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4 THE GOLD LEAF PEOPLE PUT " YOUR CAflD Ml PEOPLE w . - - -- "j-vii fi j - . ' A ' ' TflAD R. MAKMHG, Publisher. OolixsT, Os.ouiisr, IHjelveznt's Blessings Attend SDei." SUBSCRIPTION $1.60 Cash. ... , m VOL X. HEKDERSON, N". C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1891. 37. i """ ; -i i : r 1 -: : . 1! If You Thought You could increase your business and make your profits larger by the ex penditure of a small am'nt of capital, without special effort on your part ; If You Believed This had been done by your competitor in busi ness and by every other man who has pursued the same policy ; And If You Knew That success would as surely come to you as them all things being equal ; Wouldn't You Invest A little money in an at tractive and well display'd advertisement in a neatly printed and widely read newspaper? Wouldn't You Think Your investment a paying one if your name and bus iness should be carried into places where it had not been heard before, or was forgot, and trade should be brought to you as a consequence ? Such Results Come To those who use PRIN TERS' INK, when the medium so employed is the Henderson Gold Leaf. If YOU WISH TO Advertise Anything Anywhere ATAny time WRITE TO Geo. P. Rowell & Co No. io Spruce Street, NEW YORK. THE EQUITABLE Life Assurance Society OF THE UNITED STATES. January 1, 1891. ASSETS, $119,243,744 Liabilities, 4 per ct, 95,503,297 SURPLUS, $23,740,447 INCOME, $35,036,683 New Business ) 002,826,107 written in 1890, ) 0 ' Assurance 720,662,47-, in force, ) O 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 alter two years, " NON FORFEITABLE" alter three years, and payable WITHOUT DELAY. For further particulars, call on or address J. R. YOUNG, Agent, HENDERSON, N. C. NOT UNEASY. A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE FAR MERS' ALLIANCE. No Fears That it Will Join the Third rarty. Raleigh State Chronicle. V E R aad anon something is said about the Farmers' Alliance going into the Third or Peo ple's Party. We have no such fears. Some lew of its members may do so under the wrong impression that such a cause will right the wrongs of which the order justly complains. But they will be few in number and, compara tively speaking, without influence. And they will soon discover their mistakes and return to the Democratic party. In its success alone is to be realized the condition of affairs desired by the Alliance. We do not say this because the Democrats have a mono poly of the wisdom and virtue of the country. We do not doubt that the motives of some of the organizers of the People's Party are pure. But the Democratic as now constituted lacks only a few votes of winning success. Even if the principles of the Demo cratic party, it would still be unwise for it to seek to draw votes from the Democracy, for then it would be in suring the success of the Republican party, the common enemy to reform. But by uniting the forces the Demo cratic party can win a great victory, and then will come just and wise legis lation. It is the only way it can be secured. "But," say some Alliancemen, "sup pose the Democratic party wins and its representatives prove recreant and do not enact the needed legislation, what are we to do?" This is a pertinent question, and gets at the root of the matter. If the Democratic party is given lull control of the Government, which it has not had for a single day since i860, it will give all the relief to the people that can be given by legislation. But if its representatives should prove re creant (they have never been recreant in the past as a party) then, and only then, would a patriotic man be justi fied in considering the question of withdrawing his allegiance to the Democratic party. If the Democratic party should violate its pledges, and prove recreant toits principles, it ought to die and all good men ought to leave it. We love it and cherish with ardent fond ness its achievements and its principles which are eternal, but if it should de part from its principles and become the tool of monopoly, we should not hesitate to withdraw from it and ad vise all patriotic men to do likewise. But to even consider such a step when we reember that 1. The Democratic party is not re sponsible for a single ill of which the people justly complain and protest against ; and 2. The Democratic party at every stage protest against the national bank ing act, the demonization of silver, the protective tariff, and the grant by cor rupt means of public land to railway corporations. When we recall these two facts we see how unjust it is to the connection with its corrupt opponent, and how unwise for any Democrat to consider leaving it just as it is upon the threshold of complete national success. We do not believe there is any dis position upon the part of the Alliance in North Carolina or the South to leave the Democratic party, and we do not believe any considerable num ber will be so unwise. Why do we say this? We believe that many of them will be actuated to this course as much be cause of their love to the Alliance as by their love of party. The Alliance has a great mission and a great chart, and as long as it is true to its declara tion ot principles it is a strong power and exerts a wholesome influence. We do not believe they will go into the" People's Party because to do so would be to violate the declaration of principles of the Alliance. In that declaration, item one reads as follows. We therefore resolve 1. To labor for the education of the agricultural class, in the science of government, in a strictly non-partizan spirit. If this declaration means anything, it means what it plainly says. To go into partizan phlitics would be to violate the letter of their Declaration of Principles, and to open the door of strife and of division and confusion which would bring weakness and rain. The thogghtful members of the alliance know this .and will not follow any movement that is vio lative of this principle of the Alliance. This is why we are not troubled. How's This? We offer one hundred dollars reward for anv case of catarrh that cannot be cured by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., prop'rs. Toledo, Ohio. We, the undersianW, have known F. J. Cheney for tha last 15 vears, and believe him perfectly honorable in in all business transactions.'and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West& Truax, wholesale druggists. To ledo, Ohio. Walding, Rinnan & Marvin, wholesale druggists, Toledo. Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price, 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. A VACANT CHAIR. ROBERT T. BEXTI.ER. O vacant chair, thou household shrine, How oft in childhood have I knelt About thy sacred place, and felt The vanished idol to be mine; Within whose pure and plastic soul My own was molded into shape; And what defects it did escape Were lost beneath a sweet control, Which, linked with love and filial fear, Did bind me in the closest bond. To which each feeling did respond, When 1 devoutly worshipped there. Thou art vacant, I can see, Through faith and memory blent in one. An image still, whose features run Throughout my very thought of thee; And like the sun that sets in mist Aud the gathering shades of night But leave behind a lingering light Along the skies it late had kissed, A halo seems to cirele yet About the spot of former love. And bends, a covenant bow above, In glory that shall never set. THE LOCAL PAPER. A Plea for the Town's Best Friend, the Press. Written for the Gold Leaf. Are you a subscriber to your local paper? If you are not, then you should become such. We all love our native towns, so let us do all in our power, by precept and by example, to encourage and aid our best friend the press. Probably no man living has so many trials, so many responsibilities, and so much lack of appreciation as the editor of a country newspaper. Who gets less pay, in consideration of services rendered, than "ye editor?" The newspaper is expected to puff every festival, concert, tableaux, egg hunt, etc., free of charge; then the first fruits of the season, the largest watermelon or potato, and all the freaks of nature, in both the vegetable and animal kingdoms, must have their due notice. And the worst of it is, the newspaper gets no credit for it; the people seem to take it. as a matter ot course. Then there are in every county many who will not Jake their home paper. Some plead poverty, some have no time to read it, some take all the papers beside that they can afford, some say it is not worth the subscrip tion price, and some few will 'not take it because ot some dislike to the editor. Now let us examine these excuses and see if there is really any valid reason why a citizen of our State should not take his home paper, and pay in advance, too. There is no one able to pay his poll-tan rrhu comiut laiac enough money to accompany his order for a year's subscription to his county paper, and he will find that his little invest ment will be very profitable to him. It would be far better to read your home paper nights than to be "down town;" better be reading it Sundays than to be loafing around the street corners, or if you can't find the time otherwise, better take an hour or even five minutes in the middle of the day when the heat is so oppressive and spend it in scanning the columns of your paper. If you take all the papers you can afford now, and do not take your home paper, it is your duty to drop some of those and send your name and cash in to your editor and find out what is going on in your own county. It is a general rule that those who grumble and growl most at the worthlessness of a paper never do much to support it. Their name is not on the subscription list, or if it is they owe for it, and they never say a good word for the paper or the managers, but are always trying to "cry it down." You who do not like the editor and will not subscribe on that account, re member that in subscribing you are not doing so to benefit him only, but you yourself will receive the larger end of the cornucopia. It is your duty as a citizen of your town, of your county, of your State, to do all in your power to advance their interests and surely there is no better way to do this than through the paper. It is the community's repre sentative. Every town and county is judged by the get-up and size of its newsparjer, and to have a good, well edited paper the publisher must have a large subscription list and generous advertising patronage; and your name if absent, is needed to swell the num ber. Remember, it is both your privilege and your duty to stand by your home paper your best friend. Beaufort, N. C. M. T. E. A Wonder Worker Mr. Frank Hufl'mau, a young man of Burlington, Ohio, states that he had been under the care of two prominent physi cians, and used their treatment until he wast not able to get around. They pro nounced his ease ("piisiirnrition and incura b!e. He was persuaded to try Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, toughs CoKk and at that time was not able to walk across the street without resting. He found before he had used half a dollar bot tle, that he was much better ; he continued to use it and is to-day enjoying good health. If vou have any Throat, Lung or Chest Trouble, try it. We guai rantee satis faction. Trial bottle free at W. T. Cheat ham's, Drugstore. Is a familiar legend at this season. Sucli signs are not needed by the man who does not adver tise. No strange foot ever presses his greensward. C0L.A,B.AM)fiEWS-. A FOREMOST NORTH CAROLINIAN. His Great Work in Building the Wes tern North Carolina Railroad and Developing That Section of the State. Greensboro North StateJ J3L U L. Y 23d last, the first train entered Murphy,, in Cher okee county, over the Western North Carolina Railroad. Thus were Morehead City and Murphy united by rail. OA that day Col. A. B. Andrews was 50 years of age. On his 50th birthday was completed the colossal task which he undertook of constructing a railroad from Old Fort across the Blue Ridge to Asheville, and thence to Waynesville and over the Balsam Mountains and on to Cher okee county along the banks of the Tuckassegee, the Little Tennessee and the beautiful Nantahala. Does the reader stop to think of what a great and grand work has been accom plished? Does the reader reflect on the wonderful brain and energy which was necessary to push through such a magnificent undertaking? Moun tains to be crossed, valleys to be trav ersed ; rushing rivers and playful mountain streams to be bridged ; tun nel after tunnel to be cut through in surmountable elevations; millions-of money to be raised among stranger in a financial centre at times shaken by panic, made timid by disaster or entirely closed by distrust. North Carolina had a son who was capable and able to do all this. By his fruits you can judge him. Col. A. B. Andrews undertook the task. He resolved to do the one thing which had been the talk by day and' the dream by night of North Carolina statesmen for years. The man who had never seen the word "failure ' among his personal effects, had the confidence of railrdad magnates and and money kings. Although during the many years of construction of the Western North- Carolina Railroad, the ups and downs were many, the work went on. And it can be truthfully said that at one time when nearly all were discouraged, Col. Andrews haz arded his private fortune rather than give up the hope of completing the Wes tern XTor th Carolina Rcttlitrad. US did all this and had the nerve to back up his judgment and his great will power .with his own money. Fifteen years ago the mountain re gion of North Carolina was compara tively an unknown country. Asheville was a typical county town, unheard of beyond State lines. To-day it is the finest jewel in the crown of the Old North State, and its praises are sung throughout the civilized world. The natural wealth of mines, water and wood, the salubrious climate, the great agricultural and horticultural possibilities of the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountain section all were en closed in a sealed volume ; to-day they are visible and open to the touch of the world. From Cherokee to Cur rituck is now a pleasant all rail high way. The same of Morehead City and Wilmington. The man who accom plished this result should never be forgotten by the people of North Car olina. Collect together all the politi cians in the States over whom the people have fucsed and fumed for twenty-five years past and the' sum total of their labors in behalf of their constituents would not make a shadow when compared with the benefits to North Carolina and her people to be derived from the construction of the W. N. C. R. R. by Col. Andrews. North Carolina may well be proud of such a citizen. Col. Andrews de serves the plaudits of the people, and when they look at the result of his work, the greatest achievement in the Southern States of money, skill, brains and energy. An Fine 3Iagazine. The Phrenological Journal and Science of Jleulln lor August opens witn a portrait oftheXester of New York journalism, George Jones, and an appreciative sketch. A criticism on natural grounds of certain grounds by Henry George fol lows. A very interesting analysis of the mouth's physiognomy, aud well illus trated, will give the reader sound reasons for certain types of expression. The sec ond Prize Essay is a taking sltch of the well known" author of "For Girls.' Following this are ten or more Phre nological ''Hits' that make spicy read ing. The interest naken in the new science of mind by Dr. John Bell, Prof. Samuel G. Howe, i'. of. Morton, the ethnologist, and Nicho.vis Iiiddle is related pleasantly bv Mrs. Wells in her remrhiseenees-. "Truth, and What it Means in Youthful Life,"' forms a well thought out article. In the Health Department we have the effects of hygienic treatment as applied to toothache, ague, fever, etc. What regularity in life will accomplish is shown in the career of Prof. O. W. Holmes. An article that will be scanned with some care, if we don't mistake, is "An Ex traordinary Claim.'" The editorial de partment is more than usually full. Some very striking points are made in the third paper on Systematic Moral Education that should open the eye of jteople who wonder at the corruptions of modern civilization. People who have money and wish to do Rome real .good with a little of it should read Who Will Help. This journal is published at the low price of $1.50 a year, or 15 cents a number, and is offered "on trial' six months for only 50 cents. Address the publishers, Fowler & Wells Co., No, 777 Broadway, New York. . You can find the best Lime at Hardee's etosp, opposite l. & (J. Depot. Oliver Goldsmith. Editor Gold Leaf: That Oliver Goldsmith was a man of genius that acquired some literary fame cannot be denied. He was a good writer but wanting in common sense. With all his learning he never learned to sus pect mankind and exercise prudence aud economy. He lived and died the slave of debt. He was a man of a jo vial and indolent disposition, easily imposed on and needed spurring up to action. He was by birth an Irisman, born on the 10th day of November, A. D. 1728, in the county of Langford, in Ireland. His father was a poor preacher with a large family and a small salary, and as the historian says, "starved along on forty pounds a year." Of course he could do nothing toward educating his son Oliver as he should be. Oliver, though early evincing evi dence of genius, was indolent, prone to idleness. The first lady that under took to instruct him said, "he was one of the dullest boys she had ever dealt with." She was mistaken; he was not naturally dull but indolent. His father soon died, leaving him a penniless, ignorant boy. His uncle, the Ilev. Thomas Castarim, kindly gave him food and shelter and offered some means toward his education. He was much indebted to his uncle for his kindly assistance. After leaving col lege with no high distinction as a scholar, his friends wished him to en gage in some useful occupation for a living. Under the advice of friends he conclude to study for the Christian ministry, a position he was totally dis qualified for. After he was, as he thought, fully qualified for the minis try he applied for "orders" and was rejected. Failing in that attempt he decided to read law and enter the legal profession. To further his views his uncle advanced him some money which he lost among gambling thieves. His next aim was to become a doctor and practfee medicine. After obtaining his diploma he. hung out his sign as a practicing physician but found it un profitable and took down his sign and quit the business. He found it not congenial with his views. We next find him a strolling pedestrian going on foot over the countries with no money in his pockets, performing on his flute, with motley crowds . aronnd- him, to catch a penny with which to supply his wants. What a business for the talented Goldsmith to be engaged in! lieturning to England penniless, with his friends doubting his success in life. "A mere writer for bread," he cm ployed his time writing for the journals of the day over a fictitious signature. Finding' his writings were making a favorable impression on on the minds of the public he launched out into a books, the copyright of which his ne cessities compelled him to sell at a sacrifice. It is said "The Vicar of Wakefield" made the publisher rich but not the writer. He wrote many books which failed to relieve him from debt but made him famous. Had he possessed the means to publish his writings and reap the benefits derived from them ha might have been in cosy circumstances. As it was, he died with heavy debts hanging over him, not leaving enough money to pay his burial expenses. He owed at the time of his death, the 4th day of April A. D. 1774, about ten thousand dollars, which has never been paid. Johnson, speaking of his indebted ness, says: "Was ever poet so trusted before." He was an able and a fluent writer and left many works behind him to enrich the literary world. A fund was raised by his friends to place a monument to his memory in Westmin ster Abbey. How many travelers pause to think of "poor m Goldsmith" and to read the inscription to his mem ory from the pen of his friend Johnson? It. W. H. A Valuable Book. The new book, "Labor and Capital," is the most complete work of the kind we have ever seen. It gives a full aud complete history of all the labor organ izations. The author, Mr. A. E. Al len, is also author of "The Golden Gems of Life," and several other books of great merit. This book is a fair statement of facts. Nothing just like it has ever been published. Every farmer should read it. It contains no prejudice or abuse. ' We hope that it may sell rapidly, as the contents are just what our people want. Progress ive Farmer. This great book is sold in Vance county by Mr. L. B. Manning, who has the exclusive agency of this terri tory. Contains life-like portraits of of the author, Col. L. L. Polk, August Post, Secretary National Farmers' Al liance, Col. Hiram Hawkins, Master Alabama State Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, Terrence V. Powderly, General Master Workman Kuights of Labor, Herbert Myrick, Secretary Far mers Natioual League, Mojtimer Whitehead,, Lectures National Grange, Patrous of Husbandry, II. M. Smith, Secretary Patrons of Industry, John P. Steele, Secretary General Assembly Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association, aud other as equally celebrated persons identified with the various iabor organ izations of the country. Just what the farmer and laboring man wants to in form himself ou. Everybody ought to reod it. The volume contains about 500 pages, printed on tlear large type, aud is sold at the low price of $2.00 and $2.50, cccurding to the quality of binding. Children Enjoy The pleasant flavor, gentle aetiou and soothing effects of Syrup of Figs, when in need of a laxative, and If the father or mother be costive or bilious the most K rat ifying results follow its use, so that it is the best family remedy .known and every family should have a bottle. TOBACCO CURING. ANOTHER INTERESTING ARTICLE ON THE SUBJECT. This Time From the Pen of Maj. R. L. Eagland. H E following arti cle is of interest to tobacco planters at this time : TO CURE MAHOGANY COLOR. After the tobacco has vel lowed sufficient. ly on scaffolds or under flues, and when the leaves have assumed a mot tled piebald appearance, run the heat to one hundred degrees and let it re main at that point for three or four hours. Then raise the heat two and a half degrees an hour until one hundred and thirty is reached. Keep the heat at that point until the leaf is cured, and then move up gradually to one hundred and sixty or one hundred and seventy and thus cure stalk and stem. If cured properly there will be much of the leaf mahogany, while the re mainder will run from a bright dapple to a cherry red. "shipping" tobacco. Dark heavy shipping and nothing which does not possess size and sub stance is fit for this grade may be cured with flues better than in any other way. Smoke from the open wood fire is objectionable, and with the flue you get the heat, which is all that is wanted, without the smoke. Curing with open wood fires belongs to the past, and none but the old Bourbons will continue the old practice, because they know no better. Taste and fash ion are against smoke, and nothing else is needed to banish the old and recommend the new mode. If a dark color is desired, which is not so fash ionable as formerly, it can be secured as easily over flues as over wood flues. But the world wants calory tobacco, and this can be produced certainly better with the flue than in any other way. Besides, bv the flue the leaf is cured sweet and free from smoke or soot. A skilful curer can rtrndnre the colors most in demand, and by the flue better, and with more certaintv. than in any other way. The main object of the author is to induce plan ters, wno nave never used Hues, to try anil mUVUi j CURING BRIGHT YELLOW TOBACCO. There are two modes lor curing yel- low tobacco one with charcoal and the other with flues. The first is the primitive mode, but is fast giving place to the latter, which is cheaper and more efficient, and is being adopted by most of our best planters. The chief agent in either mode is heat a dry, curing heat to expel the sap from the leaves, stems and stalks of the plants, and catch the color, yellow, next to nature's color, green, and fix it indel libly. This is the science of curing yellow tobacco. There are seven prismatic colors that of green tobacco occupy ing the centre of the prism. By the process of nature, leaves in drying de scend in color from green, first to yel low, then to orange, then to red, and finally lose all color as they go to de cay. Now, a quick, dry heat, so reg ulated as lo dry out the leaf and catch the yellow and fix it, is the modus op erandi of curing fancy bright tobacco. A barn containing seven hundred sticks of green tobacco, six medium plants to each stick, holds along with the tobacco four thousand five hundred to five thousand pounds of water, which must be expelled in from eighty-five to one hundred hours. Charcoal produces an open, dry heat well suited to the purpose ; but its preparation is costly, its use tedious, dirty and laborious, and deposits a black dust on the leaf that is objec tionable. With flues constructed with furnace and pipes, the wood is burned as cut in the forest or old field, and the whole process of curing is less costly and less laborious, and the to bacco cured therewith free from dust, and has a sweeter flavor. The flue process possesses so many advantages over all other modes of curing tobacco, is so sale, if properly constructed, and free from smoke, that when its merits become better known it will come into general use and supercede all old modes. The first step in curing is called the "steaming or yellowing process." Me dium tobacco will require from twenty-four to thirty hours steaming at about ninety degrees to yellow suffi ciently; but tobacco with more or less sap, larger or smaller, will require a longer or shorter time to yellow. Here the judgment of the curer must be his guide. Inexperienced planters would do well to procure the services of an expert curer if they have tobacco suit able for fine yellow. The planter saves in enhanced value of bis crop many times the money paid to the curer and besides, by close attention, he may learn in one season to cure well him self. Theory alone, however, good, and directions, bowever minute, will not do here, but it is practice that must qualify one to cure well. When it is remembered that no two plants are exactly afcke, no two barns! precisely similar in every particular, and that the weather may change every hour, is it reasonable that a fixed program can be followed for every curing with any certain hope of suc cess? The experienced know better. On work so variable, only general di rections can be given. The planter here must use his head as well. The next is called "fixing the color, When the tobacco is sufficiently yel lowed, best leaves of a uniform yellow, and the greener ones of a light pea green color, it is time to advance the heat to one hundred degrees; observing the leaves closely to detect sweating, which will soon redden and spoil the color, unless driven off. To do this, open the door and let it stand open, and if in an hour or more the sweat has not disappeared, open a space be tween the logs on opposite sides of the barn to let in more air, and permit it to remain open until the tobacco has dried off all appearance of the sweat To dry off the sweat speedily, sprinkle dry straw or hay ever the floor and set fire thereto, using just enough straw to accomplish the desired result. Right at this point more curings are spoiled than at any other stage of the process. It may be well to remember what is a fact, that at least five curings are spoil ed by proceeding too fast to one lailure from going too slow. Now stick a pin here. But to go back to the barn, where we have just dried the leaf, and where the thermometer indicates a fall of five or ten degrees but this need not con cern the curer or put him out of hope, tor a little cooling under the circum stances was necessary we close up the opening and raise the heat to one hun dred degrees. But a skilful curer de tects the first indications of sweat, and prevents it by regulating the heat and ventilation. Keep the heat at one hundred de grees for four hours, and then advance two and a half degrees every two hours, until one hundred and ten de grees are reached. Here you have reached the most critical point in the difficult process of curing bright to bacco. The condition and appearance of the tobacco must now be the curer's guide. No one can successfully cure tobacco until he can distinguish the effects of too much or too little heat in the appearance of the leaf. Too little heat in fixing the color operates to stain the "face" side of the leaf a dull brown, and is called "sponging,' and may be known to the novice by its appearance only on the "face" side of the leaf. Too much heat reddens the leaf, first around the edge and then in spots, which are visible on both jca. iuw, 10 prevent sponging on the one hand and spotting on the other hand, is the aim of the experi enced curer. No definite time can be laid down to run from one hundred and ten to one hundred and twenty degrees. Sometimes four hours will suffice, then again, eight hours is fast enough. While it is usual at this stage to advance about five degrees every two hours for medium tobacco, the condition of the tobacco often indi cates, to the practiced eye, the neces sity of slower or faster movement. But it is safe not to advance above one hundred and ten degrees until the tails begin to curl up at the ends. Arrived at one hundred and twenty or one hundred and twenty-five degrees, this is the curing process. The heat should remain at or near these figures until the leaf is cured, which will require six to eight hours, according to the amount of sap in the leaf to be ex pelled. W hen' the leaf appears to be cured, advance five degrees every hour up to one hundred and seventy degrees and remain until stalk and stem are thoroughly cured. To run above one hundred and eighty degrees is to. en danger scorching the tobacco, and perhaps burning both barn and tobacco. To recapitulate First. Yellowing process, 90 de grees from 24 to 30 hours. Second. Fixing color, 1 00 degrees 4 hours; 100 to no, 214 degrees every 2 hours, no to 120 degrees 4 to 8 hours. Third. Curing the leaf, 120 to 125 6 to 8 hours. Fourth. Curing stalk and stem, 125 to 1 70, 5 degrees each hour. And continue at 170 degrees until stalk and stem are thoroughly killed and dry, which usually requires from 12 to 15 hours. R. L. Ragland. Hyco, Va. Who has not heard of that paragon of family parrn, the enterprising and pop ular Weekly Detroit Free Prentf For a eration its name has been a household word, and it has become a synonym for all that is excellent, pure and elevating in journalism. It is delightfully enter taining without resort to cheap sensa tionalism, instructive without being proHy or pedantic, (ombimnir the liter ary qualities of the expensive magazine with the bright, breezy characteristics of the newspaper, it leaves nothing to be desired by the average reader. It is look ed upon as a welcome visitor by every family who reads it, while thousands re gard it indispensable and would on no ac count go without it. An enormous cir culation of 125,000 per week attests its wonderful popularity. 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Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent Qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for aala in 50o and $1 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist -who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try 1L Do not arrant anv substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. BAN FRANCISCO. CAL LOVISVtLLB. nr. HEW fORK. H.T. k t. m. rrrTMATf. w. n. phaw. pITTMAN & SHAW. ATTORNKYH AT HENDERSON, N. C. Prompt attention to all nrorrHslntml html. nesa. Practice 1 COUrtN. Office: Room No. 2, Bur well Itulidlng. S. HARRIS, DENTIST, If KNDERHO.V, N. C. Pure Nitrons Oxide Gas adinliilHtered for the palnlena extrac tion of tretla. tSPOflice over E. C DavU str xrin Street. Ian. t-a. c. zoLLicoFiraie, ATTOll am- T . tnr HENDERSON, N. C. Practice In the court of Vance. QranvlII. Warren, Halifax and Northampton, and la tbeHupietne and Federal court of the Ht ate. Offlco: In Zolilcofler'a law building. Oar nett street. feb. -8I. T. W ATKINS, Attorney and Counsellor at Law HENDERSON. N. C. fin, a r.-..in. 1. . ... vwu 1 t.n . uiituviue taacp. anu warrCD. and thoHupremo Court at Raleigh. m. r-MiijM niK-niion Kiven to nil icical tmal iietjs. office over 1'arker'a wholesale ntore. Jan. a. It. HENRY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HENDERSON. N. C. OFFICE IN BCRWKLL BflXDISO. , " --- , - ... 1 11 ( v nriru, unn VlMe. Unltjwl Sialic I'nnrt 1I ". M . ,wu. IHIICIXUi KUU Rnnrpinx Cnurl nr HJi.nh i....n lVtfKKE!t's:-a,,!r J"tice W. N. II. 1 1 , 1 ! A AUau"la . MerrlmoH, Oov. ;'"",cl v.. ruwHj, non. x. 1;. ruiier, lion, t Tucker, Mr. M. Dormer, H. H. Burwell. Kaq.. Hon. Jame fctl win Moore, Ex -Solicitor Gen Of U.K. Katnul K. Plillllpa. umceuoursaa m.ioSp.m. racn.7Si L. C EDWABI, A. R. WORTH A If, uxiord. N. U. uenaerson, H. U. 17DVVAUD8 & WOUTJIAM. ATTORNKYH AT W. HENDERSON, N. C. Offer t ht'r irrvla f si l. ni ..0 r - - -J ft W MUV county, col. Edward will attend all the Court of Vance county, and will come to ucuucikiu mi, any anu an lime when Itla aaaUtance may be needed by hU partner. JTJR. C. S. BOYD, Dental Surgeon, Satisfaction guaranteed as to work and pric m. Offlc over Parker A Cioaa'ator MiimtrMi fe , 4 a WM: H. S. BURGWYN, J. H.VOSE President. Vice President. A. B. OAINCERKIELO, Cashier. O The Bank of Henderson. Established in 1882. GENERAL 3ankinGj Exchange AND Collection Business. yy ILGltUKX, CARPENTER AND BUILDER, HENDERSON, N. C, Offers bis services to the public riant aud estimates furnished, and good work guaranteed. lief era by permission to Mr. M. Dorsey, Henderson, and Mr. James 1. fsatterwbite, Vanee county. 'aTCCL, F.