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Say, You See This. SO ALSO DO Several Thousand Other People. Suppose this was Your Jndicions Advertising HAS ITS REWARD. This is the Experience of those ity Use the columns of ADVERTISEMENT! o THE GOLD LEAR THAD R. MANNING, Publisher. YOL. X. cc OahotjTtta, Oajlotttsta, "FPr ajve3sts "Rt .Tissnsros -A-tteistid JEHjeurJ' I SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 Cish. HENDERSON, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1891. NO. 31. . 4 rHIS PAPER FulZTcT. ftV.'pSa advertising Bui.-ai10 Sprnon ftl wher advert long ir.trartB may "mCe lor I' IS KV VOttU? THE PERFECT LOVE. LOST .TOY, Olt A DREAM LIFE. OF An Exquisite Bit ot Sentiment lrom the Writing- of Oliver Schreiiier RADAM'S MICROBE KILLER! The greatest discovery of the nge. Old In theory, but the remedy only recent! discovered. The MICROBE KILLKR is prepared on scientific principles. starts at the root of all disease, and cures by removing the cause or the disease. Do you suffer with Catarrh ? Have you inherited Consumption ? Have you any Kidney Disease? 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A cheap medicine is the last thing on earth a suffering man wants. The genuine sold only by M. DOKSEY, Druggist HENDERSON, N. C, Sole Ajrent for Vance County. EQUITABLE Life Assurance Society OF THE UNITED STATES January 1, 1891. AbbhlS, $119,243,744 Liabilities, 4 per ct, 95,503,297 SURPLUS. $23,740,447 INCOME, New Business I written in 18i0, f O Assurance in force, $35,036,683 203,826,107 720,662,473 The EQUITABLE SOCIETY holds A LARGER SURPLUS, writes a larger ANNUAL BUSINESS, and has A LARGER AMOUNT of ASSURANCE IN FORCE than any other company IN THE WORLD. -:o: Its latest form of Policy is UNRESTRICTED after one year, INCONTESTABLE after two years, NON-FORFEITABLE" after three years, and payable WITHOUT DELAY. For further particulars, call on or 'address J. R. YOUNG, Agent, HENDERSON, N. C. face looked USINGLY ALL the day long, where the sun light played on the seashore, sat Life. All day the soft wind played with her hair, and the young, far out across the waiting MONEY! Ien te earned At or H b W tin of work, f rapidly and honorably, by those of cither aes, rating or old, and in their own Iocaiitiea,wberTr they lira. Any ona cam do tha work. Easy to learn. Wi foraiah ararythi&g. We atari yon. Ko risk. Toa can devote year spare moments, or ail your time to tke work. This la an entirely mrw ieadnd brinyr wonderful an cease to every worker. Betianera are earn ins; from 93$ to SSO per week and upwards. and mora after a Utile experience. We oaa formish yon tha em- Kloyment and teach yovFKKK. No space to explain hare. Full formatio FKtk. TKt'E fc CO., AtfltfilA, MUJL la 1 I U I II I I I I T I LI I Ml 1W2 rpt:BC8T: cHiCAftou 75 UNION SOUAHE. N. Y t""?ca CAl. SAIAM.TI- ",ur n v Davis & Kose. youn water. She was She was waiting; but she could not tell for what. All day the waves ran up and up on the sand, and ran back again, and the pink shells rolled. Life sat wait ing ; all day, with the sunlight in her eyes, she sat there, till grown weary, she laid her head upon her knee and fell asleep, waiting still. Then a keel grated on the sand, and then a step was on the shore Life awoke and heard it. 1 1 i-i . uauu was taiu upon ner, ana a great shudder passed through her. She looked up, and saw over hfr the strange, wide eyes of Love and Life now knew for whom she had sat theTe waiting. And Love drew Life up to him. And of that meeting was born a thing rare and beautiful Joy, First Joy was it called. The sunlight, when shines upon the merry water, is not so glad ; the rose buds, when they turn back their lips for the sun's first kiss, are not so ruddy. Its tiny pulses beat quick. It was so warm, so soft ! It never spoke, but it laughed and played in the sunshine : And Love and Life rejoicing exceedingly. Neither dared to whisper it to the other, but deep in its own heart each ! said : "It shall be ours forever." TM . 1 . men mere came a time was it after weeks ? was it after months ? f Love and Life do not measure time") when the thing was not as it had been. Still it played ; still it laughed : still it stained its mouth with Dumle ber- 5; but sometimes the little eves looked out heavily across the water. And Life and Love dared not look into each other's eyes, dared not say, What ails our darling?" Each heart whispered to itself, "It is nothing, it is nothing; to-moirow it will laugh out clear." But to-morrow and to-morrow came. They journeyed on, and the child played beside them, but heavily, more heavily. One day Life and Love lay down to sleep, and when they awoke, it was gone ; only, near them, on the grass, sat a little stranger, with wide open eyes, soft and sad. Neither no ticed it ; but they walked apart, weep ing bitterly, "Oh, our Joy ! our lost Joy ! shall we see you no more forever?" The little soft and sad eyed stranger slipped a hand into one hand of eatfh, and drew them closer, and Life and Love walked on with it between them. And when Life looked down in anguisn, she saw her tears reflected in the soft eyes. And when Love, mad with pain, cried out, "I am weary, I am weary! I can journey no further. The light is all behind, the dark is all before," a little rosy finger pointed where the sunlight lay upon the hillsides. Al ways its large eyes were sad and thoughtful: always the little brave mouth was smiling quietly. W hen on the sharp stones Life cut her feet, he wiped the blood upon his garments, and kissed the wounded feet with his lips. When in the desert Love lay down faint ffor Love itself grows faint), he ran over the hot sand with his little naked feet, and even there in the desert found water in the holes in the rocks to moisten Love's ips with. He was no burden he never weighed them; he only helped them forward on their journey. W hen they came to the dark ravine where the icicles hang from the rocks for Love and Life must pass through strange drear places there, where all is cold, and the snow lies thick, he took their freezing hands and held hem against his beating little heart, and warmed them softly he drew them, softly, on and on. And when they came beyond, into the land of sunshine and flowers, strangely the great eyes lit up, and dimples broke out upon the face. Brightly laughing, it ran over the sofc grass ; gathered honey from the hollow tree, and brought it them on the palm of its hand; carried them water in the leaves of the lily, and gathered flowers and wreathed them round their heads, softly laughing all the while. He touched them as their Joy had touched them, but his fingers clung more tenderly. So they wandered on, through the dark lands and the light, always with that little brave smiling one between them. Sometimes they remembered that first radiant Joy, and whispered to themselves: "Oh! could we but find him also !" At last they came to where Reflec tion sits ; that strange old woman who has always one elbow on her knee, and her chiin in her hand, and who steals light out of the past to shed it on the future. And Life and Love cried out : "wise one: ten us: wnen hrst we met, a lovely radiant thing belonged to us gladness without a tear, sun shine without a shade. Oh ! how did we sin that we lost it? Where shall we go that we may find it?" And she, the wise old woman, an swered : "To have it back again, will you give up that which walks beside you now?" And in agony Love and Life cried, "No!" "Give up this!" said Life. "When the thorns have pierced me, who will suck the posioa out ? When my head throbs, who will lay his tiny hands upon it and still the beating ? In the cold and the dark, who will warm my freezing heart?" And Love cried out : "Better let me die! Without Joy I can live. Without this I can not. Let me rather die, not lose rt!" And the wise old woman answered: "O fools and blind ! What you once had is that which you have now. When Love and Life first meet, a radiant thing is born, without a shade. When the roads begin to roughen, when the shades begin to darken, when the days are hard, and the nights cold and long then it begins to cnange. iove ana i,ue will not see MKS. SURBATT. THE UNDOUBTED INNOCENCE OF THE WOMAN. The Dying Testimony to that Effect of Conspirator Payne Corrobor ated by the Nemesis of Re tributive Jnstiee. do with. N ALL THE annals of Ameri can history there is no blacker stain recorded on its pages than the execution of Mrs. Surratt, for a crime that she had nothing to While much has been writ ten and published on the subject, the following article will doubtless be read with interest. A late Washington dis patch says : Public attention is again focussed upon the execution of Mrs. Surratt for alleged participation in the murder of President Lincoln. For as much as many writers of great skill have given to the world their opinions of the principal actors in that sad drama and their individual guilt, and public sentiment having been molded to some extent therefrom, Father Walter, pastor of St. patrick's Church, who heard Mrs. Surratt's confession before her march to the scaffold and accom- pained the ill-fated woman thither, it, will not know it till one day they has deemed it necessary to give his ver- start up suddenly, crying, 0 God! O slon ot tnat memorable occurrence,and God ! we have lost it ! Where is it?' in lhe cooler light of justice to place They do not understand that thev before the public the circumstances could not carry the laughing thing connected with Mrs. Surratt's arrest unchaneed into the desert, and frost and execution as thev aorjeared to and the snow. They do not know nim' what walks beside them still is the . lne yentury Magazine and other Joy grown older. The grave, sweet, influential organs of public opinion tender thing warm in the coldest have repeatedly refused to publish any snows, brave in the dreariest deserts PaDer tending to establish the inno- its name is Sympathy ; it is the Per- cence of Mfs. Surratt. Father Walter feet Love." "Dreams" by Oliver has more tna once tried to bring the Schreiner. lrue Iacts ot the case before the world, . out his words were either misquoted Alliance Song. or wilfully misrepresented in each case. I- t 11 j 1 . . . He has recently laid before the Cath- AlUancemen ol Virginia and North Car- Hi.torl Society, of Neir York, olina, was written by Rev. S. H. Thomp- t? "A" he circum- wunwi-u nun 11113, OUIIdll 3 son, for the South Boston (Va.) Neat. Suug to the tune of Auld Lang Syne, it will inspire theheart of theloyal Alliance nieu with greater zeal and steadfastness of purpose. Editor Gold Leaf. Should honest farmers be forgot, And never brought to mind, Who, toiling, laboring, resting not, Make bread for all mankind ? Shall Legislatures and their law9 Forever plot and plan. To crush, degrade, without a cause, The toiling husbandman ? Shall we not rise, and in our might, Let non -producers know We bare our strong arms for the right, And dare our power to show ? The State is ours ; this claim we make, We will possess our own ; Else the whole structure we will shake To its foundation stone. Let politicians now beware, And money-sharks take heed, The toiling class, the farmers, dare To stay them in their greed. We hold the hoe, we drive the plow, From dawn to evening's sun : Ourselves shall reap what we do sow, Our work for them is done. execution and declaration of innocence, a statement which cannot fail to con vince the most skeptical that the un fortunate woman knew no more about the conspiracy than the President himself. DECLARING HER INNOCENCE. I had a long talk with Father Wal ter in his study this morning. "The statement," he said, "that I was Mrs. Surratt's confessor is untrue. It is true that I heard Mrs. Surratt's last confession, but previous to that trial I had never met the woman or spoken to her to my knowledge. The charge has been made in the Century and other avenues of public thought, that I prevented Mrs. Surratt from making public confession of her guilt. The real facts are these: Immediately after her arrest, Mrs. Surratt was placed in the Carroll prison From there she wrote me a letter, requesting me to call and see her. I visited the prison at once, but was informed that nobody was permitted to see the woman, and repeated efforts in that direction were equally futile. Some time after wards she was removed to the old be Koanoke is credited with a popu lation 01 22,000 to 27,000. inis is a "Big Lick," when this growth has been made in eight years from a citizen ship of from 400 to 600. But this arsenal prison, and a day or two wonderful development is easily ex- 'ore her execution, she again wrote and plained it contains thirty manu- asked me to come down and hear her facturing establishments, one of which confession. I called at the prison capitalized at 55,000,000 and 112 land aia on tne strength ot my passport companies with j7,ooo,ooo at their WAi auimuea. 1 ne uniortunate woman back. Norfolk Virginian. was in a tearful stale of mind. She was not manacled, nor heavily ironed. TIIK FARMERS OPPRESSED, as has been said, for she was too weak to move about. I heard hpr rnnfpssinn r .1 1 T)..i. r-ii , ii . J 0 I anminicfAnnrr f It a Cnn.AHi I no not blame the farmers for trvinrr '"6 -"'"otu " " ml O i . 1 . 1 1 . to belter their condition. They have lu "cr sne was ie,t seated on a chair certainly had a hard time and they ai tne entrance to her cell, surrounded feel that they have been oppressed by by hve or ten officers, while the final the bankers, railroads, merchants, and preparations for her execution were patent medicine makers, to say nothing being accomplished. When the march of ministers and lawyers. Everything to the scaffold beean. the ooor woman. within a few blocks of my Church. Booth and a few other fellows hired a room from her, but she was kept com pletely ignorant of what was going on there. Even Payne, who attempted to assassinate Secretary Seward on the same night that Lincoln was murdered, admitted a few hours before his exe cution, that the woman was innocent. Payne was a Protestant, and up to . i , . , 1 . me very last declined to make any statement regarding to tragedy. To his spiritual adviser, the Rev. Mr. Keeling, he said a short time before hkdeath : You have been very kind tome, Mr. Keeling, and I am willing now to answer any questions you may put to me.' In reply toa query touch ing Mrs. Surratt's connection with the case, the condemned culprit said : 'She is innocent. I he poor woman is in nocent. She knew nothing about it.' In spite of these proofs the martyred woman was actually carried to the scaf fold and died instantaneously; I have waited for the past twenty-five years until prejudice would disappear and men listen to sober reason before mak ing public these facts, and yet stand ing within sight of the threshold ot me last aecaoe ot the nineteenth cen tury with its untrammeled indepen dence and expresison of thought, I am credited with statements which I never gave expression to, and words bearing on the Surratt case which I never con ceived. This the public will readily perceive when the full text of my paper is laid before them." IS IT RETRIBUTION ? With the exception of Judge Advo cate Genaral Holt, all the men who figured in or made up the court mar tial which sentenced Mrs. Surratt to death have passed away. All of them died a violent and terrible death ; friendless, penniless and in despair. Even the surviving Mr. Holt is a man whom one would not like to meet in a lonely place on a dark night. He j looks like a tramp : his clothes are of i G0ED0N-CUMMING. AN ESTIMATE OF THE MAN BY ONE WHO KNOWS HIM. John Russell Young: Writes About Sir William From the Standpoint of an Intimate Acquaintance. N ARTICLE IN the Philadelphia .ventng Star, fr m the pen of " John Kusseli 1 oang, ex Minister to China, and a veteran news paper writer, gives a graphic picture of Sir William Gor don-Cumming. in view ot the result ot the recent trial as the outcomeof the Prince of Wales' little game of baccarat at the house of the Wilsons, what is said of Sir William by a disinterested outsider, will throw a peculiar light upon the true character of the man. Mr. Young says : I know Sir William Gordon-Cum-ming well, and for weeks was his as sociate, journeying with him in India, Egypt and Albania. I had, before I met him, known of his relative, the famous Gordon-Cumming, whose works have told us so much about China, Japan and the islands of the Pacific. I found him of a type we never see in the United States hard to understand when seen with Amer ican eyes, such a character as you read about in novels a spare, lithe, active, well-formed man, with a clear cut face. a deep, intense gray eye, a face that had a good deal of the Grant in it, as I once told him, with an almost family resemblance to Jesse Grant, the general's youngest son. He had the fair reddish complexion of the T T 11 1 1 . k . nigniands, and a clear, high tenor the most wretched kind, his counte- voice, ringing, commanding, metallic nance is haeeard, and his whole ! tones, with occasional tnnrhH! ne M lie was an accomplished man, has for seems against them. They have to fight frosts and floods and drouths and all sorts of worms and bugs, speculators and cyclones, and all the birds of the air. Everything takes toll from the farmers. No wonder that they want to do something. I do not think the plauks in the Cincinnati platfrom can be fastened together and held m place. The farmers ought to know that reso lutions passed by political conventions raise neither corn nor wheat, neither can they affect prices. I do not believe that the Government can make money by law any more than it can make good crops by law. The Government can't support the people. The people have got to support the Government. The Government is a perpetual pauper. I ask this one question : If the Govern ment can make money why should it collect taxes ? Why not make what it needs and stop bothering the people? Still, I am glad the farmers are discuss ing these questions. They will find out what the Government can and can not do." FREE Sample Copies of this paper will be sent to any address on appli cation to the publisher. Do you not know some one at a distance some friend or relative you would like to have read about your town and coun ty ? Give us the name aud a copy of the Gold Leaf will be sent to them. Yon can find the best Lime at Hardee's BtQre, opposite R. & G. Depot. laboring under great excitement, turned from the officers towards me and said, in as loud a voice as she could command: "Father, Father, I want to make a statement. "Wrhat is it, my child?" I inquired. "I want to say here and on the scaf fold that I am innocent." "You can do so," I answered, in a tone loud enough to be heard by every person forming the death march, but strange to -y, after a lapse of twenty five years, uj one has had the honesty to come forward and bear testimony to those memorable words. Instead of deterring the woman from making a public confession, I advised her to do so, and she did declare her innocence, but so prejudiced are the people that not one of those who witnessed this last scene will come forward in the interests of truth. It is my duty to defend, and I will as long as life lasts, the reputation and honor of my par ishioner when unjustly assailed, and when innocent, with my very life if necessary, and I should be found want ing in Christian charity were I to allow Mrs. Surratt's to go down to his tory without making this declaration of her innocence public." "How long had Mrs. Surratt resided in your parish, Father?" I asked. "About three months. She kept a furnished room and boarding house appearance indicates a man who not partaken of a decent meal some years. His figure is a familiar one in Washington : but of a man nothing remains to him but the name The last time I saw him he was trying to get hfty cents from a poor black smith whose shop is ornamented witn pictures of Booth, Payne, and other celebrities in the Lincoln drama : but I do not believe that a man can be found in Washington willing to lend the fellow five cents on the strength of his word or reputation. The old theatre, wherein Mr. Lin coin was assassinated, was purchased by the Government : so also was the liquor saloon adjoining, wherein John Wilkes liooth took the drink which nerved him up to the desperate act which he was about to accomplish, and both are now connected into offices and storerooms for the War Department 1 he chair in which the President sat when Booth entered the box on his errand of destruction, is on exhibition in Libby Prison at Chicago; the boots, spur and clothing worn by .Booth on the fatal night, and the pistol which sent the bullet crashing into Lincoln's brain, are in the safe of the Judge Advocate General's office in the War Department. Joseph W. Gavan. MORAL DEVELOPMENT. jTarboro Southerner.J We read of the development of the State materially and every where this is going on : but evidences of mate rial growth are no greater or numer ous than are the graces which adorn mankind. 1 ne growtn ot refinement, gener osity and liberality is strikingly seen in the donations and devises to educa tional and eleemosynary institutions. We venture the assertion that gifts of this character have amounted to more within the last ten or twelve years than in the entire previous ex istence of the State. It is a cheering sign that this people 1 -.! t .1 .- arc learning me lesson tnat it is more blessed to give than to receive. It portends the recognition of the father hood of God and the brotherhood of man principle upon which rests our religion and our institutions. Forty years ago the giving of a few thousand dollars or even hundreds was an unusual occrruence and in many localities an unheard of one. To-day scarcely a week passes without the chronicling of the munificence of some man or woman out of his or her abundance. The greatest of the graces is not found only among the opulent ; it abides with and moves all classes and conditions. In this quiet unostentatious way the masses, long before the rich fell into line, with open hands have re lieved the needy and distressed and sent them on their way rejoicing. It was this brotherly feeling of the, people generally which made the en- downmerit of the Oxford Asylum pos sible. It is a cheering reflection that our people in their struggle for money and power have not closed their minds to the refining and elevating influences of Christian graces. The future of any country is bright as long as its morality and material development keep equal step in the progressive movement. In both, North Carolina has only begun. thos. with a thorough continental training, speaking French as he spoke English, a hint of Scotch in his accent, but quite the Piccadilly manner. His read ing was wide and scholarly, with a fondness for drifting into more literary themes. I remember one evening wnen we discussed the merits of Ten nyson and Byron, their place and per petuity m English literature, and his earnest challenge of my opinion that lennyson would outlive his noble predecessor. Speaking as I was, to a kinsman of Byron, I might well give way in the argument. I knew at the time of the intimacy of his relations "5 rack canker, the repose of peace was not for the -impetuous nomadic Scot. I have seen Curaming play cards a great deal, have played whist with him. There was nothing to show that he cared more for cards than any other man of the world, that a rubber of whist was a good break ir. the monotony of seafaring, and no more. He played an ordinary gam no better, no worse than what youmay see m the average rubber at the cKb, He never won any money from me contrary, 1 nave a clear n lection of his playing a few francs 1 1 uiy . ueionKines alter a week at sea together and various rubbers of whist. fL ' OIVl$ OYQ He played whist with patience and Boti lGe method and v. no special skill or avidity, rather as Syr np of Figs ic taken; it is pleasant one somewhat bored with the experi- and refreshing to the taste, and acts ence. When I was in Dartner he al- crentlv vet nmmnilv took my absent-minded plays Laver and Bowels, cleanses the sys- ways with good nature, and bevnnd an tern effectual! v. dinla 1,.. w v - - j m wauo null occasional look of surprise at my aches and ferers and cures habitual failing in a proper lead in the third constipation. Syrup of Figs is the hand round and my ability to re- on7 remedj of its kind ever pro member what became of a certain duced, pleasing to the taste and ao deuce of spades. I never incurred ceptable to the stomach, promnt in his censure. The art of puttinir neo- !ti action and truly beneficial in its pie on what I call the whist rack be- fHect? prepared only from the most cause of that elusive deuce of spades nealtn7 and sgreeable substances, its which ever passed out of my memory, m&nJ excellent qualities commend it this the baronet never acquired, a to , and h,av? mado ifc e un uvivj atuuucUi a 1 . , contrast to more nainfnl erneri with nthfr foyrup of Figs is for sale in 60e e" m.uj iciuxuie uruggui wno may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one irho wishes to try 1L Do not accept any substitute. that gen- with other players in earlier The phy of Sir William witnessed or shared it was not of a gambler, but the play of a tieman. Gordon-Cumming was nervous,rest- ess and fidgety, and I understand what his brother in a reported inter view meant in saying that the baronet inherited from his mother Saint Virus's dance. His twirlinsr and fnmhlinir with counters, when he was not tear ing that pale, drooping moustache would be what I would expect at a card table. But there was certainly nothing in Gordon-Cumming and I saw as much of him as one man could CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAM FRANCISCO, CAU uuisviue. Kt. uEW tout, n r. T. M. PITTMAN. W. B. SHAW. "piTTMAN & SHAW, ATTO IINKYH AT LAW, HENDERSON, N. C. ipt atu nllon to all professional bul Praclloe la the Ktate and Federal Room No. 2, Burwell Building. Prom ness. courts, Office DENTIST, HKNDERftOSf, I, C. with the Prince of Wales. He rarely S at 5 0 c1? m the n1 rfrrr n w; t?i tr:i u.. a duel the cause of hieh words over a .ww&Awva, w a.JLj xuvai 1 n 1 11 irss. I ill r 1 .... always in affectionate appreciation. sir William Gordon-Cumming is about forty-five, younger, perhaps, and a lieutenant colonel in the Scots Guards, one of the crack regiments of the British service, their special duty 10 guaro tne person ot the sovereign there are all kinds of traditions and legends twisted around his family tree, Dut as Diood goes, blood in direct de scent and alliance, the family of Gor oon-umming is better than that of the Prince of Wales. There was a De Comyns, Thane or something under the Scottish kings, who was killed at the battle of Ainswick. The special king whom he served to the death was Malcolm the same young Malcolm who was to succeed Mackbeth, and who is generally assigned to the com edian or walkmc eentleman of the theatres. Malcolm was slain in the siege of Ainswick castle, and De see of another for raanv weeks to justify the suspicion that he would s HARRIS, subterfuge. On the contrary, the qualities of heart and education which went to form his character, were the reverse of what experience teaches us as prone to cheating, indiscretion or any form of tergiversation. A high tempered, impetuous, brusque, out spoken, resolute man, with capacity lor A C. ZOLLICOPFER, instant anger, sensitive, irritable, ready I - witn a word or blow, the military tem- j atto 11 iv icy at law, perament at times unduly developed, j HENDERSON N. C. ' Stern with m fnrHJVJT CT Practice in the courts of Vance OranvllU for dogs and dumb domestic animals, Warreu. lUlirax and Northampton ind Tin I could imagine anvthinsr of Sir Wil - tlV!J2"P.,'e.,?ed.FSei:al: couru or the state. liam Gordon-Cumming rather than his cheating at cards. A row in the t3TOffice over Street. Pure Nitrous Oxide Gas administered for tne painless extrac tion of teeth. . C. Davis' store, Main Jan. 1-a. a midnight brandy and soda, riding into a battery on a canter, bewitched by a pretty woman, heading a steeple chase at breakneck speed, flogging a cabman for impertinence, or presid ing over a boxing match al the Pelican club although among these exoerien iucjc arc some mat 1 nave no right to attribute to Cumming any one wouia te a thousand times more plausible than the ignominious bus mess of cheating at cards. nett street. feb. i. j-J tTwatkins. Attorney and Counsellor at Law HENDERSON, N. U. JF?hUJ Granvl Vance, and Warren. 1 roinpt, attention ntvn u. nii .,.. Jan Office over Parker's wholesale store, A TOUCHING INCIDENT. appeared in The following, which a Detroit paper, 13 one of the most touching incidents to be met with ihere is a family in this citv who are dependent upon a little child for tne present Sunshine of themselves a r ... i . 1 ,H a. icy cck3 ago me young wile and mother was stricken down to die. It was so sudden, so dreadful, when the grave family physician called them Comyns at his side so we mav know together in the parlor, and in his solemn. there was likewisefWhtinfr hlonH in h;c professional way intimated the truth .. o I .1 1 1 tamily 800 years ago. It is odd to see a wus uw nP- nobleman whose anrestrv run WV tn .Tnen c.a.me..the Question among them the historic dav of MW wh0 w?? d tcl1 the doctor ; o t?i;.u ,7- "-" & " would be cruel to let the man of ... -Ufiw Ull itticumg 10 an science go to their dear one on such Irish lawyer abuse him as a card an errand. Vor. fh anaA J I.L.. , - . ... - '""'U" sua'Pcl nicncr 01 sovereigns irom was to oe icn childless and alone. Not me pocsets ot a prince. tne young huaband who was walking mere was likewise a Bruce, dear to lue noor w,tn clinched hands and re- all Scotchmen Robert, the Bruce, a DelIl0U9 heart. Not there was only renowned sovereign, who died in 12 uue oiner, anu at this moment he u ' - - - y 1 iu me icuuug sorrow 01 Scotland, as we must dutifully believe. He had a daughter, Margaret, who married a Southerland, and among other mate- looked up from the book he had been playing with, unnoticed bv them all. ana asted gravely, "Is mamma goin' to die?" Then without waiting for an answer, rial duties was the production through he sped from the room and up stairs continuing ancestries of Sir William Gordon-Cumming. Likewise, through another ancestor, there is a link with ames I., and by these ties interlaced with Austrian Archdukes, the royal Stuarts, the Plantagenets and other species of princes to a degree quite incalculable. Cumming was an inherent sports man, lhe Highland blood tingled in every vein. I could well under stand his relationship to his uncle, Gordon-Cumming, the famous lion hunter. He seemed a part of the forest and the moor. He had dared the tiger m the jungle, the elephant in the Indian forests, had traced the Rockly Mountains and the Mexican Cordillcaras in his craving for sport. I could see the man who won fame as a gallant sol dier in the army, could realize his daring deeds in the Soudan and Africa, his invincible, iovous courage, his Highland nature, which danger affected as though with wine, and I could quite believe what an orhcer said to me in London that Cumming was, in the woods of the Duke of "the Lest soldier in worst in time of peace army." Plainly the routine, the bar-1 o lasi, as nia ntiie ieet would carry I -r. . ... mm. rnenas and neighbors were watching by the sick woman. They wondermgly noticed the pale face of the child as he climbed on the bed and laid his small hand on his mother's pillow. "aamma," ne asked, in a sweet. caresmg tone, "is ycu fraid to die ?" .me uiuMier looiteu at mm with a swift intelligence. Perhans .h hH been thinking of this. "Who told you Charlie V she asked faintly. "Doctor, an' papa, an' gamma-every-body," he whispered. Mamma, dear, 'ittle mamma, doan be 'fraid to die, '11 you V "No, Charlie' said the young mother, after one supreme pang of grief; "no, mamma won't be afraid !" "Jus' shut your eyes in 'e dark, mamma, teep hold my hand 'an when you open 'em, mamma, it 'ill be all light there." When the family gathered awe stricken at the bedside, Charlie held up his little hand. "H-u-sh! My mamma doin' to sleep. Her won't wake up any more !' And so it proved. There was no Cambridge, heart-rendering farewell, no agonv of ' nn.lli... r I . I 1 war, and the 1 U1 n "cu young momer in the British we she had passed beyond, and, as 1 mxuy iiau said "It was all light there.' K.JIENKY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. HENDERSON, N. O., OFFICE IN BCBWELL BUILDING. vnieD iffit3iaSJ Fr,aDkl1 n. Warren. Oran . uie. United htaten Court at llalelih n.f Supreme Court of North Carolina ' Smith. Hon. AuitumMi, h u...i Irsey. H. It. Bnrwli kmJT' Tucker. Mr. M. l : . 1 jumps. Office hours 9 a m. to 6 p. m. mcb.73i C. EDWARDS, Oxford, N. C. A. n. WOJlTHAlt, Henderson, v f' JM WARDS & WORTH AM, ATTOUNttYH AT lJK VV. HENDERSON, N. C. count l.ri"WSM ? th?,?I' V.dc r.V 'lwards will attend all tha Courts of Vance county, and will come tl P.d" y ani all tlmli when h,? distance may be needed by bis partner. JR. C. s. BOYD, Dental Surgeon, Satisfaction suarantAAd as tn , prk m. OQic oer Parker A nion tnr. xln atrut f- b 4k WM.H.S.BUROWYN. f h vrtw Presideot. Vice President. A. B. DAINGERKIELD, Cashier. n The Bank of Henderson. o Established in 1882. o general Banking, Exchange AND Collection Business. SAY! If vou have anv AA Htwm W. Forks, Ac, or Jewelry of any kind, that needs platinr with (iold or Silver hrin them to roe at the post office and let roe re plate them for VOU. Work klmw, fnr it. self. Charires reasonable. Very Respectfully. . . , K TAYLOR, At Tost Office. Henderson, N. C. inch 19 It. ii KEEN, CARPENTER AND BUILDER, HENDERSON, X. C, Offers his service tn thn nnhttn Tisn nd estimates furnished, and eood work guaranteed. Infers by permission to Mr. M. Dorsev. Henderson, and Ur. Jidim i. Satterwhite, Vance eonnfy. . -i