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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-04

The Senate was not in session SAT-
urday. BY voting an appropriation Of
100000 the House made liberal pro-
vision for further experiments by the
army with balloons and airships for
use in warfare. The subject gave rise
to spirited debate, which continued
most of the session. The opponents of
the proposition sought to encompass
its defeat by raising all sorts of pre-
liminary points. but the chair in elab-
crate opinions eyorruled these and
thus paved the way for the incorpcra-
ton of the provision in the army APP
preparation bill. At 4 40 p. M the
House adjourned until Sunday, when It
met i'm special session to hear eulogies
on the life and character of Represen-
tative Powers of Maine. who died dur
ing the recess.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-04
BiIfik Now at Joliet.

Herman Billik, after two years i'm
prisonment in the county Jail at Chi
cago, in which he has five times been
respited from death on the gallows,
has been taken to the Joliet peniten-
tiary to begin term OF life imprison-
men for the murder of Mary Vrzal.
The death sentence Of Billik was COM
mutnd to life Imprisonment by Gov
ernor Deneen. 1t was the first time in
two years that Billik had been outside
the jail walls. He expressed confidence
before his departure that he soon
would receive complete pardon.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-04

To Make Roosevelt Roman Citizen.
A dispatch from Rome says: The
Tribune proposes that Roman citizen
ship be conferred upon President
Roosevelt as manifestation of graf.
ftude for the help given by the United
States or the occasion of the earth
quake The Tribune says: I'VE can
not give anything else, but 1t is i'm
possible to give more. This gigantic
foreigner deserves to De a Roman cit
izen, while such an act, truly Roman,
coming from the immortal capital,
would be the seal of renewed friend
ship between the great ancient and
modern peoples"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-04

The omnibus claims bill. carrying an
appropriation of $3.O0O.OOO. which has
been favOrably acted upon by the
House. was passed by the Senate Fri
day. with an amendment repeating the
law allowing the references Of South
ern war claims to the Court of Claims
by the Senate or House. A substitute
for all pending measures relating 10
the re-enlistment of the soldiers of the
Twenty-fifth Regiment who were dis
charged without honor following the
Brownsville TEX shooting up" was
introduced by Senator Aldrich and ac-
cepted by Senator Foraker and other
Republican Senator's who had proposed
legislation for the same purpose. 1t
provides for court of inquiry to pass
upon the qualifications of the dis
charged men for re-enlistment. Wig
orous denials both by c. +. Taft and
William Nelson Cromwell of the
charges made in the recent speech of
Mr.. Rainey Of Illinois on Panama canal
affairs were read in the House. The
army appropriation bill again was laid
before the House. but was not consid-
cred, the time being taken up in gen.
eral debate. Mr.. jenkins (Wis.) held
to be unconstitutional the acts of the
hast session Of Congress in relation 10
the issuance OF restraining .orders and
injunctions and contempt of court; Mr..
Perkins On. W favored lowering of
the tariff Mr. Gaines (Tenn) attacked
the so-called powder trust, and Mr..
Reeder (Kan.) spoke in defense of the
forest service.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-04
WORK OF
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short legislative session of the Sen
ate devoted to routine morning business
was brought to an abrupt close Wednes-
day by motion to 60 into executive
session to consider the Canadian water
ways treaty. Senators desiring TO con-
slider various pending measures resist
ed the wish of the majority to dispose
of this treaty and a yea and nay vote
was required to close the doors for ex-
ecutive business. The treaty was not
began with the adoption of the special
committee report recommending the ex-
punging from the record of the recent
speech of Mr.. Willett of New York, de-
mandatory of President Roosevelt
Then during further consideration of
the pOStolfice appropriation bill the
charges made by Mr.. Rainey affecting
Panama Canal affairs cropped out
again with the result that Mr.. Weeks
of Massachusetts entered defense Of
Senator Locke. while Mr.. Rainey reit-
Grated his statements regarding the
purchase of two ships at the instance
of the Massachusetts Senator. The
postofIice appropriation bill was amend
ed in several particulars. the most i'm
portant being the transferring of 500
assistant superintendent. clerks. etc.
of stations from the $1,000 to the ST.
100 class, while the provision for the
payment of necessary expenses of divis-
ion superintendents, railway mail
clerks and others while away from
headquarters was stricken out AS
amended the bill was passed. carrying
an appropriation cf over S234,0OO,000.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10
Newspapers Made Part Of Our
Lives.

In "a recent address before the
California Fruit Growers Exchange,
E. O. Mccormick, who is recognized
as an authority on the relations OF
the pre- to the public and the value
of publicity in promoting individual
and community prosperity, said this
among other things about reading
newspapers:
Reading the newspapers is as intimate
part Of our every day life as sleeping
and eating. IL Is rare person who
does not at least glance over his daily or
weekly paper. aud TO the great majority
oil people il is the only avenue open to
their minds accessible to those who have
things To sell. The peculiar strength
which is all its own is well put by ~
cent writer in the following words:
The newspaper carries suggestion into
the family circles at leisure moments In
parlor or library where no salesman is
ever permitted to enter" il Is in closer
touch with and exerts greater influence
in the home than any other printed
thing. To start with, there are in the
Older communities N vast number of
people who have inherited the continu-
ance OF the paper which their parents
icau. IL IL as Tctai 10 ttiefn as proofs oil
holy writ" To practically all things it
Is their own choice. The Intelligence OF
the worlds doings is CLEANED from it's
pages. That which many deem their
| own Judgment as related to current
topics is merely reflection OF what they
have read in their home paper. What
| reaches them for the first time in to-day' .
issue, in a week or day later has be-
come their belief and knowledge And
now that remind you of il. you have a
friend or neighbor whose conversation
is largely made up OF what he has read
in the days paper. He does not add any
new thought to it, either, or indeed any
new words, except perhaps the three
they do say" OF almost equal value
to the advertisers. in my Judgment, il
the distribution factor of the newspaper
for after all. distribution il the most i'm
portant detail of advertising and tn,
one which should command your con
slant attention.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10
Why Wirz?
Norfolk Virginian- Pilot.

Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
So the New York World, which with
all the record open to it seems yet in
capable OF realizing that Wirz was a
victim to blind passion, was murder
ed in response to the frenzied call for
blood of few crazed fanatics, and is
entitled to have his memory vindi-.
Gated from the aspersions cast on it
by those who compassed his foul I'M
doing. Wirz was held up to execration
as a monster who had with fiendish
cruelty aggravated the sufferings of
the Federal prisoners under his
charge. 1t was established long ago
that the leading witnesses against
him were purchased periurers. Evil
dence is abundant from Union officers
and soldiers who were confined at
Andersonville, that Wirz was instant
and constant to alleviate their con,
dition with all the slender resources
at his disposal. Sufficient food there
was not always at hand, for the Con-
federate troops were starving and
naked at the same period. The
United States made quinine countra-
band of war and SO prevented proper
curative treatment of the diseases to
which Northern captives in Southern
prisons were most liable. At Elmira,
Point Lookout and Camp Douglas
the Federal authorities controlled a
superabundance OF food and medi-
cines, and yet the death rate among
Confederate prisoners at the most
humanely conducted of those was
only three per cent. less than at
Andersonville. Wirz was u martyr;
and his people rightly esteem it a
duty to redeem his name from
obloquy and perpetuate it to honor.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10
Advertising by Churches.
Augusta (Ga. Herald.

Augusta (Ga.) Herald
When instrumental music was first
introduced in the churches many
good people regarded it as nothing
short of sacrilege, and to this day
some hardshell churches stand out
against all instrumental music. Yet
it has become a regular past of the
service in almost all churches, and it
is to be noted that those churches
which taboo it are lifeless churches.
held together only from custom and
as formality.
So it will be with advertising, and
the time will come when every live
church will bring it's services before
the public in the most effective way
in which publicity can be given.
which is through newspaper adver-
Using.
And this is right. While the church
is a spiritual organization it must be
conducted on business principles.
This is being done now to Il certain
extent. The church has it's executive
officers, just as business organiza-
ton. They conduct the business oil
the church. and without this plan a
modern church could not succeed.
Acting in conjunction with the pas
tor, the more they conform to the
methods which bring success i'll other
businesses. the more successful will
be that church. The reason why
there has been a decadence OF church
attendance is because the church has
refused to avail itself of modern bust
ness methods. and the attendance
which should have gone to the
churches has gone to other and less
valuable and worthy institutions
which more promptly awaited them
selves Of modern methods.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10
Repeating a Mistake.
Newport News Times Herald.

Newport News Times Herald
President Taft confesses that the
people of Porto Rico were not
prepared for self-government. The
United States government should
have profited by it's experience with
the negro in the South. AS soon as
the slaves were set free the ballot was
placed in their hands for the humila-
ton of the Southern people. 1t was
bad enough for the whites who had
to suffer the infection, but it was a
curse to the negroes 1t made them
the tools of designing politicians and
involved them in all manner OF
difficulties Taking the negroes as n
race, we believe it no exaggeration
to say that nine-tenths of their
troubles with the whites were due
directly or indirectly to their right OF
franchise. To have placed the ballot
in the hands of the untutored freed
men was as cruel and reckless as it
would be to give firearms to small
children. The government is now
repeating the experiment in Porto
Rico with much the same result.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10
TALKS ON ADVERT Using
Selling
Slow Sellers
By Henry Herbert Huff

COPYRIGHT. ASSOCIATION
leftover goods
Yes; shall be glad to learn how avoid this loss"
You cannot eliminate entirely but it be very much
reduced told how to demand for goods
they viii move freely but the experienced buyer will
times overstep purchase the wrong kind of goods
THE best way to avoid having many remainders buy
right Goods well bought half sold Study the wants of the
people of the community Buy what will SELL not what you like
stock these Follow the trend Study goods
Know all Of their merits and defects to be
known about the lines you handling Buy small quantities
and often Fay cash you possibly The cost may be
less when you buy by the gross gross counting inter
est on invested deterioration value space occupied the
chance Of going of demand difference is wiped out
The bc> OF buyers will get Stuck occasionally When it
occurs make the best Of it. Profit by the experience may
STOCK Up on something for which there demand
you buy heavily Of article that
may rcae more than regular selling will dispose
the size, get rid of it!'
,.dt hate to dispose of articles at cost or below"
But you must 1t the of
buy goods to senot show You tie up capital
IN slow sellers, and then too the public gets opinion of your
store II you rurrec old goods each keep the
cande shelves and Make
Keep goods moving Turn over stock frequently
IF article doesn't at mark it lower
at price put something with it and sell them ogether
How about dull seasons?"
"Ihcrc dull spells for the advertises
When trade begins to lag he increases his space
oilers During the months he pushes seasonabe goods
aG demand for them and makes things lively with frequent
bargain oilers Advertising artificial demand will
sell wool blankets III July, hats suits in
Febuary Likewise will shift busy days
week Monday the big day in cities and Saturday the smaller
BY continued advertising FRIDAY it has been
changed from dull day TO of the best
Good day"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10
THE HENDERSON GOLD LEAF-THURsDAY JUNE 10 1909
Evidently a Southeruer.

The Washington Post is a great
newspaper and on its staff there are
some bright and able writer's. The
writer OF the following tribute to the
corn pone" as it is known in the
South, is evidently a Southerner to
the manner born, for none other
could be qualified to speak "by the
book as he does. Hear him:
The Chicago wheat corner that SO
recently demoralized the market in
that cereal has caused another dis
cussien OF the feasibility of substitut-
ing corn meal for wheat -four i'm the
economy of the kitchen. The thing
would be as good as done If there
were mills to grind corn meal and
cooks to bake real corn bread-the
Old fashion corn pone' that the old
fashion Southern cooks know so we'll
how to make.
There are a few such mills at the
south and many such cooks there;
but the commercial meal in cities,
ground very fine and bolted at the
mill, cannot be converted into bread
mt to eat by the most skillful cook.
and that is the reason why the North
has so long rejected corn bread other
than an execrable stuff, compounded
o. eggs, milk, baking powder. and n
-four they call corn meal.
Real corn bread is made of coarse
meal, ground on a horse or water mill,
the utmost capacity OF which is not
over 20 bushels per diem. The corn
must be sound and carefully picked
from the bin. Take that meal, sift it,
mix it to a rather stiff batter with
pure cold water, and bake the ''pone'
in an intensely hot oven. Every
atom of the meal, as it heats. splits
open like kernal of popcorn, and
when exactly done the bread is simply
delicious. Most cooks add a little
salt to the meal before mixing it with
water, and most people prefer the
salt; but that was long ago voted
plebeian, and perhaps that accounts
for its popularity, the plebeian being
in large majority in this glorious
Union OF ours.
But corn bread will never become
popular as pone, or hOecake, OF
Johnny cake, or egg bread or batter
cake, so long as the meal comes from
mills that grind the grain at terrific
speed and cook the grist in the pro
cess OF turning the grain into meal
Nobody can make real corn bread o
that stuff, and that is why the great
majority of our people will continue
to look to wheat as the staff of life
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10
Tribulations of the Editor.
Macon (Ga.) Record.

Macon (Ga.) Record
A lawyer charges a man $40 for ten
minutes conversation. The man in
sists on paying it. A doctor charges
ST. for a prescription, and the patient
says; "Oh, pshaw! Is that enough"
An undertaken charges 800 for con-
Quoting a funeral, and he is just per-
fectly lovely with everybody inside
and outside the family. A man buys
a gold brick and apologies for not
having bitten before An editor
walks q mile in the hot sun to get
facts of a death or n wedding or a
social function and spends three
hours writing it up and tells lies
praising people until he hates himself.
Then he makes an insignificant omis
sion or charges ) cents straight for
three extra copies he is "a stingy,
careless, good for nothing old cuss
who never gets anything right and
charges four times the price for city
papers twice as large.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10
Just Think Of Flour Johnny Cake,

Townsville Charity and Children
The Charlotte Observer is now
being run by the young men. They
are bright fellows, but they are not
familiar with the customs and ques-
tions which are among the country
people like the "old man" is; il they
were, they would never have made
the break they did with regard to
the johnny cake OF course the
Statesvilis Landmark is right-there
is not a dust OF -four about a johnny
cake. 1t is a long corn pone divided,
like Gaul, into three parts It IL
roasted before a good oak fire and
when done is the best ecrnbread that
was ever made. The idea OF flour
johnny cake is absurd. It would be
as reasonable to talk about flour
grits.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10
Not Result of Prohibition.
Rockingham Anglo-Saxon.

Rockingham Anglo-Saxon
Under the head of Effect of Pro-
hibition," the Raleigh News and Oh
server gets n little previous. That
paper quotes the article from the An
glo-Saxon about the jail here being
empty and intimates that the reason
it is SO is on account OF prohibition.
Not "A man or woman, with a few
exceptions, has been locked in the
Jail here for the past two or three
years, but what was charged with
either larceny or other minor offense
not traceable to liquor. Prohibition
is all right, but the truth is Rich
mond is naturally law-abiding
county, and it hardly ever has but a
few prisoners in jail at it's worst.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10

1t il true. ~ the Charlotte Evening
Chronicle says. that 1.-THE celebration
was not in the nature Of Republican
Jubilee. and it was never intended to
be so, but that is no reason why the
Republican leaders of North Carolina
should have absented themselves
from the festivities. They We're not
missed. it j. true, but they. ought to
have known better, and If tie author
tiles shall come to the conclusion
that they are not worthy OF further
recognition in the distribution OF
Federal patranoge, they can only
blame themselves for selecting ali oc-
casion OF general jubilation TO em-
phasize their personal disappoint-
ments. News and Oh
server.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10
Southern Harbors All Right.

Charlotte Chronicle.
The battleship Mississippi had
great sport in the big river. She made
the run from Natchez to New Orleans,
n distance of 297 miles, in IL hours,
but was, of course, going with the cur
rent. The shallowest place the bat
tleship found was 43k feet and IA
depth OF 300 feet was - common ex-
perience. After this We should hear
no more talk by the Navy Depart
nent OF inadequate Southern har-
bors. The capacity OF the Charles
ton harbor has been proved by the
Raleigh and the North Carolina, two
heavy draft cruisers. New ideas are
in process Of formulation about
Southern harbors.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10
Humor a.s Philosophy
D. DUNCAN n. SMITH
THE YEAR AFTER.

Now man can rustic for himself
If he would win n charrner,
A city girl. college belle.
The daughter OF n farmer.
and little chance he has II he
Is backward or faint hearted
It's UP 30 him to make the break
Since leap year has departed.
IL isn't like II used to he
When girls could do the choosing.
When he could sit around and wait
AEd know what they were losing.
Now II wife he wants to win
'Tis he must make advances.
PROFOUND the question without AID
And walt and take his chances
Last year he struttcd in the light
And waitcss TO he captured
BY some young lady rich and fair
And by his charms carapiured.
And some we're carried OF perhaps
by mAidenS quite delighted.
But more remained In single hllss.
ones who were not invited.
IL lie would be \ family man
by his own fireside duAtns.
lie must prepare TO frame Il up
To do his own pgoposiug
He cannct from the ladies hope
Assistance In hlS woolng
Since during leap year h. looked swss
And there was nothing doing.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10
tnssplainabie.

81 can't imagine why a young person
like her should marry snch an ancient
specimen OF the race"
1T Is hard TO guess. She had arrived
at the age OF discretion. Now. II she
had been twelve or fifteen years young
er, we might explain 1t 10y saying that
she may have thought he was Santa
Claus"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10

Animals have d sixth sense" in
sists Carolina contemporary Six
cents is more than the average man
in this country will have If run mad
Protection continues much longer
to characterize the tariff policy oil
the PirgLDiaH-
Pilot.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10
Vain Butterfly.

How different is Maags from the little
hand mirror
In which she's 81 ottea found peeking.
Fer aadgs always speaks without ever
rejecting.
The mirror reflects without speaking.
-pnilzdeiphia Press.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10
Imagination.

aHe in a man Of great ifna ginati0n.
Isn't he:''
Il should say so. lie has been keep
ing the books Of mining corpora
New York life.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10
Ins's Realities

On. happy time: Afoat upon the stream.
They tyift IN leafy eoyes where INES
CLEAN
Thus nappT would they float foreserfnofe.
But some one wants the boat nj LAX p@s'
-Judee.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10
Grszt Scheme.

Tommy-Chee. Wy wasn't you ter
school terday:
Iohnny-I washed me face, an teach
er thought / wuz sick an sent me
honest. Paul Pioneer Press
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10

Are you troubled to Death daily with
Eexema7 Why suffer when BLUUDlsEOlAT-
MENT viii give you instant reliet and PER
manentiy cure you? 5oc box mailed By The
Bioodine Co., Inc, Boston. Mas sold BY
W. ". Parker, Special lgsnf-
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10
A REGULAR VILLAGE Sort.

what is the matter with Brown
HE is feeling dreadfully cut up"
About WHAT
"Being a clown"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10

Some women Invariably hen peck
their husbands Is that the good DANES
have discovered that the gentlemen IN
question are chicken hearted.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10

II flying TO It's promise lives
Ain keeps apace with things.
The boy next door Will soon DO round
To borrow fathers wings.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10

Some women have the courage OF
their conviction IN because their ION
victions decidedly require courage
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10
Queer.
NsiahhorlY.

"He is n good fellow all right"
that's too bad"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10

When BLOODISE RHEUMATIC LINZ
MEST has cured SO many eases OF kheuma-
tism, why do you suffer with this terrible al
fiction, is relieves all pain instantly. 25e and
Soc bottle. Sold by W. ". Parker. Special
Agent.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10

Smith left home was that home
couldn't leave Smith anil the separa-
ton was inevitable.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10

Some men get on 80 beautifully with
their wives relations II that the men
are bachelors.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10

II is so hard to keep New Year reso-
buttons Is because we strive not un-
ceasingly. but annually.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-10
THE REASON WHY

Some people are dead broke all dur.
ing the month OF January * because
Christmas comes but cnce year.