The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, May 10, 1899, Page 3, Image 3
IN WOMAIN
flatter of Women
?yt. I AI a i a
Women are no looger willing, when
^verses of fortune come and they find
fcemsclves without an income or any
ejD8 of support, to play the role of
Oor rela?^n and live with; their kin
p;k8 in a State of dependence, wear
^ thc plainest if not the ugliest sort
clothes and growing old and really
reu of life long before it is time,
jjjg is exactly why, or tho main rea
Q ffby, there are so many women
tgc earners to-day. Hut of the rea
eDS more may be- said anon. The
iyg of wage-earning form a more in
festing and, indeed, necessary topic
or discussion and consideration.
What a good thing it is that every
?essed one of us is ambitious-wants
c dc and be that which will make our
ellows look upon us if not with envy
tb admiration for what we have ac
mplishcd and thc high place we
cUpy. Yes, this is fortunate, it is
3e of nature's best endowments. It
eeps us a long way from going as low
(?tis possible to go even if it does
ot always take us as high as it is pos
ible to go. But what a very wrong
'et one sometimes entertains of that
anting "to be somebody."
Let mc tell you of a little woman
to wanted to be "somebody." Bless
tr heart, she was already that, always
td been, if one accepts the ''some-'
y as meaning a person of bright
ts, gentle manners and upright liv
There came a day when it was no
nger possible for her to keep her
letty and comfortable home, with all
refined surroundings. Little by
ttle, in the effort to keep up appear
ces and to fool the big, unheeding
d uncaring world as to her real situ
OD, her little all melted away,
en came the offer from relatives to
ve her a corner in their homes
ere was little said about hearts
t she preferred to make an effort to
her support.
To the woman of practical turn of
she went. There was just $50
tween the little gentlewoman and
ot, so she must decide quickly what
e had best do. The practical woman
noted over with her her accomplish
ers and found them more ornamen
than useful, and plainly told her
Her education had been thor
iily conducted, so far as it had
oe. but the need of being at the
d of her father's household had
led her away from the convent
oui before she was graduated. At
ool she had been taught to sew
latifully, and her exquisite necdle
rk was well known to her friend?.
"Ah," at length said the practical
mau, "you can earn an excellent |
elihdod by doing fine sewing for
ildren. You are so artistic that you
fashion the daintiest of infants'
es. and there is always demand for
h work."
lie practical woman stopped for
?th, for she had grown quite en
Biastic over the bright outlook she
suddenly stumbled upon. The
le gentlewoman looked at her in
uement and finally gasped: "I-I
amstress! Why, Jennie, what are
thinking of!"
* was now Jennie's turn to be sur
sed.
'But, my dear, you have asked me
tell you what to do, and 1 have told
I cannot sec how sewing dainty
|le garments for other women is in
i least degrading. It is work that
know so well how to do that it
I not weary you like new and un
Wiar efforts would."
? the little gentlewoman went
y without a word of thanks, and
"ly cried herself ill when she
bed home, thinking over and over
unkind and unsympathetic her
friend Jennie had been, how cru
unkind to expect her to do any
g so commonplace when she knew
ambitious she was and how ten
yshe had been reared. But the
e gentlewoman was not without a
B of common sense, and finally
prevailed. She went to work
?oiling thc dainty little garments
their strips of lace and fine em
eries, and long ago she and Jen
kissed and made up, and she told
Practical Jennie that she was the
friend in the. world because she
not nattered her and told her she
clever enough to do "anything"
i the vagueness of that term!
0 in fact all that she could do
1 well enough to be paid for doing,
beautifully ?nc sewing.
little gentlewoman told me this
elf. She told mc how she had
[o up her big house and taken a
hit of a nest which she has,
>Qgh har own industry, been able
ftP, anil that she bas saved enough
leJ besides to start a small ladies'
children's outfitting establish
ft and blossom out into a real busi
wonian. I have told her story
fase she has asked . mn in She
that it is her way of helping
pr women who stand face to face j
the problem of wage-earning to j
?'S REALM.
Earning a Living.
Republic.
give them the benefit of what she has
learned by experience, and the scrap
of most valuable advice to be satisfied
to olfer for money only what one is
certain one can do well, whether or not
it at first hurts one's pride to do so.
When woman learns, what man
knows so well, that indifferent work
or service brings but indifferent pay,
then there will be less of nursing to
heart that feeling that thc world is
cruel and unfeeling when it docs not
pamper her by lavishing large reward
upon her for very indifferent efforts.
No one can lay down just the lines
along which a woman should work.
Of course, the home is not here being
taken into consideration. It is when
a woman must leave her home and
meet the problems of thc outside
world that supplies the topic for much
discussion at this eud-of-the-century
time. As practically all lines are
open to her, it is left only then for her
to decide which she is best suited LO
or capable of following.
It is hard, very hard, indeed, for a
woman to realize thc "dignity of
labor." With few exceptions, she by
instinot feels that she is viewed as
something awry with the rulings of
society when she is paid a salary for
hard and honest labor, be it with head
or hand, and her pride suffers. Why
hao Fate been so unkind to her and
denied her so much? Why must she
sacrifice comfort and pleasure and go
through the daily grind of working
and sewing when there are other wo
men who have so much? Is she not
an object of pity to these same other
women?
When you, who condemn the inde
pendent woman, are tempted to criti
cise her remember that these are
questions that daily vex her, and that
if they do not now they once did, and
it is only because she has learned to
be so muon of a philosopher that she
fancies herself indifferent to them,
that she does not recognize them now.
But again, it is not natural foi a wo
man to be successfully a philosopher.
By successfully I mean that when a
woman must be philosonhical to be
moderately contented 01 happy that
then a part of her charm vanishes,
that little part, that little omething
that stands forth as careless indiffer
ence which is not indifference at all
but springs from the knowledge that
she can be irresponsible if she wants
to, that she is so sheltered by love
that she need not fear criticism too.
much.
I am sorry for tho woman who must
coax herself into believing that she
does not care for what the world says
about her and her position, aad must
steel her heart against those natural
and bothersome questions I have noted.
Showy accomplishments alone fit a
woman neither for the position of wife
and mother or to take her place among
thc useful ones in the business world.
This knowledge has dawned upon
femininity slowly, but very surely.
A peep into the schools will prove
this. A particular talent or an apti
tude for certain work is not overlook
ed nowadays, and the meaning of the
"dignity of labor" is being taught
girl students as well as boy students.
We cannot talk of the things that
have been until they have come and
gone, and then it is too late to recall
them, you know. A man has a cer
tain pride about admitting that he was
once up in thc world, but is now down.
A woman, unfortunately, too often
finds delight in dwelling upon such
thing.
Here is a fact, and though it may
seem hard and most unkind, it ie,
nevertheless, a fact, that an employer
is not inclined to overlook the fault in
a woman, whom he has employed,
coming down to his office at 10 o'clock
instead of 9 because she sighs and
tells him that there was once a time
when she did not have her breakfast
until 10 o'clock and could then have
it in her room if she did not feel like
going downstairs. He may be sorry
for'her, but that does not deter him
from looking for a woman less inclin
ed to live in the past and more inter
ested in the present and future, to
assist him through the busy affairs of
his office. '
There are signs by which a true
gentlewoman may be told, and never
fear that they will be missed. And
you know a gentlewoman does not
mean one solely who has been born
and bred in luxury. It means more
than that, it means a woman who is
refined to her finger-tips, and who
though wearing Ihp plainest of clothes
will be as courteous and considerate
as would go most beautifully with
bettor raiment. And it doesn't mat
ter whothcr. she was born in a palace
or cottage.
To tho girl who has. asked what I
think "a nice way for a woman to earn
a living," I would say: The nicest
and best vruy cf ali' is Lue work you
know how to do most perfectly. If
you are thinking of fitting yourself
for some wage-earning occupation be
sure first that you make no mistake in
selecting your vocation. For exam
ple, don't think you can paint great
pictures because you can design pretty
dresses. Better be a successful dress
maker than a dismal failure as an
arti?t. And be very certain of this:
The world is not half as foolish as you
give it credit for being. You are very
apt to be accepted as "somebody"
by the people whose regard is worth
the having-if you do something, in
whatever line, creditably. And be
sides this, the only certain road to
that worthy independence you crave
lies through' the doing well the work
you undertake.
MARGARET HANNIS.
Monument to Moshe's Men.
FRONT ROYAL, VA., April 30.-The
residents of this neighborhood, as, in
deed, of the entire South, are inter
ested in the Mosby's men's monument,
which will be unveiled here early next
August. As already mentioned in
The Sun, thc finest cite in the ceme
tery here has been chosen fer the
monument, now being erected at Barre,
Vermont, whose character and pro
portions have already been described
in a Sun letter from this place.
Six of Mosby's command-Ander
son. Carter, Jones, Love, Overby and
Rhodes-were hanged by the order of
General Custer in the streets of Front
Royal, and Willis, another of the com
mand, was hanged at Gaines' Cross
Roads by Colonel Powell.
The first monument to these men"s
memory was a line of seven gibbets
on the line of the Valley Pike, along
which the federal forces were accus
tomed to pass. The seven were all
soldiers of Custer's or Powell's com
mand, and the inscription on that
monument was a writing, as follows :
"These men have been hung in re
taliation for an equal number of Colo
nel Mosby's men hung by General
Custer at Fort Royal-measure for
measure.''
Thc inscriptions on the new monu
ment are as follows.
First Side-"Erected in 1899 by
the survivors of Mosby's command in
memory of seven comrades executed
while prisoners of war near this spot
September 23, 1864."
Second Side-"In everlasting honor
of Thomas E. Anderson, H. C. Carter,
David L. Jones, Lucien Love, Wm.
Thomas Overby, Henry C. Rhodes,
Albert C. Willis, 43d battalion Vir
ginia cavalry, Mosby's command, C.
S. A."
. Third Side-"Dulce et decorum est
pro patria mori."
Fourth Side-Confederate and Vir
ginia flags crossed.
Colones Mosby, after the retaliation
dispatched the following letter to
General Sheridan :
"November ll, 1864-Major-Gen
eral P. H. Sheridan, commanding
United States forces in the valley
General : Some time in the month of
September, during my absence from
my command, six of my men who had
been captured by your forces were
hung and shot in the streets of Front
Royal by the order and in the im
mediate presence of Brigadier-General
Custer. Since then another (captured
by a Colonel Power cn a plundering
expedition into Rappahannock) shared
a similar fate. A label affixed to thc
coat of one of the murdered men de
clared that 'this would be the fate of
Mosby and all his men.'
"Since the murder of my men not
less than 700 prisoners, including
many offcers of high rank captured
from your army by this command, have
been forwarded to Richmond, but the
execution of my purpose of retaliation
was deferred in order, as far as possi
ble, to confine its operations to the
men of Custer and Powell. Ace rd
ingly on the 6th inst, seven of your
men were by my order executed on the
valley pike, your highway of travel.
"Hereafter any prisoners falling
into my hands will be treated with the
kindness due to their condition, un
less some new act of barbarity shall
compel me reluctantly to adopt a line
of policy repugnant to humanity.
"Very respectfully, your obedient
servant,
"JOHN S. MOSBY,
"Lieutenant-Colonel."
This ended the hanging of Mosby's
men. Thereafter they were, when
captured, treated as other prisoners of
war.-Baltimore Sun.
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- Papa-"I hear you were a bad
girl to-day and h?d tobe spanked.-'
."JinaH Daughter-"Mamma is awful
sfict. . If I'd known she used to be a
?school teacher I'd 'a' told you not to
marry her."
A Free Tribe of Indians.
A Jamestown (Va.) correspondent |
of tho Chicago Record writes :
On the banks of the Pamunkey
river, in King William county, about
25 miles from Richmond and a mile
east of the historic "White House,"
the home of John landridge, where
George Washington married thc lovely
widow CuHtis, dwells a community of
110 Indians, thc lingering remnants of
the nation which met the English col
ony with friendly greetings when it
arrived on the banks of the Chesapeake
bay.
The records of those times refer to
Powhattan as "the Emperor of the
Potomac," and from "Relation" of
Capt. John Smith we may judge that
he had about 2,500 warriors under his
command. By thc last census they
were reduced to 03, and since then the
birth rate has been so much greater
than the death rate that they have
increased their total by 17. The place
where they live is a little peninsula,
a bottle-shaped neck of land compris
ing about 800 acres, of which 250
acres is uuder cultivation. Thc re
mainder is thickly wooded with the
virgin forest, swampy and uninhabited.
It abounds in game, which is one of
their chief sources of subsistence. ,
This tract is secured to the Piununkey
Indians by an act of the co. jial leg
islature. They hold it in common,
are prohibited from alienating the
title and are exempt from taxes, al
though under an ancient law they are
required to supply the governor of the
Virginia colony annually with a cer
tain amount of wild game. This prac
tice still continues, and during the
shooting season, spring and fall, they
are in the habit now and then of send
ing the governor, by the conductor of
the train, a bunch of wild ducks or a
haunch of venison.
? The Pamunkeys have no relation
with the United States government.
They receive no annuities and their
names are not upon the rolls of the
Indian office. The State of Virginia
annually appoints five trustees to look
after their interests, but thc offices
are sinecures, as the Indians are per
fectly capable of looking after them
selves. They elect their chief and a
council of four, who exercise execu
tive, legislative and judicial functions.
Every member of the tribe is allowed
to vote, and on the day appointed they
meet at the council house, with usually
two candidates to choose from. Those
in favo, of one indicate their choice
by dropping a grain of corn into the
ballot box; those who prefer the other
indicate it by dropping a bean in the
same place. These native officials
take care of the tribe, punish all of
fenses except felonies, over which the
State courts have jurisdiction, and
conduct a co-operative merchandise
store, which is patronized by white
people in the neighborhood as well as
the members of the tribe.
The Indians are temperate, moral,
peaceable and industrious. Very few
of them are full blooded. During the
three hundred years of contact with
the whites and Negroes around them
they have been unable to preserve
their racial integrity, u? tho ugh the
laws of the tribe prohibit cohabitation
or marriage with persons of African
descent. They are exceedingly proud
of their lineage, and while they would
probably acknowledge the white aris
tocracy of Virginia as their equals,
they decline to have anything to do
with the blacks, and some years ago
raised a miniature rebellion because a
mulatto woman was placed in charge
of a public school upon their reserva
tion.
Realizing that continual intermar
riage has impaired the physical con-'
dition of the tribe, they have recently
appointed a committee to treat with
the remnant of the Cherokee Indian
nation of North Carolina on this sub
ject.
The Pamunkeys ar not only thor
oughly oivilized, but are quite inclin
ed to be religious. The best building
on their reservation is a Baptist
Church, at which nearly every member
of the tribe attends service twice on
Sunday under the administration of a
native preacher.
As the season of the year when
pneumonia, la grippe, sore throat,
coughs, colds, catarrh, bronchitis and
lung troubles are to be guarded against,
nothing "is afine substitute," will
"answer the purpose," or is "just as
food" as One Minute Cough Cure,
'hat is the one infallible remedy for
all lung, throat or bronchial troubles.
Insist vigorously upon having it if
"something else" is offered you.
Evana Pharmacy._
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We want to figure with you o
TOBACCO, and all kmds of CROCE
and SHOES.
Don't fail to sec us on GUANO, .
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If you want to >.tiv.o what you c
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Youri- truly.
Kindness to a Stranger.
Many of the readers of The Obser
ver will remember l'rof. C. A. Mezger,
who lived for mauy years ia Charlotte
and vicinity, and who recently died at
Freiberg, Saxony, l'rof. Mczgcr was
a metallurgist and mining expert, and
was a very highly educated man. For
some time l'rof. Mezger lived in
Shelby, and while there became very
much attached to George A. Frick,
one of the leading lawyers of that
town, who last year moved to Norfolk,
Va., for the practice of his profession.
Mr. Friok aud his family were exceed
ingly kind to the old gentleman, and
he remembered their kindness in a
very substantial way, as thc sequel
will show. Alter leaving Shelby, lie !
came to Charlotte and resided awhile,
and then went olf on a tour for his
health. He had taken out naturaliza
tion papers and had been a resident of
this State and he expected to return i
to America when his health improved, j
His last residence in America was in j
Charlotte.
In January last l'rof. Mczgcr wrote
Mr. Frick a letter from Freiberg. Sax
ony, in wi "ch bc stated that he willed
to him am lis sister all of his proper
ty aud he directed Mr. Frick take
charge of it at his death. At tho
same time he sent $2,00(1 to some
baukers in New York, with instruc
tions to turn it over to Mr. Frick at
his death. The letter written to Mr.
Frick has been admitted to probate :
before Clerk Russell, as containing j
the last will and testament of Prof. j
Mezger and letters testamentary were
yesterday issued to Mr. Frick. It is
understood that the estate is valued
at about $3,000.
Mr. Frick's many friends through
out the State will rejoice that his
kindness to a stranger in a strange land
resulted in this substantial token of
appreciation.-Charlotte Observer.
- A man's cup of joj' resembles an
after dinner coffee cup, but his cup of
sorrow holds several gallons.
- Some one has said that there are
50,000 muscles in an elephant's trunk.
It was evidently packed by a woman.
- "Father Gunn." of Dickinson
county, is believed to bc the oldest
person in Kansas. He has passed his
114 birthday, and is still able to walk
two miles to thc polls to vote.
- The largest tree in the Kastern
hemisphere, if not in thc world, is a
monster chestnut standing at the foot
of Mount vKtua. Thc circumferencp
of thc main trunk at Ot) feet from the
ground is 212 feet._
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wa had been married taree fears, but
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Schnapps Tobacco. :*7 le.
Early Hird Tobacco. 37ie.
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Our Leader Tobacco. 27Jc.
Nabob's Cigars. lc. each.
Stogies.1 for 5c.
Premio or Habana.:i forde.
OM Glory. He. a pack.
Arbuckle'a Coffee Ile. pound
No. ?* Coffee He. pound.
Soda lo lbs. tor 25c.
Candles ile. per pound.
CH EAP JOHN is ahead in Laundry
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j iu fact, everything of that kimi.
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help you keep ber. The young married couple goes there to beautify their little
home. Hubbard beautifies it for you. The rich people go there because they cnn
afford it, and the poor go there, also, because they can afford it.
i&r KvervthlngNKW and UP-TO-DATE.
nm- KXGRAVINO FR BK.
WILL. R. HUBBARD,
.Jewelry Palace, nwxi io rarmers nnd Merchants Bank.
BILEY'S ZDZ3STI3STC3- BOOM
- Is the place to buy -
A Dollar's Worth of COFFEE if wantisomething Rich'and Siren-.
J. G. RILEY