawny
hair had torn themselves free and
stood out like a halo round her
forehead. AS she tucked them in
place again, her eyes fell on the
clock ticking toward the hour
when she would have to begin
preparing for the evening perform
ance She has never been known
to grant an interview of more than
or minutes and never answered
morde than 1 or questions; and
she had been talking nearly half