The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-09-09

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the last half.
AFTER reading of the conduct OF
some the Southern soldiers in battle
during the War Between the States
one cannot help feeling a thrill OF
pride and glory in their achievements
and thanking God that they were his
fellow countrymen. The address of
Rev. James f. POindexter before Lee
Camp, Confederate Veterans, Rich
mond, in presenting the portrait OF
Gen. Lewis A. Armtstead some time
ago, thrills and inspires and stirs the
spirit at brave and heroic deeds.
The article as published on the
fourth page OF the GOLD LEAF this
week will well repay the reading.
THEY cannot claim DR.. Cook as
having been born in North Carolina,
but the next thing to it. The News
and Observer has discovered that he
is Democrat. 1t says:
DR.. Cook is a Democrat and is a
charter member OF a Dem ocratic club
in the Nineteenth Assembly District
of Kings county. The Democrats may
name him for President. The man
who could discover the North Pole
could undoubtedly discover enough
voters, added to the unterrified, to
discover the White House. The Dem
Ocrats annexed Louisiana, Florida,
Texas and every foot OF land added
to the United States except Alaska.
And now a New York Democrat has
added the North Pole.
In many of the towns in this State
relentless war is be waged on va
grants. They are being driven out or
made to work on the streets or pub
lie roads. This is right. In the face
of the abundant opportunity for
wOrk-on the farms and elsewhere
there ought not to be tolerate in
any community IA horde of cOnsum
ers and not producers OF the vagrant
class such as most towns are infested
with. Let the fiat go forth that the
ahled bodied man who does not
work and who has no visible means
of support without it will not he per-
mitted to live as a parasite and exist
off of those who do work.
RAPIDLY the cornbread eating
theory as the cause of pellaera is be-
ing discarded. J E. Heath, "a leading
young business man of Waxhaw,
Union county, has just died at the
hospital in Wilmington of this dis
ease, and it develops that he never
ate cornbread. He had been sick for
more than a year and had consulted
eminent specialists number Of
times and travelled extensively for
the benefit of his health without i'm
| provement. When his sickness was
diagnosed as pellagra he went to
Wilmington to he treated by DR.. Ed
ward Jenner Wood, who has made
an exhaustive study OF the disease,
but owing to the advanced stages of
OF the maladv nothing could he done
| for him.
The question has naturally arisen,
Where was DR.. Cook all the time after
he reached the North Pole on April
81, 1908, until the fact became known
to the world on September l, 1909?
The answer is easy and is self-explan-
atory if one studies the map of his
supposed travels and thinks for a
moment. He was beyond the reach
OF boat or communication, living in
a snow hut or like improvised quar-
tiers until the "open season"-the
breaking up of the ice in the spring
and summer of this year-when n
vessel could penetrate that far North
and take him aboard and bring him
to civilization again Then, and not
| until he was thus rescued did the
story OF his marvellous achievement
reach the outside world. Nothing
strange about the hardness OF the
news OF DR.. Cook s reaching he North
| Pole when you come to think of it.
The Agricultural and Mechanical
College opened last week with the
largest enrolment in the freshman
class in the history Of that institu-
ton. The total registration will
pass $50. This is altogether graft
flying to the friends of that splendid
institution. 1t is doubtful if there is
a school in North Carolina today
that is doing greater work for the
development and prosperity of their
State than the College OF Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts. President Hill
and his able faculty--each man select
ed with regard to his special fitness
for the work require of him-are
doing great and lasting good in the
line OF endeavor for the betterment
of conditions agriculturally and in
dustrially in North Carolina. $50
students is doing very well, but there
ought to be 1000 young men-agri-
culturists. barticulturists, dairymen,
mechanics, technologists, drafts
men, electricians, etc., fitting them
selves for practical business pursuits
at the A. & NJ. College.
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