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Child Labor Reform A Mothers* Fight. Hv EDW ARD EVERETT HALE. Dr. E Iward Everett Hale, dis tinguished pit riot. chaplain of the United S int?"' Senate. Arueri ca's Grand Old Man, loo hwome active in the failure now being waged agunst the evils of child labor. In a nuking uppeal to mothers of the country, publish ed in the And Child Slavery League's official organ, the | Woman's Home Companion for October, he says: Looking with a wide range. over this dear America of outs, 11 think the beet and the happiest j life for any boy is the wide range.: open-air life of thecountiy where; he and his father und his mother are all united in plan. and in fact, in the daily life of home. lu what I might almost call this natural system?the *\ seem which the American p< ople have j worked out for themselves wherever they were not closely cemented <ogether, four points of the first 'm'<0vtenee in educa tion are iusu ?o I'irst of all the boys au<l go Is h.. vc the ad vantagi of u s-ieut tie iollitein the open air. This is essential to al1 good education. Second, boys and girls under this system liave a great deal of intercourse with their fathers and mothers. This is very de sirable to all education, and a failure here is a very serious fail ure. Third, the children of the neighborhood are brought to gether in their schools and, in deed, in all their active life. This is essential also; for together is one of the central words of real life. Many a fine man or woman is lost to the world because of shyness aud other forms of ina bility which were really cultivat ed in youth. On the other hand, joy in society is natural to the humau race, which for the pur poses of such society has tongue aud lips and ears. And, to add one more necessity in educatiou, this system gives the great I cbauce for health. .Not to go farther, where we have so little space, a large life, a life con-1 stantly enlarging, a social life and a strong aud happy life are well-nigh insured in such u sys-! tern. Let us compare this with what is now almost a system; which takes possession of that sixth part of the children which havej been aduded to. Suppose a lit-' tie girl eight years old is takeu ! into a shirt factory, where she is to spend ten hours a day, or per haps eleven or twelve. Sunday j is the only day, you might say, j when she can look up at the sky or look around on Hod's world. It is the only day in which for j any purpose worth considering Bbe can ruu and play and exer cise the bands and feet and arms and legs with which she was born. The chances are against! ber in the matter of using her tongue or her ears The rule of the workshop probably forbids her talking or listeniug except \ to the instructions for the daily work. And it is hardly an even chance whether she knows her father and mother and her big brothers and sisters by sight. Anything which you aud I would call home ie( (roue. t ?r tMke the boy of eight or ten , or twelve years, who in net to work iu 'he factory. There are a irreut many days in the year wneu he must be up and report j at the mill before daylight. Sup pose no law forbide child laboi; [ that mill may run twelve or more houre out of the twenty four. Now look in your alma nac and see how many days there are when there are not ten houre between eunriee and 1 Minuet. Ail tboee daye the little fellow muet go iu the dark and come back iu the dark to the mill. He must be in the mill as eoon ae the powerieturn ed on. If he ie not there he loeee the day's work, and lie loeee the day's wages, very likely. 1 can not say precisely what he will do in the mill. I'erhape hie busi neee ie to "carry waste." That ie, he-has to sweep up the waste from the cotton which hae re fused to be spun, to fill great baskets on wheels with it, and wheel those baskets from room | to room till he comes to the dumping-room. There he emp ties the basket, and then he goes hack to the place he started from He does this for ten hours of the day, or for eleven hoursor for twelve hours, as may be di rected by the laws of the State in which he lives. if you want to see how such mill children look when they are at their work, or after it, Hud the Woman's Home Companion and examine the pictures which we have printed for you there Now, compare this girl in the shirt-room, or the boy and girl in the factory, with your own boy and girl of any age between seveu and tifteeu. In the first place, neither in the shirt-room or in thp factory has boy or girl any chance for life in the open i air. If their fathers or mothers j mean to have them work in the i mill or in the shop, they live as near the mill or the shop as they cau. True, the mill is not a I prison, but for the work hours it is very nearly a prison. The children cannot talk to each other, they cannot look out of the windows, they eanuot stop while the machinery is wording. This means that they have not the fun and joy which children ought to have in the beautiful world which the good God has made for them. Of this imprisonmentyou must let me speak very seriously, for it means something which ought to come very close to the hearts of every father and mother who reads these lines, it is not true that Nahum is any nearer to God when be takes down the bars to let the cattle into the pasture, or when he puts them up again, or when he climbs a tree to see if the wild cherries are ripe,or when i he throws a stone into the chest-1 nut tree to make the burs fall He is no nearer to God than; Hosea is, who is for ten hours of j that same day wheeling cottou j waste in the mill. No! Hut Nahum sees God a hundred times, aud hears what | he has to say a hundred times, while he drives the rows to past ure aud takes down the bars and climbs the cherry tree or breaks open the chestnut burs, for once , when the poor Micah in the midst ( of the clatter and dust aud smell of the factory sees him or hears him ?' What you and I can do about!1 it is this: . ^ U e can re -oiiect what we were }' when we were eight and nine aud ' tm and eleven aud twelve years u old. We can a*k ourselves whether] ( it would have been a good thing { \ for us to be shut up in the facto- J r] r.v or a sewing-room three hun- j y Ured and six days everv year at, that time ot life Kvery one of us knows that it y would have been a bad thing. First?Those are the growing ^earsol life. You and I, well, j ' perhaps we were four inches tall- 1 er eveiv year than we were the ] ,>ear before. We did not earuji any wages?no! Hut we were!* growing up strong and well be-, 1 cause we could try ourselves iu c all sorts of lite. We bad good exercise. We bad as much to eat , oi what was good for us to eat, , aud we were happy. I ^ecoud?We recollect again , that we were a great deal with f our fathers aud mothers aud , brothers and sisters. We knew , what the word home was, and j that home is the dearest place in , this world. Third?We do not talk about t it a great deal, for it is too sa cred a thing to be lightly talked about, but some of us, perhap* all of us, found out that God is our loving father; that He is very ] near to us aud we are very near to Him. We would not lote the memories and the heip of what < He has told us and we have told | Him for anything which you can i offer us. | Fourth?Most of us came out, i wheu we were sixteen years old, j strong and well, ready to take ] part with the best men and wo- ' men in the world, in the very best work of the world. ' 1 think myself that that would j be a wise Nation or a wise tstate < which would make such laws that j people snail not make money out < of their children before they are ' sixteen years old. 1 think it i would be a good thing to devote ! those sixteen years wholly to the j education of the children, to | making them better men and J , women. Let boy aud girl helph in the home. The more work j | they do there the better. But let them be the companions of j ] fathers or mothers as much as J , possible until they are sixteeu. j j But here is oue of the cases where i 1 cannot have my own way. The 1 custom is so general which per- ! mits fathers aud mothers to | "hire out" their children as the ! phrase is, that you and I cannot make a law that children shall not earn wages before they are' sixteen. What can we do? We can say that they shall not be confined in factories or workshops, ex- j cepting for very limited hours, before they are fourteen. We can say, until a boy or girl is sixteeu they shall have the priv- j i liege of going to school at least j " half the year. In some cases we | can say that one set of children at work shall work in the morn ing aud another set shall take j t their places in the afternoon - Tnis is a practicable method of , legislation which has not yet t been applied. But the sooner it i J ?. ? I _ ii' ? in appueu iue uener. oecan in sist ou a very careful and rigid inspection of factories and work shops by public officers who are iu nowise precuniaril.v interested in the establishments which they examine. Such examinations ' should be possible at any hour v of any day, and the publicity 1 given to the results should be 1 such as should make it certain that factory or workshop visited H shall be kept neat and sweet aud cleau?a tit place for the best prince or princess iu the land to work iu. ^ I do not think that there is one woman out of a million women who will read about the progress of child labor reform in the Wo-. man's Home Companion who does not know bow she can act, whether on some particular workshop in the town she lives, I or in giving information in some club or circle to which she be longs, or in cultivating through the press such information as Companion with every month; will give her?or by direct con versation or correspondence with . some member of the Legislature. ' This country is governed, and ought to be governed, by puhli? opinion. And you and 1, dear reader, must do our share to keep the public opinion good aud just. We have several good second j hand Buggies for sale cheap. ' The Ellington Buggy Co. I I C r ? I Dr. Edward Everrtt Hale, Chaplain of the United States Senate, who mala* a *110108 appeal in tha Woman'* Home Companion (of a mother*' fight against Child Labor From Overshot. Thanksirivirij; passed almost mobserved in tins community id the 2!Jth. A protracted lliee'llu: IS ilHD>r arried c l?y t*e Frewill Hap. ists at N w Z aland Phurch. V It strieltland and a Mr. It lav nek ap?- ooinc rh? preaching Phere Iimvm i ei>n no accessions ip to r hi- ? iui-. Our public -c i nil at Sindv irove under the mann;erneiit of jr. J. H l.a >tf->oij is iii1 ? viasr id aicwlv, an i we are h ipinjf f >r ;ood require Hoy killing will he on in all its ;lory for the next tew days in his ueitrhh irtjo ??! Oil Capt. It Hood lias a lot of fine ones hat be exp-cts t" slaughter to uorrow Old in in < din Jackson and Jr. Ueddiii Carr, hotti of Samp* od Pouuty and highly respected n their coiuinu'iiiies, died a day ir so a no at a ri|ie old ayre. We were verv much saddened o see an account of the death of it|r e-.teeuieil tfiend. I);1, li L> iarper. of Kinston. N. C. I'r. larper and the writer were close r ends hi vuijiiir manhood and ip to th-time He left this corn uunitv for tne active duties of ife H ? din in it live in vain, hut or the f;uod ne luiKDtilohumaii ty. Peace to his ashes is the ribute we pay to his memory. Dec. 2nd. W. N. R. FACTS IN NATURE. Rot Only Do We Get Inspiration Fran Nature, But Health as Well. For people who are run-down and nerv >us, who suffer from indigestion or dys pepsia, headache, biliousness, or torpid Iyer, coated tongue with bitter taste in ihc morning and poor appetite, it be somes necessary to turn to some tonic or itrengthener which will assist Nature md help them to get on their feet and put the body into Its proper condition. It s becoming more and more apparent that N'attire's most valuable health - giving igeiiis are to be found in forest plants md roots. Nearly forty years ago. Dr. R.V. Pierce, sow consulting physician to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y., discovered that by scientifically attracting and combining certain medici jal principles from native roots, taken from our American forests, he could pro line a medicine which was marvelously sllicient in curing cases of blood disorder md liver and stomach trouble as well as many other chronic, or lingering ail ments. This concentrated extract of Nature's vitality lie named "Golden Med ical Discovery." It purities the blood by putting the stomach and liver into healthy condition, thereby helping the digestion and assimilation of food which teods the blood. Thereby it cures weak stomach, indigestion, torpid liver, or bil iousness, and kindred derangements. If you have coated tongue, with bitter or bad taste in the morning, frequent headaches, feel weak, easily tired, stitches or pain in side, back gives out easily and aches, belching of gas, constipation, or Irregular bowels, feel dashes 01 heat al ternating with chilly sensations or kin Ired symptoms, they point to derange ment of your stomach, liver and kidneys, which the "Golden Medical Discovery" will correct more speedily and perma nently than any other known agent. Con talns no alcohol or habit-forming drugs. All its Ingredients printed in plain Eng lish on wrapper. The sole motive for substitution is to permit the dealer to make a little more profit, lie gains; you lose. Accept no sub stitute for "Golden Medical Discovery." Constipation causes and aggravates many serious diseases. It Is thoroughly cured by Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. One a laxative; two or three are cathartic. If you wish to buy fine trim ned hats at lit ing pi*ices go to ifelvington's Millinery Store. NOTICE! Taken up at my house, one jlack boar with blaze face; mark iwallow fork in each ear. Own sr can trot him by paying for his notice and feed. C V. Bailey, K. 1. Selma. N. C. NOTICE! On account of a miller we will lave to stop our coru and Hour nill on Swift Creek. Would be ?ery plad to have some compe >eteut man apply. We want a niller for certain part of toll. iVill notify the public when we tart up apain. ? Respectfully, A. M. ?& P. W. Barber. iA/ANTED! I want to buy Cattle, Pork, Hides.and Country Produce. I run a FIRST CLASS MARKET and deal in Fresh Fish, Beef, Pork, and other Fresh Meats 1 keep Fancy Gro ceries also. Restaurant in Connection and meals served at all how- I ask vour patron ape. Give me a call. Z. B. Stewart, BENSON, N. C. awCTtTr"* , _ SDB3S!__| CASTORlAj AVefie table Prcparationfor As- ft slmilatingtheFoodandRegula- K ling the S tomonhs andBowelscf ?i Promote a Di^eslion,Cheerful- I ness and RcsLContains neither IB Opium .Morphine nor Mineral. ? Not Narcotic. I) Kn^ufOU iySAMlZLH7UOJi k J\unpkiM Smd" '}?. Ax.Smnm * \ Ko<A*lL, SJn - I Amj* J0*d ? I 4v ( | WmmSt d - 1 M ) 'f! Apcrfeet Remedy forConslipa- Jfe tion. Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea, ? Worms Convulsions,Feverish- ? uess and Loss OF SLEEP. |f Tac Simile Signature of || NEW YORK. fl | i iaact copy or whaepeb. ^ CUSTOM For Infants acd Children. 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Ladies Shoes from $1.25 to $3.00 per pair. Men's Shoes from $1.25 to $4 50 per pair. Boys Suits from $1.50 to $4.50. Men's Suits from $4.00 to $11.00. Umbrellas at all prices. Ladies Shawls to suit all the ladies. A full line of Jewelry. Ladies Rings from 25c to $3.00. ? Special - Sales - Every - Friday. I thought of leaving Clayton some time ago but my customers and friends urged me to stay and I have decided to do so. I shall be here regularly now. Come to see me. It costs you nothing to look. 1 am satisfied with a small profit. JOSEPH M1LAD, CLAYTON, N. C. I
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