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? : b v The Old and the J?ew Proc?s* in Stogy Mah ing Show Woman's Place in Industry <?tyi-? By William Hard ODAY, In the stogy factories ?f Pittsburg, .there are 2,211 . women and only 463 men. AND IN THREE PARTIO ULAR . LY LARGE "TRUST" FACTORIES, IN WHICH THE LAST WORD, IN CHEAP, QUICK PRODUCTION HA- BEiiN SPOKEN, THERE ARE 1,025 .WOMEN AND EXACTLY. . TEN MEN. .? . ' - , On the oho hand there ls the male hand-stogy-maker. He just takes tobacco ?eayea and,.-with his own hands, with out the help of'machines or; even bf tools (except a knife and a clip), constructs, all by. himself, a complete smoke. It took him a long time to learn how to do that On the other hand, the most nearly perfected tyje- of the team-and-machine process, which is taking his place, and which -lakes of his single, complete operation a triple one. The giri who begins the process is not a stogy-maker*at alL She ls bnly "bunch-breaker." With the help of her machine she gives the inside filler leavee of the-stogy their first outside covering. thev "binder." The second outside covering, the "wrapper" is still fo be put on. . J Then the half-dressed stogies, instead of being "shaped".deftly and deli cately.by. the finger-tips of a craftsman, are rushed and squeezed into, form hy "molds" and "presses." The finishing touches are pu$ on by. a most ingenious machine called a ""suction-table. It is full of litte holes through which currents of air, sucked downward, straighten ont the tobacco leaf, and hold it taut and nat while a die, descending,.cuts lt into exactly the right size.* The Vsuctlon-table" (Mr. Ruskin would have called ita vampire J sticks the last few drops of blood -rom-the art and craft of stogy-making. The girl at the "suction-table" takes the piece of tobacco designed for her by the machine and "rolls" it around I the half-finished stogy; giving lt Its "wrapper" and thus completing lt... . " S TWO GIRLS AND THREE MAQHINES HAVE NOW DONE WHAT ONE MAN "DID BEFORE. THEY HAVEN'T DONE IT SO WELL, *BU?T THEY HAVE DONE IT FASTER AND'CHEAPER. And there, you have a Ii t?e. social revolution happening before your eyes. Women have driven men, into a corner in the stogy trade in Pittsburg and they have done it'through .their natural affinity-with the most modern,-the most mechanical and automatic, the most simplified and cheapened factory processes. Of the 468 men in the stogy factories of'Pittsburg, 168. are(still complete hand-stogy-makers. Of the 2,211 women In the. stogy factories of Pittsburg, only twelve have become hand^stogy-makers and they make Italian stogies, which are held together along the side with paste and have no finish al. either end. The victory in Pittsburg; therefore! has been only a. partial victory. Woman has got inte? industry, but not by excelling;or.equalling, man's tech xdque.-Everybody's. . ~ ' . ^Better Field Tha/iPolitics^ By Mme. Cross New house. Founder of the Beaux Arts Club W WW WV WM ?f AM sot thoroughly convinced that the women of the East are ? yet ready for the ballot Th? West is more aggressive than the Eastland Its women with their ballot is the greatest proof' pf that statement ' ' " tn every other sense of the term "equal rights I am a firm believer In lt.. Women* should have, as they do have, equal opportunity Jn professional, business and intellectual. life with men. They are advancing along all these linee and are abreast of men. In art and in ethlcB I believe women are ia the vanguard, but 1 cannot see that at the present time New York women are ready for the ballot . Their day will, come, . but it must not come too rapidly. Political education and economics are matters that have taken years for men to grasp in their highes*; meanings, and the woman vote to become a power must be an intelligent,' carefully considered asset to the common good. ' * ' \ ?> At the present time I believe a matter tai: more Important to women as a class than tho getting of the ballot is her active and sympathetic work with the wage-earning woman and the women whose limited meanB makes it neces sary for them to battle for subsistence in the lowliest walks of life. The wo man of leisure who wants to make her life count should reach her hand out, and not down, to these women. She. should Interest herself in bettering the conditions and enidronraenls ' of t os? women. She should assist them to get better bedk, freer ' air and more material comfort for themselves, and the children depending upon them.- Greater than? the ballot will the influence ot such women bo in this great Empire State.' The ballot will come, but women must first be prepared! to meet the great responsibilities incumbent upon the voter. * m?*. M~ *- * -* -? -? *- * w .m. J9. .T. .g. fc. Reflections of a Bachelor ty Helen Rowland ' MAN'S shoulders are not always as broad as they're padded. ... , , . You'd think every man was a beauty show from the critical way in which he. sizes up the womenr Men say they hate anything loud about a woman; it must be disgust that makes them always turn around to stare arter a peroxide bi onde. ,. The saddest sight on eartn is an old bachelor trying to sew on a button with a'bl?nt needle and a piece of string. There are some men who, before marriage, will risk their lives to pick np your parasol.from in'front of a whizzing automobile who wouldn't get off the sofa alter marriage to pick up anything you might drop, from a hint to the baby. . . ! ' y A husband gets so used to his wife's conversation that after a while it doesn't interrupt his reading,pf the newspaper any more than the puhking In the steam pipes. Of course men. admire a circumspect woman above all things, biit they BeWom invite her out to supper. Nothing bores a man worse, than the devotion of the girl before the last. Love letters lead.to all sorts pf complications, but post cards tell no tales.-New York Evening World: 0 Women Displacing Men .? ! Striking Increase in Number of Women in Business Offices By William. Hard OMAN is putting on her good clothes and coming Dow n WTown. Which is one of the epoch-maJclng events In her In dustrial history. For, while women are. not gaining on men 1 noticeably in factories, they are gaining on them every day noticeably, strikingly, overwhelmingly, in salesrooms, cor respondence 'rooms, auditing rooms, and all the other places conveniently summarized as "stores and offices." Nevertheless, while lt is true in the factory trades as a whole that men ard women seem to have reached, tempo rarily at least, an equilibrium of relative numb?rs, it is also true that HERE AND THERE, OCCASIONALLY, IN THE CONSTANT GIVE AND TAKE BETWEEN THE S?XES, MEN ARE BEING DISPLACED BY WOMEN When this happens, it is worth watching/because the industrial character of woman is then revealed In action.-"The Woman's Invasion," in Everybody's. One Way of Seeking Work. Homegoing passengers' descending from an elevated railroad ??tatiqn in Hartem i the other day found at the foot of the stair besides the newsboys aaci' the men selling bunches of cel ery ?st?ti^that ?ort of thing, something different and uu usual-a man holding up ?to view to catch the eye of the peo ple as they came down a saeet of pa per or-which" was written lh large let tera: ?'Work wanted. Reference^." l?ew York Press. Always a Way. "What can a doctor do ( when he gets a patient who neittir drinks nor smokes?" . 1; "Tell, him to stop eating certain things. Everybody . eats.*-Louisville Courier-Journal. / Couldn't Connect. , Stella: "Any gossip?" Bella: "No; our hats kept us so far apart we couldn't whisper-a secret." -New York Sun. -Cartoon by BRISK REVIVAL IN ALL UNE Reports from Corpora ?on Lons Since Passed-De. Steel, Copper sind New York City.-In an article on j the imprpved^industrial situation the j Wall Street Journal summarizes . as j follows: J 'W. E. Corey, president of the United States Steel Corporation, says the corporation is operating about seventy per cent, of normal capacity and that indications are for a con tinued Improvement In prices as well as production. . < ' "A representative of the Standard Oil Company says the business of the company is normal. . "A representative of the General Electric Company says the. corpora tion since February has been receiving orders at the rate of between $51, 000,000 and $53,000,000 a year and that orders in the current fiscal year are. likely to reach $60,000,00.0, or equal to the boom year. "John A. Topping, chairman of I the Republic Iron and Steel Company, says all the blast furnace capacity of the corporation is operating and i seventy-five per cent, of the finishing I capacity. "The equipment companies report an improvement In business, although orders are not coming in as rapidly as in the case of many other indus tries. "The Western Flectric Company, shows a large gain In business. T910 TO BE A Pl * _____ Harvesting fy!..chlnery Mai Very Pr New York City.-Edwin D. Met calfe, vice-president' and general manager of a large firm dealing in harvesting machinery, who ls attend ing the annual convention of the Manufacturers' Association at the Waldorf, talked ?bout the return of prosperity. > ? . "It seems to me now," he said, "to depend !on the harvest. If it is good, and at present there are no reasons why it should not be, I look for a very blg'year in 1910. 'But; however . ie crops turn out, the farmers will not be getting their money till next spring, and so lt ls likely to be next year before "there is a return to the conditions which prevailed in 1506 and 1907. "At-the present moment there ls, however, one hopeful sign. Large buyers have arrived at the conclusion that prices have about/ reached bot tom, and are looking around to place large' orders. Thus I heard of the United States Government the other THE DATE FOR A Pittsburg Estimate on Rev Pittsburg, Pa.-Opinion differs as ^to when the country's business activ ity will be such" as to pronounce it fully recovered from the after-panic reaction. Increased producing capac ity, as compared with 1907, in the steel trade especially, naturally raises the level on which conditions must now be judged. A few weeks ago it was estimated that it will be the end of 19.11 before full capacity would be engaged. Several things have since come in sight to affect the pre.-, diction. If good crops are harvested this year, trade authorities now pre dict that the first half of 1910 will see a remarkable expansion in de mand for iron and steel, as compared with the present situation, and they believe sufficient business is at hand to keep eighty-five to ninety per cent. GOVERNMENT DETECTS Immigrants Are Coming Internal Revet Washington, -D. C.-While Presi dent Taft isn't bragging about it, two departments, Treasury and Commerce and Labor, are pointing with pride to sign's of the* return of prosperity. Commerce and Labor has charge of the immigration work, and it is stated there that the first tangible evidence of panic was the departure' of foreigners with the money that they had earned in America. Now, the department announces, the immi grants are coming back. Washing ton has not yet the detailed figures from the Immigration Commissioner at New i York, but it has the assur ance that the tide has turned and Claims He Can Explode Maga zines of Vessels 500 Miles Away. New Orleans, La.-That a wireless operator in a station five hundred miles away may explode magazines in battleships of'any navy with the aid of his invention. Ia the claim of H. A. Folk, who has taken up the matter with the United States Gov ernment. ' Folk has been experimenting with wireless telegraphy since Marconi proved its successful utility. V.'.e re fuses to divulge details until the Gov ernment acts on the proposition. Around tiie Bases. The Newark Club has purchased catcher Joe Crisp from the Kansai City Club. Providence has purchased "Loni John" Anderson from the Chicag( American League Club. The Eastern League now has foui Sunday playing towns, Newark, Jer sey City, Providence and Montreal. Manager Al Orth has demonstrate< his ability to play the outfield by put ting up a strong game in the righ garden. He also bids fair to lead th< Virgina League in batting. KE THESE JOY BIDES. W. A. Rogers, in the New York Herald. S OF TRADE MD INDUSTRY is Show the Turning Point =Ided Increase Shown In r Electric Supples. I "Representatives . of the Pennsyl vania .Steel Company and' the Cam bria Steel Company report a satisfac tory increase" in business. "The Allis-Cbalmers Company re ports improving business. "Westinghouse representatives re port more men at work than at any time since the panic. "The American .Steel and Wire Company states that record breaking orders have been received over the last two weeks'' At times they have run as high as 120,000 tons in a single day. . ' . , "The United States ;Rubber Com pany reports that sufficient business is on the books t" assure steady oper ations for the rest of the year. "Representatives of the American Cotton Oil Company and the Chemi cal and Fertilizers companies report prosperous conditions. "Representatives of the Amalga mated Copper Company report large sales of copper at advancing prices and a heavy shrinkage In stocks. . "Theulnternational Harvester Com pany is doing a normal business. "The Leather companies show sat isfactory gains in business. "It is evident from the above that the turning point for the better, yso fer as industrial conditions are con cerned, has been reached and passed." ?OSPERITY YEAR, lager Says the Outlook ?ls omisFng. '->,... day advertising for a year's supply of a certain class of goods. 0:a the other hand, th? manufacturers are not anx ious to sign contracts a long way ahead. They are expecting a rise in prices and are unwilling, to bind themselves down. Business is just waiting for buyers and'sellers to get together, and .when that has been ac complished prosperity will be back. ."Of course the manufacturers are hanging back to see what the tariff will be. It does r ot matter so much whether it IB the Payne bill or the Aldrich bill."' -Once the question ls settl?d business will accommodate it self to the new rates. "I don't see why we should not have good crops. AH the reports of winter wheat are good, and although in some parts of the Northwest spring sowing has been delayed by cold, there is still time to make lt up. Any how,, with the prices of cereals what they are, there is sure to be an in? crease in. the acreage eown." FULL RECOVERY. the Progress of Trade Ival./ ? : of the capacity of the country in op eration. As compared with 1906 and 1907, this would be equivalent to about 100 per cent. One thing that must be reckoned with next year, providing the tariff' is not revised to the liking -of the country, is the Congressional elec tions. The speeches made by Sena tors Cummings, Dolllver, Bristow and others have been overlooked as pos sible factors in the near future. A Democratic House ol' Representatives elected next year, and convening in December, 1911, might affect busi ness condition? considerably. Far sighted manufacturers desire that the question be settled definitely, even-if they must giv? up a larger proportion of their? protection than was antici pated. . * ' . \ , , > '<A . ' . . . . RETURN OF PROSPERITY Back and Customs and lue. Increasing. that the immigrant station'-at Ellis Island again is the busy place that it always is in prosx rous times. ' . At the.-Treasi. . Department the first "indication people were beco the falling off "in c?lpta and in re< toms. These t? great' revenue r: Government aeon mendous deflciejic t . the American g hard up was in ?mal revenue re s from the cus allures in the g means of the .ed for the tre tbat promises to confront Uncle Sam at the end of the fiscal year, June 30! . With increasing receipts and de creasing deficit the Treasury Depart ment is optimistic. Biggest Boom Ever Expected as . Soon as Tariff Bill is Signed. Cincinnati, Ohio.-Frank A. Van derlip, president of the National City Bank, of New York, said at a dinner given here to financiers from tue East who have been inspecting the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, and the Commercial Club of this city, that this country was on the verge of the greatest industrial boom it has ever known. He said that "this boom would start the minute that President Taft signed the new tariff schedule." Stab Ends of News. The United States Senate passed a bill to provide for the taking of the next census. It cost the New York public $17, 798,09S for carcfare In the last three months of 1908. Edwin E. Martin, a commission merchant living in Brooklyn, N. Y., named eight co-respondents in his suit for a divorce. The Russian Emperor has refused to sign the naval staff bill and to accept the Cabinet's resignation, or dering the ministers to retain their posts. \ Stems of Interest Gathered By. Wire and Cable GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY Lavo Items Covering Events of More or Less Interest at Some sad Abroad. At TJvalde, Texas, last Monday a hailstorm of unprecedented sev?rity, sings oflic? weighing 8 and 10 pounds, fell and eight persons were instantly killed by being in their line of de scent. Fbylerville, Mich., was-visited by a tornado last Saturday that damag ed 250 houses to the extent of $40, 000. Twenty-five families are home lessr ' The State of Pennsylvania has ap propriated '$2,000 for the education of deaf, dumb and plind Katharyn May Frioh,. nine years old, who shows many of the characteristics of Helen Keller. The Postal difficulties in Paris are believed to ,be over the strike hav ing failed and the men having large ly returned to their, places. H. H. Rogers, who recently fiinish ed the Virginian Railway as an in dividual enterprise at a( cost of $40, 00,000 died at his home in New York Wednesday. The Alfalfa Club, at the Creigh ton University, Omaha, Neb., will crj to demonstrate that alfalfa is a hu man food and that a man may sub sist on its bay. Dr. J. EL Daugherty, a physician for the insane at Elgin, 111., has him self became insane through sympa thetic suggestiveness. Tho sreat event at Petersburg, Va., in which the Pennsylvanians unveil ed a monument to Gen. Hortranft was pulled off without break or ?ar and was exceedingly satisfactory. Charlotte's great 20th of May cel ebration was badly marred by down pour of raih for most of the day. Prof. A. S. Lovenheart, of the University of Wisconsin it is believ ed, has found an antitoxine for teta nus germs. The cotton compress at Fort Smith, Ark., was consumed py fire Monday together with 5,000- bales of cottom Flames broke out at many place? simultaneously, indicating incendi arism. The loss was about $300,000, covered by insurance. Tracy & Co., of'New York, went into the hand of a receiver, the assets supposed to be half a million and liabilities a million. Three thousand gallons of water from Jordan river, Wfls poured into the sewer in New York recently be cause no on? attached any impor tance to it-a financial failure. A distinct earthquake was felt in northern Montana Saturday night. A wall of one house fell . Prof. David N. Todd, of Boston, has a scheme to go up ten miles high in a balloon and from there to talk to the people in Mars, by wireless telegraphy. He thinks they know about it.- ' . Alexas Loudent, in an accident in ari Alabama mine last week, got his back, broken. He was informed that death ere long would ensue. An over weaning desire to see his parents be fore death led him to attempt to re turn to Moscow, Russia, and he is now on the briny deep making the race with death. Washington Affairs. The Senate Monday confirmed the President's nomination of Oscar S. Straus to be ambassador to Turkey and Wm. W. Rockhill to be ambas sador to Russia. The Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Company ordered smaller cars, and it is said the an nual saving will be $150,000 through the use of direct-current motors. President Taft has returned from the Petersburg and Charlotte func tions. He is none the wors-o of the trip, notwithstanding the deluge in Charlotte. President Taft wrote a letter to Governor Stubbs, of Kansas,- revok ing the appointment of Robert Stone and resenting tb? attempt to drag iim into a factional fight. Torpedo boats are to be given a test in the battleship maneuvers thia summer. The gunboat Marietta was ordered to Bluefields, Nicaragua last Satur day, where laborers are rioting and destroying property on banana plan tations. Foreign News Notes. Twp thousand men are on the way to reinforce the Russian troops in Persia. Rome papers regard the exchange of messages between the Kaise^ Francis Joseph and Victor Emmanuel as insuring the continuance of the triple alliance. Emperor William is to spend sev? eral weeks in England r.e*xt fall. Though reported to be resting at the Ju Ja ranch, ex-President Roose velt engaged in writing an account of his adventure. The trophies of Mr. Roosevelt' and the iob for the taxadermist is thus far one rhinoceros, six lions, two giraffes, 20 smaller kinds of game and a variety of birds, a python and otkors. It is claimed for Germany, that she will soon be prepared for airship war with a system of stations, suit able for operations. Fire Destroys Livery Stable. Norfolk, Va., Specal-Fire starting in the hay loft of J. A. Pritchard's livery stable on. Union street Tues day afternoon, destroyed that struc ture and the peanut cleaning plant of the- Norfolk-Virginia Peanut Com pany, adjoining. Besides its equip ment of machinery, the peanut clean ing company had a large stock on hand. The total loss is estimated at between $75,000 and $100,00, prac tically covered by insuras?e. TABra .LINEN EMBROIDERY. Tn contrast to the vogue of Madeira ;and. otheiv;varieties of very: openrflat embroidery for.table '.linens, clqse", raised embroidery is/- the. preferred .d?coration for sheets, holster, :and' pil low cases. Here scalloped edges have tile preference In the higher grades over plain ?hems. A scalloped edge and a heavily em. toroidered monogram or a scailloped eage and a band of embroidery any where ?rom one inch to five inches wide In addition to a monogram of Imposing size is the style of decora tion most often chosen toy brides as well as by "housekeepers of experience .when choosing their best bed linen. In some cases "bolster and pillow oases are almost'half covered with-toe finest of raised embroidery, representing ex quisite flower effects.-New. York Glob?. The worlil'9 wpqintloi] ia ??stlmarel at 1.480.0i|0.?no ^?-vaouA H nu iri'i-i-ii^M'WH'i THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA, AUGUSTA. GA. L. C. ELAYNE, CHAS. R. CLARK, President. Cashier CAPITAL $250,000.08. Surplus & Profits $190,000.00. The basiaeaa of oar out-of-town friends receives the same careful attention as that of our local depositors. The accounts of careful conse, <utue people solicited. ^nI,I,?^?^?^?l"^?l?^?I,?I,I,.H?-H^^^?<^H ?M i1 fr i"M"i"i 11 rn H-H'f The Planter's Loan and Savings Bank Augusta, Ca. Pays Interest on Deposits, Jo Accounts Solicited. LC. KAYNE. AS. C. HOWARD, PRE?lDEM'. . OASHIEU. RESOURCES OVER $isooo,ooo. >-l"l?l-M"]"H"M 1 I H"1"H"M". INSURANCE 1 nov/ represent a strong line of Fire Insurance Companies and can insure your property. Your patronage will be appreciated. H. A. SMITH. GOTO HAULING Before insuring elsewhere Old Line Companies. HARL/flG ?it The Farmers ] New'Lot jg! j. iv< Agent, Edg THE MX You want an engine that rims like a top, smoothly and uninterrupt edly. If an engine balks or stops and you have to fool away your time to find out the cause, you don't want that engins because it means a waste of time and energy, -t- -:- -:- - E. J* l> Light Saw,' Lathe a nu r*hin (\:le Mills, Emrincs. Boilers, Supplies and repairs. Porta* qle , Stearn and Gasoline En* ?ines, Saw Teeth, Files, Belts and Pipes. WOOD SAWS and . SPLITTERS. Gins and Press Repairs. Trr LOMBARD, AUGUSTA.. GA. SEE & BYRD We^represent the Be?* &BYB0> Bank of Edgefleld ates |0n$1000 Insurance Age 17 to 20 21 22 23 24 ?5 26 ' 27 28 29 3o 35 Premium 314 95 14 29 15 63 *5 99 . J637 16 77 17 18 17 6 -2 18 08 1857 19 08 22 io efSeld. ?. C. '. ENGINE I. H. C. engines are so prac tical and so simple that when you start them they run until you stop them whether you arc watching or not. Never out of repair; don't waste fuel. Call on us and we will gladly explain tlje good points of the I. H. C engin?. -.- -.- f f _;_ 1 ?