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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-09-30
HENDERSON. N. c.. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 80, 1909


| Charlotte Observer
By arranging New York and Chi.
cago as modern Babylons Governor
Glenn brought a volley OF hot shot
about his ears. Among representa-
tive newspapers outside the State
there was for the Ex-Governor side
little or nothing better than mild
protest to the effect that such lang
uage must obviously be tco sweep
| ing. Comments, excluding those
which impressed us as strenously and
unnecessarily vicious, were reprinted
by the Observer for public informa-
tion in the matter. We want to say
now that however naturally those
unacquainted with Mr.. Glenn may
have supposed him a deliberate SEN
sationalist and notoriety seeker they
were altogether mistaken. Neither
did he speak in any spirit of conscious
uncharitableness. The Ex-Governor
as lie faced his Chautauqua audience
was a warm-natured man in whom
the exhorting habit has developed a
tendency to use language rather
highly cOlored at times. Most SEN
sational evangelists are humbugs,
but not all are. Mr.. Glenn on this
occasion spoke somewhat in the spirit
of an evangelist who couples honesty
with sensationalism. He merely let
himself be carried too far. Most peo-
pie in North Carolina understand this
and do not believe that he intended
anything unworthy.
And we want to say, further, that
Ex-Governor Glenn's indiscreet utter
ance was not OF the kind which re-
fleets upon home people. He cast
Northern cities faults in their faces.
He did not bid for Northern applause
or dollars at the South's expense. OF
two undesirable extremes, his was
certainly the better and more whole
some-positively refreshing by con-
trast. Besides, there is the host of
child-slave howlers and other muck
rakers loosed upon the South; their
performances leave the North little
ground for righteous wrath when a
Southerner rakes Northern muck in
turn. Considered as retaliation, ex-
Governor Glenn's remarks we're moth
ing more than just and proper He
gave our Northern friends taste of
the medicine which the South has
been making faces over for years.
On this account, if no other. the
Southern press should not have
joined in the anti-Gienn cry. We
trust that it will make amends by
modifying recent expressions and do
ing him full Justice hereafter.
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THE STATE FAIR.
Will be Greatest and Most Spectacular
Event In History of Association
rIore Free Attractions and Bitter
Ones This Year Than Ever Before.
Raleigh News and Observer.

Raleigh News and Observer.
The Fair will he the most sp-etnr-
ular in its history in that there will
be more free attractions Of u sensa-
tiOnal and nOvrlcl,aractar that iiave
ever yet been ergnge'i ut Raleigh.
The shows upon the midway will be
almost entirely new o the patrons OF
the Raleigh Fair, number OF which
will be the most elaborate and exten-
sive ever featured. There will be more
live stock, more agricultural impie-
ments and farm machinery, a larger
display in - art, better exhibit OF
ladies' fancy work.
In short, the State Fair will accom-
plish more for the promotion Of agri-
culture, horticulture, industry and
along all educational lines, particu-
larly in all those matters calculated
to advance the interests Of the farm
er, by showing fine breeds OF cattle,
sheep and swine, up-to-date farm
machinery, modern labor-saving de-
vices of every kind, than ever before.
The management seeks, without
regard to pains and expense, to make
the State Fair stand for something
that means definite results to the
people of the State in every depart
ment, and it is believed that the peo-
pie of the State will enjoy the Fair,
derive more benefit, and will attend
In larger numbers this year than
ever before. Everything will he con-
Quoted on a high plane, and it is felt
that the Fair ia entitled, by reason ol
the purpose and determination ol
the management to reform the Mid
way effectively, to all the eonsidera-
tion and favor due q great agricul.
tural fair, whose features have been
changed from q dominating Midway
to q dominating display OF the pro.
ducts of hard work, thrift and indus
try.
All the railroads tributary to Raj.
eigh have made special rates which
are the lowest consistent with good
service, and have agreed to operate
a large number OF special excursion
trains to the Fair during the week
With ample transportation facilities
greatly increased this year, every.
body can travel comfortably to and
from the Fair, without oyercrowd
ing.
Meet and greet your friends at the
Fair, October 1928. You cannot
afford to miss it.
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Perhaps few people outside oi the
immediate section know that there 10
anywhere in North Carolina a chicken
ranch or preserve on which there are
six thousand OF the feathered family
that so much delight the heart and
please the palate OF q Methodist
preacher. But such is a fact, and
Wilkes county is the home OF this in
dustry according to the North Wilkes
boro Hustler. In q recent issue it
said:
ln passing this week we visited the
w. s. Church place at Summit. the
great game chicken preserve of Wilkes
county. Chickens are shipped from
this place to all parts of the world
South Africa, South America. Cuba
and throughout the Wes4. BE hes
ten chicken yards and /, 900 chickens
in ten yards and 50 yardsin the sur
rounding community, making about
5000 chickens.
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1t Is passing strange how some OF
| the big mail order houses that send
out their catalogues from Chicago
and New York can get such a hold on
tpeOple as they do. These catalogue
houses send out thousands of their
| books into the homes and have fancy
pictures of their goods and glowing
descriptions.
The strange part about it is, by
the time the postage and express is
paid on most If not all Of fthe articles,
that they cost as much if not more
than the same goods would cost il
bought from the home merchant.
The foreign mail order houses have
no interest in our people. They do
not pay any tax for us. They do not
help us build our schools and church
es. They will not give cent to aid
one OF our sick people. not one cent
to replace a poor mans home which
may be burned In short they have
no interest in us except for the
money they can get out of us.
Our home merchants are part of
us. They pay taxes, they support
our churches and schools, they will
aid those in distress, they will feed
our poor and hungry and wait for
their pay reasonable time.
One OF the meanest things white
man can do is to buy goods of his
home merchant on credit and when
he gets $40 TO spend. instead of buy
ing the $40 article OF the man who
has helped him. and will sell the
goods as cheap, il to send that $40
| off to Il catalogue house.
The home merchants are entitled
to the trade OF the home people and
ought to have it, so long as they fur
nish the goods at prices equal to any
of the catalogue houses when the
quality is taken into consideration
as well as the ecost-CatawbaC County
News.
Somewhat along the same line but
not as Ii comment upon the above,
the Lexington Dispatch has this:
The practice of passing over home
merchants to trade with mail order
houses in distant markets is receiv-
| ing bit more attention than usual,
although it comes in periodically for
notice by the press; and while we
have, naturally, always been with the
home merchant, and think that for
many reasons he should have the
full patronage of the territory where
in he is located, yet at the same time
we have realized as the home mer-
chant must come to realize, if he
wants trade, that his failure to use
printers ink freely and iudic;ously is
responsible 20 some degree, perhaps
a large degree, for the growth of this
injurious practice. What has built
up the vast mail order business?
Nothing in the world but advertising.
Ii it has paid the distant merchant
prince to enter new territory on
an offensive advertising campaign,
wonld it not pay the home business
man to conduct a defensive cam
paign in his own territory, where he
has every advantage? 1t is self
evident fact to every observant man
that in this age to sell anything,
that thing must be given publicity,
and the man who knows how to ad-
vertise and who does it, is going to
expand his busines rapidly, and such
q man doesn't care snap far mail
order houses-they don't hurt him.
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Salisbury Post.

Salisbury Post.
DR.. Cook may be the fraud that
Peary says be Is but the latter's saw
age attack on him proves the Com
mander u bully. 1t is very certain
that DR.. Cook cannot deceive the
scientific bodies that will ask proof
of him before accepting bis state
ments as facts and be was certainly
not fool enough when he announced
the discovery OF the Pole to think
be would not be called upon for sub
sanitation oi his statements. These
being the facts Peary's conduct il al
together discreditable. The world ID
not 30 much concerned in the indi-
vidual that discovered the pole as it
is in the fact OF its discovery and it
wants to know OF Peary II he really
got there; IL he did, how. II would
like to know something, too, OF his
observations and conclusions. Peary
only wins friends for Cook by his bru-
tai assaults upon his veracity.
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Monday, October 4th, 1909,

at = o'clock at the Court House door in
Iaurr County, n. C., offer for sale to the
highest bidder for cash IA certain house end
lot lying aud being in the town of Hender
sou, y C., and more particularly described
as lollows:-Begin at an Iron stake on the
Southwest corner of Zene street and Turner
avenue; run thence Eastward along Zene
street l4S feet to an Iron stake in the line OF
oil r. X G. Railroad lot; thence along said
I.ulrond line in a Northward direction 95
feet to Iron stake in said line: thence West
ward 149 feet to an Iron stake in Turner
avenue; thence along Turner avenue 81 feet
10 the place of beginning: Same being the
house and lot owned by Mrs F. NJ. Brscoe
and occupied by Prof J. 7. Alderman. For
further description Deed Book ;, Page
1876 Vance County.
This the 2Sth day of August. 1909.
J. c. KITTRELL,
Cum Tes administrator or OF Susanah
f. Watkins.
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The Road to Success

has many distinctions, but none SO desper-
ate as poor health. Success today demands
health. but Electric Bitters is the greatest
health builder the world has ever known Ii
compels perfect action OF the stomach. liver,
kidneys, bowels, puri6es and enriehes the
blood, and tones aad invigorates the whole
systym. Vigorous body and keen brain fol.
low their use. You can't afford to slight
Electric Bitters If weak, rundown or sickly
Only SOC. Guaranteed By Melville Dorsey.
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NOTICE..

pY VIRTUE OF POWER CONFERRED
ID upon me by trust deed executed by
Edmund Read and wife, and Oscar Dortch
and wife on the Goth day of October, 1894,
which deed is registered in Vance County in
Book 10, at page 1874, and at the request OF
the holder of the debt secured therein default
having been made in the payment of said
debit | shall on
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Go With a Rush.

The demand for that wonderful Stomach,
Liver and Kidney cure, DR.. Kings New Life
Pills-is astounding. Melville Dorsey says he
never saw the like. It's because they never
fail to cure Sour Stomach, Constipation, In
digestion, Billiousness, Jaundice, Sick Head
ache, Chills and Malaria. Only 25c.
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SI:Il,|s
OFFICE OF Town Tax CoLLprou

OFFICE OF Town TAX COLLECTOR,
HEsDERsoS. n. C.. SEPT l. 1909.
TNHE TAX LISTS FOR THE TOWN OF
i HENDERSON for the year 1909. have
been made out and the amounts placed In
my hands for collection. All persons liable
for town taxes for the current year nre here
by requested TO come forward and pay the
same.
sA-0face In illen.Moss Hardware Com.
pany's store. W II. wEsTER,
Town Tax Collector.
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SALE OF LAND.

ITNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF AN OR
- der Of the Superior Court af Vance
rounty in special proceedings entitled In Re
Estate Of Susannah +. Watkins, same being
No. O24 upon the special proceeding docket
of sal, court. and also by power conferred
hv will OF the late Susannah +. Watkins, tn,
uudrrsipnpd administrator will on
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wi
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-09-30

The date on your address label In
dicates the time to which your SUBJ
scrlption Is paid.
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Patronize Home Folks.

Many People do Home Mer-
chants and Themselves an
Injustice by Patronizing the
Mail Order Houses of the
Big Cities Under the Impress
sion that They are Saving
Money-But After All are
Not the, Local Merchants
Largely to Blame for Losing
: Trade to These Concerns?
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Honors for DR.. Cook.

Discoverer Of Pole Given Great
Ovation at Banquet in His
Honor by the Artic Club at
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in
New York Willing to Share
Glory with Others-"There
is Honor Enough for ALL"
Says Successful Explorer
Has a Good Word for Com
Peary Together with Others.
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Monday, October | lth, 1909,

at about the hour of noon, sell at public
auction at the Court House door in Heuder-
son. II certain tract or parcel of land situ-
ated partly in Franklin County and partly
in Vance County. said State adjoining the
lands of George Ayseue. b. F. Stainbaek, R
II. Duke and Others and containing eighty
SIX 1867 acres, more or less
Terms of sale: 0neforth cash balance on
credit OF six months with interest from day
oi sale at the rate OF six per cent. per annum,
payable annually. Title reserved until pur-
chase price is paid in full.
This September 9th, 1909.
THOMAS NJ. PITTMAN.
W. III. MARLBOROUGH, JR,
Commissioners
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Sale of Valuable Real Estate.
A Good Tobacco Farm

TNDER AND By VIRTUE OLA DECREE
- OF the Superior Court of Franklin
county. North Carolina, made in special
proceeding entitled :. l. Duke VS. r. H. Duke
ct ais, the undersigned commissioners will,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-09-23
STOYER.

The weather is very favorable at this
writing.
Buckwheat is not so good on account
of dry weather.
Miss Grace Riley was visiting at Mrs.
E. E. Tasker's, near Kurtz Chapel, last
Sunday.
Mrs. Jonas Gamer, of St George, is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Capt.
White of this place
Mrs. NJ. S. Harvey was seen in town
Sunday evening.
Messrs. Waitman Stoyer and Chas.
Kidd and Misses Bessie Stoyer and Ida
Harvey were calling on friends near
Deer Park last Sunday.
Mr.. Bell White and wife We're visit
ing at j. I. Stoyer's last Wednesday.
Mr.. Scott Harvey was in town Sun
day.
Mr.. V. H. Foley, of Mt Storm, visit
ed our town last Saturday evening.
Sunday morning no trace OF him could
be found Attractions must be great.
Miss Bessie Stoyer was visiting at
the home of Rev. Idleman last Friday.
Mrs. Winters and children, of Mid
land, were visiting at Thos. Melvin s
Sunday.
A merry crowd of our young people
attended the Illustrated lecture at White
church last Thursday night. All report
a good time
Mr.. Mike Tasker is helping Mr.. Jack
Wilson haul logs this week.
Mrs. Oscar Wolfe, of Kitzmiller, was
visiting in town Sunday.
Mrs. E. E. Tasker, of Kurtz Chapel,
visited friends here last Wednesday.
She expects to go to Oklahoma and
New Mexico soon, where she is going
to homestead. Her daughter Emily
will accompany her.
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body which, to put it very mildly,
greatly needed critical watching. There
is, in fact, in this state a large indie
pendent vote, which, under present con-
ditions, holds the balance of power be-
tween the two parties.
AS every discriminating observer is
aware, the Acknowledgement scheme Is
really designed to eliminate the indie
pendent vote in this state-to render it
of no effect. If the existing whole
some balance between the two parties
is destroyed the organization bosses
who have made of the Democratic party
a close corporation can do what they
please in the way of making tickets and
electing them. They can put up type
of candidate which, under existing cir
cumstances, they would not dare to
nominate. The Independent vote may
then swing to the other side without
avail, for the Is, 900 independents in the
state could not cOunterbalance the 50, 900
disfranchised. With the complete con-
troll of the electoral machinery of the
Democratic party the organization
which even now does things in the name
of the party would so entrench its posi-
ton that not in the next quarter of a
century, perhaps not in half century,
would it be possible to break the grip
of the bosses.
The DISTINGUISHING amendment is de-
signed TO destroy the wholesome balance
of power between the two parties in
this state. 1t means that, and nothing
else.
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LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE. "

Rev. DR.. Henry NJ. Wharton, pastor
of Brantly Baptist Church, took occa-
sion yesterday morning to preface
sermon with few remarks about the
DISTINGUISHING amendment which are
the more interesting in that they come
from a minister who is at the same
time democrat and man who has
been closely identified with the South
for a lifetime DR.. Wharton said in
part:
ITO accomplish the purpose of the
proposed amendment may work injury
to deserving white men of foreign birth
to some extent, and the wheat might be
pulled up along with the tares. Besides
if the negro vote should be taken out of
politics it would give the Democratic
party such supreme control that corrup-
ton might dare say would inevitably
follow. Perhaps we mad better let
well enough alone. - The negro is our
ward. We are his guardians. In the
providence of God, he is on our hands
and we must take care of him. The
amendment is absolutely unnecessary.
We had better leave things as they
are"
If the amendment is not absolutely
unnecessary. as DR. Wharton points
out. it remains for somebody to show
wherein its adoption will improve the
condition of either the white man or
the black man in Maryland. With it's
present overwhelming majority in the
Legislature, the Democratic party does
not need another vote in either house
to pass any law or to enact any reform
it wishes to grant the State. The pos
sibility of this becoming a boss-ridden
Commonwealth in the event of the elm
nation Of the negro vote is undenable.
The time to let well enough alone, "
as DR.. Wharton suggests, is when ask
ed to make radical change, change
which, at best, can be productive of
little good, and which may be produc-
tive of very great deal of HARM
Mondays Baltimore News.
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BITTINGER.
ss.s.es@.eeas.ss.aes...eH.

The scheme for an Independent peo-
pies ticket was dead failue, 50 far as
this district is concerned, as not single
individual appeared on last Saturday
afternoon to hold the primary election
for which call had been made.
Rev. j. B. Shoup returned from his
western trip last Saturday afternoon
and is now at the home of his daughter
in this village, and we are sorry to re
port his physical condition as rather
serious.
Mrs. Brininger, of Sunnyside, is
spending this week with her daughter,
Mrs. j. Turner Lohr, at this place.
Ray Mccullough and Miss Lizzie
Welsh, of Friendsville, spent a few
hours last Sunday in this village as the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Orendorf.
Samuel Peck, of McHenry, passed
through this village one day last week.
A party of aides from jennings came
to this villagu one day last week laden
with good things for Rev. and Mrs.
Yugel. and after spending the afternoon
very pleasal tly at the parsonage, re-
turned to their homes on the evening
train.
John II Stark and wife, of this place,
spent a few days last week visiting
friends at aad near Confluence, Pa
Harry ami Charles Wiley, Of this vii
lage, spent two days last week attend.
ing the fail at Meyersdale, Pa.
Rev ALVIN Yugel made a business
trip to Oakland and Cumberland last
week
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A TW0.PARTY STATE.

Governor Crothers in his speech at
the Lyric meeting, inspired by ire
mendously sympathetic audience, de-
clared: They say that the ratification
of the amendment will make this one
party state. Why, it is a one party
state now, and it will be as long as we
have negro voters"
lfgMaryland is now a one-party state
there is no such thing among the states
of this Union as two-party state. 1t
is not necessary to go back to the
sweeping result of the election of 1895
to show that the long-do minant party
had arrived at a period when its hold
upon power had become precariously
uncertain. There has not been a gen.
eral election IN this state since 1895
when the result Immediately preceding
the election not been a matter of doubt.
Governor Crothers himself was elected
by small plurality. At the last con
gressional election this state equally
divided its representation in the House
branch of the national assembly, and
even in the state legislature of 1908
there was an able and aggressive minor
ity representation which exerted an in
ealculable modifying influence upon a
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-09-23
HIS LATEST OUTBREAK.

The good people of Garrett county
were hardly prepared for the lurid let
ter that emanated from the versatile
pen of Mr.. Gilmor S. Hamill through
the columns of the Garrett Journal last
week, iniwhich he undertook to try his
so-called libel case against the editor of
The REPUBLICAN, and in which he de-
scended.to the lowest depths of billings
gate and personal abuse.
People who are acquainted with this
gentleman are aware that he is given
to great Outbursts of temper, but that
he was..adept in the art of calling people
liars.was left for him to demonstrate to
the entire satisfaction Of the community
in the article referred to- Possibly
some people who are afflicted with the
same kind Of disorder, applauded this
supreme effort of Mr.. Hamill to let the
public know Just how he felt and in
what chaste and charming language he
could pour out the long pent-up walls of
his wrath.
So far las we are able to Judge Mr..
Hamill's mentality is especially dis
turbed every time reference is made to
his connection with the great Baltimore
and. OhioE RAILROAD, but we see nothing
in this that should disturb his tranquility
or cause him the slightest disquietude
and upset his peace of mind. Surely 1t
is no disgrace to be connected with the
greatest corporation in the State 0 f
Maryland, to be its representative in
the greatest county of the State, and
to enjoy the prestige resulting from
such relationship Its practical immun-
ity from taxation gives it warm place
in the hearts of the people of Maryland,
no doubt, and enjoying this great degree
of popular esteem, its servants and rep
resentatives should feel at all times
that they, too, are the peculiar objects
of this same kind of public affection and
regard.
We regret that Mr.. Hamill descended
to the depths to which temper led him
Were we to reply in kind we should be
putting ourselves upon his level. We
feel sorry for him in his plight and we
believe that the better element of the
community joins with US in this ex-
preston offsympathy. Mr. Hamill has
reached the age where youthful indis-
erection in statement shoulG give way to
the calm, deliberate judgment and cor
rect depression of advancing years.
M. Hamill is considerably along on the
shady side of life and it is hoped that in
his declining years he will lose all asper-
ity of temper and permit the sweet and
modifying influences of beautiful old
age to draw around him the love, af-
lection and high regard of our great
hearted people.