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THE WORK Dorothy Dix in ISTev The other day a w< rking ^ir 1 asked | me why 1 did not talk inure through this column to working girl?, aud I answered her truly enough that it was because I had .^o much to say to them I should never know when to leave oil if 1 once began. Tor in all the world there is nothing else closer to my heart than tho brave little recruits in the great army of bread-winners, and I never watch them on their way to their cilice or .-tor'' without feeling like taking oli my hat and saluting, for I know that courage and valoi and honor are marching by. I think that the lir.st thing I always j want to say to working girls is a word of cheer. Don't think it an unparal leled misfortune that you bave to j work while other girls of your age arc going to dances and parlies. Of course, if we could, all of us would keep girls safe and warm aud shelter ed in the home nest, and we would lavish upon them all the luxuries and gayeties girls love and crave. This would be kind and it might be well if there was some way in which we could guarantee the future for them and be suro they never have anything to do but "Sit on a silk cushion and sew up n seam, And feed upon strawberries, sugar and cream." Unfortunately this is impossible. American life is full of hazards, and the petted belle of today may be facing starvation tomorrow. All of us have known cases in which a man reported to be a millionaire has sud denly lost his fortune, or dying, has left his family absolutely penniless, and thrown them destitute upon the world. Under heaven there id noth ing else so pitiful and so helpless as these women who are trained to noth ing but extravagance and self-indul gence, and who are ignorant of every profitable thing on earth, but who must work or starve. Believe me, little sister, when I tell you that tho girl who has solved the bread and butter problem for her self and who has a trade or profession that makes her independent, has not the worst of it in life. She has aoap ital in her own clever brains and hands that absconding cashiers and failing husbands and fathers cannot rob her of, and she will never be broken on the wheel of fate as many a poor but terfly of fashion is. There is alBO a joy that passes understanding in the money you have made yourself, that* you don't have to wheedle, nor beg, nor cajole, nor weep any man into giving you, and that you can spend absolutely as you please. The woman who has never known the delights of an independent pooketbook has miss ed half the pleasures- in life, and that is something many a rioh woman never experiences. Sho is a beggar inpMisded Soil Impoverished soil, like impov erished blood, needs a proper fertilizer. A chemist by analyz ing the, soil can tell you what fertilizer to use for different products. If your blood is impoverished your doctor will tell you what you need to fertilize it and give it the rich, red corpuscles that are lacking in it. It may be you need n tonic, but more likely you need n concentrated fat food, and fat is the element lacking in your system. There is no fat food that is so easily digested and assimi lated as I Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil It will nourish and strengthen the body when milk and cream fail to do it. Scott's Emulsion is always the same; always -palatable and always beneficial where tho body is wasting from any cause, either in children m adults. We will uend you a sample tree. Be sure that this pic ture, m the form or a label is on tho wrapper ; of e?ory*bottle o?Emul fucm votl hnv. 8G0TT & BOWflE . . CHEMISTS 409 Peansr., HewYom . GOe. nnd *l,0O. All Druggists. ;iNG GIRL. / Orleans Picayune. from the ciadle to tho grave, and ask- ] ing alms is a humiliation whether you radie a tin cup on the street corner < r ask fur checks across the break fast table. Don't forget your pocket book when you count up your hlo> Mngs. It may bo light, but it is your own. 1 wouj'i uix'o you, as a mutter of sensu and happiness, to adopt what Stcpben.son ciljcd "that brave atli tudt towards life.'' lie-cheerful. Ail 11.' world loves a bright face and u genial smile. The silliest thing a wo man ever does is to cultivate a martyr pose. Suppose you do belong to an aristocratic*old family, and never ex pected to have to work. Nobody on earth cares one rap about that or wants to hear about your ancestors, and the (juickcr you forget about them yourself the better. It isn't sympa thetic and it may not be right, but everybody has a horror of people who have tales of woo to tell. Don't join their number. Keep a bright face, and it will pay just in a buni nens way. All of us turn to cheerful people just as naturally as wo turn to the sunshine, and we flee dull people and complaining people like wo do the plague. Be feminine. I think the most fatal mistake any woman ever makes is when she tries to mako an imita tion mao of herself. Imitations are ucver any good, and the working wo man who wears mannish clothes and short hair and swaggers and tries to talk like n man is the worst of the lot. The very thing in woman's work that ought to make it valuable, and that will when women have sense enough to quit trying to do things like men, and do them like women, id its femi nine rquality. The time will come when woman's intuitions, her tact, at d her adaptability will count in busi ness life just as they do now in social, and when she loses these by coarsen ing herself because she thinks it man nish, she is simply losscniug her com mercial value. I [would also call your attention, little sister, to the fact that it is along the eternally feminine lines that., women make the greatest suc cesses, r There is always going to bo a demand for good housekeeping, for well-kept^boarding houses andthotels, and for good dress-making and milli nery.^ I am not discouraging any girl from studying iaw or medicine, or anything clcc she wants, but I do say that if she would put her same amount of study, training and intelligence into keeping a good boarding house or es tablishing; a first-jolass dress-making establishment, the rewards would he ten times cgreater. The women in every city'.who make money are the ones who have followed thoue lines. Bo polite. It pays. You haven't any idea of the wild ' gratitude that surges up in the breast of a mere cus tomer when we find a shopgirl who takes any interest in us and tries to find us what wejwant. Of course, we are aggravating. I realise that; but you see we don't know what you have in stock nor just what we want our selvcB half the time. We are bound to look about a bit, and it's heart breaking to a timid woman to know she is being considered a nuisance and a bore. Don't be supercilious. Every body oan't wear silk stockings and $30 petticoats and embroidered satin oor sets, yetjwhen aswoman goes into a store aud^asks.for one of theso arti cles, the/clerk invariably takes down something whose price is enough to give one heart failure. "I want something cheaper," tho poor, C humble creature before the counter murmurs, and tho wny the haughty divinity behind tho counter shoves tho cheaper article at the buy er is the most ek quent i repression of disgust and contempt that tho human mind is capable of conceiving. Don't do that. Wc would all be million aires if we could, but we can't. Boar with our misfortune. Don't know too much. This is a favorite fault of typewriters and stenographers. Let your employer know something, and let him manage his business his own way. I knew a olever and competent woman who lost her good place because she persisted in spelling "cinch" cinque. She said that was the right way. because it was derived from the French numeral, and she broughfdown a lot ?^dictionaries to provo it. L She carried.[the point, but her employer got somebody who would let him boss hiajown spelling. , Don't flirt:*with your enployer, whether he is-reamed or single.'Don't go out to*lunch with him. Business is ono thing and society is another. If he wants to pay you?aitcnlion let it be in your own homo.fnot in the office or store. If you are working for a married man^don't let him tell you *>bcut bia domestic infelicities and hov he, made a mistake in marriage, and bit wife, doesn't understand atd sympathize with bim. You ar<* not | hired to be a comforter. My dear little bister, pull the man up short who starts to tell about bis home trou bles. It's very ca?y c*sy to listen. It's very hard hard to refuse when he your employer and your place de pends on his favor, but don't do it. From sympathy '. > love is the short est step in the wot Id, and many a jiirl has taken it before ehe knew it. The married man who talks to another wo man about his wife is a dastard. Have nothing to do with him. Finally, bclov'.-d, never forget that then i- always a demand lor good work. It is because women's work is j so often bad that it is bo poorly paid. M very working woman should remem ber that when she does bad work that she hurts not only herself but every other woman. Noblesse oblige was the motto of the old French aristo crat. Let us) adopt tt t't our own and make it meto that every work ing woman is in honor bound to give of her bust, and to so work and so live that she will make the road easier for every woman who shall come after her. ? The Negro to Redeem Africa. Dr. James Fid ward Mason, secretary of the Livingston College and Indus trial School, a colored institution at Salisbury, N. C, dilivered an address yesterday at the 231 street branch of the Y. M. C. A. on "Darkest Africa and the Way out." He took an op timistic view of the negro question. The only remedies he proposed for the present evils of tho race were the Bible, the spelling book and the home. Then all that is needed, he said, is fair play. After referring to the great progress tho negro has made since the war and to his general prosperity at present, the speaker took up sonic of the plans proposed by both colored and white sounsellors. "Some," hnid he, "propose segrega tion. Hut how are you going to segre gate? As y ou know, we have mulat toes, quadroons, octoroons and down South we lind some who are fifteen sixteenths white. How would these bo classified? Clearly such scheme is impossible with any degree of attend ant fairness. "There are those who propose de portation. The weakness of that plan is that no one wants the ueproes de ported to a poor and barren country. And if they wcro sent to a rich, pros perous country, somehow or other the progressive and aggressive Anglo-Sax on race, would s-oon get in there, gain the upper hand, and there would be now troubles. For the present, at least, deportation is impracticable. Not can I counsel absorption. Racial characteristics had better be kept un mixed, for sooner or later they will out. The Celt to this day remains tho Celt and the Saxon the Saxon. "Tho Biblo, the home and the spell ing book are the things I pin my faith to. I maintain that the susceptibility of tho negro !>o these influences is un derrated. There are in the United States 3,000,000 negro communicants and negro ohuroh property amounts to $40,000,000. "A quarter century ago only 30,000 negroes oouldtaad and write; now 2,000,000 oan do so and 300,000 are at tending 200 schools and colleges in oharge of 2,700 toaohers. There are 900 negro doctors and over 1,000 law yers. We have 500 papers edited by negroes and 500. authors who have published 1,400 books. This looks like a good record for forty years. "Tho negro is a worker. Down South ho is tho most important factor in the labor markot. lie owns land aggregating as muoh as tho area of the State of Massachusetts and represent ing $25,000,000 of taxable property. Patience will give roFults as satisfac tory as oan be wished. And in time, perhaps, tho negroes will succeed in working -out their ultimate t mission, which I deem to bejthe redemption of ! Africa."?Now, York. Sun. Au immigration Association. Charleston, Feb. 19,? Tho Southern Colonial Immigration association will opon it s -books of subscription to tho capital stock on Tuesday and the or ganization of tho oompany, which is promoted by some of the leading cap italists of Charleston, follow soon after. The association has tot its purpose the turning of the tide of immigration from northern Europo and of desirable settlers from northern and western States'into South Carolina and development of thia State. Op tions .bave been secured on 70,000 asres of land in Aiken, Chesterfield I and Ksrsbaw counties. It is estimated th at'110,00? immigrants will ( be brought to South Carolina and tho ' company proposes to induce settlement of these people in tho lower section of the State as well. E. Lindberg, an immigration agent, is to be the general manager of the corporation and arrangements hive a'ready -been made for the routes of transportation of the, immigrants, The company is to be capitalized at $100,000, each share to be of the par value of $100 and not to be sold for fffcf.' - I no promoters count or, annual dividends, of fruto MUu 25 pir cent. Foolish to Worry. - : It's mighty ea^y to say, "don't I worry," but you must agree that there are ouly two things in the world that cause worry; first, the things over which wo have control; and, second, the things,over which we have no con trol. If your worrying is of the first kind you can fix matters up so there will be no need of worrying; if it is of the second kind you cannot fix matters up, so there is no need to worry. There never have been any circum stances that were helped io the slight est degree by worrying. Nearly all the worrying in this w -rid comes through anticipating trou bles which never occur and crossing bridges before you get to the streams. We can remember when some impor tant matters were to be settled, how we planned and arranged our argu ments, and how we figured out what the other fellow would Hay, and yet, when the time of the meeting came and the question at hand was to be set tle.!, some new phase of the situation aroac and the matter was settled pleas antly and in a manner we had not previously thought possible. When we worry we cannot see things in their true colors; the world looks blue; every one wo meet seems to frown; the weather is not what it should be; our food does not taste right and there is an indescribable something within us, a peculiar feel ing which we cannot explain, which makes us despond and gloomy, and life does not seem what it is cracked up to be. On the other band, if we make up our minds not to worry, tho sun shines brighter, every one we meet seems to have a smile, wc have gocd appetites and the whole world looks differently. One of the first things we learn in natural philosophy is that no two ob jects can occupy tho same Bpacc at the same time, and if we fill our minda and occupy our thoughts with pleasant things, thero can bo no room for wor ry, aud as an illustration of this wo say to you that just while you are reading this you are not worrying, showing plainly that "is is possiblo to have mo ments when you do not worry, and your study should be to make ?s many momenta free from worry as possible. Her Diagnosis. Uncle Harry was a bachelor and not fond of babies. Even winsome two t year-old Helen failed to win his heart. Every one made too muoh fuss over I the youngster, Uncle Harry declared, ? says the Indianapolis News. One day Helen's mother was called > downstairs, and with fear and trein l bling asked Uncle Harry, who was stretohed out on a sofa, if he would [ keep his eyes on Helen. Unole Harry I grunted "yes," but never stirred from his position?in truth kept his eyes - tight shut. I By and by wee Helen tiptoed over ' to the sofa, and leaning over Unole Harry, softly inquired: "Feep-y?" I "No," growled Unole Harry, i "Tired?" ventured Helen. "No," said her uncle. I "Sick," further inquired Helen, with real sympathy in her voice. "No," still insisted Unole Harry, "Dus' feel bum?" inquired the > baby. ? Unole Hairy sprang to his feet, hug ged the little oomforter, and kissing her, declared she had oorreotly des cribed his feelings when she said, "Just feel bum." From this time on ward Unole Harry was Helen's slave and with the rest of the household voted her a great success. To Prevent Spread of Boll Weevil. Washington, Feb. 10.?The offer of a Texan to scatter the boll weevil through the entire cotton section of the South io order to. alloct the next crop prompted the house committee on agriculture to report favorably today a bill of Mr. Lovering of Massachu setts to prohibit the interstate trans portation of io?ect pests and the use of the United States mail for that pur pose. S?me time ago a prominent cotton firm in New: York received a letter from a man in Dallas offering to un dertake the spread of tho pesl for tho purpose of affecting the cotton crop in sections outside the present boil weevil area. This letter Was turned over to the department of agrioulture and Sco re tary Wilson put some of the depart ment's d?tectives on the track of the Writer. Ho wits sound "to be a man u? aome prominence in Dallas. Tirera was no way of reaching him for punish ment so tho matter was presented - in confidence to tbo members of the agri cultural committee and Mr. Levering) drew a bill providing ' for punishment for any suoh attempt* as he had sug gested. The* letter he wrote the New York cotton brokers wan read to th? committee today, bat H was withheld from publication and the member*) of tbo committee wove bound not to dis close the name of tho writer. ^ ? When a man has tbo presence of mind to sq^/eeee hia wife s hand when people: are lookrotr, she will forgive him for a Whole lot of. timesh,e didn't when nobody was around. .*\ .. Things fur Girls to Learn. The modern girl's education is in complete unlee? ?he has learned? Sew. Cook. Mend. Be gentle. Dress neat. Keep a secret. Avoid idleness. Be self-reliant Darn stocking:*. Respect old age. Make good bread. Keep a house tidy. Make home happy. Bo above gossiping. Control her temper. Take care of the sick. Take care of the baby. Sweep dowu cobwebs. Head the very best books. Take plenty active exercise. Be light-hearted, fleet-footed. Keep clear of trashy literature. When she has learned all this, if she does not grov; wings to fly to a better land, she will make some lucky mau a most excellent wife. The great difficulty in her case will be Iba? no man on the face of this earth is worthy of to good a woman. - ?^ m ? - The Jap Baby. How do you suppose the babies take an airing? In baby carriages, you Bay? Of course not. The Japanese never do anything the way we do it. When the baby's about three days old it goes out for its first glimpse of the world strapped on somebody's baok, and that's the way it goes every day till it can go on its own feet. Sometimes its mother or it.s nurse takes it, but very often it rides on the back of a brother or sister, who is, per hapSj not more than four or five yeaiB old. These little nurjes don't seem to be troubled at all by their charges as you would suppose; they play ball and tag, and run races and fly kites, in spite of the heavy loads on theii backs. What is more remarkable, the babies are perfectly happy, and hard's ever cry, though wheu their young nurses run with them tho poor babies' faces bang back and forth against their caretakers' shoulders till at American baby would howl with pair and race.?St. Nicholas. She Had a Fellow. ^Tho story is told of a shook receive* by a Duluth paslor after the Bervici the other night in the Philadelphi Telegraph. He makes it a point to welcome an: strangers coidially, and that evening after the completion of the service, In hurried down the aisle to station him self at the door. A Swedish girl wai one of the strangers in the oocgrega tion. She is employed as a domestii in one of the fashionable East Eut homes, and the minister, nolioing tha she was a stranger, stretched out hi; hand. He welcomed her to the church ant expressed the hope that she would b< a regular attendant. Finally he sait that if she would be at hcs.*; % ?tp evening during .the week, he . woult call. ' . ', "T'ank you," she murmured, bash fully, "but I have a fella." Three of the members of the con ! gregation beard the conversation. . ? A woman calls it having a gooc time when she is haying a bad timo t< make Somebody, she loves happy. ?The reason a'girl.'is* so cool al her wedding may be because she wai so excited when she caught him. Notice of Trustees' Sale. ~ - ' * By virtue of the power conferred ot na In a detd of trust, executed by Wil Ham Green and Lucy Noble, dated Jan 81,1005, we will eoll at publin outcry u the hiebest bidder In front of tho Ooun House, at Audtrson, B. C., between. tb( usual hour* of pale, ou ?aloiday in Marc! next? A certain lot of land contain In ft about one half of an acte, situate within,th< corporate limita ot the Town of Pendle ton, and bounded by Church street Oreonvllle street, Bma Webb, Jak< Towns, T. D. Williams and Mrs. Nanci< Crayton, it being the lot forrrerly be longing to liiezie Green. Terms of Sele?Coab, Purchaser - t< pay extra for papers. ' H. H. WATKIN3, B. F. MARTIN, Truateea.' PebSjlOOS : 14 4 \ Notice of Election. ' Notice is hereby given to the ouelliW electors of Zlop School ? District, No. 53 that an election will be held at Zlor EtUooi K6?^ .?,? 'Ssiardwi' Meww^l 1906, on tba question of levy lnx a epecls school tax oi 3 mills on all the taxnbl? proper of saiddiatrict. " HARRISON MOOR%Sf aajaBHBMBWwiBIrWr^ > Trustes?. ' ": ^>b 18,1905 . ' ftS ^"::'-''?-. : Notice to Administrators, Ezeeutore, Guardians And Trustees, ALli Administrators, Executors. Gnar (Jl?ir.o awJ T r not am am hp.rath v Unti flm? tr make their annual Returns to this 6mc? during the months of January ?n? Foa ? ' ' , ; Judfroof Probate. ^ _ : . ~' HONEY, <fcc. Bast possible nfio?>aW In Gfaih or Groceries. .y- '^ :-<>:? :3J North Main Si. Altruism. I Alfred H. Love, of Philadelphia, pre Bid *?t of the Universal Peace Union. -?8 talking on the topic, pecu liarly cuogeuial of him, of kindness. Said he: "I once knew a remarkable kind boy. He was a great angler. There was a trout stream in his neighbor hood that ran though a rich man's es tate. Permits to fish the stream now and then could be obtained, aud tho boy was lucky enough to have a per mit. "Uoe day he was fishing with an other boy when a gamekeeper suddenly darted forth from a thicktt. The lad i with the permit uttered a cry of fright, dropped his rod, aud ran off at top speed. Tho gamekeeper pursued. "For about half -mile the gamekeeper was led a swilt and. difficult chaBe. Then, worn out, tho boy halted. Tho man seized him by the arm aud said between pants: 'Have yuu a permit to fish on this estate?' 11 *Y?s, to be sure,' said tho boy quietly. " 'You have? Then show it to me.' "The boy drew tho permit from his packet. Tho man examined it and frowned in perplexity and anger. " 'Why did you run when you had r,his permit?' he asked. " 'To let tho other boy .get away, was the reply. 'II; didu't have none!' "?Harper's Wtekly. ? Too many quarrtls aro picked be fore they are ripe. ? Paying your debts is one kind vf a paying business. ? A poor man may be a orank, but a rich one is eccentric. ? City soil is said to be superior to country soil for wild oats. ? When a doctor gives a rioh pa tient up it's up to tho undertaker. ? Tho individual who keeps his mouth shut seldom lives to regret it. ? Revenge is a gun that kicks much harder than it shoots. J Up And Down Witt; the Bishop^ Bishop Dudley of Kentucky "was ruuob addicted to t-port, especially liking to hunt a~d fish, says the New York Press. Ouce, when on a shoot ing trip, the' Bishop chanced to fall in with an old mountaineer, .who, accord ing to Representative Ollio James,, took a great fancy to his new acquaint ance, whom he did not in the (esBt sus pect was a bishop. When Bishop Dudlcy was preparing for his 'return home he invited tho old man to visit Louisville, so that he might hear him preach. "Preach?'' gasped the old mountain eer. "What, you preach) Kin yeav preach as well as you kin shoot?'' "Muoh better," responded the bish op, smiling);. "Be sure to como some Sunday. I'll see that you get a good seat in front." The old man availed ??mse?f of the invitation thus etended. At the con clusion of Che service- he ouickly sought out his friend, the bishop, andV grasped, his hand. "Mr. Bishop," he cried enthusiasti cally, "I don't know much about your creeds and dogmatics, but I riz and sot with you every time!"' Low Rates via Soulhern Railway. Tbe Southern Railway gives below a. few special low exoursloj rates-to the following point?: To New Orleans, Mobile, Alp... and PeoBBCola, Flc, One first-class fare plus twenty-live cents for tbe round trip from all coupon utations. Tickets on sale Match 10, limited March lltb,. 1005 ? mav be extended to return March 25th 1905, ao onnt. Mardi?Gras?. To Washington, 1), . C?Presidential Inauguration?For civilians rate one> Orst-olass tare pins twenty five cants for the ronnd trip / from all coupon stations,. For military companies and brass bands in uniform acoompanylng them In ,pav- . th-r>'20 or more on one ticket?at one* .-eni per mile plus nrbltrarlep. Tickets sold March 21 and 8d,?limbed March 8tb, 1005, but may be extended to March' 18th, 1905. Very low rates to other points now in effect.. The Southern Kali war is the best route? to the above' points?operating through* Pullman and dining cars on all through t raine. : For foil information apply to any agent Southern Kallwav or, ' R W. Hunt, Division Passenger Agtnt, _ Charleston 3. O. Ryd&le's Stomach Tablets. i INDIGESTION Causes belching, gas, or wind in the stomach, heartburn, sour stomach, etc DYSPEPSIA Causes Cramps andpain La the stomach, ' sick stomach, etc* Rydale's Stomach Tablets ^/?jTC* Ryd-te's Stomach Tablets digest all kinds of food and prevent 1er- 1 mentation, and the formation of gas and acid in the stomach* They never fail to digest the food* and rest the stomacm- ) They stimulate, tone the digestive organs^, and cure dyspepsia in its worst forma* * 1 Indigestion and a general run down condition ot tho eystem. manufactured and guaranteed by tho fUJICAL, REMEDY COMPANY, Hickory^NTcl FOR SALE BY EVAHB PHABISACY. RUBBER TIRES ! We are in apoaition to put on High Grade Bubber Tie? with good aeryic^ and nri??a tft GorrAflttond * it_ Bobber be fore it made a bounce. QNEv OAB OF HQ ; Have just receivedone Car l^a'd of HOG PEED (?hortS) at yeiy close prices. Come before thi. y are all gone. Now is tho time for thro wing? Around your promises to prevent a cate of fever or some other disease,i that will cost you very muoh more. than the price of a barrel of Lime ($1.00.) We have a fresh shipment in stock, and will be glad to send you * ;.j;Vs>v: ; some. If you contemplate building a barn or, any other building, see us before buying your? " ' : '.'< As we sell tho very beat, qualities oi iy. we_Lj__jLi.j.Mj JRJIpND r CfHce.Cver F?f niera and Mer chante? ik.: , SPECIAL lUt?nt^iji^ elsett?ot Dental wotk. Crowns,Bridge?; and PoiceJain Inlajg, auch an aie rfo_oin the larger cities. ; Al| ktnda of Plalea made. Gold Fill Trngs in artificial t?oth any time after Plates are! made. ' -.<(.*} >: - - : -v 'e-?^^f.-_*ft-;.,???l- In**V :Afl^_J?A*lfl|. glyea for tbo Pslnleas Extractlon?tafli^ r> Bleeding aod dlata&td gums treawS^ ,v. ^_r?{AlVcalla to tfc^ eoun.waWiiil? , bj Tow_*ior the PA)h]SMi??l?ato_ C# -Teeth promptly atttndid to by a oomp? ;tent aaa??tant. ..v.-v ^ 'A man thinks it is "tvhen the matter iEMirance suggesie isssji?bat circs s'?mM%i?'h^i^^himh? ha_v it!*^-**^^ oaoeMcak^ :aa*?ffiji^^