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a Work in
a Warm Room
WHEN you take your
sewing upstairs, take
the heat along too. The
Perffection oil heater is eas
ily carried anywhere. You
draw it up .beside you and
work in comfort, even if the
room has no other source
of heat.
PERFP T;N
SMOKELE EATERS
The Perfection is solid, good
looking, easy to.clean and take care
of. It is smokeless and odorless. -
At hardware, furniture and general
stores everywhere: .
Look for the Triangle trademark.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
Washington, D. C. (NEW JERSEY) Charlotte, N. C.
Norfolk, Va. BALTIMORE c*aoston, W
ihmon, Va. Charleston, S. C. /
COULD SCARCELY
WALK ABOUT
And For Three Summers Mrs. Vin- believe I would have Tiled if I hadn't
centWas nabl to tten to taken it.
centWas nabl to tten to After I began taking Cardul, I was
Any of Her Housework. greatly helped, and all three bottles re
lieved me entirely.
.Pleasant Hill, N. C.-"I suffered forstogrnthemntIfltik a
three summers," writes Mrs. Waiteroteprsnaoghr.
Vincent, of this town, "and tshe third and Cru sprl eeal n ete
last time, was my worst. atn.Isigeinshv id oi
I had dreadful nervous headaches and efco h oal osiuin
prostration, and wa scarcely able to Cru ae o nrae tegh
walk about. Could rot do any of my
housework. ipoe h peie oe ptenr
I also had dreadfu! pains in my back vu ytm n ep omk ae
and sides and when one of those weak, slo hes rs n oy
sinking spells would come on me, Cadlhshle oeta ilo
would have to give up and lie down, I ilarl ofryu htI a
until it wore off. dn o hm r aditdy
I was certainly, in a dreadful state of
/health, when I finally decided to try rf CO.ide'Ad
Cardt th womn's onic andCafimly is piUrely vegale ad gentle-q
acting. It sinrdent s phain ap. milto
effctonthe omalyeonsituion
1mroe te pette5ons pth nr
vous sstem, and ht ae ae
Cad ha e.e F.r hani a00.io
donefor hem.Try arutoday..
Cadlie oan'oij and FfirmS
'Tuitt th Coi" .
NATION'S LABOR
PROBLEM
OVER A MILLION AND A HALF
WOMEN WORK AS FARM HANDS
IN THIE UNITED STATES.
By Peter .Radford
Lecturer National Farmers' Union.
Our government never faced so tre
mendous a problem as that now- lying
dormant at the doors of congress and
the legislatures, and which, when
aroused, will shake this-nation from
center to circumference, and make
civilization hide its face in sham'e.
That problem is-women in the field.
The last federal census reports
show we now have 1,514,000 women
working in. the field, most of them
south of the Mason and Dixon line.
There were approximately a million
negro slaves working in the fields
when liberated by the emancipation
proclamation. We. hate freed our
slaves and our wonmn have taken
their placed in bondage. We have
broken the shackles off the ilegroes
and welded them upgn our daughters.
The Chain-Cling of CivIlIlation..
A million women In bondage in the
southern fields form the chain-gang of
civilization - the industrial tragedy
of the age. There is no overseer quite
so cruel as that of unrestrained greed,
no whip that stings like the lash of
suborned destiny, and no auctioneer's
block quite 'so revolting as that of or.
ganized avarice.
The president of the United States
was recently lauded by the press, and
very properly so, for suggesting medi
ation between the engineers and rail.
road managers in adjusting their
schedule of time and pay. The engi
neers threatened to strike If their
wages were not Increased from ap.
proximately ten to eleven dollars per
day and service reduced from teQ to
eight hours and a similar readjust
ment of the overtime schedule. . Or
women are working in the field, miany
of them barefooted, for less than 50
cents per. day, and their schedule is
the rising sun and the evoning star,
and after the day's work is over they
milk the cows, slop the hogs and rock
the baby to sleep. . anyone mediat
Ing over their priblems, and to whom
shall they threaten a strike?
Congress has listened approvingly
to those wh-. toil at the forge and be
hind the counter, and many of our
statesmen have smiled at the threats
and have fanned the flame of unrest
among .idustrial laborers. Rut wom
en ara as surely the final victims of
indlustrial warfare as they are the
burden-bearers in the war between na
tions, and those who arbitrate and
mediate the differences between capi
tal and labor should not forget that
when the expenses of any industry are
-unnecessarily increased, society foots
the bill by drafting a new consignment
of women. from the home to the field.
Pinch no Crumb From Women's Crust
of Bread.
No financial award can be made
'without s'omeone footing the bill, and
we commend to those who accept the
responsibility of the distribution of in
'dustrial justice, the still small voice of
!the woman in the field as she pleads
for mercy, and we beg that they pinch
no crumb from her crust of bread or
put another patch upon her ragged
garments.
We beg that they listen to the
scream of horror from the eagle on
every American dollar that is wrung
from the browv of toiling women and
hoar the Goddess of JTustice hiss at a
verdict that Increases the want of
woman to satisfy the greed of man.
The women behind the counter and
in the factory cry altud for sympathy
and the press thunders out in their
defeniso and the pulpit pleads for
mercy, but how about the woman In
the field? Will not these powerfutl
exponents of human rights turn their
talent, energies and influence to her
relief? Will the Goddess of Liberty
enthroned af Washington hold the cal
loused hand andl soothe the feverish
brow of her sex who sows and reaps
the nation's harvest or will she permit
the male of the species to shove
women-,-wveak and weary-from the
bread-line of industry to the back al
leys of poverty?
Women and Children First.
The census enumeratorfffell us that
of the 1,514,000 wvomen who work in thle
field as farm hands 409.000 are six
teen years of ago and under. What is
the final dlestiny of a nation whflse fu
ture mothers spend their girlhood (days
behind the plow, pitching hay ad
hauling manure, and what is to become
of womanly culture andl refinemient
that grace the home, charm society
andl enthuse man to leap to glory in
noble achievements if our daughters
are raised in the society of the ox and
the companionship of thte plow?
In that strata between the ages of
sixteen and forty-five are 950,000 wom
en working as farm hands and many
of them with suckling babes tug
ging at their breasts, as drenched
in perspiration, they wileld the scythe
and guide the plow. What is to be
come of that nation where poverty
breaks the crowns of the queens of
the home; despair hurls -a mother's
love from~ its throne and hunger drives
innocent children from the schoolroom
to the hoo?
The census bureau shows that 155,.
000 of these women are forty-flye
years of ago and over. There,, is no
more pitiful sight in civiiization than
thee saintly mothers of Israel stooped
with age, drudging in the field from
sun until sun and at night drenching
their dingy pillows with the tears of
lenDair as their aching hearts take
it all to God in prayer. CivIlization
strikes them a blow when It should
give them a crown, and their only
friend is he who broke bread with
beggars and said: "Come unto me all
ye that are weary and heavy laden and
I will give you rest."
Oh, America! The land of the free
and the home of the brave, the
world's custodian of chivalry, the
champIon of human rights and the de
fender of the oppressed-shall we per
mit our maidens fair to be torn from
the hearthstone by the ruthless hand
of destiny and chained to the plow?
Shall we permit our faithful wives,
whom we covenanted with God to cher
ish and protect, to be huiled from the
home to the harvest field, and our
mothers dear to be driven from the old
arm chair to the cotton patch?
Ia rescuing our citizens from the
forces of civilization, can we not.apply
to our fair Dixieland the rule of the
sea-"women and children first?"
There must be a readjustment of
the wage scale of Industry so that the
women can be taken from the field or
given a reasonable wage for her serv
ices. Perhaps the issue has never been
fairly raised, but the Farmers' Union,
with a membership of ten million, puts
its organized forces squarely behind
the issue and we now enter upon the
docket of civilization the case of "The
Woman in the Field" and demand an
immediate trial.
b* * 0 .. * ** 00
1 AT RIDDLE'S OLD FIELD. *
0 *
Last Wednesday night at 7 o'clock
mur teacher, Miss Azelle Hughes, gave
us a treat in a farce comedy entitlo
"The Skeeter Corner School" which
was highly applauded by t0e audience
The ladies gave a box supper from
which a neat little sum was realized,
to be applicd to improvements. Atten
Lion was next turned to a large
Chlrt'mas tree already loaded to its
raipaclty with itreseints for -young and
Old. Twelve little girls inairched
around the tree singing "A Christ:nas
Treo', which was veryi mpressive.
Old Saita Claus caie forth and de
Oivered tepr(sentts, . mak lig glad
1wutny healrts. after-1 wh1hwh childrenl
formled In linle, racing Santa Clauls and
sang a beautifttl song to St. Nihiolas
poillting to thtree little stockiligs nv'.
asked himt to be m1indfull of thlni onl
('Ihristita I'e. O1r heart w'as thr,ill(d
witIt Joy and we wantt to 'xtid to
our' teacher out tr a piprec'iation of her
ntirit.g eff'orts.
"A Patron."
31rs. Mc4,lain1's Experience WYith ('roulp
"Whetn m11'y boy, Ray, w~la small lie
was subject to Croup, and I was e1
way' a a rned at such tms. Chtm
herlo in's Cotgh ietmedy proved fatr
better thian any other for this trouble,
it always relleved him iutekly, 1 am
iever without it ii the house for I
latow it is a tpositive cure for croup,"
writes Mrs. W. R1. MeClain, llairsville,
Pa. For stile by all dealer's.
Ol11DINA NCE
(Continued from Page Two.)
incone is $500 or less, per
annum111 . . . . .. . . . .. . 5.00
Whose gross aninual inicomne is
over $500, for each atlditiontai
$500 or. less, pem' annumi . . 1.00
St'vyor s whose gross aninual
income is $1000 or less, per
Is mtor'e tha n $1000, ont eacht
add itiontal $lt000, or' less, pier
annumtit..... ............1.00
Whlose itoine ier' jolt is $5 or'
less, ter' jolt................1 1.0
W\htoso icoimt pert job Ix ia mo
thant~ $', for' (ach I addi t Iinal
$5 or less, per~t job ..........50
Streoot btacks or carrlages, otno
hiorse, whose gr'oss annuatmil in
('omie is $1500ll or' less, per
Whose gross anntil IIncome is
more thani $i5.0, fotr (each ad
ditiontal $1000h or less, per' an
numti.............,,.........00
St hei t hacks or' ('arrtiages, two
hortises, w host' P ros atnnultal
in(omte is $2000u or~ less, per~
-annumttl ..- .........20.00
Whlose gross annua i ~l I inontth is
motre titan $2n 11n, fort Cachi ad- ..
dit iotnal $10(00 or' le:i, pert ani
ntil.m...................1 O.0
No tersoni, firmti 0' ('orpor'atti shaullI
int ot' ire toany l(hck or othIter voel s
fo' hanulinig or't ratnspIortting of pas
at' the oity, wit hot first obtaliing a
l i('ense theref' or' fromo t he ('ity ~ Cerk,
tid every tetrsont, firt'm ort coror'lta
lon runnttimtg or' optertinlg suchI a
Iaek or v'ehticle shtal11 have thie reogis
ered niumbtleri ott same legly13 prinit
ad or other'wlse imarked'( utpont 51aid
vehle itn lettersx of ntot less Itan
briec iches in hetighit anid otne inchI
>f suchl vehlio mu nist. wear a ttitt
)Cered badge Cu rnished by CIty C'l*'kc.
)wm~et's atnd divet's must comply
w'Ith the City Or'd Inance htetein, antd
latlig any of the above provisiomns
shall, upon conivictti, lhe fitted not
3xceeding lFlve D~ollarts, or' he hm
ttrisonted niot exceeding flye days lotr
auch andc every violation ther'of.
str'eet wagonis ot' dr'ays, onte
htorse, whose gross annual in
come is $500 Or leus, iter atn
numi...... ................'.0
Whose gr'oss anual incomte is
more thtan $500, fot' each ad
dltional $500 0or less, hot' an
num .......... ..........00
Whose gross dlaily income is
$5.00 0or less, pcer day .... .....50
Whose gross daily income is
more than $5.00 per1 (lay, for
each adduitional $5.00 or' less,
per (lay ,. .. ..... .. .25
str'eet wagons or' drays, tw'o
horsn. whose gtrn8a nnnnnl in
comle is $750 or less, per anl
nuiu 7.50
Whose gross annual inconc is
more than $750, for each addi
tional $500 or less, per annum J.00
Whose gross daily Income Is
$7.50 or less, per (lay .. .. .. .
WVhose gross daily income Is
more than $7.50, for each ad
ditjonali $7.50 or less, per day .25
Each and every draynian doing bus
iness in the City of Laurens must
wear in a conspicious pliace a num
bered badge furnished by the City
Clerk, and must have legibly marked
on cach side of his dray the same'
number borne by saild badge.
Shooting GallerIes, whose gross
annual income is $2500 or
less. per annum. ........ 25.00
Whose gross annual income
is more than $2500, for each
additional $500 or less, per an
nuin--.. . ... .... .. .. .... . 2.50
Sign Painters, wlose gross an
nual Income is $1000 or less
per annum ......,...... 10.00
Whose gross ann'ual Income is
more than $1000 or less, per
annum ................ 1.00
Whose gross weekly income
Is $500 or less, per week .. 5.00
Whose gross weekly income is
more than $500, for each addi
tional $500 o less, per week 1.00
Whose gross daily income is
$10 or less. per day .. .. .. . 1.00
Whose gross daily income is
more than $10, for each addi
tional $10 or less, per.day .. . .50
Skating Rinks, whose gross an
nual income Is $1000 or less,
per annum ............ 10.00
Whose gross annual inconie is
more than $1000, for each ad
ditional $1000 or less, per
annum.............. 5.00
Tailor Spops and agents whose
gu'%ss annual, .ncome Is $1000
or less, pei an.u . . .. -....
Whose gross annual income is
more than $1000. .for each ad
ditional $1000 or less, per an
num .. ..............1.00
Ten Pin Alleys or Ten Pennett
Alley, whose gross annual in
conie from each alley oporated
Is $5000 or less, per annum 50.00
Whoso gross aninual income
from ech alley operated is
llore 01han1 $5000, for Cavl ad
(1itiona,1l $1000 or less, per an
11111 .. .. .... .. .... .. . 5.00
l'or each additioll Allcy op
erated 1- same building thp li
eilse slal bu one-ourith of
the above am111011nt.
Terra-cotia Dealrs, whose gross
annual ilolile Is $1 51m or less,
por auntin .,.... ... 5
Whose gross an li income is
1ior4 t han $t;01, for each
adhitionIal $1000 or less, per
ainnum .. ............... 5.00
Tin or t ike shops whos;e gross
anni 11i1come is $'50 or less,
per annum11 .. . . .. ..... ... .. .5
Whose gross aniual ircoine is
111ore than $770, for e'ch al
dition llI $750 or less, per all
num10.. ............ 2.50
'Te'lpllee coipa I W; or' a gell
cy for' busines (0ne Wit1hiin
this State, and not including
that donie without the State,
whose gross annual income is
$10,000 or less, per annum. . 75.00
W\'hose gross anual Income is
imore lhan $10,000, for each
additional $1000 or less, per
annum .............. 1.00
Telegraph Companies, or agen
cdes, for business (10110 with
in this State, and not includ
ing that (one without the
State, w'hose gross annual In
coni from such business is
$2000 or less, per annum .. 50.00
Whose gross annual income
Is mor1e t han $2000, for each
additional $1000 or less, 1)er
aninum..................1.00
lindertakers whose gross an
nual income is $2500 or less,
1)er annm...... ........25.00
Whose gross annuial inicomel
is more than $2,500, for' each
ad iio na Q il $ I1)00 ' 1r les, per1
annum ~li................1.00
Wood Shops and1 W~agonl Alanu
facturr whoPi~~.'(se gr'oss ann11uial
Income Is $5000 or' less, 110r
an m 1111il......... ............1 15.00
WVhose gross annu111al Inocome
is more t hani $5000. for each
addit ioniai $ l000 or less, pcer
.annu iiil........... .... ......00
W~ood de~alers ori lI rokers, whtose
gross anuallil inlcome is $500
or less, per' ann1um 1..........00..
Whose gr'oss annulal intcometc is
morel' then'i $500, onl ealchl addi
tionai $510 orI less, lper annumlil .7
Wh~e1lw right s, whose gr'oss an
Inuatli n1Comie Is $ I100( or' le(ss,
Pcir annum..................10.00
W\hose gloss annunal income.
is more IC than11 $10010. Onl aCht(l
adldlt ional $10(00 or' less, pCI'
annum 11................1.00
W'ariehiouses kept. forl st oing cot
toin, gr'ainI, et('., whose gross
annu~1al inIcoime is $ 2500 or
less, per' annumi . . .. .... .25.00
W\hose gross5 annu0 al Income
is more thIian $25100, for i'achl
aoblitionial $ l000 or less, per'
annum il..... .... ............1.00)
Whlolesale dlealers1 in goods,
war'es and11 mlerchanidise, whose
gr'oss anniulal ineOmeI from
sales are0 $50.000 01' less, per'
Whiose gr'oss ann11 ull incomie
fr'oml sa les is more1, thain $50,
(000, for each additional $1000
Sec. 2. All lcenlses Issued for 011e
day 0only shall he doub1)1 the amount
abovo menti1 oned for' Saturdays,
Showv Day1s. ChrIstmas Day' andl ohi
r' (lays of Public1 GatherIngs.
Sec. 3. Th'lat all 1lleenses issued iln
(der and( by vIrtue of t his OrdInance
shall be .non-transfer'ablo, 'ind except
for a licenlse for' a daiy, a. w'ck 01' a
mionlth shall te.rminate and end~ on1
the 31st da~y of December, 13 5;bt
may be revoked at any timo~ by the
City C'ouiicil of the CIty of L~auur'ns
on satisfateor'y causo bein'g showvn.
Except licenise Issued for a day, a
week, or a ivonlh, annual l-itea shall
,be chiar'gd for' all licenses issued
prior' to .June 30th, 1915, three 'for phths
the annual r'ate shall be charged for
all licenses issued after Juno 30th,
1915, and lprior' to September 30th,
1915.' nd nnn..half tb.'n nnnual rsn,.
for all licenses issued after Septem
ber :30th, 1915 and prior to Decen
ber 31st, 1915.
Sec. .1. Any person, fIrin. comupany,
Or corporatlion prosecitiig or en gag
ing in any business, occupation or
profession, or keeping or maintain
Ing any establishienti namied in this
Ordinance without having first paid
the license tax imposed thereon, shall,
upon Conviction, befined not exceed
Ing thirty dollars, or be Inprisoned
not exceeding thirty days with or
without hard labor at the discretion
of the oflicer trying the case.
See. 5. W\here a license is imnposed
by this% rdinance upon any business,
profession or occupation, and such
biniiess, profession or occupation is
carried on or conducted by an agent,
clerk, or emiployee, such agent, clerk
or eillloyce shall be subject to all
the penalties herein imposed should
the said business, profession or occu
pation be carried oil or prosecuted
without the license lmposed having
been paid, in the same manner as if
such agent, clerk or employee were
the proprietor of such business, pro
fession or occupation.
Sec. 6. That every person, firm,
company or corporation required by
this Ordinance to obtain a license to
engage in business, trade, profession
or occupation for which a license is
required shall at the time of applyin-g
for such license, make a statement
under oath, before an officer qualified
to administer oaths, and file said
statement with the City Clerk, set
tin- forth:
1st.' His or her name, style of flirn,
name of company or corporation;
2nd. The trade, business, profes
sion or occupation for which a i
cense is required;
3rd. Tilet(- amount .o! bustine5ss pro
posed. I -.oneduing the current
*~- 4x o in tuote cases in which such
information is required, the amount
of business done the previous year in
the sane occupation, trade, business
or profession if saie was carried on
in tile City of Laurens tile previous
yeA r.
The City Clerk shall thereupon as
sess and collect the proper license tax
as provided for in this ordinance, and
111)011 such tax being paid, shall issue
to tile appli(ant tile proper l1ense.
See. 7. Pori aiy bu.vsiness, trade, oc
eupa t.on1 or profession1 nlot enlmlt1vr
ated il Seetion I of this Ordinallce,
the licenlse shIall bw finod by thvIle City
ronnllvl of Ohw City of, L:Utrenis at any
r.v-.11:1r or taen- s tn hereof.
Sec. S. TlhO 1iC en so Itaxes herein
imposoed are levied for the prl(Ppose of
rai Ln u1mbl - to 1'1- the ordinary ex..
penls5 or I' City of lmi'slls for the
fis1-.l-vonr olminwilv5 ( mh11e 1111s oay
of .latutary. .\. i). 191 and for the our
11oSe 0of paYing, , inl whole or inl part
:h)1 d t I 1' t ya of the i -..
Sovred for II ,) orir exIP0nse theeof 1
Il tdln da during o l ri.ca
.w(.1on !0. Thils O-Oilninee sh'all go
it fe ton tho 1si d.ly of J 1.1u r
A. D). 191.
;1111 and rtilled byv The City Coun---'
il of t111a Ci:y of L1rn am lhe cor('13 o
olrkte a of tes City of Lau.ens A
rN hereto aOlixE this the ys day o
tax n r. .\. 1). 1911, and in the one,'.
huntdvie ' l thty-ninth year of th
Sovereivn y an71d torie plidenleo of t t
oIted Stats or Aierie. . at' A
C. M. BADT1,
May*-or of the(, City of Laurta "40
Attest:
C. WV. NITCTUCN,
Cleo o leye City of Llurens.
AN OlRDIN.\NCE
State of Souith Carolina111,
Connty or I Laurens,
. City of Lnarens. -
N ORDINANCE f to levy an
ftax tpan the taxable p oprty
lhe cornp orte l~imiofth C
honde in idebtiedns of1 the sa
of Tanuensi fr theO ('Us'a e
meein. Jaiay 1\ 1o15 an '
laist woretede of th'1,eaid
sol to0 levy1p and olaew ar
am01otil i 8l0 to pa te ntrst
fo he year I(' 11 . and01 toI't r
Ingi dfnd fo te paym I e en
lOnti(t ord1' aid by hfi.q
I'l 1''05. T hat an adx f d
(7f eil-i' IS ents oneeyon0u
lhr worthe~ 1of property, real
son al, not1 ('enyl by law fro
11ion withIinl the coportelim
Is iy oflc loens, ed ant
herab' li 1d11 tor corporat
to' hefry e': bli oxpe
i of ,Ml)ur en for01 the
meet frother1 'idebtednessit
pupse.: That an a~
of sity-ve ' engthes
ute witMhrin the~ eo end
the Ciy Cfit os
pasaideb laesie 0o8 . ..
tietaxn son thiqe hon ear
of tll hexcut y' D
ye0at 1s1e.and tocet
11:>1 huw: n ad
tilemoen ofeI 1b'nl
of tny, shlbeue
ofntsh Uonte0
itst: Howo M
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