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Page Fourteen THE CAROLINA UNION FARMER [Thursday, November 14, 1912. WOMAN’S MISSION. Woman’s mission lies in the in struction and the elevation of man kind. When one reflects what might have been accomplished had but one- half the effort bent upon securing the elective franchise to women been expended in revealing to them their true mission, one is ready to exclaim against the blindness that has pre vented such aspirants from seeing the magniflcent fleld of their legitimate labor, stretching as it does before them into eternity. What do women want with votes when they hold the scepter of influ ence with which they can control even votes, if they wield it aright? It is by woman that nature writes indellible lessons on the hearts of man—not only when she Alls the sphere of wife, mother, sister, teach er, friend—but in every State of life it is woman who has it in her power to influence for good or for evil the man with whim she is thrown. The Sphere of Her Influence. The silent influence of example in her home does much; the precepts that flow from her lips clothe them selves with power because of her ex ample; then what does she want with the elective franchise? What would she gain by it? Absolutely noth ing, but much would be lost. The evils under which we are now suffer ing would be intensifled four-fold. It is the ignorant and the depraved among men who too often crowd away from the polls the intelligent and the high-minded. Would women of no education and no character stay away to make room for women of cultivated minds and pure hearts? To improve our legislation we stand in need of the votes of the educated classes, not of the illiterate, and yet it is votes of the latter class that would be increased in number by wo man suffrage. The Shadow for the Substance. Women are neither warriors, mag istrates nor legislators. They form one-half of the human race which, on account of its very weakness, has escaped the corruptions of power and of our glory. Oh, let them cease to regret that they have no share in those fatal passions, let them leave to us legislation, the political arena, war! Were they to partake of our fury, would there be no earth to appease it? Herein lies their empire, here woman’s mission reveals itself. In their souls much more than in the halls of legislators repose the futurity of the world and the des tinies of the human race. Every wo man has a share in this work; let her see that it is done to the best of her ability. If a man’s pen is mightier than his sword so also is a woman’s pen mightier than her vote. If her do mestic avocations do not engross all her time and she has the gift of the pen, she can use it, though ever so feebly, in behalf of some one of the great educational movements of the day. This is unquestionably the age of social reform, and may it be spok en of by a future generation as one of educational reform in which women learned that their strength lies, not in the ballot-box, but in their influ ence as daughters, sisters, wives, mothers, friends, teachers, and writ ers. The weakest woman, by concen trating her powers and using them steadily on a single subject, can ac complish something. “Work for some good, be it ever so lowly. La bor; all labor is noble and holy,’’ and “i ndue time you shall reap, if you faint not.’’ No good seed ever dies. When the hand that has plant ed it is cold in death, the fruit will ripen for an immortal harvest. Talents and Rcspon.sihilities. According to the talents Intrusted to our care is the weight of our re sponsibility. As yet few are those from whose sight the scales have fallen, so that they are able to dis cern that woman’s true fleld of labor lies all around her—not at a distance from her, but where providence has placed her. The future destiny of a child is al ways the work of its mother. What is a child to the preceptor? It is an ignorant being to be instructed. What is the child to the mother? It is a soul which requires to be form ed. Good teachers make good schol ars, but it is only mothers that form men. This constitutes all the differ ence of their missions. We know that good statesmen are needed to regulate our laws and make new ones which will protect the rights and ameliorate the wrongs of woman, but it is woman’s lofty privilege to mold and form the minds of statesmen. Let her never forget that, although armies are required to conquer nations, it is the diffusion of knowledge and morality that civil izes and saves them.—Selected. A HUMORIST’S VIEW OP IOWA. George Fitch, the well-known writ er of humorous Action, sizes up Iowa (in the Chicago Record-Herald) as follows: “Iowa is a large and happy corn fleld, speckled with Carnegie libraries and half-ton hogs, which are ex changed by their owners, when ripe, for automobiles and piano players. The field is bounded on the east and west by the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, but barbed wire is used on the north and south. The State has 2,200,000 people, almost all of whom scan the editorial pages and market reports in the daily papers with the deepest interest. “Iowa has no romance in its story. Its history could not be dramatized, even in a high-brow theatre, with any success. About seventy years ago people began going into Iowa from Illinois to raise crops, and they have been doing it ever since. Iowa leads the world in farm products. Its corn cribs have elastic sides, and the Iowa pig, after he has fed on Iowa corn for a few months, has to be hauled to and from meals on a truck. The tourist who crosses Iowa during mid summer complains of the dense for ests and the early twilight, but he is going through three hundred miles of Iowa crops which are getting their full growjLh. After an Iowa farmer has set out on his porch on hot July evenings and has heard his corn grow for twenty-five years, it is hard to interest him in such piffish music as grand opera produces. “Next to its crop, Iowa is the most famous for its politics. The high tension, four-syllabled brand of pol itics is used throughout the State, and while over a dozen campaigns heated to 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit have been pulled off in the last ten years, they have all been decided without the use of brass knuckles or bribery investigations. There is twice as much politics per cubic yard of conversation in Iowa as there Is in any other State, and the standpat ters and dam-spatters, as the insur gents are called, carry their argu ments into weddings, prayer-meet ings, and funerals. But they asso ciate freely together without hiding their watches, and talk issues in stead of appointments. In conse quence, Iowa produces several states men per thousand politicians, and her Senators are remembered for their mental and not their financial prominence. “Iowa is singularly blessed in its lacks. It has no trusts, no great metropolis, no smart set, no slums, no country estates, and no abandoned farms. It also has no vast increase of population to assimilate and edu cate; in fact. It showed a decrease of CABBAGE PLANTS FOR SALE Give us your orders now for plants as fine as can be grown—strong stocky, vigorous and healthy— To insure the very earliest heading and good prices set as soon as possible before wet freezing weather sets in. If set deep our plants will stand the severest cold and freezing with out injury. 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Box 24 HANCOCK INOCULATUN CO., SALEM, VA. :J population by the last census, and it talks of giving medals to its vigilant police force because of this fact. “Iowa’s people wear last year’s fashions quite extensively, but read , this year’s books and originate next | year’s political improvements. The Iowa man can be readily distinguish ed by his placid brow, his 9 o’clock | bed time, and his careless habit of paying cash for everything he buys.” j PURE B»E» 0.1. C. PIGS 50 to 60 pounds each 8 to 10 weeks old at $5 each N 21 W. M. WATKINS, Saxe, Va. ECZEMA WELL-KNOWN SEPARATOR MEN LEAVE SHARPLES FOR EM PIRE. On October 31st, last, a consider able number of well-known officers and employees of the Sharpies Sepa rator Company left the employ of that concern and joined the Empire Cream Separator Company of Bloom- | field, N. J. Almost without exception the individual members of this body ; of men, trained in the cream separa- j tor business, now occupy with the ! Empire concern the same position formerly held with the Sharpies Com pany. The following gentlemen, widely known to farmers, dairymen and lo cal dealers throughout the country, are among those who made the change: J. H. Colville, General Manager. J. E. Stowell, Manager of the Chi cago Office. J. B. Decker, Credit Manager of the Chicago Office. N. H. Spear, Advertising Manager. L. N. Somes, Manager of the Dal las, Texas, Office. E. H. Fralick, Manager of the Port land, Oregon, Office. Z. L. Wright, Southern Sales Man ager. F. W. Knight, Eastern Trade Man ager. H. E. McWhinney, Assistant Man ager of the Chicago Office and Sales Manager for Kansas, Nebraska, Colo rado, and Wyoming. Geo. P. Buttel, Sales Manager for Minnesota, Montana, North and South Dakota. E. S. Van Norwick, Sales Manager for Iowa and Wisconsin. H. L. Smith, Sales Manager for Indiana and Michigan. E. M. Zentmeyer, Sales Manager for Illinois and Missouri. 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If you are disgusted and discouraged, I dare you to give me a chance to prove my claims. By writing me to-day you will en joy more real comfort than you had ever thought this world holds for you. Just try It, and you will see X am telling you the truth. Dr. J. £. Cannaday, 1837 Park Square, Sedalia, Mo. References: Third National Bank, Sedalia, Mo. Could you do a better act than to send this ..notice to some ooor sufferer of Eczema?.. WANTED FOR 1913 Good Tenant or Renter, with labor in his family to work a good two-horse crop. Good house and garden. Good land and tools. W. M. WATKINS, N 21 Saxe, Va. FEAXHER F^REE! PILLOWS With every order for one of our unequalled 3-lb. Feather Beds at the ridiculously law price of gto.uo we laclude a 6-lh. pair of Feather HUows FREE! Freight prepaid on all. Best Ticking. New Feath ers. Satisfaction guaranteed. Send cash with order. Fine proposition for AGENTS. TURNER « CORNWELL. Dept 19, Chsrlotle, N. C. Reference: Commercial National Bank. 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