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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-12-16
HENDERSON MANUFACTURING co.
R. b. Powell, General Manager.

10 Henderson a comparatively re-
cent enterprise, and to Vehicle manu-
facturers throughout the Southern
States convenient, prompt and
money saving source of supply the
henderson Manufacturing Co. has
hourlshed amidst the favorable condi-
TONS its operations have created and
surely and steadily it grows daily in
magnitude-in patronage. trade terri
tory, output and working force. 1t is
therefore. among Henderson's busy and
Progressive enterprises and to the COM
munlty and the trade a valuable &C
QUESTION. Organized and established
III 1907, TO engage in the wholesale
manufacturing of high grade buggy
and surrey bodies the Henderson Man
ufacturing Co, plant was installed
which was equipped with the very
latest improved appliances in wood
working machinery and a beginning was
made with a small number of mechan-
les, selected with special consideration
lot their ability and experience to
work up 10 and maintain the high
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-12-16
Tee Easily Deceived.

Mrs. Herlihy looked with marked
disfavor on the mongrel dog which her
husband brought home one night, say
ing he had met an old friend who
What kind of dog is he- de-
manded Mrs. Herlihy.
Me friend didn't say" responded
Mr.. Herlihy, vaguely. IT'S we'll YOU
know, Celia. you can't be AKIN all
sorts o questions whin it's a prfsent
you re getting. But he said the dog
was grand watch dog and a great
fighter"
Just at that point in the conversa-
ton. which took place at the door
OF the Herlihy residence, with Mrs.
Heriihy standing guard before the en-
trance, small black-and-tan terrier
dashed up the four steps and made a
!applng salute to the lately ACQUIRED
treasure. To Mr.. Herlihy's cbagrin
ms dog gave one dismayed yelp and
lied disappearing down a neighbor-
ing alley.
He may be a great fighter" said
mrs Heflihy, in a whitening tone, but
oeS poor judge O. dogs, that new
wan of yures. "-Youth's COMPANION
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-12-16
ANDREW j. HARRIS
Attorney at Law.

The pronounced ability and exper-
fence characteristic of the lawyers Of
.:->.>~-~~-~~--
the Vance county bar and the high
ethical standard maintained in all their
relations place them as a class among
the thoroughly representative of North
Cardinals legal practitioners, and as a
consequence the legal interests of the
Inhabitants of this section are pro-
NOTED and protected by an efficient ser
vice. Of this group is Andrew ]. Har-
ris, who, during his career as a law
yer has been identified with many
of the important cases that have come
up for trial and who in looking after
the legal affairs of select and estab-
lished clientele enjoys a nice office
practice. Born on farm in Granville
county, the subject of the present
sketch attended as lad the old field
school of his home neighborhood, and
when he grew older he was sent by
his parents to the Academy at Bethel,
then to the Yadkin Institute in David
son Co., completing with the degree of
Bachelor of Philosophy iiterarity and
scientific education at the University of
North Carolina. from which institution
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-12-16

drug business in Henderson :, 49,.
ent establishments, and in other eiti.,
In this State. where their efficiency :.
pharmacists, and their genial msth,s.
surrounded each with select AND ~
influential following Convinced ,h.,
their established ability az ph,rms
cists and their large Acquaintance. an,
piled the most favorable conditio,, !.
develop a business OF their oxs
>Messrs. kerner and MacNair ORGANIZE
In 1906, the kerner- MacNair Dru. G,
with l.. c. Kerner, President; I, "
Brown, vice-president, and ", R Ma.
Nair. secretary and treasurer, and h,v.
ing once begun business for them
selves their success as trade builder.
has been pronounced, for In all their -.
lations progressiveness combines With
integrity and reliability to MAINTAIN,
for the people OF Henderson aid Yanes
county, satisfactory service at rea.
sonable prices. The Corner Drur
Store is headquarters for all the pop.
ular productions to be found In a we'll
equipped establishment, such az Huy
lers fine candies and confections. HIND.
nuts perfumes, all the leading and
popular brands of cigars and tobaccos
and other articles in all the many
lines carried. Special attention is
given to filling the prescriptions OF
physicians. These being filed TO the
letter with drugs possessing the
strength that is found only in purity
and freshness-qualities essential for
efficacy in arresting disease, Alleging
pain or restoring health. In this de-
partment a nice business is done for
the service is prompt either. Mr. Ker-
ner or Mr.. MacNair being present at
all times to give to patrons Jleir i'm
mediate and experienced atteation.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-12-16
Third Water System
WINCHESTER, VA

WINCHESTER, VA.-Sps for e.
The woman was comm ~ likely y
voters of Winchester WIN an So
called upon shortly to vote grsfT
of 100000 bonds for n. B.
soft water system. Mayor hefors ~
having brought the matte .iready D.
City Council. Winches'eI stems, o
srsv,t e0m aDS one ~ Supplied By D''
but i. fast outgrowing both
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-12-16

has built up wide acquaintance and
large personal following. With a
knowledge Of popular needs acquired
in the school Of practical experience
his management has been directed
solely to one end. viz: to supply those
needs promptly, at guaranteed prices
and with a service SO satisfactory as
not only to make customer, but to
gain a friend
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-10

stand against injunctions without
warning is likewise timely.
The message indicates that there
will be no more tariff revision at the
present time-a fact which will cause
no grief throughout America, consid
ering the turmoil that tariff revi.
sion session always invites.
The Taft method of ordering his
cabinet heads to ask only for money
actually needed and not to pad their
estimates, will receive approval.
His stand on the sugar trust weigh
ing frauds is vigorous and indicates
that the wrongdoers will be punished
to the last official, even though the
president has made no bass drum
demonstration about it.
His recommendation for law re-
quiring congressman and senators to
make a statement as to where their
campaign contributions come from, is
wholesome and in line with modern
ideas.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-10

This is great world and this is
what Sam Jones thought of 1t: There
may be larger worlds and grander
and better worlds than this; but this
is a great world It's mountains are
Gods thoughts piled up; it's prairies
Gods thoughts spread out; its rivers
Gods thoughts in notion its flowers
Gods thoughts in bloom; its harvests
Gods thoughts in bread its dewdrops
Gods thoughts in pearl. and whenever
we look about us, every object smiles
back upon us and says, L am but the
gift of the gracious Father to His
wayward children"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-10
Summer Forage Crops.

with the best OF pasture. however,
some additional green feed Is neccs-
sary, especially during the midsum-
mer months. At that time OF year,
when flies and heat are worst, slack
enlng in the food supply means loss
In gain on young stock aud In milk
production from the cows. \ well plan
ned supply OF forage crops nt this time
will give larger returns for the land
used than almost anything else that
can be grown Forage crops can often
be used to good advantage rs catch
crops where other crops have failed to
grow or after something else has been
harvested. Forage crops by keeping
the land occupied with n rank growing
crop help to keep weeds In control
They also enable more stock to be kept
on the farm than would be the case
otherwise.
One Of the best forage crops is rape.
1t yields heavy crops of excellent feed.
1t is especially valuable for hogs and
sheep. They make excellent gains on
rape. particularly II little grain is
given in addition. Rape should be
sown In the spring at the rate of about
four pounds to the acre broadca sted
or two and one-half pounds drilled
The seed bed should be well prepared.
The greatest amount OF feed per acre
is obtained If the rape is cut and fed.
A more economical way of handling it,
as far as labor Is concerned. Is to have
small movable pens or pasture divid-
ed into small lots and change the stock
frequently from one to the other. IL
left too long in one place they eat the
rape down so closely that 1t Is killed
or the growth seriously checked.
Sweet corn is valuable forage for
all classes of stock. A variety which
stools considerably should be selected,
and the planting should be thick. IL
cut and fed fresh every day 1t is great
ly reished. 1t is especially good for
milk cows, often doubling the yield.
Sorghum and Kafiir corn are also
used considerably as forage crops. es-
pecially in the southern states. About
fifty or sixty pounds of seed to the
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-10
SHERMAN ANTITRUST LAW.

1t is rumored that an amendment
to the Sherman antitrust law is in
course of preparation that will make
1t apply only where there is crimi-
nal intent to monopolize trade
1t is a wonder that the trusts had
not accomplished that modification
before. They have been bent on the
impossible task of getting the law
repealed in toto. Convinced this is
time wasted, they now agree that
1t would be exactly equivalent to
repeal if they could get such clause
as this inserted in the law And they
are quite right about that. Next after
the statute of limitations, that an
cient joker of criminal intent" is
the best friend that the high-priced
scoundrel ever had. There is not an
embezzler, a high "financier" come to
grief, a law break of the more am
bilious and powerful sort, who does
not owe it to this pervision of JUS
tice that he is outside the peniten-
tiary walls today. 1t is the rock on
which the courts make shipwreck,
the bewilderment of juries. the refuge
of every offender who goes unwhipt
of justice. Every congressman who
votes for any such emasculation of the
single statute that the country pos
sesses in restraint of monopoly should
be marked man.
Observe the daring imbecility of
the pretense that such a change in
the law is or can be needed except
as a protection for the great capi-
talists who thrive on popular extor-
tion. Combination in restraint of
trade is a perfectly definite thing.
When any man goes into the market
to buy all his rivals out so that he
alone may control the business, when
he enters into a price agreement with
his competitors so that between them
they may cinch the purchaser, there
question of intent" because no intent
is possible. 1t might just as well be
asked whether or not it is the in
tent of a man who has blown open
safe to steal it's contents. Put
that saving clause in the Sherman act,
and it is torn to tatters. Every form
or monopoly would be safe under it as
the land of thieves In the west have
found themselves to be, because the
government is obliged to prove that
when they stole the land they 'in-
tended" to steal it. What the Sher-
man law needs is not amendment, but
enforcement,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-10
SHOULD MAKE NORFOLK PRoUDl


SHOULD MAKE NORFOLK PROUD
The magnificent compliment paid to
the Norfolk public school system as it
is conducted under the able supervi-
sion of Superintendent F. M. Hunter
and his corps of instructors, by State
Inspector of Normal Training G. A.
Gregory, should cause every Norfolk
citizen to feel proud of the city, and
the city's schools.
Mr.. Gregory emphasized the fact
already pointed out by The News,
that Norfolk people are unusually for
tunate in having secured for the head
of the public school system here a
man so efficient in every way as Sup
erintendent Hunter. He is easily one
of the big school men of the west and
his efficiency, coupled with the energy
of young manhood has done remark
able things in the development of the
, Norfolk school system.
The state inspectors words brings
the very greatest satisfaction, too, to
the friends of the teachers employed
in the Norfolk schools. Their work
, is the best being done by any corps
, of teachers in Nebraska, according tc
Mr.. Gregory.
Likewise there is cause for congrat
ulation in his praise of the NorfolR
! school boys, whose enthusiasm was
| shown to so marked degree in the
recent Y. M. C. A. campaign.
Mr. Gregory's suggestion that Nor
! folk should install the industrial lines
of study now commanding so muct
attention throughout educational cir
cles all over America, should be giver
serious heed by the Norfolk schoo
patrons. Manual training for the boys
along systematic lines, a commercial
course to fit them for business anC
a domestic science course to prepare
the girls for the practical side of home
life, he recommends to Norfolk. AnC
no more important recommendation
could be made. 1t is sadly true tina
many high school graduate of toda!
knows a smattering of Latin and no
enough of practical things to earn ;
decent living, The schools should fl
both the boys and the girls for thei
practical line of work in later years
and the manual training, the domes
tic science to teach cooking and th
commercial course to educate th'
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-10

The beef trust is not satisfied with
controlling the cattle business Of this
country and stealing from the farmer
with one hand and the consumer with
the other. 1t proposes to control the
trade of the world So the Armours
issue $50,OOOOOO of bonds to buy up Ar
gentine plants and tie that country
and this up little more firmly. They
issue these bonds exactly as If they
had authority to issue that amount
of paper money for the same purpose.
If they were railroad company the
government might regulate the issues
But we have given the trusts a free
hand and are now being punished for
our ignorance and folly.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-10

Canada has advanced the implement
tax ten per cent, making the total tax
thirty per cent which is prohibitive
and will not permit the American
manufacturers to sell any machinery
in Canada. The Illinois Manufacturing
association is greatly alarmed over
the new state of affairs and will send
representative to Canada to ask the
officials to withhold the application
of the order until congress can relieve
the strain by some favorable action.
The manufacturers intend to support
the Mann bill providing for the sus-
pension of the maximum and minimum
provisions, and hope that by showing
more friendly spirit towards Cana
dian exports to escape determinations
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-10

In spite of all the turmoil of re-
cent years over railroad and trust
questions, these matters are far from
settled, Railroad rate legislation has
improved matters somewhat, but re.
ports of persistence in rebating are
disquieting. 1t is apparent that the
interstate commerce commission has
far more work to exercise its authority
than single board can attend to.
There are new courts to be created
to mete out justice between the car
riers and shippers, steps to be taken
to prevent stock watering, and gen.
eral overhauling of the antitrust law
needed. 1t is no holiday task with
which our legislative hired men are
confronted, and as soon as the dust
of battle over the organization of the
house settles. the members will get
down to business in business like
way.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-10

Jacob Riis says in Christmas SER
mon in the Sunset" in which he ar
CUES the perpetuation of the customs,
traditions and what remains of the
buildings erected by our forefathers:
1--WE cannot afford to forget the New
England pilgrims. We cannot afford
to forget the devoted fathers who
christened our southwestern land and
it's people. All the more because ours
is money mad day whose lust for
wealth would buy all else out of sight,
must we cling to things that make
for sentiment, so-called, so long as
that sentiment is wholesome and ma
tional. Why should any one despise
the word sentiment? To what do
we appeal when we invoke the mems
patriotism in love of the flag? We
will all be the better for the senti
ment which preserves every record
and relic of noble past. All the
harder can we wage war on the fra
gons that threaten our national life
| We fight and work in vain unless we
are backed by sentiment that reaches
down underneath the civic, economic
matter of fact aspect of it all tc
the conviction that are all Gods chill
dren and that hence we cannot lei
one another perish"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-10

Last evening when Lysander John
Appleton reached home, tired and de-
pressed, he took off his coat and be-
gan to hunt for his slippers. "You
needn't take off your Shoes" said his
wife; Il want you to go TO card
party with me" Lysander John said
nothing; ne learned the futility of
argument and iTnploring. He tied up
his shoestrings and went upstairs.
"He has learned to submit" said his
wife to herself He opened window
when up there, and neighbors say that
a red tablecloth was waved three
times. Lysander John returned down
stairs, and was engaged in eating his
supper a half hour later, when a DO
liceman appeared with a warrant for
his arrest. He pleaded that there must
be some mistake; that he was needed
at home to escort his wife to a card
party but the officer was obdurate, and
marched him off and kept him all
night. Lysander John returned IN
time for breakfast, and explained to
his wife that is was case of mis-
taken identity. She believes him, but
the neighbors don't; they saw that
tablecloth waved, and claim 1t was a
signal of distress, and that it called
policeman to arrest him and save
him from the card party.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-10

David Starr Jordan president of
the Leland Stanford university, in an
address on "The Strenuosity of the
Twentieth Century" given at Chicago
few evenings ago said: There are
so many things to be done that when
we want man to do them, we don't
find out who his grandfather was; we
don't care. We simply want man
who can carry the message to Garcia,
or whatever we want done-a man
who can do it. That's what democ-
racy means; giving every man a
square deal and chance to do his
best"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-10
INTENSIVE FARMING.


The island of Guernsey, situated in
the British channel furnishes an ex-
ample of what intensive farming will
do. II is less than seven miles long
and four miles wide. With soil that
Is rocky and intractable, cultivating
only 11,600 acres 1t supports popu-
lation of 71,000 people on its farms
and exports crops to the value of
S2,500000 annually. What would this
state with its fertile acres almost
altogether tillable, produce If men
were conten with smaller farms and
closer cultivation? It is beyond com.
prehension what a population could
here thrive and prosper,
We have in mind one man who cul-
tivates only few acres of land in
this section who by intensive and in
telligent methods has realized for
several years past, off from his small
area much larger sum than many
farmers with 100 acres. He is plan
ming extensive improvements which
will be paid from the money already
earned from the land. When these
are made-ditches, wells and wind
mills-he will be able to raise great
deal more off from the same land
than he does now.
1t is no wonder that the attention
of law makers and statesmen is ev-
erywhere being turned toward the pro-
among the rising generations. No
where else are there such sure and
splendid possibilities in return for
an investment of energy, intelligence,
enterprise and enthusiasm, as are to
be found in the soil. There are acres
of diamonds to be found, not in some
new Eldorado in the primitive west
or north or south, but right here In
Gods country where one is surrounded
by all the comforts and conveniences
the world affords. They are to be
found in a few acres, carefully and
discriminatory handled. Our re-
sources are ineXhaustible if only men
in the Sweat of the brow" with lots
of common sense, grit and gumption
will set their wits, their muscles and
their whole souls into the work of
discovering them-in the soil under
their feet, right in the very communi-
ty where they live.
1t is sheer nonsense to talk about
population outstripping production
from the soil when we have not as
yet touched the outside rim of it's
development. It's not more land
but more sense and pluck that is
needed. Let's quit talking, secure a
small acreage of land and get to
work using the best methods known.
Columbus discovered continent but
never realized heavily on his invest
ment. What is wanted today are Col
umbuses on small tracts of land, who
will make the most of their oppor-
tunities-and realize rishly in wealth
of home, contentment, health, good
cheer, good citizenship and an increas-
ing bank account.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-10

Thirteen was a lucky number for
the sugar trust. At the Williamsburg
docks of the American Sugar Refin-
ing company at New York it has de-
veloped that each truck load of sugar
was thirteen pounds under weight.
And as it was the rule, during the
busy hours to weigh two trucks a
minute, a shortage of twenty-six
pounds every sixty seconds, a total
of 1850 pounds an hour, resulted.
When the whole crew was at work
Uncle Sam was being robbed of his
duties on $3.50 pounds an hour. This
system of robbery was operated
smoothly and easily, until within a
few weeks. And these robbers are
referred to as, or at least have been,
worthy and respectable citizens.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-10
HIS FIRST MESSAGE.

The presidents message-his first
annual message to congress-created
favorable impression. The message
was Taftesque-sober, serious, deeply
yet bold in suggesting several i'm
portant reforms.
The president will win friends par
ticularly in his plea for greater ex
pedition in legal procedure. The pub
lie has grown tired of long court
delays and expedition of justice is de
manded by popular sentiment, vel
based upon a wrong condition. His
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-10

Abe Ruef, pronounced by Prosecut.
ing Attorney Heney as a dyed-in-the-
wool-rascal, and possibly Heney was
not far away in his guess, has been
released from prison on a 100000
bail. Three physicians were secured
who admitted cell life wasn't the right
thing for Abe, and that if he was
kept there long enough he might die
So he was released. He will nc
doubt be tried some time in the fu
ture, whitewashed and allowed to
lose himself.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-10

Luther Burbank says: "If people
paid no more attention to the plants
than they do to their children we
should now be living in jungle of
weeds" Whereupon an exchange
suggests that "Mr. Burbank may know
of scheme to cross a growing boy
with Sunday school lesson and
produce an animal of perfect deport-
ment and noble aspirations"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-10

Irrigation in western Nebraska is
destined to change the complexion
of the map of the state wonderfully.
Large, prosperous towns are spring.
ing up where a few years ago vast
stretches of desert sustained little but
sage brush and few steers. The
newer methods of agriculture in Ne
braska and throughout the west are
literally making the wilderness bud
and blossom as the rose.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-10

The net profits of the Suez canal
are said to be over $4,000 a day.
The pessimists who are already ham
mering at the Panama canal because
of its expense and unprofitableness
will do well to remember the above
figures. The Panama canal has every
promise of trade that will be vastly
greater than that now enjoyed by
the Suez waterway.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-10

The Duluth News-Tribune pertinent
ly calls attention to the wealth there
is in agriculture, citing Kansas. 1t
says: Kansas has no minerals and no
large cities, yet it is fourth among the
states in the assessed valuation of
real estate. New York, Pennsylvania
and Massachusetts alone exceed 1t in
the assessed value of all property.
It Is the richest of all the states, II