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PASSING OF NEGRO SERVANtT Creates Difficult Problem Already in Lodging Houdes in Many South ern To*ns. J. T. Salter in Malifaeturers' Rec. ord. While the .industrial world of th< South is chafing at the restraint im posed by. h dearth of skilled labor in the shop, mill iind factory, the lack of do)ueslie help in the'conduct of the household is brea'king uip the home iand creating a problem in another direce tion equally as difficult of solution. So far no organized effort to solve it by immigration or otherwise has been attempted, as in the case of skilled labor, nor, in fact has it been generally discussed with a view of adopting a remedy of any kind, but as it becomes more acute some plan must be tried to improve the condi ftions. Already in many Southerni cities and towns, bording houses, lodg ing houses and hotels are c'rowded with families who are incapacitated to do household drudgery and unable to have it done at any price within the reasonable bounds of economy. Th.ey are forced to accept nil sortqof incon veliences and discomforts il eoil sequence, not as a makeshift, but as a permanent. thing, while the dream of a home and its freedom becomes more vague, and un'eal as doimestic help grows more mythical. An Important Question. Is there any wonder that the ques tion of race suicide should become so important. when the very founds tion of large families is crumbling into decay so fast? Without a house and without domestic help the rear ing of children becomes a burden which many people are all too glad to escape by doping their conscience with the excuse of no home. But. what are we going to do about it? People must. eat a'nd they can not all cook, so what will the end be? So long as the negro woman could be coaxed and cajoled to work for double the wages earned the Southern house wife put up with her11 slouchy ways and slipshod methods or lack of methods, for the average negro woman is about as innocent of any system and method in her work as she is of ambition and purpose in life. But now that no amount of persuasion and pay can induce them to ''go into service,'' as they call it, some other plan must he tried. What it shall be is an open question. The Southern people, as a whole, have a happy faculty of adjusting themselves to the conditions with storie fortitude and complaisance which stand them in great need now, for under the trying circumstances they have ample oppor tunity to 'eall into exercise all of their reserve power in this line. . Less Work for a Living. It is not that the negro servant has grown more shiftless, indolent and unreliable than formerly that t;his culmination of idleness has been reached, hbut is hiar2ely du (1lo' thle greater case of making a living here now by less work than formerly. Im p)rovidence anid irresponsibility are dominant characteristics in the nie gro's make-ump, andl no amount of edut cation and t raining wvill eradicate it. They a re. however. clanniiish in a brut ish sort of way, whet her f'romu nat ural instinet or general perver'si ty no( one san say, and will occasionally accept service to help ont ot hers who are hun gry, but. it is a pretty well known fact among house keepers that when one negro woman works a doz.en eat, ani often this is thle dominant incentive tr> induce them to work at all. This statemnen t seems to be corrobora ted by the ratio of those who work to those who idle. - When the average negro woman servant has been fur tunate to escape the police court fines for fighting, disorderly conduct, steal ing or the furniture installment man, whom she inv'ariably tries to beat, long enough to accumulate a few dollars, she usually becomes so unbearably in different to her wvork and careless of her duties as to either compel her dis charge by the employe or pave the way for an excuse to quit on account of ''Ah mis 'ry 'n d' spine o' malh ba'k,'' No matter if there is sick ness, or even (heath in the house hold, when this notion of q1uitting seizes her she cannof be prised loose. A fewv years ago when the require ments were more exacting and the wages not so good, little or no trou ble was dneountered in securing fair ly efficient help, but today, with the wages almost doubled, the duties much lighter, arnd often'two employed to do the work of one, we are confronted with an absolute faznine in the market, Such conditions present a paradox in domestie science worthy of a Chicago Ulnivesity president's most freakish *philosophy. Since the civil war the South tas wo,rricd along with the nie. lis woman as a, servaint in the vain *hope that freedom and ipndependenice ut Bright Bits. in ''he Parson- \VIen I beeame -a In- Mllisler. I gave up playing tie pi as ano.'' The El der-''Then you became ,)f an exI)ounder in a double sense of b-|the word didn't you?''-Younkers it Statesman. Cicely--"AWhy dop't , you learn to swim?'' Muriel--"'There's no one to teadh me.'' Cicely-"H11ow about the b(vs ? '' Muriel-''"Oh, they-ve all taught ie hofore; different summers Yon know. ''-Rrooklyi Life. .- In the Elysiain Fields-Russell r- Sag-e: "Nay, I wish you would lenl is tme a dine. '' Jay Gould "Sorry, Rus e, sell; but I haven't it.''-- Memphis II Coa mmercial Appeal. e "l ridget,'' said Mrs. Ifiram. Offer, le sternly. on my way home just now h1 1.aw that policeman who was in the is kitc(hell with you so long last, even d m and I ,took oecasion to speak to him- O' 'Oh! sliure, that's all right. nm anm. 'Im not jealous. Oi hov iiii 1cieiced. '--1Philadelphia Presse. WARM WEATHER. What Its Appronch Means to the Good Ilouekeeper. Even though she began the latter part of March to nake the home cheer ful aind salitary before the coming of summer the Intervening time is none too long for the goodl housekeeper to accomplish all that has to be done. One duty owed to the general public is to offer something pleasing for its eye to rest onl in the yard and sur roundings of one's home. The first I- thing to be done was of course r!learing 4- away all kinds of accumulated wh9ter I rubbish from the yard and nutbuild w ings and making a bonfire of it or W otherwise disposing of it. For this work the good housekeeper found the children of the family invaluable. If their pride and sense of the beautiful are properly aroused they can almost be depended on to take care of the yard and flower gardei. Ic *1 SMART NECKWEAR. Y tate double box plaits aeross the front. i Down each side of the center box plait s run narrow full ruffies of the material. Scalloped turn back cuffs are seen on is many of the newest shirt waists. In stead of being separate cuffs put on the finished sleeves, the sleeves them e selves are cut long enough to allow for r- the cuff, which 1s scalloped at the top. w Two sets of linked buttons are used to it keep the cuffs in plqce, and the newest idea is to make them at home by sew i ng two buttons together on a long loop and butto.nholing the loop. Some of the shirt waists have the fronts and yoke cut In one. On the tal r lored models carried out In heavy linen 1, this emplecement Is scalloped and a 4 small dot embroidered in each curve. A shirt waist model Is often cut with shoulders so wide that they extend over the upper arm in an epaulet ef Ifeet that gives a military touch. Most of the shirt waist sleeves are - long, but somne of them are cut with a puff to the elbow, where they meet a deep cuff. *The collar either- matches the shirt waist with which it Is worn or sepa 5rate collars are used in keeping with S-the character of the waist. Turnover ec collers, heimatitchied or embroidered, n are the correct thing worn wvith a tie of lace trlimmed lawn or a smart silk bow. IThe long cravat seen in the illustra tion is of lace insertion, edged with 1s plaited ruffles. The butterfly bbw is of re plaited linen and the,.long tit of .lace eedged mull. y >f je An affable manner and a su'nny (ls st posItion are two good runners to slIde on into popularity uipon. a. People who have a limber tongue no dom suiffer from brain tag. It takes a pull and a lead pipe cinch vto make some men amount to anything. is An elastic disposition is a good thing -tz be p)rovided with when you meet a p rebuff. . Some men ire gp when they get 4 called down. confidence. "Your wife has great conhdence i'. ~you, hasn't she?" eC "I should say she has," answered Mr. d Meekton. "She depends on me abso, lately to take care of the dog when e s.. goes away." e A Oeb of Wiudem. S"Most eve'i-y man has a rival in it his wife's affections." Marked the Ssage of Philosopihersville. "If it hain't a a poodle, it's a rubber plant."-Louls. v ille Courier-Journal. bitioil not previously manifested; b this was another Utopian dream fa whel we have been suddenly'awake ed. Instead of improvement she I grown, steadily worse and instead Acquiring efficieney, thrift and sta ilify, sie has lost all claims she mig have had in these qualities. No White Servants. There is searcely such a iperson be found in soutlern towns and ei ics as a native wlite servaiint. Tio who are compelled to work prefer ei ployment in tle faetory or shiop half, tle 'wages paid domestic lie even tliough tile duties ire less one 01 and the pay better. But lie fo eigner, notably the German girl, sometimes found here as a domesti and wherever she works she is wc paid and well treated. If enoughli the poorly-paid shop girls of ti erowded cities of the North could 1 induced in numbers to come Soul and accept domestic service, a Cla: would thereby be formed which woul afford them the means - of soci pleasure, recreation and companioi1 sliijp they do not have when they con here alone. And further, it woul enable them to form small conmlmn Iies aiong Ihemslives which more the anything vlSe, would preent discoi tenl. and lneliliess. 'I'here is n1o doubt aboit fildil ready eiplo*yifent, aid tat, too good wages. For the Soutlhern1 hou: keeper is all too willing to try an; hing or any plan looking to reli froni the worry arid uncertainty < negro lielp. It is an honorable, hol est, self respecting occupatipin it infinitely more elevating and ben ficial to (lie individual Ithan fal I ihe factory or shop, for tle refin mIIent of the home infiluenee and pri teetion is tirown aronid the dome tie White servanit in the South wli vaiot, froin te i l ver y nature of I eall-n , he exteided o( 1 those in tl faetory%? anld shop. Merit Compels Recognition. While the class distiictioln het we( servait. inid master is and always wi he observed here as inl al other po Holis of tle eivilized world, tile peop as a whole are democratic and strou IV inelined to reekon a personi's stanl in. by his trie worth rather than I1 what Ie has got, so) that it is easi seen Iow <piiekly itroe merit, even ll hliumble occupation, readily compe resject, and recoglrnition. The situ tion just. now as to providing th domestic help is one of discourag ment. No plan or effort. is being ma< to supply the demand for such labc It. is one of drifting and waiting fi sonetlhing to trun up. But out of eventually must. prow an organliz plan, and as a suggestion along ti line it would be well to give heed ai encouragement. to the immigrati( movement just now being made, f< it is from these immigrant-, after a that. independence of the negro 11111 be found. -FUTURE oF THE PLATFORM. The PubMic Is Just Beginning to A preciate Its Worth. Frederick WVard, thte actor, say ''I believe (lie lecture platform h~ a great flitutre. The public is ju bmei.inuning to) app)reciate its worth. TI lectu re of (lie modi(ern lyceum is, a wayv, ret urn (4) (lhe ancient d1a whien the aundience sat at (lie feet (lie t hinker and1( phlilosopheri anid r ceivedl fromn him the result of hi knowledge and1( research. There a matny ly'ceum lecturites t hat give to ilI mait in thle aud(ienlce ini an hour ai a halfC thIat whicht would cost hi mointh ls of readinig to learn. ''It requires a greater concent r tioni to succeed on (lie platform thu on thte stage. In the play we ms rise to mnore -thrilling climaxes, ba there are inter'missions and periods< rest, and one is surrounided by hi fellow players, the scenery, the inns and everything that tends to assi in developing the picture. But< (lhe platform one is absolutely aloi -ie must su4'eced or fail, all by hir self.'' His rirst Assignment. The late Amos Cummings of Ne York, used to tell this story of I first assignment as a newspaper r porter. He was sent out to write an accidlent wvhere an Irish hod-earri was injured in a fall from a buildin HIe arrived just as two officers we assisting thie injured man into an at hulance. ''What's his name?'' asked Cur mings of one of the officers, at i same moment pulling out his pad at pencil. The Irishman heard him, and mi taking him for thle timekeeper on t1 job, exclaimeal, with a look of di gust coverine his face. ''Isn 't tinb(e enoughL'l t ' fall thbree' stori form a buildini' without bein' doekI f'r th' few moments Oi lose goin' Lh' hoastal?"' Low Rates to New York and Return . Via Southera Railway. On account. of ie homecowing of Hon. Wil. J. Bryan, the Southern railway will sell tickets to New York city and return at rate of one fare plus $2.25 from all coupon ticket sta tions. Tickets on sale August 28th and 29th, limited to leave New York returning on -September 4th, 1906. The Southern operates on all I through trains, Pullman drawing-room sleepers and Southern railway dining V cars-high back vestibuled coaches. For full. information, consult any Southern railway ticket agent, or write R. W. Hunt, )ivision Passenger Agent, Charleston, S. C. G. B. Allen, Assi. General Passenger Agent, Atlanta, Ga. Supervisor's Office. All overseers of tho public roads in Newberry County are hereby direct ed and required to put their respec- C tive road districts in good condition and perform the service required by law by the twentieth day of August, 1906. Herein fail not under the penalty of the law. J. Monroe Wicker, Fred. H. Dominick, Co. Supervisor. Clerk and Attorney. TAKE A TRIP TO THE EAST via a CHARLESTON & WESTERN CAROLINA RAILWAY Through Savanlh and Steamship lines From Laurens, S. C. to r Baltimore, Md., and return $29.40 p Boston, Mass., and return 39.30 y New York and return .. .. 35.30 a Philadephia, and return .. 33.40 F Round trip summer excursion rates; Tickets on sale daily to and including d September 30, with final return limit; October 31, 1906. For full information call on or ad dress, C. 1-. Gasque, Agent, Laurens, S.C. Gee. T. Bryan, Gen. Agt., Greenville, S. C. Ernest Williams, G. P. A., Augusta, Ga. NOTICE or ELECTION. ti Pursuant to the requirements of an Act of the General Assembly of the C State of South Carolina entitled, "An Act to Authorize and Empower School District No. 52 in Newberry County, State of South Carolina, to Issue Ad ditional Bonds for the Completion of a Sch.pol Building Thereon," Approv ed February 24, 1906, notice is here- C given of an election to be held on August 29, 1906, at Whitmire in said School District No. 52 on the question of issuing additional coupon bonds not to exceed one thousand dollars at a rate of interest not to exceed six per cent. in accordance with the terms of., said1 Act. Jlohn P. Fant. Z. HI. Suber. S. L. Gary, Trustees of said Seciool District. CHARLESTON & WESTERN CAR OLINA RY. Schedule in effect June 3, 1906. Lv. Newberry(C. N. & L.) 12 :36 p. mn. Ar.* Laurenus 1:42 p.mi. Lv. Laurens (C. &. WV. C.) 2 :09 p. m. Ar. Greenville 3 :25 p. m. Lv. Laurens 2:07 p. mn. A r. Spartanburg 3 :40 p.m. Lv. Spartanburg (So. Rry) 4 :00 p. in. Ar. 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