The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, March 21, 1900, Image 4
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womefwh(Twork;!
Or Talmage Speaks Encouraging
Words to Them.
SiMPLE FAITH AND TRUST
!n God Afford Comfort for Those
Who Are Oppressed and
/
Struggling for a Livelihood.
This discourse of Dr. Taloiage is an
sppeal for mercy in behalf of oppressed i
womenhood, and offers encouragement
to those struggling for- a livelihood;
text, Ecclesiastes, iv, 1, "Behold the
tears of snch as were oppressed, and
they had no comforter."
Very long ago the needle \ras busy.
It was considered honorable for women
to toil in olden times. Alexander the
(ireat stood in ins^piace snowing-gar..
ments made by his own* mother. The
* finest tapestries at Bayeux were made
by the qneen of William the Cotqneror.
Augustus the emperor would not wear
any garments except those that were
fashioned by some member of his royal
family. So let the toiler everywhere
be respected!
The needle has slain raore than- the
sword. When the sewing machine was
invented, some thought that invention
would alleviate woman's toil and put
an end to the despotism of the needle.
But no; while the sewing machine has
been a great blessing to well to do
families in many cases, it has added to
the sUb of the needle the crush of the
wheel, and multitudes of women, notwithstanding
the re-enforcement of the
sewing machine, can only make, work
hard as they will, between $2,and $3 a
week.
* * t T A 1J T
ine greatest Diessing mat couiu nave
liappened to our first parents was bein?
turned out of Eden after they had done
wrong. Adam and Eve in their perfect
state might have got along without
work or only such slight employment
as a perfect garden with no weeds in it
demanded, but as soon as they had
sinned the best thing for them was to
be turned ont where they would have
to work. We know what a withering
thing it is for a man to have nothing to
do. Of the 1,000 prosperous and honorable
men that you know 999 had to
***" work vigorously at thebeginning. Bat
I am now to tell you that industry, is
last as important for a woman's safety
and happiness. The most unhappy
women in our communities today are
those who have no engagement to call
them up in the morning, who once having
risen and breakfasted lounge
through the dull forenoon in slippers
down at the heel and with disheveled
hair, reading the last novel, and who,
having dragged through a wretched forenoon
and taken their afternoon sleep
and having passed an hoar and a half
at their toilet, pick up their card case
and go oat to make cails, and who pass
their evenings waiting for somebody to
come in and break up the monotony.
Arabelle Stuart never was imprisoned
in so darka dangeon as that.
[jThercis no happiness in aB idle woman.
It may be with hand or brain but work
she must or be wretched forever. The little
girls of our families must be started
with that idea. The curse of American
society is that our young women
are taught that the first, second, third,
fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, tenth,
fitieth, thousandth thing in their life is
to get somebody to take eare of them.
Instead of that the first lesson should
be how under God they may take care
of themselves. The simple fact is that
a majority of them do have to take oare
of themselves and that, too after having
through the false notions, of
their parents wasted the years in which
they ought to have learned how successfully
to maintain themselves. We
now and here declare the inhumanity,
cruelty and outrage of that father and
matter \oTm rtftas tlipir danfhters into
womanhood having given them no
facility for earning their livelihood.
Mme. <de Stael said, ''It is-not these
writings that'll am proud of, but the
fact'that I have facility'in ten occupations
in any one of which I could make
a livelihood." You: say you have a
fortune to leave iheui. 0 man and
woman! -Have yon*V~rmt*" ] ,aTned that,
like vultures,-like hawks, i kc oagl? *
riches have wings and fly awa. ?
Though gyou should be sacccisi ul in
leaving competency behind you, the
trickery of executors may swamp it in
a night, or some officials in 'our
churches may get up a mining company
and induce your! orphans ;-to.:put their
money into a hole in Colorado and if.
by the most skillful machinery the
sunken money cannot be brought up
again prove to them that it was eternally
decreed that that was the way
they were to lose^it and that it went
in the most orthodox and heavenly
style. Oh, the da nnable schemes that
professed Christians will engage in
until God puts his fingers into the collar
of the hypocrite's rope and strsips it
dear down tr> ihp hntfnm! Vmi
no right because you are well off to conclude
that your children are goiog to
be well off. A man died leaving a
large fortune. His son fell dead in a
Philadelphia grogshop. His old comrades
same in and said as they bent
over his corpse, "What is the matter
with you, Boggsey?" The surgeon
standing over him said: "Hush, ye!
He is dead!" "Oh, he is.dead!" they
said. "Come, boys, let us go and take
a drink in memory of poor Boggsey!"
Have vou nothiDg better1,than money
to leave your children? If you have
not, but send your daughters into the
world with empty brain and unskilled
hand, you are guilty of assassination,
homicide, infanticide.
There are women toiling in our nities
for $2 or $3 a week who were the
daughters oFmer chant princes. These
suffering ones now would be glad to
have the crumbs that once fell from
their father table.- That wornout broken
shoe that she wears is the lineal descendant
of the $12 gaiter in which her
mother walked, and that torn and faded
calioo had ancestrv of magnificent
DKfccade that swept Pennsylvania avec
vSue-aw^Broadway deal without any ex
xq me street commissioners.
you live in an elegant resi^WCiuid
fare sumptuously every day,
' - - ->"3etyour daughters feel it is a disgrace
" V -. ^or them not to knowjhow to^ork. I
^denounce the idea prevalent in society
* - " that, though 'our young women may
embroider slippers and crochet and
make mats for lamps to stand on without
disgrace, the idea of doing anything
for a livelihood is dishonorable. It is
a shame for a young woman belonging
to a large family to be inefficient when
her father toiis his life away for her ,
support. It is a shame for a daughter
to be idle while her mother toils in the
mshtub, it is as honorable to sweep
house, make beds or trim hats a3 it is
to twist a watch chain.
So far as I can understand, the line
of respectability lies between teat wnicn
ife useful and that which is useless. If
women do that which is of no value,
theii' work is honorable. If they do
practical work, it is dishonorible. That
our young women may escape the censure
of doing dishonorable work, I shall
particularize. You may knit a tidy for
the back of an armchair, but by no
means make the money wherewith to
buy the chair. You may with a deli;
cate brush beautify a mantel ornament,
; but die rather than earn enough to buy
| a marble mantel. You may learn artistic
music until you can squall Italian,
hut never sing "Ortonville" or "Old
Hundred." Do nothing practical if
you would, in the eyes of refioed society,
preserve your respectability. I
scout these finical notions. I teil you
a woman, no more tlan a man, ha^ a
right to occupy a place ia this world
unless she- pays a rent for it
* 0.1 _t. . 1J
A vast majority or mose woo wuuiu
have woman industrious shut her up to
a few kinds of work. My judgment in
this matter is that a woman has a right
to do anything she can do well. There
should be no department of merchandise,
mechanism, art or science barred
against her. If Miss Hjsmer has genius
for sculpture, give her a chisel. If
Rosa BoDheur has a fondness for delineating
animals, let her make ''The
Horse Fair." If Miss Mitchell will
study astronomy, let her rnouat the
starry ladder. If Lydia will be a merchant,
let her sell purple. If Lucretia
Motl will preach the gospel, let her
thrill with her womanly eloquence the
Quaker meeting house.
ft is said if woman is given sush opportunities
she will occupy places that
might be taken by men I say if she
have more,skill and adapcedness for
any position than a man has, let her
have itl She has as much right to her
bread, to her apparel and to her home
as men have. But it is said that her
nature is so delicate that she is unfitted
for exhausting toil. I ask in the name
of all past history wha*: toil en earth is
more severe, exhausting and tremendous
than that toil of the needle. to
which for ages she has been subjected?
The battering ram, the sword, the carbine.
the battleax, have made no such
havoc as the needle. I would that
these living sepulchers in which women
have for ages been buried might
be opened" and that Borne resurrection
trumpet might ibring up these living
corpses to the Jnsh air and sunlight.
We talk about women as though we had
resigned to her all the light work and
ourselves had shouldered the heavier.
But the day of judgment, which will
reveal the sufferings of the stake and
inquisition, will marshal before the
-throne of God and the hierarchs o<
heaven the martyrs of washtub and
needle.- Now, I say if the^e be any
preference in occupation, let woman
have it. God knows her trials are the
severest. By her acuter sensitiveness
to misfortu^, bv her hour of anguish,
I demand that no one hedge up hei
pathway to a livelihood. Oh, the
meanness, the.despicability of men who
begrudge a woman the right to wort
anywhere in any honorable callingl
I hear from all this land the wail ol
womanhood. Man has nothing to anthaf
wail hnfc He
says she is an angel. She is
not.- Sbe knows she is not. She is a
human being who gets hungry whet
she has no food and cold when she has
no fire. Give her no more flatteries.
Give her justice. Oh, the thousands
of sewing girls! Across the sunlighi
comes their death groan. It is not
such a cry as come from those who are
suddenly hurried out of life, but a slow,
grinding. horrible wasting away,
Gather them before you and look intc
their faces, pinched, ghastly, hunger
struck. Look at their fingers, needle
pricked and blood tipped. See thai
premature stoop in the shoulders. Keai
that dry, hacking, merciless cough.
Stand at the corner of a stieet iE
some great city 6 or 7 o'clock in the
morning as the women go to" work.
Many of tbem had no breakfast except
the crumbs that were left over from the
night before or the crumbs they chew
on their way thrv^h the street. Here
they come! The working girls of the
cities. These engaged in bead work,
+V>Aca i-n flnwoi* Tratinff in milllTtPrtf
LUW0W AU MVITVi j
in paper box making; but, most overworked
of all and least compensated,
the sewing women. Why do they not
take the city cars on their way up?
They cannot afford the 5 cents. If,
oncluding to deny herself something
i-c. she gets into the car, give her a
seat. You want to see how Latimer
and Ridley appeared in the fire. Look
at that woman and behold a more horrible
martyrdom, a hotter fire, a more
agonizing death. Ask that woman
how much she gets for her work, and
she will tell you 6 cents for making
coarse shirts and finds her own thread.
Years ago, one Sabbath night in the
vestibule of onr church, after service,
a woman fell in convulsions. The doc
tor said she needed medicine not so
much as something to eat. As she began
to revive in her delirium she said
graspingly: "Eight cents! Eight
cents! I wish I could get it done. I
am so tired. I wish I could get some
" sleep, but \ must get it done. Eight
cents! JSight cents!" We found afterward
that,she was making garments for
8 cents 'apiece and that she could make
but three of them in a day. Hear it!
Three times eight are 24. Hear it,
men and women who have comfortable
homes! Some of the worst villains of
our cities are the employers of these
women. They beat them down to the
last penny and try to cheat them out of
that. The woman must deposit a dollar
or two before she gets the garments
to work on. When the work is done,
it is sharply inspected, the most insignificant
flaws picked out and the wages
refused and sometimes the dollar deposited
not given back. How are these
evils to be eradicated? Some say,
"Give woman the ballot." What effect
such ballot might have on other questions
I am not here to discuss, but
what would be the effect of female suffrage
on women's wages? I do not believe
that woman will ever get justice
by woman's ballot. Indeed women oppress
women as much as men do. Do
not women, as much as men, beat down
to the lowest figure the woman who
sews for them? Are not women as
sharp as men on washerwomen and milliners
ani mantua makers. If a woman
asks $1 for her work, does not her
female employer ask her if she will not
take 90 cents? You say, "Only 10
cents difference." But that is sometimes
the difference between heaven
and hell. Women often have less commiseration
for wemen than men. If
a womai steps aside from the path of
rectitude, man may forgive; woman
neverl Woman will never get justice
done her from woman's ballot. Neither
will she get it from man's ballot. How
then? God will rise up for her. God
has more resources than we know oi.
The flaming sword that hung at Eden's
gate when woman was driven out will
cleave with its terrible edge of her oppressors.
But there.is something for women to
do. Let young people prepare to excel j
in spheres of work, and they will be j
>. - , - .>1. . " - fr?- '
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able after awhile to get larger wages.
Unskilled and incompetent labor must
take what ia given; skilled and cornj
petent labor will eventually make its
! own standard. Admitting that the
I law of supply and demand regulates
j tkes^things, I contend that the de|
mand for skilled labor is very great and
the supply very small, biart witn tne
idea that work is honorable and that
you can do some one thing better than
anybody else. Kjsolve that. God helping,
you will take care of yourself, if
you are after awhile called into another
relation, you will be all the better qualified
for it by your spirit of self reliance
or if you are cilled to stay as yoa are
you can be happy and self supporting.
Poets are fond of talking about man
as an oak and woman the vine that
climbs it, but I have seen many a tree
fall that not only went down itself, but
took ali the viues with it. I can tell
you of something stronger than an oak
for an ivy to climb on. and-that is the
throne of the great Jehovah. Single
or affianced, that woman is strong wno
leans on God aad does ner best. Many
of you will go siogle handed through
life, and you will have to choose between
two characters. Young woman
I am sure you wijLLljarn your back upon
the useless, giggling, irresponsible nonentity
which society igoominiously acknowledges
to be be a woman aad ask
God to make you a humble, active,
earnest Christian. What will become
of that womanly disciple of the world?
She is more thoughtful of.the attitude
she strikes upon the carpet than how
she will look in the judgment; more
worried about her frecklcs than her
sins; more interested in her apparel
than in her redemption. The dying
actress whose life had been vicious
said: "The scene closes. Draw the
curtain.^ Generally the tragedy comes
, first and the farce afterward, but in
her life it was first the farce of a use,
less life and then the tragedy of a
wretched eternity.
Compare the life and death of such a
, one with that of some Christian aunt
. that was once a blessing to your house,
hold. I do not know that she was ever
asked to hive her hand in marriage.
She lived single, that, untrammeled,
. she might be everybody's blessing.
Whenever the sick were to be visited
orthapoorto be provided with bread
she went with a blessing. She could
pray or sing ''Rock of Ages" for any
. sick pauper who asked her. As she
got older there were days when she
was a little sharp, but for the most
part auntie was a sunbeam, just the
one for Christmas eve. She knew better
than any one else how to fix thiogs.
Ser every prayer, as God heard it, was
i full of everybody who ftaa trouoie.
The brightest things in all-the house
dropped from her fingers. She had pe'
euliar notions, but the grandest notion
1 she ever had was to make you happy.
, She dressed well?auntie always dress|
ed well?but her highest adornment
was that of a meek and quiet spirit,
. which, in-the sight of God, is of great
, price. When she died, you all gather
\ ed lovingly about her, and as you car.
ried her out Jo rest the Sunday school
class almost covered her coffia with
s aDonicas, and the poor people stood at
the end of the alley, with their aprons
> to their eyes, sobbing bitterly, and the
| man of the world said, with Solomon,
, "Her price was above rubies," and
J Jesus, as unto the maiden in Judfja,
, commanded, ''Isay unto thee, arisel"
j LOST TEN THOUSAND AT CARDS,
' The Son of Montana's Millionaire
Senator a Gay Sport.
The Washington correspondent ot tne
' Augusta Chronicle says: Nothing
could more clearly illustrate certain
J phases of Washington life as it goes on
' in the in side circles than :i little inci"
dent which occurred the other night
and is now the subject of discussion in
1 quiet quarters. It will be readily re>
membered, of course, that the one subject
which has engaged the greatest
1 amount of attention here duriog the
1 past few weeks?with the exception of
r the Puerto Rican tariff bill?is the con1
test of Senator Clark, of Montana to
retain his seat in the upper house in
defiance of all the machinations which
his old rival Marcus Daley, can bring
' to bear. Clark's income is fabulous,
and he has a son who is doing everything
in his power to reduce it witnin
reasonable limits. The other night
youDg Clark steered up against Representative
DeGraffenreid, of the. lone
that a quiet little game of poker would
be the proper caper. Clark was game
and in for ihe game. It was a matter
of only a few moments to stir up a few
friendly and congenial spirits. About
the handiest was Harry Vansenden, who
used to be the private secretary of lion.
John Gr. Carlisle, of Kentucky. Vansenden
is now one of the "men about
town" and a very dashiDg fellow whose
means of support are more or less invisible.
A few other friends dropped
in and before long the little quiet game
was progressing with a spe^d which
made the hair of even the affluent Mr
Clark curl with more than ordinary
crimpioess. It seemed to be somewhat
inexplicable that every time the deal
went round the scion of the Montana
senator caught, not a bad hand by any
means, but oce which his associates
could just cover after having made the
betting exceedingly lively. Charley,
of the house of Clark, wanted to oe a
sport, and he was game to the last,
but when tht game borkc up after siting
of over five hours the said Charley
found out that he was just $10,000 to
the bad, -the Associated Pres3 didn'tsend
out the story. Thfc local papers didn't
print the story, but it is a fact, just the
same, that the son of the muchly-sil
.3 i.?
verea senator zrurn 1'iuuutua w?s uut
only fleeced of a fortune, but was restrained
from squealing because ho realized
that it would jeopardize the
chances of his distinguished father in
his bittlefor a seat in the most august
deliberative body on earth. Such are
the inside chapters of Washington life,
of which the outside world rarely ever
hears.
Bhode Island Democrats.
The Rhode Island Democratic State
convention met at Providence Thursday
for the nomination of State officers
and the selection of delegates to the
Democratic national convention. jNa
than W. LittleSeld wai nominated for
governor. The platform adopted &a>&
in part:
'Wo people should be annexed by
the United States against their will
and however willing to come no people
should bo admitted exceDt to equal
rights. A republic cannot afford to
have a subject population. The constitution
must always follow the flag
?a government of law and not of men.
''When a corporation possesses the
power to arbitrarily raise prices or depress
wages it is in effect a trust. Every
such trust existing in the United States
should be controlled by nationai legislation
and when based upon a monopoly
its special privilege 3hould be abolished."
The Chicago platform is endorsed
| and reaffirmed.
passes" the sfjate
i The Porto Ricans Will Get Their
Money Back.
..
SENATOR TILLMAN SPEAKS.
He Advocates the Quick Passage
of the Relief Measure and Jabs
'
Republicans. Compliments
McKinley.
The Porto Rican appropriation bill
wa3 passed by the United States Senate
Friday. The bill provides that the
sum of $2,095,455, being the amount
of customs revenue received on importations
by the United States from
Puerto Rico since the evacuation of
Puerto Rico by the Spanish forces on
the 18ih of October, 1898, to the 1st
of January, 1900, shall be placed at the
disposal of the president, to be used for
the government now existing and which
may hereafter be established in Puorto
Rico, and for public education, public
works, and other governmental and
public purposes therein. In discussing
the bill Senator Tillman made a good
speech.
Mr. Tillman said there was evidently
so much division among the Republicans
that it appeared doubtful to him
whether they would be able to enact
any Puerto Rican legislation at all. He
said it looked as if the Republican party
had reached the end of the rope and
that its Ia3t hope now was to contend
'that congiess was without limitations
in the government of, or in legislating
for acquired territory. Referring to
the difference between the government's
treatment of Hawaii and Puerto
Ric) as to the admission of their respective
products Mr. Tillman said:
'"Senators owed it to themselves not to
show such discrimination on the one
hand and such outrage on the other."
He was going to vote for the pending
bill, he said, becauso the enactment of
the measure into law was the only way
to restore to the people of Puerto Rico
taxes taken from them wrongfully and
unconstitutionally. '"The Uoited
States has not given the people of Puer rtHicoa
cent and it is high time,"
..wl hA ''thai, wo crivp hsot tn thpni
uoney we have stolen from them."
^Ir. Tillman declared that the government
established now in Puerto Rico
*as worse than that forced upon the
people by Spain, particularly as to the
island's fiscal affairs, as, under Spanish
rule the Puerto Ricans had at least a
free market in Spain for their goods.
This assertion Mr. G-allinger disputed,
calling Mr. Tillman's attention
to the fact that Spain levied a duty
jpon Puerto Rican products, especially
coffee, which constituted four-5fth3 of
ihe export product of the island. Mr.
Tillman read extracts from Gen. Davis1
report stopping ia the midst of the reading
to exclaim, "iet's cast this legislation
like honest white men; let's not
have any namby pambyism and hypocritical
philanthropy aboutit That is
all I am trying to get senators to agree
to now. There will be no trouble about
the main question. That will either be
adjusted by congress before aojournment
or it will bd adjusted by the peo
pie next November and don't you forget
it."
He thought the way to help the people
of Puerto Rico to get on their feet
was to give them a market through
the meaDS of free trade with the
United States. If a public soup house
was started men who might earn their
living with a hoe, or an axe, would sit
down and wait for the soup to be
handed around. The result would be
to cut off the very labor necessary to
rehabilitate the island as it should be
rehabilitated'. Mr. Tillman favored a
civil government for the island, and
criticised the expenditures under the
present military system as expensive.
"There is no sense, no justice and no
honesty," he said, "in having those
poor devils robbed simply because they
, have come under our dominion." He
thought the Republican party was in a
dilemma, but thought it would come
out all right. "You are the best organized
party I ever saw," he said,
"and no matter how you talk, I've' no
doubt you'll all round up on the vote."
Mr. Tillman referred to what he said
would be the monumental salaries of
the officials'of the insular possessions,
particularly noting the members of the
Philippine commission. Mr. Foraker
informed Mr. Tillman that he had been
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j LU1U lliai LUC Ul^llCSb 3<\iaiy Ul AUJ wriuber
of the commission would be $10 000
a year. "That may be disapi?oiutiug
to the senator," suggested Mr. Forakcr
".No," replied Mr. Tillman. "I'm
gratified. I'm always willing to trust
William McKinley, but it's his bad and
wicked partners that I'm afraid of. He
is a patriotic and noble man, although
just now he maybe carried ofi his feet
by the dream of appearing in history
alon^sde of Jefferson and others who
added largely to our territory." In conclusion
he iu-s"!jeht congress to take its
hands from the ihroatof the Puerto
Bicans and give them a charice to govern
themselves even if we had to guide
them a little at first.
Mr. . Allison then asked for a vote
upon the bill and amendments aod the
request was acceded to. Mr. Tillman
urged Mr. Jones and Mr. Pelt us to
mi U/J ATMAM/^ rn AT%fa TTT ki nVl f k Att k.t/)
wiCiiULavy diiiL'iJuuicubo nmiu imcj ua^i
offered in order that the measure might
be passed without delay and just as it
came from the senate committee. Mr.
Jones withdrew his amendment, but
>Ir. Pettus insisted upon a vote on his
amendments, which, in effect, were
the making of a direct appropriation
for the relief of the Puerto Kicans
without any reference to the tariff or
customs dues collected. The amendments
were defeated. The bill as reported
by the senate committee was
then passed without division, only a
few scattering "noes" being heard
against it.
A Sad Suicide.
A letter from Etta J&nc to the
Spartanburg Herald says: "Willie T.
Foster committed suicide near this
place la?t Sat ur-lay about 3:30 o'clock
by shining !>iui:>elf through the head
with a breech loading shot gun. For
some time he had been in ill health,
both in body and mind, but it was not
thought that he was contemplating self
destruction until the fatal deed was
accomplished. He was about twenty
five or twenty-six years of age asd of
a quiet disppsition and well thought of
by everybodody.
Gainesville, Ga., Dec. 8, 1899.
Pitts' Antiseptic Invigorator in my
family and am perfectly that it is all,
and will do all, yon claim for it.
Yours truly,
A. B. C. Dorsey.
P. S.?I am using it now myself.
It's doing me good. Sold by The Murray
Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all
druggists. v tf..
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NOT MUCH OF AN EATER ]
He Ate Bat Little, But Yon Ought
To See the Welsh Eat. t
CaDtain B. "W. Morgan, every Inch a
Welshman himself, likes to tell thlj
story when there is another Welshman
in hearing, says the Pittsburg News.
He went home to dinner one day and
found a paperhanger at work in tha
house. He asked the time, and Captain
Morgan told him it was noon. <
"I gues3 I'll knock off and go home
to dinner then," the paperhanger remarked.
"Stay and eat with us," the captain
taid, and the invitation waa accepted.
Captain Morgan was attentive to his
guest during the meal. He had a prodigious
appetite. The captain helped
him to roast beef several times, until *
at last he had some curiosity to see t
Just how much the fellow would eat ](
without crying enough. The game waa
growing quite interesting when the fellow
began to show signs of quitting. c
"Will you have some of the plum
pudding?" the captain asked him to v
revive his failing appetite. j
"M/\ thanks " ha renlied. "I've had ,
enough, I think."
"Oh, take a small piece or the pudding,"
the captain urged; "it's genuine c
English plum-pudding, and homemada
at that" r
"Well, I don't mind trying it," he *
said. c
The cap*din helped him to a section
of the pudding weighing about a pound J
and he a e it with much relish- Then ?
he shoves his chair away from the ta- c
ble and leaned back for an after-dinner J
chat. c
"I'm not much of an eater," he said, c
not noticing the smile on the captain's {
face; "It takes very little to satisfy .
me. Say, you ought to see the Welsh ,
eat"
"Are they hearty eaters?" asked the 1
captain. i
"Hearty eaters?" repeated the fellow.
"Say, they eat like a lot of ,
hogs."
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The Japanese Woman. (
The chief duty of a Japanese woman .
all her life is obedience; while unmar- j
ried, to her parents; when married, to '
her husband and his parents; when
widowed, to her son. In the "Greater (
Learning of Women" we read: '<
"A woman should look upon her
husband as if he were Heaven itself, <
and thus escape celestial punishment
"The five worst maladies that afflict .
the female mind are: Indocilit7, discontent,
slander, jealousy and silliness.
Without any doubt these five
maladies afflict seven or eight out of '
every ten women, and from them i
arises the Inferiority of women to men. j
A woman should cure them by self-in- ,
spection and self-reproach. The worst
| of them all, and the parent of the oth
er four, is silliness!"
The above extract shows us very
clearly the position which women have, 1
until quite recently, taken in Japan.
As a German writer says, her condition
is the intermediate link between the
European and the Asiatic. On the one
hand, Japanese women are subjected
to 110 seclusion, and are as carefully
educated as the men, and take their
place in society; but, on the other
hand, they have , absolutely no inde- 1
pendence, and are in complete subjection
to their husbands, sons and other
relations. They are without legal
rights, and under no circumstances
can a wife obtain a divorce or separation
from her husband, however great
his offense. Notwithstanding this, in
no country does one find a higher standard
of morality than among the mar. >
ried women of Japan. Faithlessness Is
practically unknown, although th? ,
poor little wives must often have much
to put up with from their autocratic ,
lords and masters. They bear all, how- '
ever, silently and uncomplainingly,
' their characteristic pride and reserve 1
forbidding them to show to the outer i
world what they suffer. We Europeans
might well in many respects imitate, ;
and have still much to learn from our
little cousins in the Far East?Corn- ,
qui Magazine.
The Keeley Cure Inventor.
Dr. Leslie E. Keeley, the inventor {
of the Keeley cure for drunkenness,
who died in California the other day, ?
was a native of New York State. His 1
youth was spent in Michigan, whence 1
he came to Chicago- to attend Rush 1
Medical College. He graduated iD
1861 and then enlisted in the United (
States army as surgeon during the civil
war. Late in 1866 he moved to Dwight, (
111., where for thirteen years he pur- j
sued a lucrative medical practice. '
, Early in his career as physician he con- *
ceived the idea that inebriety was a ,
disease of nervou3 origin and was cifra- 4
ble. For several years he worked on
this theory, and eventually began a '
system of treatment on patients at
Dwight with the "double chloride -of '
gold and sodium.". At his institute he
treated people suffering from the drink, I
cocaine, cigarette and other habits. v
Of his patients some 17,000 were phy- 1
sicians. It is estimated that about 4 I
per cent, return to drink. The system
consists of four week's treatment of
hypodcrmic injections of the gold cure jgiven
four times daily, together with a f
tonic which is taken from time to time. 1
A Keeley League was formed of the
4k 3. _ ^ . _ * _i_ _t_ a.1 n
graduates 01 tne cure, or wmcn mere ?
were more than 30,000 members. The
Keeley treatment is administered at the *
'Keeley Institute, Columbia, S. C. i
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A Tolbert in a New Role. n
A dispatch from Seneca to the Green- ii
vilie News sajs the negroes there are
angry after hearing the testimony in
the trial of George W. Tolbert, postmaster,
for tryieg to slay James Wat- J,
son, colored, for accosting him about y
the retention of mail Lt -is claimed p
by some eje witnesses that Tolbert. r(
came out of the postoffice with a large a
club, followed Watson iato the street. rj
chased him and beat him .with the club j(
until be had fallen exhausted, and r)
with an oath said: "Get up, d?nyou." Q
TolU ri. claims that he has more money to
spend on beating "Niggers.\ The ~
Negroes are planning an early date to j
hold an indignation meeting, claiming f
that many Democratic postmasters f
would have treated them with more A
consideration. The Republican county \
convention at Walhalla also denounced ?
him in bitter terms as being incompe- f
tent and unfit for the position, and will ^
ask the government to give them a man 1
who will treat all citizens alike. Mr. f
Tolbert is from Abbeville county. y
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)emccrats and Republicans Says
McKinley Has Lost Ground
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HE VACCILATES TO MUCH.
Senators Beveridge, Hanna and
Davis of the Republican
Party Sounds Warning
to Their Party.
The New York Herald publishes inerviews
with senators and representaives
on the Porto Rican bill as folows:
Senator Spooner, Republican of Wis:Ossin,
said:
"Whatever is done with the question
Fill not serve to alter the result next
November. Mr. McKinley will be retominated
and re-electcd."
Representative Richardson, Demoirat
of Tennessee, said:
"The great change of political eentinent
that has swept over the country
mhin the last few months is largely
lue to the vacillating policy of the
resident; and to the action of the Rejublicans
in congress. It is, in my
)pinioD, a practically sure indication of
democratic victory next fall. That a
sbange has taken place there is no
loubt. The attitude of that party
oward Porto Rico has been severely
ebuked by men of every political beioF
Tn q nr/ir/l flio KarmKli/?ona Viatre
?Vi* AM n-viMj uu< v
est ground and the Democrats have
jained ground."
Representative Clayton, Democrat of
ilabama, said:
"I think the American people have
created the Porto Ricans shamefully in
iealing with them. I think that the
jugar trusts have influenced the Repubican
party. 1 believe now .^hat no
natter what the Republican party may
io its past action will go strongly
igainst it in the coming elections."
Senator Clay, Democratof Georgia,
said:
"I think that the majority of the
people of ihe United States are in favor
>f treating Porto Rico as a part of the
CJnited States; that they are in favor of
free trade between the United States
md that island. I think that whatever
iction may be taken it will now couBt
igainst the Republicans and aid the
Democrats. It will certainly help the
Democratic party at the pohs."
Representative Brundidge, Democrat
of Arkansas:
'In my judgement the Democrats
will win a most signal victory in the
next presidental election and the recent
backdown of President MeKinley on
ihe Porto Rican question will very
greatly aid in bringing about this
result. It seems that the time has
arrived whpn the administratinri pan
not trust the people aod the people will
not.trust the administration."
Senator Shoupe, Republican of
Idaho:
"The president's attitude on the
Porto Rican question will not lessen
his chances of eleetion. He will be reelected."
Representative Pierce, Republican,
of Missouri:
"The Porto Rican question wiil not
act as the bomb that many Democrats
think it will. The constitution did:
oot follow the flag when slavery was
the issue and it does not now/'
Representative Bull, Republican of
Rhode Island:
"The Porto Rican question, Dor any
phase of it, will have any effect to
reduce the majority the Republican
ticket will have in the coming election."
Ti j i? n n if*
-Representative v;apron, j.iepuDiican
)f Rhode Island:
"I believe that a complete understanding
by the people will justify the
president and the hou3e and will sorve
:o add and not detract from the popular
rote next election."
Representative McCulloch, Democrat
)f Aikansas:
"The Porto Rican legislation thus far
carried out is a blot on the admicistra.ion
that cannot be wiped away. Mr.
VlcKinley'a policy ought to and will de"eat
the .party that supports it."
Representative Robb, Republican of
Missouri:
"I don't think the Porto Rican legisofiAn
1 IAOCAT) lYf1VTnTrtnl<iT?'a trnfa "
auvu >7111 IvOOvU 4AXA* B TVbV*
Senator Beveridge, Repbulican of
Indiana:
"If we do not give free trade to Porto
iico, Indiana and other stsifs of the
rest will be lost to the Republican pary
in the coming . presidential cam>aign."
* ,
Senator Hanna, Republican of Ohio:
"If we establish absolute free trade
>etween the United States and Porto
lico, we will lose every vote of organzed
labor."
Senator Davis, Republican of Hinlesota:
"Unless we treat the Porto Ricans
,s citizens and give them free trade,
must say here and now that Mckinley
will lose Minnesota and the
iorthwest. The Republican sentiment
3 running that way."
- The Cuban Way.
Svidently Cuba has not been entiref
Americanized. Here is the way
ecretary of War Root spent Sunday in
lavana: The morning was devoted to
gceiving the heads of various departlents
of the government and confering
with them, and at General Ludjw's
residence at night there was a
aimnfin-n trifTi ^^n/?incr trirlonflV tVin
luban Sunday needs reform.
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