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I J * i ' i \ ] \ \ \ \ \ I i i i l i i A The OVER A MILLION AND A HALP ' WOMEN WORK AS FARM HANDS IN THE UNITED STATES. J ; By Peter Radford \ Lecturer National Farmer*' Union. ; Our government never faced so tre mendous a problem aa that now lying dormant at the doors of congress and the legislatures, and which, when aroused, will shake this nation from center to circumference, and make civilization hide its face In shame. That problem is?women in the field. The last federal census reports .show we now have 1,514,000 women working In the flelil, most of them south of the Mason and Dixon line. K There were approximately a million negro slaves working in the fields when liberated by the emancipation proclamation. We have freed our slaves and our women have taken their places in bondage. We have jbroken the shackles off the negroes :nnd wplriprf them nnon our daughters. i The Chain-Gang of Civilization. A million women in bondage in the southern fields form the chain-gang of civilization ? the industrial tragedy of the age. There is no overseer quite so cruel as that of unrestrained greed, no whip that stings like the lash of suborned destiny, and no auctioneer's block quite so revolting as that of or ganized avarice. I The president of the United States fwas recently lauded by the press, and jvery properly so, for suggesting medi cation between the engineers and rail road managers in adjusting their -sohedule of time and pay. The engi neers threatened to strike if their wages were not increased from ap proximately .tea to eleven dollars per 'day and service reduced from ten to eight hours and a similar readjust tment of the overtime schedule. Our women are working in the field, many of them barefooted, for less than 50 cents oer dav. and their schedule is ithe rising sun and the evening star, i 'and after the day's work is over they " .milk the^cows, slop the hogs and rock . jthe baby to sleep. Is anyone medlat -ing over their problems, and to whom ^VjShall they threaten a strike? jlSsmgress has listened approvingly :to th&ie. 'who toil at the forge and be- J |hind the Counter, and many of oar (statesmen havfe^ smiled at the threats and have fanned the flame of onrest among industrial laborers. But worn ien are as surety the final victims of 'industrial warfare as they are the burden-bearers in the war between na tions, and those who arbitrate and mediate the differences between capi tal and labor should not forget that rwhen the expenses of any industry are unnecessarily increased, society foots L the bill by drafting a new consignment k of women from the home to the field. A Pinch no Crumb From Women's Crust A ; of Breid. |? i No financial a wart can be made ^ [Without sgm^e^ogfin* ihe biIL %? ^ e Wick w V I i '' 1 > Rose we commend" fo those who accept th responsibility of the distribution of ii dustrial justice, the still small voice c ,the woman In the field as she plead ,for mercy, and we beg that they pine ;,no crumb from her crust of bread c put another patch upon her ragge garments. We beg that they listen to th scream of horror from the eagle o every American dollar that Is wrun from the brow of toiling women an hear the Goddess of Justice hiss at verdict that increases, the want c woman to satisfy the greed of man. ' The women behind the counter an in the factory cry aloud for sympath and the press thunders oat In thel defense and the pulpit pleads fo mercy, but how about the woman 1: the field? Will not these powerfc .exponents of human lights turn thel talent, energies and Influence to he relief? Will the Goddess of Libert; enthroned at Washington hold the ca! loused hand and soothe the feTerlsl brow of her se? who sows and reap the nation's harvest or will she perntf the male of the species to shovi women?weak and weary?from th bread-line of Industry to the back a] leys of poverty? Women and Children First. The census enumerators tell us tha of the 1,514,000 women who work lath fields as farm hands 409,000 are sli teen years ofjbge and under. What li the final destM;y of a nation whose (p ture mothersAeod their girlhood dayi behind the pitching hay ant hauling manure/ ind what is to beeom< that grace- the tome, charm societ] and enthuse maii to leap to glory li noble achievements if our daughter) are raised in the society of the ox ant the companionship of the plow? In that strata between the ages o: sixteen and forty-flve are 950,000 worn en working as farm hands and man] of them with scckllng babes tug ging at vthelr breasts, as drencher In perspii&tion, tfcty wield the scytht and guide the plow. What Is to be come of that naflon where povert: breaks the crownt of the queens o) the home; despair hurls a mother'i love from, its throm and hunger drivei innocent children from the schoolroon to the noe? ? The census bureau shows that 155, 000 of theBe women are forty-flv? years of age and; over. There Is nt more pitiful sight In civilization thai these saintly mothers of Israel stoope< with age, drudging in the field fron sun until sun and at night drenching their dingy pillowi with the tearB o: despair as their tching hearts tak< It all to God in jrayer. Civilizatior strikes them a bl?w when it should give them a crovm, and their onl] friend is he who broke bread wltl beggars and said: ."Come unto me al ye that are weary aad heavy laden anc 1 will give yftu rest Oh, Ami and the world's cus champion erf fender of tb mit our ithe of destiny a 'land of the fre< oifr the brave, th< chivalry, tht tghta and the de 4?shall we per be torn fron e ruthless hanc d to the plow' faithful wlvea ing Everyo ? This ston "1 whom we covenanted with God to che ;lsh and protect, to be hurled from tfc home to the harrest field, and 01 mothers dear to be driven from the ol arm chair to the cotton patch? ! In rescuing our citizens from tk (forces of civilization, can we notappl |to our fair Dixieland the rule of jtli jsed?'"women and children first?" There must be a readjustment < the wage scale of industry bo that jth women can be taken from the field c given a reasonable wage for her ser ices. Perhaps the issue has never bee fah"ly raised, but the Farmers' Unloi with a membership of ten million, pul its organized forces squarely behin the issue and we now enter upon jth docket of civilization the case of "Tb Woman in the Field" and demand, a immediate trial ?Medlcal Triumphs. Nowhere have the triumph* of- med: cal science been more conspicupu than where engineers have perfonpe their greatest feats. De Lesseps d< elded that iBmailla should be th headquarters of the Suez canal, hu the prevalence of malaria made 1 necessary to transfer the headquai ters to Port Said. In 1886 there /w/bt 2,300 cases of malaria at Ismailiai 1] 1900 almost exactly the same numbex In 1901 Sir Ronald Ross wag cablet In to advise. In 1906 there were;n< fresh cases, and malaria had beei stamped out De Lespeps' attempt U construct the Panama canal was de feated largely, if not mainly, by thi frightful death rate among the labor ers; 60,000 lives are said to have beei lost, the result of malaria and yello* fever. How's Thb? otter One Hundred DollM* w wara ior,any,c*pe 01 eannot be cured by Hall'a Catarrh Cur?. P. Jr CHBOTtA CO.. Toledo, O. JWts, .the. Undersigned. h*va known P. X Cheney for the lust 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable In all bualnen trans actions and' financially able to cirrj ?utany obligations made by hi* firm. NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE, Toledo, O Ball't Cai acti?? di poua. ent: toy *1. ? SM* Ball's rwaUy W Uw*iBiXip*to+ One of Field's Jokes. Edward Everett Hale greatly en joyed a joke which was perpetrated on him by Eugene Field. Field cele brated one of Doctor Hale's visits to Chicago by giving a luncheon in his honor and Inviting a number of prom Inent persons to meet him. "Field was aware," said Doctor Hale, "that I was a temperance man, and there fore I was somewhat surprised to see that the table on which this lunch eon was served was very abundantly supplied with bottles labled 'Whisky,' 'Brandy* and 'Champagne.' But when these bottles came to be uncorked they were found ?p -contain nothing but water."r= hlcaio Herald. r M E N T ne i is the home of Hart Schfl Couldn't Atk Them in. A special constable, one bitter night, tried to restore his circulation by slip* ping into a private bar which hap pened to be on his beat, and digested a warming half-pint of ale. As luck would have it oo leaving he ran straight into the arms of his Inspector and sergeant. "What d'ye mean*" thundered the' superior, " y goin' into a pub while you're en duty? Didn't ye see me and ,the sergeant comtn' down the street?" 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"Beloved Pan, and all ye other fod? who haant this place, give me beauty In the lnwara soul; may I reckon the wile .alone to be wealthy, and. may, I hAve.only posmflch gold p? aJ9xnp?r* src. C . E S i V (S I I / visit the Places Mei Dates Indicat ALL RETUBNS must be m ty returned at 1(8 market value. Persons not making tbelr re February 20,1915, are liable to a p will be enforced against dellnquen tofore has put a premium on neglt The returns of tboee who con Township and County Boards, y come in after the meeting of the B The enforcement of this 50 per cen Employers are requested to ret tifying tbern and getting a stateme Returns will not be taken by e some-proper officer- All improve mast be reported to the Auditor. My .Appointments are as Caiboan Falls, Tuesday, JV Lowndesville, Wednesda Mt. Carmel, Friday, Jan. Willington, Tuesday, Jai Bordeaux, Wednesday, J McCormick, Thursday ai Donalds, Monday and Ti Due West, Wednesday ai E. A. Patterson will take ret bicbard son diet, a The Inspector's Advice. The late Inspector McCluskey? "Gentleman George," or "Chesty Gnorge," as he was known in the New York force?was a good friend and a bad enemy. The inspector, while by no means vindictive, did not readily forget an injury, and one day an elder ly millionaire who had injured him in j the past rushed excitedly into his of fice and shouted: "McCluskey, one of your inen Just called me a spavined old mule. What axe you going to do about it?" "Do? Why, nothing," the Inspector answered. "I can't patch you up?I haven't the knowledge. Go and consult a vet" Any Excuse, Etc. Margaret was fond of eating at her Aunt Daisy'r, *>ut had been told not to go there too t/l.en for her dinner after school. When one excuse didn't work she would try another. So one day she thought she would stop and borrow an umbrella as itjooked a little rainy. Of course she accepted Aunt Daisy's invi tation to dinner. The next noon, how ever, when she called her mother on the phone and said she was going to stay to dinner her mother remon strated. "Why, you were just there yesterday." To which Margaret re-" plied, "I know, but, mamma, I forgot, to thank them for the umbrella I bos v-.? y. H ;o $ $ I $ ' V.' J? $ i $ $ r \m $ any rax Payers. imodatingthe Public in the eir Tax jefurne, I will itioned Below on the ed in Schedule. ade under oath, of personal proper turn* between January 1,1915, and enalty of 50 per cent. This penalty ts; for the failure to enforce it here set of the law. form to the law are placed before the vhile those who (Usregard the law oards and return to suit themselves, t. penalty will correct this evil, urn all of their employees after no int of their property. nail unless they are sworn to before imenU< or any transfer of real estate Follows: Jan. 5. y and Thursday Jan. 6 and 7. i 8. an. 13. CZ3 id Friday, #an. 14 and 15. ^ ipsdav. Jan. 18 and 19. id Thursday, Jan. 20 and 21. urns at Antreville. uditor, Abbeville County Persistent Beggar. J. Stanley Todd, the New York por trait painter, was talking about the beggars of different lands. "I have met," said Mr. Todd, "beggars of ev ery description?shy beggars, bluster ing ones, old beggars, robust one*?but the most remarkable beggar of the lot was a man whom I never met, yet whom I never assuredly will forget All I saw of this beggar was his hat and chair. The chair stood on a cor ner of tbe Rue St. Lazare in Paris. The hat lay on the chair, with a few coppers In it, and behind the hat was a placard reading: 'Please don't for get the beggar, who is now taking his luncheon.'" As Pure Air Gauge. If a housewife really wants a health ful house she ought to keep growing plants in her rooms?not for the pleas ure of them only, but because they form a very excellent and practical gauge of the moisture and heat of the hoase. The reason that most plants will not thrive in the ordinary house is that the ordinary house is full of overheated bad air. This air is just as bad for the family as for tho Bos ton fern, but as children are tougher than ferns the effect is not noticed as far as they are concerned. Na wise mother