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POINTS OF Difference.
Public and Private Me.hcls Contrast

Public and privata Ms.hcds Contrast
ed-oraa niz2t;on vs.. Aggregation.
One controlling economic reason for
opposing public ownership is that ev-
cry individual in society prosperS just
in proportion as industry gets the best
there i; III human capa b:iitT- On the
ether hand government control and di-
yection Eeve. get and in he nature of
things never can get all there is or the
best there is il .lEH}3n C0Ha biiity.
Now the government may compete
wiz! private enterprise II getting ca
pal.e men. but it has not thus far
shown anything Of the capacity Of a
private enterprise TO assign the right
man always to the right place. The
agency which IN l."i-a:c enterprise
succeeds so generally in eventually
landing in the r"ht place the right
man is not simply good intention or
mere intelligence. Iut the intelligence
and intention which constantly study
the enterprise i'll hand which make 1t
the che AFFAIR in Ii.e. constantly
thought of and planned for--an intelli
Gencc anti Intention. too, which are
themselves as nearly * possible per-
manent That kind of seeking out and
watchfulness few government depart
mentG possess IL" men in charge of
government departments may be intel
iigent and well n:i0ned, but they
are in to-day and cut tomorrow. The
thing under them is not their child.
They novc". as 4 matter OF fact, get
their hands and their mind; fully into
the work.
Nor will civil service change this.
Civil service examinations may secure
capable mon. hut no civil service eX-
animation can assign the right man to
the right place. can pick out of the
capability tat is fitted to this place
and Just the kind that is fitted to that.
Indeed. between government control
and private control the difference in
that respect is almost the exact differ
| ence bctN cen what We call true Or
ganization and what is the merest ag-
| Gregnticn. for il private enterprise
| eac'2 li;:u has come by q process of
| attrition TO the place he is best fitted
| to fill. Will" il government employ
ment each man i dropped into his
| place irrespective Of special fitness and
| under Civil "crvice is riveted there
| Hon. Peter s. Gr0sscup in American
| Magazine
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SEMI-MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP.
Partnerships Between Cities and Com
panes Are Bad.

Partnerships Between Cities and Com
panies Are Bad.
Whenever in these days an electric
light company is unfortunate enough to
have a street lighting contract expire
in a city where the municipal owner
ship of the street lighting plant has
been agitated there sometimes comes
forth out of the chaos Of ideas as to
how the municipal ownership business
should be handled some proposition
from private company which pur-
ports to have the welfare of the city
rather than any private gain at heart.
This company, with great love for
the commonwealth, either real or as
sumed. usually comes forward with
proposition for kind of ''semi-munici-
pal ownership" the company to per
form the work of lighting the city for
q number of years at Il good round
sum and at the end of the contract the
lighting plant to be turned over to
the city free of cost and payment for
the plant to be made out of the regular
monthly payments of the city for its
lighting. such monthly payments being
lnVaflaDlE gOOd f0ulu sum per lamp.
Now, such propositions as this may be
made in good faith by & company Of
public spirited but misguided citizens
who really wish to serve the city, and
there are usually some respectable
names connected with an enterprise Of
this kind when it is launched. How
ever there is usually an African some
where in the voodpile or at least a
strong possibility that there will be one
before the game is through.
1t seems remarkable that any munic-
ipaity in this day and generation can
be dcudeG into the belief that any
such scheme Of semi-municipal owner
ship can compare for Il minute With
good, straight short contract at rea-
sonablc rates with Il corporation al
ready in the lighting field. After all,
radeeminc feature TO this scheme is
that ut the cni Of y term OF years it is
fairly certain II bring home fOrcibly to
municipality the depreciation due to
advance in the art as well rs the de-
probation caused by wear and tear
Electrical World.
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Does Prohibition Hurt Trade?

Wilmington Messenger.
We are not particularly strong on
prohibition, but the old argument that
IT Will Kill n town or draw trade away
from 1t can no longer he used against it.
Durham Herald.
The question i'll this State il, ii the
trade leaves Il town which has gone
for prohibition where will it 90 to?
This reminds Us, as the story teller
says, OF what happened in Massachu-
Setts clear back in the year 1874,
when there was such political slump
To the Democratic side in the con
gresSlonal elections. \ certain rabid
Republican of the Bay State before
the election came off told his wife TO
be prepared for an immediate re-
moval out of the district if it should
go democratic, as conditions indica-
ted that it would do. The election
returns came in and the vile learned
that Tor the first time in wears a
democrat had been elected to con-
greSs III that district and she imme-
dlately began making arrangements
to carry out her husbands com
mands. On the husbands return. to
the home Il day or two after the cleo
ton he found her packing up the
household goods. On being asked
what she was doing she reminded
him of his Injunction to her and she
was preparing TO obey him. His re-
ply was: That all right, but Won
had rs we'll stop your packing for
there is no place to move to: the
Democrats have carried all the dis
trlcts in the whole blamed country. F."
1t Is just SO with the trade of dry
towns in this State. In few local
tiles ii it quits one it hasn't any
other place TO go to except to anoth-
er dry town
We have Htver taken much stock
III the theory that prohibition would
Kill the trade of town. There NAV
he case here and there where q
towns trade is injured for a while
after the closing of its saloon. but
we do not believe the condition is
ever permanent, and also there NAV
he an instance now and then when
permanent injury to Il small extent
is done to the business OF town by
the closing of saloons, but such in.
stances are extremely rare. But
surely such results cannot follow
"hen all the towns in trading dis
Sanee OF their patrons adopt pro
hibltlOn- and it has almost come tc
that state OF affairs in this State
and in many Others of the union.
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No Intimation of Graft,

A dispatch from Wilkesbarre in re
gard to the municipal electric lgh
plant of Easton. Pa, the breakdown O
which has left that city in temporar,
darkness. says:
There is no intimation of graft. The
condition is due apparently to the fac
that city employees, appointed by mer
holding political office, cannot be ex
pected to have the same knowledge Of
the electric lighting business that skill
ed employees of private corporation:
have, and consequently there is waste
and inefficiency in city plant which
would not be possible in well con
Quoted private plant"
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Why He Opposes an. O."

AS member of our city council
some years ago | investigated this
question of municipal ownership be.
fore we contracted for our electric
lights and found that In every instance
where the cost of municipal lighting
was reported below that offered by in
dependent contractors the difference
and more appeared on the general
taxes. and in most places it was frank
ly admitted that the light and water
plants We're built by the city, but used
by the Homer E Stewart
in Warren (O.) Chronicle.
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FROM HORSE CAR
TO THE TROLLEY
Story of the Wonderful De.
velopment in Electric
Traction During the
Past Twenty
Years.
PASSING or STEAM TRACTION
Gradual Elimination of Distance
Through the Development OF
the Electric Locomotive
Chicago to New
York in Ten
Hours.
Drfin. tie summer of 1887, there

Dufin. tie summer of 1887, there
appeared i'll the New York sun the
following flreti0Ts news item:
'''lEey tried an ei"ctric car Oh
I'n;,GHh avenue Yesterday. 1t created
an amount of surprise ana consterna
ter frum 1'hird 81. to One Hundred
apH Scycntnent,i 81. that was scnc-
ding like that caused ~ the first
>teamboat Oh the Hudson. Small boys
yelled 'ynamite!' and rats and
made similar appreciative remarks I'M
til they were hoarse Newly-appointed
policemen debated arresting it, but
went no further. The car horses
which were net on the other track
kicked without exception. as was
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-04-18
Jamestown Exposition.
Some of the Unique Features that
Will Make the jamestown Ter
Centennial Different from Any
Other Exposition Ever Held.

The gre utest naval rendezTon7 i'll
history.
The first international submarine
races.
Udiquanight In ninat on ri lamp
ptOns Roads.
Spectacular international paraieS.
The largest motor boat rpIHtt'l
ever held.
Yacht races. in which all nations
will compete.
Field athletic contests between re-
rognized champions
More naval and military bands
than were ever before gathered to-
gather.
\ colonial metropolis; buildings
will be best examples Of single nrrhl-
tectural type.
Natural verdura and densest foil
aye.
The highest tower ever erected i'll
America, if not in The world.
An exact reproduction OF the Mer-
rimac and Monitor duel.
Stupendou5 pyrotcchnic reproduce
tons Oh war scenes.
Complete Carts and Crafts Village.
4 profound historic exhibit.
Industrial demonstrations, show
inc complete processes.
Sea bathing at the borders Of the
grounds.
Great technical Government exhibits
Wireless Geographic ~tntion@.
\ great coal palace.
IN immense fOrestOry exhibit.
AncncIosed sea basin, with an area
III ,2SO, 600 square feet.
I'm entire TyrOl community.
\ museum OF war and naval relics.
An exact reproduction Of James
town.
\ complete educational exhibit.
Immense convention halls, palaces
for exhibits, halls OF history, and
great buildings for displaying the
evolution of Industrial art, transpOr-
tation and manufacturing.
Unique and gorgeous night harbnr
illumInatIOnS.
Greatest gathering OF warships i'll
the history OF the world.
international yacht races in which
the countries of the word will par.
ticipate.
Prize drills by the finest soldiers OF
all nations, and by picked regiments
of United States and State troops.
Races of dirigibIe airships for com
mcrCial use.
Races of military airships of differ.
cnt nations.
Field athletic contests between
champions OF all great nations.
An exact reproduction OF the old
town OF JamestOWn, rs it was three
centuries ago.
The largest Iitary parade ground
in the world
The largest military and nava
parade ever witnessed.
More naval and military bands
than were ever assembled in time O
peace.
Industrial exhibits showing the
progress O. the world during three
centuries
Wonderful technical exhibits by
the leading nations of the world.
\ magnificent tobacco palace.
King Cotton in all stages, from the
growing plant to the finished fabric
\ complete Japanese village, show
ing all phases Of Japanese life, made
by the government OF Japan.
Greatest array Of gorgeous mill
tary uniforms of all nations ever
seen in any country.
More members OF royalty of differ
ent countries than ever assembled in
peace or war.
y great living picture of war will
all its enticing splendors.
The grandest military and nava
celebration ever attempted in an!
age by any nation.
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Notice.

r HAVE QUALIFIED As ADMINS
l. trix of the estate of til" bate DR.
Sugg. before the Clerk of the Superior
of Vance county, and this II 10 notify o.
sons holding claims against tn" -aIl :
to present the same to me at Eu"tord
on or before the 9th day of March, ~
this notice will be pleaded IN bar ol T''
thereof. Persons indebted 10 said
must make immediate settlement
This 9th March, 1907.
MARY !. MouE'
Administrators estate Dr. L Nn-g. e"
A. G.. XOLLCoFFER, ATTORNEY
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Recommends Henderson Fertilizers,
ORTIZ CAROLINA OIL co

NUKIH IAKOLINA Oh Co
Henderson, y. c.
Gentlemen:
have used your fertilizer for all crops
and have been we'll pleased from the re-
suits of it. | especially recommend your
Cneedit Tobacco Grower. 1t made n
fine silky, smooth, bright and heavy leaf
| believe it to be as good as any |
have ever used and expect to use same
again this season.
With best wishes. am.
CLINTE EDWARDS.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-04-18

Government ownership of railroads
and telegraphs and municipal owner
ship Of public utilities may come some
time, but will never come without dam
age 10 the public welfare until every
phase of the management aHq opera
lion of the same is put on q strictly
-nonpartisan merit system and thorough
business principles. - Mansfield (OJ
News.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-04-18
Complicated 22nd Year of Pastor.
rate.
Warrcnton Record, April 11th.

Warrcnton Record. April lth.
Last Sunday was IL red letter day
with Warrenton Baptists. 1t marked
the beginning of the twenty-third year
OF Rev. I. J. Taylor's pnstorate in
this place. Rev. J. ID. Huffman. tile
old man eloquent OF North Carolina
Baptists, delivered the address, Ii
WAS able, interesting, and tender
The congregation was frequently
moved to tears. At the close OF DR..
Hufham's address the congregation,
without reference to denomination.
gathered around Mr.. Taylor, and
pledged him their loving cooper
alton and support, in the future as
in the past.
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Withdraws from Tar River Associa.
ton.
arrenton Record. Aprsl It'll

Delegates from the various Baptist
churches in Warren county met
IN the Baptist church here last Fri
day, April the 9TH, and after fully
discussing the subject unanimously
adopted the following resolutions:
Resolved, that this convention COM
posed OF delegates from eleven church
es OF Warren county, expresses itself
IN tayor OF withdrawing from the
Tar River association and forming
new association to be composed OF
the churches of Warren, ) ance and
Franklin counties.
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scre,1c frc,n the commercial point of
view"
at any rate. the world seems on
the eve OF great things. nj no Scien-
tist dares say today as as said twen-
ty years ago. "a man is 4 knaye or a
fool" The attitude CT the American
public is one Of faith ana expectancy,
best expressed by recent remark OF
an old lady in her last sickness:
Il don't want 10 die" she said, 81
want to sec what they are going TO
dc
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Notice to Creditors

\ LII PERSONS HAVING Ga
"A against the partnership Of tir.'e
Hight which were in existence om the I'l
of February, the time OF the death Of
Grissom. are hereby notified to eShis'
same to W. c. Hight, surviving partner
in twelve months from dat" "r this .
will be plead in bar to their recovery
" { Hight
Surviving partner Of Grissom i nv
Henderson, n. C., Mach + 1901.
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Windsor. Canada: Appleton. Wis; Port
Huron. :ch.: Scranton. Pa, and
Montgomery. Ala. In the autumn Of
1894 Frank l.. Sprague. whose name
is irSeDarably connected with electric
traction, began 10 attract attention
with his motors
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lneapsbiIity of CITY Government,

I am opposed to municipal owner
have not shown as yet any capacity
for properly conducting their business.
Major Henry L. Higginson.
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NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that receipts
bered ISL to 1913 inclusive I--u"d I"
Henderson Storage CompanE nn ="
day OF January. 1906 TO J Z Hru-ss
Co, for Is hogsheads Of tobacrp ana 7
said receipts were Thereafter a-.2n'
Darlington & Co., Leaf Toba,.D MeF, =
of Richmond, Va, have been ip-' me-
accidentally burned. and cannot nov /.
due diligence and search be found Al-
ton has been made to the sad hTl'.
Storage Co, of Henderson. \ q. lof !.
cate receipts for said tobacco 81 y.
are therefore hereby notified not 70 p9'.'
or negotiate said original r"r.p'-. p. /,
will not be honored by tho -aid ''''
Company.
This the goth day OF March ZOO ...
CARRINGIuN & y
R.,amoa@ y
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Notice.

r HAVE QUALIFIED AZ ApNI\l
l. trix, with the will ANNEXED. II !
A. Bobbit, late of Bobmtt Pu~,ufsr.
county, n. C., and hereby notify IN,
having claims against his ,star, r, I
them to me duly verified at ou,.. H.,
scented before March 4. 1905. th,- ro,
be pleaded in bar of their Recovery.
sons indebted to said estate vii Thea,
immediate payment
GENEVA f. EbBBI7
Administrative of L. 4. BohIrrf 3e+.
Henderson. n. c. March q. 1900.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-04-18

\ huckster has no trouble with the
police IN making good living out
OF green goods.
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natural. over an invention which
1nreatens to relegate them to 4 sausag.
factory
mat was less than twenty years
ago. Today the New York Central
Railroad Company is expanding $50,
C1O,OCO in the electrificatiOn of the first
tnlrty five miles of its system, and the
car horses were long ago relegated to
the boneyard. if not to the sausage
factory"
They" have done marvellous things
since the increasing knowledge Of
electricity orened up Il new world Of
acn!"veincnt. and We have scarcely
crossed the threshold. In 1880 the cleo
trio car was Il dream: in 1890, an eX.
pertinent: III 1900. Il great and wonder
full fact which is revolutionizing pas
senGer transportation and will enable
human h~'1gS to move from place to
place twice as fist as they do at pres
emf
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-04-18

A butcher can usually contrive to
make both ends meat.
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the same tinlc small cars were oper-
atet by Van Derpoele at South Bend
Ind. followed ny other small roads IL
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The FirS, Electric Railroad.

The first regular electric line to liz
established WIS at Lichterfelde, Ger
tnanT, hear Berlin 1t was only 4 nile
aad hall i'll length and opened fol-
iraina Ill May 1871. The trains car
rlei twenty passengers. at n maxi
mum speed OF thirty miles an lou1.
The first electric car to be operated
regularly in the United States was In
stalled by Deft on the Hamden branch
or the Baltimore Union Passenger
halfway III August. 1886. That
was barely twenty years ago. Sc
great as the skepticism of the public
and railway men generally that the con
tract under which the road was built
withheld payment one year so that il
might te determined whether the cars
would run. NO one but a knave OF
a fool would undertake such a thing"
said we'll known scientist at the
time. Scientists sometimes have trouble
keeping up with the procession About
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-10-22
wh'istIcr's Gave.

Whistler is buried not in Chiswicll
Churchyard. where IIogaith lies, hut
in the cemetery that adions II. No
stone marks the grave OF the artist.
which is almost hidden by carefully
tended flowers. y little fence OF
wooden trellis protects it. and over
fence and ggace trailing ivy, serani-
nms and honeysuckle grow luxuriant-
ly. The grave is beside the high wall
of the cemetery, and partly sheltered
by wild plum tree, oveggrown just
now by creepers. that has sprung up
close 10 the boundary. Beyond The
wall rise ancient yew trees and the
more ancient gray tower of Chiswick
Church. hut modernity asserts itself
in the incessant rafting and hammer
ing from tho torpedo loaf works,
whose long ranges of black buildings
separate these peaceful acres from tho
adjacent rivcr.--London Morning Post
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-10-22
neer Saloons for Women.

when was in Berlin said n
clergyman, 81 had enough curiosity to
visit one of the peculiar saloons for
women that they have there. The
place Interested me, and am bound
TO say that 1t was decently conducted.
Berlin is the only city In the world
that has those Institutions. In our
country whore the women are nearly
all tectoialers. we don't need them.
In England they need them because
English women of the lower classes
enter the public houses and learn
against the lar to sip their beer with
as much nonchalance as their nus
bands.
"ln this female saloon in Pe.lin
about twenty-five females were gath
cred. They looked poor but respecta-
Bile. Some were smoking cigarettes
and cigars-Somc read the papers, and
IN corner little g-oup argued nos
lily Owe an article in n fashion maya
zine, much rs men argue in their own
saloons over politics Philadelphia
Bulletin
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FinaRcIer Predicts Great Growth in
Railroads Within Next Generation.
SITUATION IS CLEARING UP|
Present Liquidation, He Says, Simply
Adjustment Of Business to More Con
sentative eaais-No Comparison Be-
tween Now aud Panic Times.
lRy Assoclntcl prossl }

CHICAGO. H.. Oct 2l=According
to MrEdward II. Hartman. the pres.
cnt season OF liquidation is whole
some cleaning up. There will be no
panic, he says. and when all is over
tile atmosphere Will be-. clearer and
brighter and the situation healthier
and more calculated TO inspire con.
iidcncc
AS Mr.. Hartman was leaving for
New York after delegating his Illinois
Central interests To his lawyers until
next Tuesday. when he will return. lie
was asked for an expression of opin-
ion upon the present financial situa.
ton
We'll, that is impossible TO say
replied Mr.. Hartman. 1t has run
quite course already. according to
all accounts. There has been great
Stacking up of business. and probably
the shrinkagc of volume will 50 some
further. But my opinion is that there
is nothing radical, nothing alarming
in this movement. 1t is only the adj
justment of the volume of business to
more conservative methods People
VIII find they can live as we'll and tic
business as well on conservative lines
IL not better"
W.T. ii"il lhlhH Mis- hShtu III tne pres
ont business depression following close
lof ten years of good crops and the
high prices they have brought was an
lalogous In any degree to the situation
Just prior to the panic of 1906
! There is no comparison between
the situation now and in 1891 he said
The panic of 1893 was due entirely
To other causes. Why. there is not
tho making of any kind of panic in
the present financial condition of the
country. Tho foundation is secure we
are simply trimming down n super
structure that in some places is tor
iheavy. When we finish that ana ouI
house cleaning that | mentioned we
shall he better off. | believe that the
greatest growth of railroad enterprise
the world has ever seecn will take
place within the next generation"