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The gold leaf., 1910-01-06
EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS In
VANCE COUNTY.
Paper Written and Read by Miss
dussie Finch of the Bona Vista High
School, Vance County, on North
Carolina Day.
Published by request

Published by request.
North Carolina is at least making
good III education, and we are proud to
say that among all her ninety-eight
counties, Vance stands among the first
only eight years ago the school prom
erty OF Vance county was valued at
$500; fod"F the valuation of RuraI
School property is SO 1000, and Hender-
son SIC, 900, making u total of So 900,
an increase OF nearly 100000 in eight
years.
We have 5G white teachers in twenty
elght schools and 81 cOlOred in twenty
seven schools. The school term. with an
increase OF l6 to "a weeks in Z years. is
now Iand 6mOnths all over the county.
with school tax of Is cents except in
local tax districts where 1t is 81 to :
months with a higher tax
The county census shows 1000 chill
dren under the school age, this number
being nearly equally divided between
the races. or these Henderson town
ship claims 3,OOO-7OO white and 800
colored children in the town of Hender-
son being enrolled as daily pupils in her
schools. In our rural districts there are
1000 children, 100 white and > 300
colored, with l 400 of the white and
l,6OO of the calored children attending
school.
All our country school property is paid
for, has been insured and the good work
Is being carried further by number of
new buildings being erected The one at
EPSON is to cost 81, 700. Adams Bot
tom, kittrell and Townsville. the last
four colored, are to have new buildings
at n cost of n hOut SD71 aoob
There are 20 libraries belonging to the
schools and ; more to be bought newt
year.
In speaking OF these, | hope nv hearers
will pardon me if | come a little nearer
home and tell them n little about our
iona vista library. GOu know we are
always glad to tell anything that is
good, and we think we have an especial-
ly good library record for 1909. In Feb
ruary OF this year, we had about 81 vol
umes in the library In March. with
some help from the State and Board of
Education, we added 10 new books. and
during March and April about 300 books
were taken out by pupils. During sum
mer months also, many books were
read. In the last eight weeks 10 have
been taken out of library and 36 donated
by teachers and pupils. This makes n
total OF 40 books read in the last four
months and ninety books were added
during the past year \ book donated
by any friend of the school wouId he
highly appreciated by teachers and pu-
pills
just one more fact about our county:
the valuation OF the property in Nanc.
Is about st, ,OO0, 900 TwotSpecial points
to be pushed in thp SrhnnIs f,r : h., ,,,,,-+
The gold leaf., 1910-01-06

A PRESS dispatch from Washington
dated Jan. Bird, says a movement is
on foot there toward having Peary
submit his polar records to the same
committee of the University of Copen-
hagen which examined Cooks DR.
Cooks records are said to be now on
the way to Washington to be ex-
amined by the committee which de-
clared Peary successful. 1t is pointed
out that Peary's supporters cannot
do less than urge him to take the
same chance. By yallmeans let Peary's
records be submitted to the same
scrutinizing examination of the ex-
perts who passed upon Cooks data.
The gold leaf., 1910-01-06

Up to the present writing Mr.. Peary
as not signifed Willingness to sub
hit his records to the University Of
to be passed upon to
stablish his claim to discovery OF
be North Pole. But until he does
10 SO he can not blame some people
or declining to believe he has been
hnrn
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LEARD SUCCEEDS GATTIS.
Mr.. II. S. Leard Becomes District
Passenger Agent of the Seaboard in
Place of TAI. c. ii. Gattis-Trans-
ferred from Richmond to Raleigh.

Mr.. H. S. Leard succeeds Maj.
Charles II. Gattis. resigned, as dis
trict passenger agent of the Seaboard
Air Line Railway, with headquarters
at Raleigh. The promotion OF Mr..
IIeard and his coming back to North
Carolina will be very gratifying to
his many friends i'll this State ana
to patrons Of the Seaboard with
which he has been prominently and
popularity connected for so many
wears. Mr.. Leard was fOrmerl y tray
cling passenger agent Of the Sea
board, with headquarters at Raleigh.
For the past five years he has Seeil
district passenger ageptrbb bb',h mead
quarters in KichHo| no+rra transfer
~ nd,eia" ~! Leard becoming divis-
Instead of district, passenger
agent, and from the Raleigh office
he will look alter the interests of
the company~m North Carolina and
Virginia~He is we'll known and
quite popular in this territory and
his friends hereabOuts are pleased
to have him in closer touch with
them again.
The following from the Richmond
Times-Dispatch is Of interest in this
connection:
al. 5. Leard, who for the past five
years has been district passenger agent
Of the SeabOard Air Line Railway, with
headquarters in this city. has been pro-
NOTED to division passenger agent in
charge OF Virginia and North Carolina,
with headquarters in Raleigh
"R. Eaughan-Lloyd, who has been city
passenger agent in the Richmond Office,
has been promoted to travelling passenger
agent, and will remain with headquar-
tiers here, and will report to Mr. Leard.
y. +. Mitchell, ticket agent in Raleigh,
has been promoted to passenger agent in
that city.
"Mr. Leard has been fourteen years
with the Seaboard Air Line, starting
when very young man as a conductor
Mr.. Leard is well known as a most cOur-
teOus and efficient passenger agent. Dur
ing the five years he has been in Rich
mOnd he has become universally popu-
lar, and has been a great service to his
company. Mr.. Naughan-LlOyd entered
the office of the SeabOard Air Line under
Mr.. Lcard about three years ago as
ticket agent
FairbrOther's Everything is out
and looks as natural as if it had not
been taking a loug vacation. 1t is
an elegantly printed number and is
FhirbrOther all over, which is to say
that it is equal to any of its former
numbers Record
The gold leaf., 1910-01-06

HERE is all the more regret at the
ecent death of Senator A. l.. Nc
Iaurin of Mississippi, since it is an
ounced that Ex-Governor Nardaman
ly be elected in his place.
The gold leaf., 1910-01-06

IL the year just closed North Caro-,
ina seems to have done remarkaI
yell industrialIy, educatiopS~-f' co..
nercially and other er--''. -lD '2oaro auo
= ---.,ln all lines of development.
The gold leaf., 1910-01-06
THURSDAY, JANAURY 6, 1910.

TREAT is North Carolina, and
|eater still is the old State destined
be. Let's all do a patriotic citi-
MS part in giving it a far shove
rward this year.
The gold leaf., 1910-01-06
Hon. John H. Small.
Raleigh Times.

Raleigh Times
Representative John H. Small is
always Ion the Job" If the inland
waterways project is not pushed
through to successful finish it will
not be the fault of Mr.. Small. He
secured the appropriation for the
work being done in North Carolina
and Is now going after an appropria-
tlon to complete the work. CONGRESS
appropriated $55O,OOO for the Beau
fort end of the waterway and the
work on this is nearing completion.
An appropriation of 81. .5O0.O 900 is
needed to complete the work to Nor
folk and Mr.. Small is urging on the
house committee on rivers and har-
Dors that this appropriation be made
at once so as not to delay the work.
The section nearing completion will
permit the entrance of vessels with Il
draft OF ten feet from the ocean to
the inland waters of the State. From
Norfolk. however, the entrance to
these waters is less than eight feet
ana the securing of continuous ten
loot passage is an important matter.
There are several objections in the
way OF an appropriation at this time,
but Mr.. Small is a resOurceful man
and lie may be able to get the matter
through.
Mr.. Charles H. Gattis may be able
to appreciate now partly at least.
how much he is loved by his own peo-
pie. Since the announcement of his
intention OF leaving the State all the
papers have been saying splendid
things about him and expressing rp-
greet that heis togo to another State
to live. But all rejoice in his con-
tlnued promotion in the railroad
world and say that there is NOTHING
too good for him.-Raleigh Times,
RA2A
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O"i9if1f,S2
Oldest tehai1fSSddmee 13mn

opher and surnamed Doctor seraphcus." His pre-
served writings of dogmatic didactic nature ex
cusively and this hymn is not to be found them
Doubtless 1t is be referred to the seraphc side Of his
genius and temperament Its classic Latin cadences
such lyric felicity that cannot help but believe
they written to the noble and touching melody
whose wings they have oated time Surely this 10
fantastic suggestion when is remembered that
the original Greek music Of the Dephic hymn TO Apollo
intact and that certain familiar phrases OF
the Gregoran chant used to-day In the Roman are
identified by Hebrew historians the which
sung Solomons tcmpe many centuries before the time
OF Christ
hymn "Adeste Fidees" is not known to have been
England earlier than the seventeenth century
The musical setting have 1t In modern notation IL
ascrbed by Novello to John Reading, who was
organst winchester cathedral from 1875 to 1881 and
Winchester college, Its real origin Is lost In the
antiquity which probably far antedates the middle
ages and Latin to which II has been insep
arably welded
Wordlanguage reaches but the people or race 70
whom II directly addressed But the language of music
universalt is undersanded OF the people" instantly
all the wide world oyerit needs not to be written In
choice Latin translated into many tongues-it IL
caught up the heart and echoes forever That
why the "Adese Fideles" has become the Christmas
hymn OF all the world.
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Before visiting Turkey one gets an
exaggerated impression Of the strict
ness Of the passport regulations, but
In reality they are nothing more than
another device for raising revenue.
To explain this Just mention that
before travelling in Turkey one must
get license (tezkereh). costing about
five shillings and sixpence. which has
to be vised at various places en- route
and for each visa a fee is demanded.
II one y ceeds without visa fine
Is sooner or later extracted from one
In order to stop people travelling with
out license a police Official examines
and enters in book the particulars
Of all passengers by train. II anyone
is found without tezkereh he Is re-
moved from the train and fined, but II
Is only on the trains that any super
vision is exercised. On the caravan
roads one is never asked. SO that II
one wanted to travel unknown to the
government 1t would only be neces
sary to go by road.-Wide World
Magazine.
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"Yule" of "Merrs England" is the old Teu-
tonic name of the religious festival OF the win
ter sostice, during which Celt and Roman
could trace the movements of their deities as
they walked abroad in the world.
The Story Christmas Tells.
The Christian religion is not merely some
thing built over the old ethnic religions as the
church of st. Maria Sopra Minerva in Rome Is
built over the ruins CT the old heather temple
of Minerva. or as the grove sacred to Adonis
was planted by the order of the Emperor Had
ran over "the cave close to the village" which
is now honored as the scene of the Saviours
birth. 1t had larger and deeper meaning.
Christmas tells the story of gradual but
complete unfolding of the divine idea of relig-
ion as seen in the Christ Child of its worship
and its merry-making in its at once sacred
and social feast
The story is told simply but graphically by
two of the four evangelists. st. Marks gospel
begins with the baptism Of the Christ. SO log
ically he had no need to tell the story of his
birth and boyhood. st. John wrote near the
close OF the first century and with the domi-
nant idea of setting forth the divinity OF
Christ in opposition to the prevailing gnosti-
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tan era pagan Europe. in all its tribes and
peoples, had celebrated its chief festival. So
here have the double truth of the golden
age and the rebirth of the unconquered sun.
as he breaks the power of darkness. refined
and enriched In the Christian teaching OF
peace earth and good will to men," as
coincident with the rising of the Sun Of
Righteousness in the birth into the world of
the son of the peasant woman who also
the Son of God.
This view Of Christmas accentuates the
true place OF the Christian religion in relation
to the ancient and deep-seated religions which
preceded it, and at the same time reveals
beauty of development in its elimination as
the completed manifestation Of God to man.
In the infancy of the race the winter solstice
was everywhere season OF rejoicing. No
matter what the peculiar form which 1t as
sumed, 1t expressed the world Joy of the time.
So the very idea Of the Child God which gives
Christmas its meaning may not only have been
foretold by sybil and seer and prophet. but
prefgured by the infant gods of the Greek and
Egyptian and Hindu and Buddhist forms Of
religion.
These to us imperfect an unsatisfactory
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THAT LOST PUPPY
THE STORY OF A SEARCH, WITH
PROPER RESULT.
Household Pet Had Left Train OF
Devastation as He Went on His
joyful Way-cIaim Of Owner
ship Postponed.

The puppy was missing-our own
title Kiddo. and none knew where he
night be In fact we felt 1t would be
easier to tell where he might not be.
With choice limited to the stable
cupola and the bell tower on the en-
CINE house.
Search of his favored spots revealed
nim not. Under the house we found
he feathers of chicken we had be-
ieved long since safely inferred. Frag-
nents of a napkin that had blown
from the ciothesline showed that he
lad been there, but our dear little
puppy was nowhere In sight.
Out In the alley we found where in
ais innocent play he had carried the
sook's best apron and made strings OF
I. Poor little dog! He had to have
something to amuse himself with.
Our neighbor. Mr.. Burns. came to
he back fence and rested his coatless
arms upon H.
Have you seen our dog?" we asked
iim. Mr. Burns considered
What sort of dog was her" he
isked. "A little, flea-bit mongrel with
4 stub tail?"
We Indignantly replied that he was
fox terrier with pedigree as long
rs the laws Of the Medes and the
Persians.
II seen him." said Mr.. Burns. He
chased two of my settin' hens on tn
aest and busted half the eggs. II ever
ketch--"
(which way did he go?" we asked
Mr.. Burns smiled grimly.
Last l see of him." he said, he
vas travelin' due west an half brick
was follerin' him pooty clost." Then
we left him considering which way
was west.
They had seen him at the drug
store. He had managed TO get his
head caught In Jar and had fright.
sned an old woman so badly that the
doctor had to be called Just because
he approached her without removing
the jar.
"Have you seen our little dog?" we
asked the grocer down the street.
'If he was you'n, said the grocer
you owe me for whole cheese
!. Some darn little snubtailed beast ate
the wood off a new cheese and got ints
II before we saw him."
THAT wasn't our dog" we assured
him. Our dog hates cheese-won'
stay In the house with 1t, In fact. Blu
, which way did that dog go?"
, Following his directions and FOL
! lowed by his suspicious glances W
! went down the street again. Fa
, down the street we beheld q smal
= and hilarious crowd.
: Approaching, we saw the cause.
, little stump-tailed fox terrier. pair
I fully like our own lost pet. ha
Q paused at secondhand store and ha
' pulled down a string of shoes tina
+ were on exhibit outside.
3 These we was doing his utmost Z
destroy. manifesting the liveliest sa
y lsfaction at any progress made.
q At our approach he fed and W
knew whose dog he was. But as W
had to pass the druggists and tn
grocer's and our neighbor's home "
were not sorry. for there are time
when one does not like to claim eve
a pedigreed dog. and this was one q
them.-Galveston News.
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Some Strange Condolences.

Isaac b. Thatcher. clerk Of Wash
ington. has returned from q visit tc
Isaac b. Thatcher OF Easton, Pa. The
name Is not the only coincidence. Both
are civil war veterans. Each married
a woman named Mary. Each mans
wife's maiden name was White. Each
mans mother bore the Christian name
Hannah. Each has son Charles. All.
though they have traced their respec
tive ancestry back for five genera
tions, they have been able to establish
no relationship. Twelve years ago o
cousin of the Washington Thatcher.
riding on trein in Virginia. met tho
Easton Thatcher. The two began to
correspond. and this year the EastoH
Isaac b. Thatcher invited the Wash
ingtou Thatcher to visit him.
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conceptions Of the d.
vine may have been the
rude but honest efforts
of the earlier days Of the
human race to group the
idea Of a Goldman which
has been made SO real
and SO full Of Joy to us
In the Nativity and the
Epiphany of the Christ.
In this sense the early
church may have been
wiser than she wot OF.
Her aim was to select
the best features of the
heather feasts and en-
body them for their puri-
fication in Christian
practices and sacred
rites and to wean the
converts from their old
superstitions to the
deeper and more real
truths of the Christian
faith.
But In so doing she
may have been the un-
conscious instrument OF
a divinely guided evolu-
tion in religious practice
and belief which has en-
nobled and enriched the
world. The symbolism
of our Christmas today
certainly lends itself In
many ways to this point
or view. In the greenery
with which we deck our
houses and churches and
In the gift-laden fir trees
which gladden. our chill
dren's hearts. we still re-
tain the symbols by
which our heather fore
fathers signified their
faith in the power of re-
turning sun to clothe the
earth with green and
hang new fruit on the
trees. The Christmas
carol may be a new
birth Of the hymns of
the Saturnalia. The
holly and mistletoe
came from the Druid
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eA churches throughout Christendom this Is the
IXgRI when is heard that grand old hymn whose
tender and solemn strains find echo in the
universal human heart-"Adeste Fdeles" Come All Ye
Faithful 1t is the anthem at high at Christ
mastde for centuries past calling Christs worshpers to
Bethlehem where the newborn Savior lies. 49,
This naive and beautiful Latin anthem is more ancient
than its history and back six seven centuries
Saint Bonaventura Italian monk of the thirteenth
tury died in Lyons France in 1874. is credited with
the authorship of the beginning:
Adeste fdeles.
Laeti triumphantes.
Vente, Venite in Bethlehem.
Natum videte Regem angelorum
Venite adoremus.
Venite adoremus.
Venite adoremus Dominum. -- r T.
Oh all ye faithful,
Joyful and triumphant,
Oh, ye oh. come ye to Bethlehem.
See the newborn Saviour. king OF all the angels.
oh, come let adore him.
Oh, come let adore him.
oh, come let adore him. Christ our Lord
Saint Bonaventura was Franciscan scholastic philos-
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Limit Too Low.

when you are angry" said the man
of gentle instincts. stop aud count Z
hundred"
"A hundred" echoed Mr.. Sirius
Barker. IF l could stop at hundred
q counting up my wtfe's milliner's
bills wouldn't be angry"
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UNECHT RUPRECHT
WITH HIS -S&S
JIIGEINC BELLN

worship. The banquet
time itself may be a sur
vival. purified and refined.
Of the original feast to
the gods and goddesses Of
the fabled OLYMPUS. The
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bration fs a part Of the universal
history Of the human race. What
ever may have been its origin and
whatever peculiarities may have
gathered about It in its adaptation
20 different people and different
circumstances. II is to us Ameri-
cans to-day practically national
feast.
To keep 1t was at one time. and
In our own part of the country, II
Is true, penal offense. 1t was
thought to savor of prelacy and to
foster unpleasant memories of po-
litical servitude. But It has grown
with our growth and the broad.
mindedness of the American
people Is seen at its best In the
hearty commemoration OF the ma.
tivity Of the Christ from year to
year.
In some parts Of the country, in
fact. Christmas day bids fair to
supplant Thanksgiving day, and it
certainly may already claim an
equality OF recognition with the
time-honored national festival of
our New England forbears. People
OF every creed and every nation.
ality within our borders delight to
participate In the celebration of
the Christmas feast, and many a
scion of old-world stock finds him.
self back home again as the church
bellg peal and the candles glim.
mer on the Christmas trees. II ia
a time OF universal peace and
good will. 1t brightens homes
softens asperities and uplifts us
as 1t brings "the light that never
was on land or sea-"
Tho Origin Unknown.
The origin of the festival is said
to be lost in antiquity. II, as held
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story Is told of an Alpine farmers servant
who hid in the stable on Christmas eve and
heard the horses talking about his own death.
which followed few days later.
A Bosnian Legend.
There is a Bosnian legend that the sun
leaps in the heavens and the stars dance
around 1t. A great peace comes stealing down
over mountain and forest. The rotten stumps
stand straight and green on the hillside. The
grass is benowered with blossoms and the
birds sing on the mountain tops In thanks to
God. In Poland the heavens open and Jacobs
ladder is set up between earth and sky. In
Austria the candles are set In the window. that
the Christ Child may not stumble when he
comes to bless the home. In north Germany
the tables are spread and the lights left burn
ing for the Virgin Mary and her attending
angel.
The English superstition Is admirably
voiced by the myriad-minded Shakespeare In
Hamlet"
Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes
Wherein our Lords birth is celebrated.
The bird OF dawning singeth all night long.
And then they say spirit can walk abroad.
The nights are wholesome. Then no planets strike
No fairy takes, witch hath power to charm.
So hailowed and gracious Is the time"
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N EVERY Roman Catholic church and in probably
ninety-and- nine out of every hundred Protestant
churches throughout Christendom this is the sea-
when is heard that grand old hymn whose
tender and solemn strains find an echo In the
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LII the world
keeps Christ
mas day. From
the land of the
midnight sun
to the sunny
south Of per-
petual summer
Is a far cry.
But in the long
distance there
is no la n d
where Christ
m a 8 is n o t
kept. Its cele-
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II man will compliment his wife upon he
youthful appearance and tell her that he love-
her, she will forgive other white lies
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lnS DttU sltdhtu iiOht JOSNPh ""N 49,
Luke, who probably got his informa-
ton from Mary, have given us the
story with a dlrectness and human
ness which the grotesque and often
meretricious wonder-tales OF the apoc-
ryphal gospels have but served to ao-
centuate as dark background to
touching and reverent picture.
Around the story legends natu-
rally gathered. It was the custom Ia
early days to decorate In this way
the graves of heroes and some OF
these legends are no doubt the on
spring OF the vulgar tattle" OF the
apocryphal gospel stories. In some
parts of the world the bees are said
to sing on Christmas eve. The cattle
kneel in honor of the manger-bed at
Bethlehem. The sheep go in process
sion In commemoration Of the angels
visit to the shepherds. The Indians
creep through the winter woods OF
Canada to see the deer kneel and
look up to the Great Spirit. In the
German Alps the cattle are thought
to have the gift OF language, and the