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HINDIPO RESORES VITALfIT ItMade a .Well Man THE TaaO- of Me. GREAT - NCH REMr-'. produces the above result in 30 d ays. 0-c..: ,ix_-Dbiwit,mpotency, Varicocele, Failing .ccr. Stol-s all drains and .osses caused by ercrs of y::.. It wards off In sanity and Consun:--Lion. Young N I. regain, Man bood and Old Men rec r-Y"ut:l Vigor. It gives vigor and size to shrunken organs, and fits a man for business or marriage. E;siy carried in the vest pocket. Price n 6 Boxes $2.0 fr"mail, in plain pack- U U e Wit Wtct guarantee. D.. J OT A The Problem of Child Labor. The almost insuperable difficulty of an equitable adjustment of a law reg ulating child labor is beyond denial; but that such regulation is necessary is indisputable. The proper place for children is the home, supplement ed by the schoolroo mand the play ground. Their employment in shops, factories, mills and stores is a social danger and an economic mistake. In the United States there are about 2,000,000 children under 16 years of age engaged in gainful oc cupations. This is about one in every fifteen of the entire number of people so employed. But in any consideration of the evils of the system this statement requires modification. One-half of that num ber are reported as employed in ag riculture, probably represented large ly by the farmer's boy, and even the farmer's girl, who earns a few dollars in the course of a year by aiding in the work on the home place or by a certain number of- hours of labor for neighboring farmers. It probably includes the boy who plants corn, the girl who picks berries and the pickaninny who gathers a few pounds of cotton. It is this feat*ure which introdupes one of the serious difficulties in the matter. The work of this group is occasional rather than persistent. It does not deprive the children of schooling nor does it rob them of all hours of play. Perhaps in a majority of cases it is beneficial rather than injurious to the children. In any attempt to legislate for the removal of the evils of the general system there arises the difficulty of differen tiation this group and 89o$..ETA tiation between this group and those children whose employment in me chanical branches of industry is an admitted injury. A sweeping law which declared that no child under 16 years of age should do any work whatever would be only a little bet ter than an open law which permitted the employment of such children at any and all tasks. Another difficulty lies in the fre quent necessity for the employment of children in order that the families of which they are members may live without charitable assistance. A poorly paid man or one who has be come physically incapacitated by ill ness or by injury may need the earn ings of his ch'ldren to keep his en ire family from becoming a bur den on the public. Child employment as a system, however, is utterly wrong. Its evils are both social and econon -c. The evidences of injury resulting to the victims of the system are obvious. Dwarfted physically and stunted mentally by daily conninement in mills and fac:ories, such children be come a menace to the social organ ism. The in.'iiences which make for race deterioration are suffcient in in number and in force without this most serious of them all. In the ecofiomic domain child labor often supplants that of adults because of its cheapness. L- thousands of in stances it is at best an utterly fal !acious policy. In many others it is little short of pernicious. The regulation of the matter is in the hands of the individual states, and it is difficult if not impossible to include it properly within the scope of federal- legislation. State laws vary from fairly stringent rules in some districts to no rules at all in others. Uniformity of these rules on a basis of the highest wisdom is perhaps beyond hope. Labor union ism claims activity in that direction, and there was organized a few months ago the National Child Lab or committee. The object of the association was briefly explained by Dr. Samuel M. Lindsay, the secretary and executive head: "We purpose to see that the child labor laws, where there are s.uch laws, and that the proper laws be we shall do these things as far as possible, by co-operating with state and local committees, school author ities and other, agencies that are working for the betterment of chil dren. Prosecutions will be brought, as far as practicable, by local com mittees, the national committee act ing in an advisory manner." A work so commanding in impor tance should receive the support of all right thinking people. Guessing Bees. Louisville Courier-Journal. It begins to look as if before long judgmeent -pon uncertain subjects it will be haxardous to express one's without incurring a penalty under the decision of the attorney general at ashington. It is announced that it is considered illegal to guess how many seed are in a watermelon or a pumpkin if in connection with a prize offer. This is on the interpretation that it comes within the anti-lottery law. Under such ruling the guess ing as to which horse will win in a race, which baseball or football team will win. will be held equally illegal. It would be but a slight advance in the line of Utopian virtue if the same ruling should be made applicable to the weather man in his guesses. There is much more at stake in such official predictions than in the mat ter of pumpkin seed or the Woggle Bug riddles, and it is to be hoped that Attorney GeVeral Moody will apply his giant intellect to a pro blem in which the people who have heretofore backed the judgment of the weather bureau are so much in terested and have been so often bun coed. A Popular Target. St. Louis Republic. During the Fenian raids in the sev enties of the last century Colonel Albert Clarke of Boston went to the Fenian camp near th,e Canadian bor der. The -camp of the Canadian troops was but a short distant away. One day Clarke wearing a light colored stovepipe hat, was strolling along through the fields a mile or so from camp. Suddenly the report of a rifle rang out and his hat fell to the ground. Clarke picked it up and jam med it down more tightly over his head. Another report sounded in the opposite direction, and Clarke then realized that his hat was the cause of the firing. He started to run and the bullets began to fly thecker and fas ter. When, after a hard run, he reached shelter he looked at his new tile, and to his dismay it was a total wreck. There were all of twenty bullet holes iln it, but not one struck its owner. The sharpshooters of both the op posing forces had been amusing themselves at the expense of the edi tor's headgear. A Harbor Tragedy. New York News. As one of the Atlantic liners was being brought alongside the wharf at Boston the hawser fouled th-e propel !er and caused a slight commotion, says M. A. P. Soon after the ship was berthed a newspaper reporter came aboard and interviewed the chief officer. "What sort of voyage did you have, captain?" "Very good." . "Any bad weather?" "No: fmne all the way." "See any icebergs or derelicts or anything like that?" "No." "WVhat was the crowvd looking at just before I came along?" "Hawvser got foul of the propeller." "What happened?" "Cut to pieces." "Thank you, cap'n,' and he hur ried ashore." The next issue of a Boston paper contained the following with scare headlines: "When the steamer Bushman was being berthed in East Boston this af ternoon an exciting incident occur red. A valuable horse that had been standing on the wharf bolted and fell into the water, and i,efore anything could be done to save it the poor creature got foul of the mighty screw and was cut to pieces before the eyes of the horrified spectators." In Chicago. Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Why do those men look so much alarmed ?" "They have just read in their morning papers that the woman who Clever Little Stories. A juryman who appeared befoi Sir James Hannen in a London cou recently was in deep mourning ar claimed exemption from service c the ground that he was interested i a funeral that day at which he d, sired to be present, says the Chicag News: "Oh certainly," said the cou teous judge, and the man went sa facedly away. "Do you know ti man you have exempted?" asked ti clerk. "No." said Sir James. "He an undertaker," was the reply. Horace Walpole once told th story of Lady Asbury: On her r turn to London from abroad h ladyship found that the Duchess Devonshire had still the highe feathers. Upon this she tried to g one higher, without success, till sI luckily thought of sending to an ui dertaker. He sent word that h hearses were all out, but they wei expected home in a few days, ar then he hoped to accommodate h< ladys-ip. This was the f-l:citous complimei f-f the mayor of Coventry to Quee Elizabeth after the rout of the Arm, da: "I always thought, your maje: ty, that the Spaniard. when he a tacked you, got thc wrong sow : the ear." Astonished His Mother. Chicago Record-Herald. Harold's conversational powei and choice of words are in the fo mnative stage, an2 his ino'her is fin< :ig it a rather di'ficult and narro path of elagence. He is the son of w,..i-known viol.nist of the city ar hiraself something of a musical pro< i; y, but, contrary to all belief, th does not keep Harole from posses ifig an appetite the like of which b longs only to all other bys of h substantial build. The Thanksgiving and Christm turkeys, therefore, are hi4 deligh Ae had finished his first 1 untif 1: ;Iv on Than1esoi-:.-g day when 1 -. to his mother: -Ma." %, said ".irsse le;v- me sor more stufin'." "Harold," said his mother, "th doesn't sound nice. You must s2 dressing." In the evening the remains of tt turkey were brought to the tabl Again Harold finished his first ser ing, and then he looked at his moth hesitated, and said: "Ma, please give me some more the clothes that come out of th; hole." Legal Amenities. Senator Bailey, of Texas, is fot of telling of his youthful struggl' at the bar of that state, says Collier Weekly. About tht first case that cameM Bailey's way was one in which he he been retained to defend a rath tough charadctr in' an action for dani ages. As the plaintiff's case was shot the attorney soon resting, Mr. Baib says he thought he had a fair chan o get his man off. But to his disma the three or four different motiol that he made were promptly overru~ e by the court. Then, says Mr. Bai ey, he endeavored to see what a litt eloquence would Co. and began i boriously prepared address to ti court. -Your honor," observed Mr. Baile -my unfortunate client--' "There the court is with von gently interrulptedl the judlge, with grim smile. And the future senator lost h1 Forgiveness is a woman's pri~ lege, is it not? And to need it a man's.-Beatrice Heron-Maxwell. He (sympathetically)-You have bad cold. She (huskily)-I have. I am! hoarse that, if you attempted to ki me, I couldn't even scream. Dr. R. M. Kennedy, DENTIST. Newberry, - - S. C. OVER NATIONAL BANK. rick! Brick For Sale by C. H. CANNON. 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