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ToMcco and Cigars, &c. -1 make a si.ecialtv of IT UK OLD NORTH CAROLINA CORN ; WHISKEY, and have some that has been in mv bouse 1 fortwoyers. Call and get some before it is all gone. 1 buy my whiskey in Luge j caTv."uC& The 'same i money than you can una at any otner place in town. All I r.sk is a comparison of my goods with those you buy else where. Very Respectfully, S.S.WHITTEN. ALEX. T. MMES, UNDERTAKER AN n PKAI.EU IN II W X I T XT 1 K I. VSSITV.K lti ll lUM!, HENDERSON, N. C. A full line of FUNERAL SUT'FLIES of all kinds. Terms cash 1 earn a complete stock of FURNI TURE of every description, M ATTRESS ES, Sl'RINOS, Arc. all of which are sold at LOWEST PRICES. ALEX. T. BARNES, Lassitek Bi ii.pinc, apr20 Henderson, N. C. A HERMIT, closely mewed up in the rocky fastnesses of Mount Kcepa- wavfr omhere is the only human A" hptnrr in this ress reage who can ::iuin m A U 1 ft ST ; .- . ' ...... : Luil-Ts .... t'ena the object of his desires without ; and llis onl-v inspiration is the inspira advertising. j on t0 rnae money. IN 1492. In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Four hundred years aj;o, There lived in Spain a man who thought That if lie did as he really ought We would surely reach the goal he sought And have new worlds to show. lie went before tlse King and Queen, Did this Span-Italio, he, And said, " if you please, I'd like a ship, As 1 want to take a little trip Out West, where the sky appears to dip Into the deeo blue sea. " I ask for one, though I would like three," Said he in a naive way; " If I can't have more, why, one will do. And I'll bring back glory and fame for two, And a country's t iches shall be for you If you'll do as I say. lie told his story and told it well, Then paused for his reply. At first no royal word was spoke. As times were hard and the King was broke. Then he frowned and said, " Is this a joke ?" For Ferdinand was sly. " Why contest thou here to guy me thus, To make of me thy tool? You ask for ships and gold galore To sail where none have been before, In search of a possible foreign shore Think'st thou 1 am a fool " Thou knowest, great King, 1 could not joke With monarchs great as thou; If you stop to think von will find it true. i Where there's one shore there must be two ; And this other shore shall belong to you j If it's discovered now. : Isabel listened; then she spoke As women often do ! " Columbus, times are dull in town, ' IJut Ferdy dear shall pawn his crown And I'll give tip my new fall gown To buy these, ships for you. The money rained, three ships were bought, Well litted oiit'and manned; I So ibey set sail one summer day. lth tegular crews on full sea pay. And Christopher C to show the way, As Chris himself had planned. For days they sailed, far, far away Toward the Spanish Main, Till murmurs from the crew arose; They muttered in good Spanish prose, " If land don't show up soon, this goes, We'll sail for home again." On, on they went, and still no sign Of land assuaged their fear, I5ut C. C cheered his doubting crew liy saying that a bird that Hew (An American eagle, the which he knew) Was proof that land was near. lie offered riches to the men And called them jolly tars. His fervor kept their souls entranced. Their life on shipboard he enhanced; I'ennitting hornpipes to be danced To music of guitars. One evening w hile the music played Columbus stood alone, When suddenly he waved his hand. And shouted wildly, "stop that band ! Sing ' Hail Columbia, Happy Land, Our new discovered home !" They breakfasted next day on shore On canvasback and quail, !:..!. r I : i . ...i t . j infill ui it;i wmuii voiuiiious in;iiiiiu I A cable, to his royal ftiend Discovery made, all well ! W ill send Particulars by mail." THK COLOIlilAX EXPOSITION. ic Sense of t lie Stupendous Is the Prevalent Feeliny that Impresses One at Chicago. Air. 1 ). A. lotnpkins, ot the Char- the money his lather sweated to gain iotie Observer, writing from Chicago js ' like the proboscis of an elephant, to his paper says this of the great anything from a pin to an empire.' Columbian Exposition : He sets the pace. His friends of Whatever is written or said about similar means follow. Strangers won the World's Fair must always be pre- j der and join the race. Costly drinks, faced with the statement that it is a costly clothes, costly courting, costly stupendous, big thing. Hut when it is j everything. After the leaping grey considered that it has cost between ; hound, a promiscuous pack rush on, twenty and thirty million dollars, then ; raising the dust and the devil. Then it is quite another question whether ; iate nights unfit them for the morrow's the fair ruturns 100 cents to this business. Too poor to marry they country or to mankind on each dollar ' turn away from the warnings of God spent. ! and the wooing of the gospel, to follow It is well woilh seeing. It would . Herodias into the entangling alliance be difficult for any man or set of men ! of dishonor and shame paying for it to spend thirty million dollars and not in the surrender of manliness, and a produce something worth seeing. The weakening spirit, paying for his asso size of the Chicago fair, however, is ciations there with the little left him, its cniefest sideration. claim upon public con- The Centennial Exposition was unique. It was educational from beginning to end. The people of embarrassment and despair, the dis Philatlelphia, from the beginning to ' rrace an(i enj. the end of their show, manifested the 1 Our girls are doing nothing to spirit claimed in the name of their , break and stop their fail. Oh! "why city " brotlierly love. When one : stood before the Corliss engine at:non:, w r.iv, Jmmwritl, . .. , ... , -0-- -; 1 niladelphia, there was an impulse to : stand uncovered, in revefence of the 1 evidence of genius given by God to , man. The Chicago Fair is great as the ' pyramids are great. To ai Chicago man a scheme out of which a i hTlune can t be made out of nothing ; don't our girls know that these suitors is no scheme at all. The concessions j nave nothing or will have nothing to granted all over the fair grounds prove j support them with ? No girl ought to that the fair is valuable in the eyes of 'ali0w her lover to embarrass his bus the management as a money making ; ineSs or overdraw his account for her institution. 'sake. Give the boys a chance to make Hut for all these drawbacks we may ! and keep something, always revert to the original statement 1 "And they might have it if the that there is enough there to warrant j thoughtlessness of young gii i- were not any one in going to see it. But I do ! annroved bv their parents. If mv not consider that the thirty million daughter needed a carriage or a ticket dollars that the fair has cost has been ; or a choice seat for an entertainment we'd spent. : I'd pay for it. No young fellow should The money spent on expositions in : spend his week's wages on her. And Augusta and Atlanta makes a better j yet parents encourage their daughters return on each dollar than the World's j to receive the most expensive atten Fair money will ever make to any- tions from fifty-dollar clerks, and suffer body. The money spent by the various States has been generally well spent. That spent by North Carolina has been notably well spent by Messrs. Wilson and Brunerand their assistants." Iowa also has a notably good exhibit, and that by Virginia of a house copied from Mount Vernon mansion is unique and interesting. The magnitude of the work is an evidence of the wonderful energy of the Chicago and the Northwestern people. Lut there is something about the result that reminds one of the pride ot the Chicago man in the number of hogs he slaughters per day. Nothing but quantity and magnitude tever enters the Chicago man's head, FA8TLIYING. SOCIETY SCORED IN NO UN CERTAIN MANNER. Fast Life by Young1 Society Swells The Club Houses and Theatres and the Pace That Kills, Graphically Pictured by Rev. Dr. Walter Lewis. I Atlanta Constitution.! The Rev. Dr. Walker Lewis preached a rousing sermon before a large audi ence at Trinity church yesterday morn ing. The doctor's theme was a most in teresting one and he took occasion to pay his respects to social Atlanta, and every word that he uttered came straight from the shoulder. His manner of speech was very em phatic, and he evidently meant every thing he said. Doctorr Lewis read the following lines from Isaiah, xxiii, 16 : " There fore thus saith the Lord, behold I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a brick stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation : he that believeth shall not make 'haste." After a few introductory remarks outlining his discourse, Doctor Lewis said : "A late editorial in the Constitution entitled 'Too Much Idle Gossip,' is an excellent production; a lay sermon of great merit, deserving reproduction and widespread circulation, mere is too much gossip here. " But from one of its statements I must entirely dissent. When the edi tor speaks of this evil, of its spread abroad, and of the question it will raise in otner communities, 1 wnat is the matter with Atlanta?' he sum marily dismisses it, saying: 'There is nothing the matter except the wag ging of too many reckless tongues.' Nothing the matter not also affecting other cities, there is much the matter here; much serious and alarming; much serious and alarming; much sapping the energy of the city, retarding its growth, involving its once fair name, and corrupting its morals. Fast living is the matter. " Here is a young fellow who has inherited, not his father's energy and conservatism, but his money. He means to spend it. He can't smoke less than a twenty-five-cent cigar it would reflect on his station. His dry goods bill is enormous his pants go with the creases on their legs. His livery bill would support his grand father. Reserved seats at the theatre are too reserved for him; he rents a box. The cars are not ' tony' enough to deport him; he hires a carriage. Alter the dreary or flashy performance he adjourns to a midnight supper at $5 a head. His capacity for spending and the much he can appropriate from depositors, creditors or employers. Then the lag in energy, the unpaid accounts making merchants swear, the arP thev so thoughtless as to alow the au.u w.u, ...v. .....v...... their suiters. When the most of our y0ung fellows finish courting they are themselves altogether finished. Hiring ;es to go a few blocks, renting a box rather than a reserved seat, send ing flowers at amazing prices, providing midnight champagne suppers. Why the better paid to spend all they have, and more, to give their children a 'swell' time of it and a grand display. " And then society is on the run. Its speed beats the Nancy Hanks. That train rushes over highways of clamped steel, on sound wheels and good air brakes, over moderate curves and grades. The engine of 'society' has bad wheels, impaired brakes, steep grades and sharp curves. It is sure to leave the track some where, and it will leave many in the smash-up. No rail road horror compares with a derailing of society. " Fast living is damaging Atlanta. It will cause a hegira for us it there is not an abatement of its speed. It will deter capitalists from coming here. One fast young fellow will discourage more than our public schools attract. The wild abandon of the luxurious to corrupting pleasures is an offset to our glorious climate. A club that tolerate drinking and gambling, repels more j than advertisements can draw, and j rich spendthrifts are rnighter for in- cubus than is an aid association for j encouragement. j "But there are higher reasons fur 1 discouraging fast living than utility j furnishes. It is well to 'build up At- j lanta;' better to develop the Kingdom j of God. Blood is more than gain. Conscience, character and Heaven are above trade. Fast living fires the combustible in man, and the hour of temptation is the hour of overthrow. It is a dry spot in the timbers of in tegrity, and -the day is coming when the pressure of an emergency will pre- j cipitate a greater collapse than the fall of Ford's theatre was. In its last sta-e it is dgath and hell. "What cure? The one God offers the foundation of the gospel. ' He that believeth, shall not make haste.' He finds no need for it. " He finds enough in Christ to sat isfy his heart. It is his meat also to i do the will of God. He tastes and knows that the Lord is good; that there is fullness in His presence and pleasures forevcrmore at His right hand. On his eyes the hills are rising alabaster and abiding. He feels the powers of the world to come, and comes in touch with the angels that are keeping their first estate. There is nothing to hurry him after J lie world. And in his sight as his faith pierces clouds and fog, the judgment uprises with its destinies or horror or joy. The risen dead; the open book; they come or go ! The eye of faith is not blind to the glorious or dread ' facts of that day; and in its open ears s .t : . r : i :.. tne voices or warning ana inv tation faith, if our are not lost. They serenade th " Build upon God. Let all church not living soberly and eously reform, return, or quit. faithlul living by the saints is treach ery to sinners and the Son of God. Let the true and moral of the world, renounce their neutrality and side with the right, to redeem the world and build for ages. Then, when the hur ricane shall break upon our houses, and the sinner and hypocrite shall be driven out of the refuge of lies, and the affrighted foolish builder shall flee from his falling habitation in calm and security, the righteously wise will wait the clearing of the clouds and the corning of the Lord, appears it will be no 'Come.' " And longer when He 'Go,' but TI1K V. OIiLD'S FAIIJ. A Fc'iV Points Alumr. Chicago and How to Keaeli the dvat Western Metropolis. As a preat many readers of t lie Uor.n Leaf will make their first visit to Chicago and the great World's Fair during the next few months, a few pointers regarding the geography of the city and how to reach it in the fdiortcst possible time over the best and cheapest route, as well as the most pleasant and picturesque as regards the excellence of the train service and beauty of the natural scenery, will bo ap preciated at tli is time. In the first place, fix firmly in your mind the fact that Lake Michigan forms the eastern boundary of the entire city, and if you stand facing the lake with both arms outstretched the left hand will point to the North Pole and the right hand will point straight down the tra Four route to the World's acks ot the Dig s rair nuudings situated at the southern end of the city. Taste this in your hat and you have the key to the entire situation. Reaching Chi cago on trains of the Fig Four route, which is the only railroad having an entrance on the southern side along the. lake front, where all the hotels and boarding houses are located, you will find yourself passing practically through the Exposition Grounds and a magnificent panoramic view of the fair is obtained. At the World's Fair station of the Big Four route, if you step off on the right side, you are at the entrance gate to the Expo sition, and can begin "doing" the Fair at once. If you step off at the left side you will llnd yourself in the finest residence portion of Chicago, and right in the midst of the World's Fair hotel and boarding house district. The chances are ten to one you will be within a few minutes' walk of the very place you have selected lor your headquarters. If you prefer to go down town ten min utes'" ride will bring you to the Twelfth Street station in the heart of the city. Now bear in mind the manifest advantage cf entering Chicago on the Big Four route. In the first place you avoid entirely the bother and trouble of a tedious transfer across the city, which is necessary via all other lines, being landed directly at the Exposition' Grounds, an advantage offered by 110 other line, and in the second place you can so fix the geography of the city in your mind that you will at once become as familiar with "Chicago as you are with your own town. Another point in favor of the Big Four route is found in the fact that if you enter Cincinnati on the Queen it Crescent route, Louisville & Nashville Itailroad, Ken tucky Central It ail way, Chesapeake fe Ohio Railway or Baltimore & Ohio South western Itailroad, connection is made in Union Depot, avoiding the disagreeable transfer necessary via all other lines. For full information address 1). B. Martin, General Passenger Agent. Cincinnati, Ohio, or John 1). Potts, Division Passen ger Agent, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, Richmond, Va. Tickets sold tlirouh from Richmond or Charlottesville, Va., via C.& O. and Big Four Routes. Folders, descriptive circulars anil sched ules of train may be seen at the Gold Leaf office where any information in our possession, after having traveled by these lines, will be cheerfully given. If you are all run down, fagged out, take Simmons Liver Regulator and be spry. Geo. W. Vanderbilt has just con cluded the purchase of 20,000 acres of land in the " Pink beds section" of Henderson and Transylvania counties, N. C. The purpose of the purchase is to make one of the finest game preserves in the world. Game keepers are already in charge of the property, and every farm house on the estate has been torn down. The property is only a few miles from the Vanderbilt residence near Asheville. Don't you know to have perfect health you must have pure blood, and the best way to have pure blood is to take Hood's Saisaparilla the best blood purifier and strength builder. Hood's Pills may be had by mail for 23c. of C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. THE WORLD'S FAIR AND HOW BEST TO SEE IT- Information for Everybody Who Is Going1 to Chicago The Ho tels and Boarding Houses Vis itors May Obtain Accommoda tions at Reasonable Rates by Exercising Ordinary Precau tion. A correspondent writing from the World's Fair, tv the Baltimore Sun gives the following u,br'nation which will be of interest to oa.- readers: Th letter is the beginning of a series which will cive practical infor- mation about the Columbian Fair answers to questions which everybody is asking. The first question is, " Shall we go to the fair?" There can be but one answer to that yes. Come, if you stay but a week, six days, five days, lour days, three days, two days come if you stay but a day. Without exag- geration, this fair is the greatest crea tion of its kind ever conceived and executed by man. Its educational value is beyond calculation. And if you are coming, come at once. Don't put your visit off until September or October. The rush will be made in those months. At present, although the crowds in Jackson Park seem immense, there are not enough strangers here to fill the hotels or to make traveling to and from the grounds uncomfortable or dangerous. The stories which were sent out at the opening of the fair in May about high rates charged by the hotels were true at that time, but they don't go now. There has been a reduction all along the line. Rooms can be engaged, without board, from one to twenty dollars and with board from three to a twenty-five dollars a day. To a person ot restricted means a room without board is preferable to the American plan. In addition to the hotels of Chicago there are hundreds o( lodging houses near the grounds where rooms may be obtained at small price. There need be no difficulty in finding these places. If you do not succeed in get ting quarters before arriving go over to Michigan avenue, take an Illinois Central Railway train for the fair grounds, get off at any station between Fifteeth and Sixty-seventh streets, walk through the adjoining streets and in every block you will see the sign ' furnished rooms." But the best way is, of course, to provide lor your room in advance. These minute instructions are in tended for persons who cannot afford to go to the first-class hotels. The only point that may be of advantage to their more fortunate brethren is the advice to select a place near the grounds. You will not appreciate this fully until you have been here two or three days, when you will feel fatigued and in no condition to return to a long-distance hotel. If you want to see Chicago itself and Chicago is well worth seeing set a time apart for that purpose. The weather is very pleasant now. During the day the sun is hot, but at night there is usually a strong breeze from Lake Michigan so strong that wraps and overcoats are not uncom fortable. Judging from appearances, those ladies enjoy themselves most who leave their fine clothes at home or keep them for evening wear at the hotels. The prevailing costumes consist of low shoes that fit the feet with perfect ease, skirls of blue, black or some light-colored . material, with loose fitting waists of various shades and broad brimmed straw hats. The hats protect the eyes from the glare of the while buildings. Breakfast, luncheon, dinner and supper can be had at satisfactory prices provided you look before you leap. Inside the grounds the rates at the restaurants of the Wellington Catering Company are a small advance on the prices charged by first-class eating houses in Baltimore. In view of the fact that the company has to pay a large percentage of its receipts for the privilege of conducting its establish ments on the grounds, its prices are not exorbitant. Besides the restaurants of this com pany nearly every nation represented at the fair by exhibits and buildings is also represented by eating and drink ing houses, where food and drink are served in the style of each nation. As a general thing prices at these places are higher than at the Wellington's restaurants if you cat an entire meal, but you can sample the cooking of each nation by selecting one or two things according to your taste and pocket-book. Lunchrooms are in all parts of the grounds. Sandwiches, coffee, tea, milk, bread and butter, beer, ices, lemo nade, soda-water and cold spring water are sold at moderate prices. Persons who have a limited sum of money to spend eat a hearty breakfast before coming to the fair, bring their lunch with them or buy it wherever they happen to be in the park, select a shady spot and enjoy themselves in pic nic fashion without paying the slightest atttention to passers-by. They sit on the grass, on benches or the chairs, and sometimes at the base of a group of statuary, with their tieads reclining against the jaws or tails of ferocious lions. The incongruity of the situation doesn't bother them in the least. It is a case of go-as-you-please, and everything gees in Chicago. Outside the grounds the restaurant prices are remarkably cheap. In the best ot these eating-houses the cooking is better than in the best places inside the grounds, where the rush is greater. In the vicinity of the park every other building contains a restaurant, some of which show that they were put up for temporary purposes, while others are substantially constructed and equal to the best in the heart of the city. Everybody seems to have a good appetite and to satify it frequently. You walk along for two or three hours intensely interested at every turn. Then you realize that you can't stand up much longer, so you drop into the nearest restaurant, eat a light luncheon, sip something cooling, tilt your chair back and enjoy a cigar while watching the moving throngs. You will take lunch two or three times in this way if you are a wise man, and when you return to your hotel for dinner you will find that your appetite is still with you and that you are much less fa tigued than you would be if you were to rush along and eat very little in expectation of filling up the aching void at dinner. When the fair was opened a rule prohibited smoking except in restau rants. Now you can smoke wherever you please, except in buildings where exhibits are displayed. By the action of the council of ad ministration the World's Fair will hereafter be kept open for visitors until 11 o'clock every night, instead of Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights only, as heretofore. The exposition buildings are to be kept open until 10 o'clock, and the grounds until 1 1 o'clock. Unless you have so much lime that you don't know what to do with it, unless you delight in saying you have visited every building ! on the grounds, you can well afford to pass some of the State buildings with a mere clance at their exterior. Of the New England States Massachusetts and Connecticut are worth a close inspec tion, the former on account of its historical interest and the latter be cause it is a good model for a country home. New York has the most costly of the State buildings. It is a superb clubhouse, including grand banquet hall, and it is characteristic of New York in that it reaches out for the magnificent, and comes mighty near attaining it. Pennsylvania has a re production of Independence Hall, including the original Liberty Bell. The rooms are richly and handsomely furnished, and are adorned with art works and numerous revolutionary relics of great interest. The home of Washington at Mt. Vernon cannot be shown in all its grandeur without its surroundings of hills, trees and water. In' attempting to give an idea of its appearance Vir ginia has erected on the fair grounds a building like that at Mt. Vernon, with the colonnades and two of the out buildings. The appropriation at their disposal would not permit the Virginia commissioners to do more. The re sult is not satisfactory to persons who have visited Washington's home and is misleading to those who have not seen it but have read of its impressive beauty. West Virginia has a fine large build ing, skillfully finished in various hard woods from that State. Among the decorations is a picture of Betty Vane, the girl who risked her life at the close of the Revolution to obtain powder for Fort Henry, now the site of Wheeling. There are also in this building a sofa and a secretary which were used by Lee and Grant at Appomalox. Dela ware has a pretty little home building filled with creature comforts and adorned by many pictures, including a portrait of Ambassador Bayard. Many of the far Southern States are not represented, but Kentucky and Florida are here. Kentucky has a good building, good statues of Daniel Boone and Henry Clay and good whisky,, while Florida is unique in its fort-shaped building, its flowers, its plants and its orange cider, which is sold at 5 cents a glass. Nearly all the Western and North western State buildings are interesting, especially that of Iowa, with its wonderful effects in decorative corn ; Kansas, with its menagerie of stuffed animals: Washington, with its big timber ; Illinois, with its stupendous attempt to do everything in general and nothing in particular, and several others with their exhibits of minerals and agricultural products. The most picturesque building and the best exhibition of a State's re sources belong to California. So attractive are its fruits, its wines, its nuts; so comprehensive are its minia tures of cities, villages, valleys and mountains ; so novel are its fanciful designs made of various products, and so captivating is the story it tells of the discovery of gold in the bronze statue cf Jim Marshall, the discoverer, sur rounded by nuggets of all sizes, that everybody who visits the fair should go to the building which represents this marvellous State of the Pacific. The smooth stream, the serene atmosphere, the mild zephyr, are the proper emblems of a gentle temper, and a peaceful life. Among the sons of strife, all is loud and tempestuous. Guaranteed Cure. We authorize our advertised druggist to sell Dr. King's New Discovery for con sumption, coughs and colds upon this con dition. If yott are afflicted with a cough, cold or any lung, throat or chest trouble, and will use this remedy as directed, giv ing it a fair trial, and experience no bene fit, yon may return the bottle and have yodr money refunded. we could not make this offer did we not know that Dr. King's Iew Discovery couldlje relied on. It never disappoints. Trial bottles free at Melville Dorsey's drug store. Large size 50c and 11.00. LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION. THE FIRST TRAGEDY IN THE - OLD FORD THEATRE. How Abraham Lincoln Came to His Death at the Hands of John Wilkes Booth The Affair Recalled by the Recent Fatal Collapse of the Build in ST. The collapse of the old Ford theatre building calls to mind that other awful tragedy which occurred within its walls and which made the place historic the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by Wilkes Booth. The assassination was on the even ing President Lincoln was invited by the manager of Ford's theatre, in Washington, to attend a performance of the play, Our American Cousin," with Laura Keene as the leading lady. This play, now so well known to all play-goers, in which the late Sothern afterwards made fortune and fame, was then comparatively unheralded. The play was new, consequently not alluring to him, but he yielded to the wishes of Mrs. Lincoln and went. They took with them Miss Harris and Major Rathbone, daughter and stepson of Senator Harris, of New, York. The theatre was crowded. At 9:20 the president and his party entered. The audience rose and cheered enthu siastically as they passed to the 4 state box' reserved for them. Little did any one present dream that within the hour enthusiasm would give place to shrieks of horror. It was 10 o'clock when Booth came upon the scene to enact the last and greatest tragedy of the war. He had planned carefully but not correctly. A good horse awaited him at the rear of the theatre, on which he intended to ride into friendly shelter among the hills of Maryland. He made his way to the president's box, a double one in the second tier, at the left of the stage. The separating partition had been removed, and both boxes had been thrown into one. Booth entered the theatre noncha lantly, glanced at the stage with apparent interest, then slowly worked his way around into the outer passage leading towards the box occupied by the president. At the end ot an inner passage lead ing to the box door one of the presi- prevci.t un .veicome intrusions. Jiooui . pree;.:ed a caul to him, stating mat Mr. Lincoln had sent for him, and was permitted to pass. After gaining an entrance and closing the hall door, he took a piece of board prepared for the occasion, and placed one end of it in an indentation in the wall, about four feet from the floor and the other against the moulding of the door panel a few inches higher, making it im possible for any one to enter from without. The box had two doors. He bored a gimlet hole in the panel of one, reaming it out with his knife so as to leave it a little larger than a buckshot on the inside, while on the other side it was big enough to give his eye a wide range. Both doors had spring locks. To secure against their being locked, he had loosened the screws with which the bolts were fas tened. So deliberately had he planned that the very seats in the box had been ar ranged to suit his purpose by an ac complice, one Spanglar, an attache to the theatre. The president sat in the left hand corner of the box, nearest the audience, in an easy armchair. Next to him, on the right, sat Mrs. Lincoln. A little distance to the right of both, Miss Harris was seated, with Major Rathbone at her left, and a little in the rear of Mrs. Lincoln, who, intent on the play was leaning for ward, with one hand resting on her husband's knee. The president was leaning upon one hand, and with the other was toying with a portion of the drapery. His face was partially turned to the audience, and wore a pleasant smile. The assassin swiftly entered the box through the door at the right, and the next instant fired. The ball entered just behind the president's left ear, and, though not producing instanta neous death, completely obliterated all consciousness. Major Rathbone heard the report, and in an instant later saw the mur derer, about six feet from the presi dent, and grappled with him, but his grasp was shaken off. Booth dropped his pistol and drew a long, thin, deadly looking knife, with which he wounded the major. Then touchtng his left hand to the railing of the box, he vaulted over to the stage, eight or nine feet below. In that descent an unlooked for and curious thing happened which foiled all the plans of th assassin and was the means of bringing him to bay at last. Lincoln's box was draped with the American flag, and Booth caught his spur in its folds, tearing it down and spraining his ankle. He crouched as he fell fainting on one knee, but soon straightened himself and stalked theat rically across the stage, brandishing his knife and shouting the state motto of Virginia, "Sic semper tyrannis!" afterwards adding, "The South is avenged !" He made his exit on the opposite side of the stage passing Miss Keene as he went out. A man named Stewart, a tall lawyer of Washington, was the only person with presence of mind enough to spring upon the stage and follow him, and he was too late! It had all been done so quickly and dramatically that many in the audi, ence were dazed, and could not un- dt rstand th.it anything not a part of the play hid haptned. When at last hs awful truth was known to them ihen t nvied a scene the like of which was never known in a theatre before. Women shrieked, sobbed and fainted. Men cursed and raved, or were dumb with horror and amaze ment. Miss Keene stepped to the front and begged the frightened and dismayed audience to becalm. Then she entered the president's box with water and stimulants. Medical aid was summoned and came with flying feet, but came too late. The mur derer's bullet had done its wicked work well. The president had hardly stirred in his chair, and never spoke or showed any signs of consciousness again. They carried him immediately to the house of Mr. Peterson, opposite the theatre, and there at 7:22 the next morning, the 15th of April, he died. Urs. C. FluKer Of naltlmore. 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