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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-08-19

Get DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salye
when you ask for it. There are q great many
limitations, but there is just one original.
This salve is good for anything where a salve
is needed to be used, but it is especially good
Tor Piles. Sold by all druggists
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-08-19
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Read and advertise IN Gold Leaf
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-08-19


Paul e. Collins one of the young
men who was shot by Policeman
Watkins at the Black Mountain hotel
as a result of the drunk and disorder
ly conduct of himself and his COM
panion, John Hill Bunting, who died
from his injuries soon after being
taken to the Asheville hospital, has
recovered from his injuries sufficient
ly to 60 to his home at Hillsboro.
Collins has NADER no statement of the
affair doubtless acting upon the ad-
vice of his lawyer, but will give his
version of it when the trial of Police
man Watkins on the charge of muir
der comes up.
SOMEHOW We cannot help feeling
sympathy for Thaw's mother. Poor
woman, she has drunk deeply OF the
dregs of sorrow indeed. Her mother
heart has been true to an object that
was not worthy of such devotion.
And yet she is not altogether with
out blame for the sorrow and trouble
that has been brought upon her. By
her wealth and indulgence she made
OF her son spendthrift and profit
gate, and the development into the
moral degenerate and reprobate that
he is was easy. If Thaw had been a
poor boy dependent upon his own
efforts and resources or trained I'D
as useful member of society, sober
and self-reliant instead of the petted
and spoiled child of riches he might
in all probability have been some
account and his life quite different
from what it has been.
Get DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve
when you ask for it. There are q great many
limitations, but there is just one original
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-08-19
The SeabOard Tour

Washington, Niagara Falls Toronto, Thousand Islands, Mon
real Quebec Down Lake George and Chaplain and Four
Days in New York City, at Very Attractive Rates.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-08-19

SENATOR Simmons places us under
renewed obligations to him for hav-
ing sent to us a copy of the Bulletin
of the Bureau of Fisheries" volume
twenty-six, DEPARTMENT. of Commerce
and Labor. The work is embraced
in a volume Of 376 pages, profusely
illustrated, with many colored plates
showing different varieties of the
finny tribe just as they are in life. 1t
covers a wide range of study and re-
search on the subject and to those
interested it is a work of much value.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-08-19

The Rockingham Post has acquir-
ed by purchase the Angle-Saxon of
the same town and the two papers
will be consolidated. That is well :.
One good strong paper is better for
a town and community than two
inferior ones each struggling for an
existence for lack of adequate sup
port. Mr.. A. l.. Fletcher, city editor
of the Raleigh Evening Times, will
become the editor of the new paper
and will make it credit to it's own
ers, to Rockingham and Richmond
county. He is a young man of
character and capacity, with the true
newspaper talent.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-08-19

A CERTAIN fellow in the Alabama
legislature not only wants to say
what kind of advertisements the
newspapers shall or shall not publish
but he would establish press cen
sorship and prescribe the reading
matter for them also. There are
fools and fanatics in this world that
would establish worse than blue laws
and run things to suit themselves or
hamstring and break upon the wheel
the victims of their displeasure if
they had it in their power to do SO.
They are not all dead yet.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-10-29
Senators May Keep Themselves Clean

1oored and wainscoted with the pur.
est of white stone. Into sections of
this room have been. fitted the baths.
shower baths, Turkish baths, needle
baths and other facilities for cleanlf.
ness which invite and even entice.
Marble rooms, bound round with
gilded steam pipes, beckon while the
senatorial waistcoat and modest neck.
tie are hung up on solid metal hooks
fastened in marble walls.
In the rubbing rooms are two great
marble slabs, supported upon hand.
somely carved bases. These are wide
enough to accommodate the ample
form of Senator Hepburn of Idaho,
long enough for the tall Shively of In.
diana, and bounded around by for
bidding ridge, which will keep from
accidental fall the small and rotund
form of Chamberlain of Oregon.
1t is not to be charged because the
elaborate bathing facilities are pro-
vided in the senate Office building
that senators have not bathed before.
Two plain tubs off the room where
senators are shaven and trimmed at
the expense of the government were
available to senators or guests whom
they desired to entertain, but they
were seldom used.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-10-29

r. HE world do move. The liquor deal
s ers of Washington are engaged in
reform as is reform, say what vol
Will or may. They propose to have
liquor vended in the national capital
in a perfectly ladylike way, and it
please you the Retail Liquor Dealers
association, is at the head of the re.
form.
Among the important features sug,
gested as the future policy of the Re,
form Liquor Dealers association are
the strict observance of the regula
tons now in force by the excise board
the partial elimination of the "growl
err" nothing to be sold in this form to
wagon drivers or other passers-by;
the doing away with the free lunch
except a screened bowl of cheese and
crackers, the free lunch being an un.
warranted competition to regularly
licensed restaurants and cafes and at
the same time calculated to be insani,
tary and means of transmitting dis.
ease; the discontinuance of "cut
prices" and brazen competition; the
doing away with large signs, and the
removal of all kegs piled up in front
of saloons as an advertisement of the
volume of business being done.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-10-29
AT SCHOOL
we" "Rail Kings Early Training
Began in Texas.
o'o sehoolhouse Where e. n. HarrL
mans Successor Began His Ed
"eation Still Stands In
Lone Star State.

Houston, Textile Lone Star state
Is proud that it has added another dis
tlnguished citizen to the nations 1ist
OF great railroad men. With p z
ioakum a shining light in the rail.
road business and James stiIInoan a
Nader In finance and closely associ.
ated with the railroad interests of the
united States, Texas felt well repre.
scented. but when Robert S. Loyett
was chosen to fill the vacancies
caused by E. H. Harriman's death.
Ihere came more cause for pride.
while Yoakum and Stil.man have
risen to positions of great trust, honor
and usefulness, they have not gone
Tue same route as that Travelled nv
LoVett, and unlike Lovett they were
porn with greater advantages. Loyett
mad no advantages whatever. His
people were poor, very poor and are
still poor, living in common plank
hcuses in the backwoods of east
iexas' farming, working at public
works and following such other ayo.
cations as will afford them a living.
Forty-nine years ago Robert Scott
LoVett was born on his fathers farm
among the hills and in the wilderness
OF San Jacinto county, Texas. The
'outhful years of Bob Lovett were I'm.
eVentful. He worked in the field, as
did other boys in that backwoods sec.
tlon' and went to school during the
winter and summer months.
Bob attended school at the First
Chapel schoolhouse. which was situat.
ed in the Big Creek Bottom, and there
he learned his letters and also how to
read and write. He attended this
school, off and on, for about six years.
His teachers were Professors Wager.
Wood and Weatherby. This old-time
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-10-29

ZEE McCLUNG, who played half
l. back on the invincible Yale foot
ball team of 1891, has been selected
by President Taft to succeed Charles
II. Treat as treasurer of tie United
States. Mr.. McClung, who IS treas
urer of Yale university, took up his
work in Washington November 1.
. Through his work at Yale Mr.. Nc,
Chung has been obliged to make New
Haven his temporary residence, but
his home is in Knoxville. Tenn. Be-
sides doing important work in connec
ton with the finances of Yale. Mr..
McClung has had other valuable ex-
periences in financial matters, having
been connected with the Southern
railway for time and also other en-
terprises in his native state.
Mr.. McClung was probably one of
the greatest half backs in college foot
ball, playing on the Yale team at the
same time as the famous Heffelfnger
It was largely due to the work of Nc
Chung and Heffelfinger that Yale went
through the entire season of 1891
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-10-29

VA ASHINGTON.-T is not yet
w that absolute trust in the weather
bureau that should exist, and if this
We're not true the loss in the recent
west India hurricane, which came on
schedule time, would have been much
less. Ports in the storm district were
warned of the approaching disturb.
ances, and vessels in the extreme
south Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
ports received advices to remain in
harbor.
The storm apparently had it's incep-
ZION near the middle islands of the
Lesser Antilles, and moved thence
westward over the Caribbean sea. In
accordance with the weather bureau
warning much of the shipping was
placed in safe harbor and not injured
at all. The loss of life would have
been much less in all probability had
not the people who were warned dis
da1ned to heed the warning.
There are really lot of right SEN
sl0le people who believe that the
weather bureau is something to laugh
at and have fun over And there are
a lot of other people, notably United
States senators, who while in Wash
lngton direct all the operations on
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-10-29
Lacked Confidence in the Weather Man

their farms and ranches by the wealth
er bureau reports Early in the morn
ing senators and representatives be
gin studying the weather bureau maps
If the reports of the weather from the
section in which they live show that
rain is impending in harvest time, q
large force is ordered to work, by
wire, and the manager told to hustle
If hay is to be cut and the weather
bureau reports say Storm" the hay
is not cut, but by wire the manager oil
the farm or ranch is ordered to hold
the hands for an emergency call in
case the weather indications are
brighter. Particularly is the weather
map studied in the winter by western
ranch owners.
United States representatives ir
congress have many of them much Of
their wealth in cattle, hogs, sheep oil
horses. A blizzard means untold loss
to them. If the weather indications Of
that special locality are for bad wealth
er, the herds are rounded up, where
they may be cared for indefinitely il
case the storm breaks.
Indeed, although not perfect by any
means, the weather bureau prognos
tications have saved the people of the
country millions of dollars year, anG
would save them yet other millions i
the people would but heed the warn
ing. 1t is a common thing to say
What does the morning paper say
Rain? Well, will put my umbrella
away. No rain to-day" Just thu
same, five out of seven times tht
rain comes.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-10-29

There Is Catagrh in this section OF the country
han all other diseases put together and until the last
ew years was supposed to be incurable. For greet
many years doctors pronounced IL local disease and
prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing
cure with local treatment, pronounced Il incurable
Science has proven CatarFh TO be constitutional dis
and therefore requires constitutional treatment
Hairs Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j. Cheney
Co.. Toledo, Ohio, is the only Constitutional cure on
he market. II is taken internally in doses from 10
1rops to teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They oner one
hundred dollars for any case it fails TO cure Send
Tor circulars and testimonials.
Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pulls for constipation.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-10-29

VIZ HEN congress convenes in Wash
w ington the first Monday in De-
cember begrimed and perspiring SEN
ators emerging from the toll and dust
of the senate chamber will no longer
be forced to hurry home to wash up"
for dinner. Instead they will hide
their desheveled appearance in dark
corridors and slip stealthily through
the dusky subway to the S4,000,000
Office building: Here baths, which ri
val those of millionaires' homes, are
ready for the members of the upper
law-making branch.
In order to encourage the senators
in the cleanliness which tends to pur-
ity, the baths were made to exceed
in elegance anything found in a sena-
torial home.
A large room was set apart on the
first floor of the building, marble
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-10-29
WOMEN IN FIELD OF SCIENCE
Margaret RuddIeson, a Kansas City
Girl, Gives instructions on
Fruit Raising.

MISUNDERSTANDING through the
huge white marble buildings of the
department. of agriculture at Washing.
ton, one sees many women, in neat
white aprons. some of them mere
girls, bending over microscopes and
Test tubes. Their activities seem very
mysterious; but when one inquiries.
one learns that they are engaged in
original research work relating in
one way or another to farming or
gardening.
The case of Miss Alice Henkel, a
botanist in the plant bureau, is note
worthy, if only for the reason that
she entered that establishment orig,
inally in an ordinary clerical ca.
pacity as a stenographer and type.
writer. That was only a few years
ago, when, a mere girl, she came to
Washington from Cincinnati. But she
was the inheritor of scientific aptitude
from a family in which there had been
many searchers after exact truth in
botanical and other lines, and she
quickly took up plant study as a pro,
ressional pursuit.
Miss Henkel. though still a young
woman, is the author of a number Of
scientific bulletins already issued by
the plant bureau, One of these is on
the subject of Weeds" Another is
on Drug Plants"-this latter subject
being one to which she has devoted
special attention. Up to the present
time more matter. of hers has been
published by the government than
from the pen of any other woman.
Miss Margaret Huddleson is an
other young woman scientist in the de
nartment of agriculture. She halls
from Kansas City, Mo. Not long ago
she took a high degree at a college, OF
medicine, and is now full fiedged
doctor. This she did in the intervals
Of her work as a romologist-that be-
ing her particular speciality. Her
most important hUsIDk IS in the divr.
sion of pomology ste : We instruction
by letter to peop.e all over the coun
try who want to know about how tn
grow fruits.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-10-29
Liquor Men to Reform Their Business

No liquor is to be sold to a female
over the bars, nor in private upstairs
rooms or Railways; Objectionable char
acters or language around saloons will:
be placed under the ban. Men known
to be habitual drinkers or those ir
any way under the influence of liquor
will be refused.
Well, now, you know, all this might
have been written by the w. c. T. U.
and certainly it is vindication of the
hard work they have been doing fol
the betterment of large cities.
To stop the rushing of the growI
er" and the serving of liquor to WON
en- will go long way toward that re
form which all good, public-spiritet
people have long desired.
There is to be an absolute closing
of all saloons from Saturday might
until opening time the next Monday
morning. Members of the association
will aid the authorities in running
down "speak-easies" and the bogus
clubs.
The members of the association
have held several conferences with
Maj. Sylvester, superintendent of pc
lice, and for the first time in the his
tory of the capital the authorities and
liquor dealers are working hand in
hand to suppress the evil saloons. As
rule the capitals saloons are vel!
regulated, but in the lower class dis.
tricts there have been complaints and
it is these that the association wishes
to wipe out. The association is
backed by ample funds to carry out
the reform at which it aims and Mai
Sylvester is glad to get its aid.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-10-29
Government sanatoria.

The United States government OF
crates three tuberculosis sanatoria
one for soldiers and officers of the
regular army at Fort Bayard, N. NJ;
one for seamen in the merchant ma
rine, and others employed in coast
service of the government, not in the
navy, located at Fort Stanton, N. NJ.
and one for officers and enlisted me1
in the navy at Las Animas, Col. The
first hospital is conducted by the de
partment of war, the second by the
United States public health and ma
rine hospital service and the latter by
the navy department.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-10-29
POSSIBILITY OF WAR.
Lord NorthCIiffe Says Germans
Are Getting Ready.
Most Powerful Of British Peers De.
elares England Sleeps While kais-
er's Country Is Aiming for
an Emergency.

Chicago.-Lord Northcliffe, other.
wise Alfred Harmsworth, publisher OF
the London Daily Mail, and London
Times, the Overseas Daily Mail ami
Al other important publications in the
English language, favorite of King Ed
ward VII, and perhaps the most in
huential man in modern British
thought, in an interview in Chicago,
declared Germany is preparing for
possible war, while England sleeps.
THE Americans are so busy with
the affairs of their own gigantic con-
tinent that they have not the time to
study European politics.
There is an impression in this
country that some hostility exists be-
tween the peoples of Great Britain
and of United Germany.
Il know the Germans intimately.
From childhood / have Travelled ex-
tensively Throughout most of the Ger.
man states. l have many German
family connections, and ! venture to
say that, outside the usual body of
Anglophobes one meets in every coun-
try there is little hostility to the
British on the part of the Germans.
And, on the other hand, there is in
England no dislike of Germany. Au
contraire, our statesmen are adapting
German legislation to our needs, and
If imitation be the sincerest form of
tiattery the Germans must be pleased
with our proposed reproduction of
their workingmen's insurance, their
labor bureau, and great many other
legislative improvements that it ap.
pears to me, would be just as vital to
the United States as they seem to be
to Great Britain.
why, then, if so happy state oil
affairs exists between the two ma
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-10-29
The Shady Mar

We'd like to write little rhyme
about the steady man, who keeps on
pegging all the time and does the
best he can; the man who early goes
to work and doesn't get home till late;
nor ever try to shirk in order to be
great. There are some fellows who
will try to do their business tricks
and have a finger in the pie of city
politics; they try to put on lots oil
style and play a heavy role, and in
little bit O. while you find them in
hole! like the man of steady pace
his system admire; he has no wild
desire to place more irons in the fire!
Los Angeles Express.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-10-29
Try This in November.

thousands upon thousands of fam
MES who have not been regular eat
ers Of Quaker Oats will begin on the
arst Of November and eat Quaker
oats once or twice every day for thirty
DAYS Of this month; the result in
good health and more strength and
yIgor will mean that every other
month in the year will find them doing
the same thing.
Try it! Serve Quaker Oats plenti-
fully and frequently for the thirty
days Of November and leave off a cor
responding amount of meat and greasy
foods. You'll get more health, more
yigor and strength than you ever got
in thirty days of any other kind of
eating.
While you are trying this see that
The children get full share.
Quaker Oats is packed in regular
size packages and large size family
packages. z
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-10-29

tions, should there be any section OF
people in England to suggest the pos.
sibility of war? Turn back to 1869
Was there any friction between
France and Prussia? There was NO
hostility on either side. But any
reader of Bussche's Bismarck, or 9th
er standard authority on the great
German empire binder, will acknowl-
edge there was immense preparation
on the part of Germany-a prepare
ton that was kept secret as far as
possible and which also. as far as pos
sible, is being kept secret by Germany
to-day.
las to that which is transpiring in
the German shipbuilding yards, we
more or less know that by 1912 Ger.
many, in ships of the super-Dread-
naught class, will be the equal Of Eng
land.
IF we were in your position, able
to grow our own food on our own acres,
it would matter little to us If we had
merely an ornamental navy such as
Ambrose Bierce describes this month
in Everybody's Magazine-an article
which every American ought to read.
But how few Americans realize that
our food is brought to us from Aus.
tralia, Canada, much of it from this
city of Chicago and your western
wheat fields, from the Argentine re.
public-nearIy all of it from over the
sea.
Two or three days ago I was at
San Francisco, where your govern.
ment has spent an immense sum O;
money in fortifying the Golden Gate
against an imaginary Japanese attack.
Throughout the greater part of your
Pacific slope the Japanese, depleted
as they are by great war, infinitely
inferior as they are to you in popula-
ton, situated an immense distance
from you. with no coaling station on
your shores, are looked upon as a
dangerous opponent.
Even if it were possible for them
to cross the Pacific to attack you-a
more than ridiculous assumption, hay
ing in view a hundred and one con.
tingencies, including the Anglo-Japan-
ese alliance-what damage could they
do?
Il see it suggested in the Ameri-
can papers that there is some kind
of a scare in England. | wish there
were. Our public has been warned
by the prime minister, by the minis
ter of foreign affairs, by many of our
leading men. such as Mr. Frederick
Harrison and Lord Roberts, by prom
inent journalists. including Mr. Stead,
and by others, but they have not yet,
as you say, begun to sit up and take
notice.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-10-29

schoolhouse still stands. 1t is Al feet
long, rs wide, made of heart pine lum-
Der and covered with heart pine
boards, all of which are perfectly pre-.
served still as sound as a dollar, though
because it was used as a church. and
is we'll filled with old-time benches.
The name of "R. S. Lovett," cut in
bold letters, is still to be seen on the
back of one of these benches. Water
TO. school purposes was brought from
the creek a hundred yards away.
On the creek banks and only few
steps from where water was dipped
up with a gourd the initials "R. S. L."
were cut on a large beech tree. Just
T bove these initials is the name An
ME-"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-10-29

Mars was shining his brightest and
ruddiest. He looked to be just a
short distance away, and had the
twinkling little stars far outclassed
So gorgeous was he that a couple OF
policemen who had been pacing their
beats drowsily came to an abrupt halt
at Fifth avenue and Gist street, at.
tracted by the glowing spectacle in
the sky, and fell to discussing it.
They say that thing is more than
35,00O,0O0 miles away" said one.
Ridiculous was the quick re.
joinder.
"Why?"
Because if it was you couldn't see
it. You can't see nothing that's 35.-
100000 miles away.
b We'll, that's what they say, any.
how" ....
They're crazy. Why, if you'd put a
watermelon on the top of the court.
house tower, you couldn't see it if you
were a couple of miles away"
Then, to forever settle the matter.
the sage concluded: And look how
much bigger a watermelon is thar
that measly little star up there
Pittsburg Gazette-Times.