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i n . w r s HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN; UNA WED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." VOLUMN XIII. MOCKSVILLE. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY. MAY ?9. 1912. NUMBER 47 Tragedy of the Farmer's "The mic. Progressive Farmer. It seems to be characteristic of some people to judge country life its worst features, and city life by its best. The truth is that the very poor family in the country jives a very great deal better than the very poor family in the city. Any man who has seen something of the conditions surrounding the terement dwellers and the poorer factory workers knows this to be a fact. The city has its big bankers and big manufacturers, but so has the country its big plantation own ers and ranchmen. The poor we have always with us, both in town and country, but rural suffeiing uever reaches so acute a point ss urban suffering. It is our conviction, therefore, that the magazines have seriously over drawn their pictures of "the tragedy of the farmer's wife." Cer tainly the writer does not recognize these haggard, despairing, and mistreated women as typical of the farmers' wives he has known, who were of his kindred, and among whom he was reared. These farm women whom he knew, and loved and honored, these folk of whom Stevenson wrote: "In the highlands, in the country places, Where the old plain men have rosy faces, And the young fair maidens quiet eyes" they indeed, like the virtuous wo man praised by King Lemuel, ate not the bread of idleness and work ed with their hands, but like her they worked "willingly," and they were, to our mind, far finer types of women and far happier in their loye-inspired toil, hard as it was, thau the idle society woman of the city who wastes her life in a round of meaningless card parties and so cial frivolities, petty jealousies, aid m that extravagent dressing agaiDst which her unpaid mer chants' bills and dressmakers' bills often cry out with Banquo like ic sistence. Away down in their hearts there is not one of these fashionable parasites but feels the emptiness of it all, not one but has a vagne and gnawing consciousness that life was given for some higher purpose-that it was meant to count tor something, as theirs do not. Hence, the "unrest" of which one hears so much, the ennui which vents itself in unwholesome out- Hf!f. breaks and runs distractedly after strange new gods, "the nervous distress which has become univer sal," as an eminent medical au 41 . mority was quoted as saying in The Progressive Farmer a week or two ago, and which he declared threatens the physical stamina and eveu the permanence of our race. The country woman has her hardshipsmore of them than she ought to have, as we shall point afc later but it should not be for gotten that the normal and whole onie aspirations of a woman's heart are more atune with the ideals of the country than with those oi our tashion-mad cities. It the country woman works hard, it is for those fehe loves. Her heart makes music that strengthens her hands. No Uncaring boss watches her all day, "iduuing oeside some counter or some factory machine while she wears her life out at tasks done bn- h forthe money that they k)rio. ne clothes she sews on are to be worn by her own rosy cheeked boys and girls, not sold for so much silver to men and women who wil not even know of her existence knowing that the food she cooks rui. nourish the bodies of those ho; love her, makes it an entirely umerent operation from that would be if love for those it served id not lighten the drudgery. And lf nightfall finds her weary, or sickness or age rob her of strength, there is regard from those in whose service she has spent herself, in stead of the indifference with which ! the business world treats all ma-1 chines, human and mechanical. when their efficiency fails. Such compensations in the life of the armer's wife are rot to be lightly considered. Nevertheless, while protesting as we do against the pathetic carica uies of the country woman, we do wish to urge as strongly as we know hat the average farmer does not yet provide as many of the con veniences and as many labor saving ools for his wife as he uses in his own farm work. Thi3 is a reform we must now bring about. If the farm woman for her part measures up to the! high ideals of industry and faith fulness set forth by King Lemuel, she is also entitled to the reward which that ancient sage ascribes to her: "Her children rise up and call her blessed: her husband also, and he praiseth her ...... Give her of the fruit of her hands.'' Certainly, the husband's praise must be hollow indeed, a mere mockery, if he fails to find expres sion in furnishing the comforts that will lighten her tasks and her heart. "Give her of the fruits of her hands." She has earned joint- y with her husband the property hat the family owns; she is en itled to part of it to buy such helps as she naeds. That these conveniences are not already provided on a great num ber of farms, is partly due, we be- ieve to the fact that these labor- saving appliences for the women on the farm have not been so well tdvertised and exploited as the la bor-saving implements and machin ery used by men on the farm. This is one reason why every State should have institutes for farm women as well as farmers' institutes institutes in which not only do speakers women and men, give in struction in the scientific principles and practical problems involved in housekeeping, cooking, or sanita tion, but where the most improved modern conveniences are exhibited and explained. Meanwhile, however, the women of the farms should themselves be gin agitating for the improved ap pliances they need, and urge their importance upon the men of their households. In everv case, of course, strengra cunsiuereu, there should be an equal dis . i 1 ,3 tribution between husband and wife of the burdens that each ought to bear, and also an equal distribution of the comforts they are able to purchase. In short the housekeeper's work as well as the farmer's can be maae easier and more effective, and it is the duty of the farmer and his wife to wnrt fnirpt.hpr in brincrinff this a- -v VD - c? bout, and thus to relieve country life much unnecessary hardship. Will He Run? Greensboro Pecord. 15ryan has been acting in such a way for the past month to give rise to the belief that he is seeking the nomination for President. Certain ly in all his years in public life he has never been guilty of anything savoring of sharp practice or dou ble dealing. This year he has said things and done things that have pained his friends and his actions are hard to explain. The liichmond Times-Dispatch has this to say about him: Is William Jennings Bryan candidate for the Democratic presi dential nomination! Is he seeking another second consecutive defeat at the hands of the American peo pie? Is he devising a way at once & - . Tin Wilson, Clark, narmuu rirrnnd into a cocked hat ana WrPfifc the standard from tbem for himnelff ill he at the Baltimore convention ilng the present caudi dates over the roues and brinsr he bacon back to the Fairview, Nebraska, for th fourth time! Out in Ohio this week, Harmon is telling the people that the reason of Bryan's aggressive antagonism to him is that the Nebraskan wish es to capture the nomination him self and that he is plavincr safe with Wilson and Clark to that end aqd at the same time is trying to orce out Underwood and Harmon. What assurance is there that Bry an will not permit his name-to go before the Baltimore convention! Who can affirm that Bryan is in reality campaigning for some other person than William Jennings Bryan? Bryan has said that he would not be a candidate. Roosevelt said the same thing, and said it when President of the United States, a temptation which Bryan has never been in. Today Roosevelt is the mo9t active, aggressive and vicious aspirant for the presidency that he nation ever knew. Who can say that six weeks from today Bry an will not be running down the Democratic nomination as relent- essly as Rooseveit i9 chasing the Republican nomination? What does the Bryan campaign against Harmon mean except that Bryan aspires to be the candidate! What does the Bryan campaign against Underwood mean except that Bryan hopes to be the candi date! What other construction can reasonably be placed upon Bryan's clever efforts to play Clark against Wilson and Wilson against Clark! What secret reason is there for Bryan's long and bitter war on Harmon? What has Harmon done If he is unfit to be the Democratic nominee, in Bryanrs opinion, why does not Bryan state his reasons or that opinion! The Nebraskan still enjoys a great degree of the confidence of the Democrats of the country, but he shoots far wide of the mark, if he thinks his "oh, just because" will prevent the nomination of Harmon. The un forgivable sin of Underwood is that he dared to differ with Bryan on a national question, although the Democrats of the Congress agreed with Underwood's position. The present drift of the Demo cratic current is not toward the shore of success. Clark leads the race, and yet his nomination by the Democrats in this hour of their supreme opportunity t o regain . dominance would be suicidal. Even Bryan would be a better candidate than Clark, but wisdom bars both. Bryan has three times appealed to the judgment of the people and three times has been defeated by them; Champ Clark has been laughed at all over the country. The Democratic party will have nobody but itself to blame if it flies in the face of the recorded verdicts of the country and gets defeated. Seems that his hat is in the ring but it may be kicked out. He can hardly secure the nomination if he makes the attempt, but should he land, who believes he could be elected! He has run until his can didacy is a joke. Suppose Roose velt should be the choice ot tne Republican party, could Bryan de feat him! Hardly. Mr. Bryan, .Again. Mr. Bryan persists in charging Mr. Underwood 4 wth - Deing ine candidate of Wall Street for Presi dent, and tuggests that "those who are urging Underwood as a South ern man ought to know that it will hurt the South to have its candi date defeated as he will be it he is a Wall Street man." "Why not ask Wall Streetf' says Mr. Bryan. Why noj, rather, ask Mr. Under wood! I He has said that he is not and nobodv believes that he is. that is to say, nobody who would eive Mr, Underwood a square deal. There are many available can T didates in the South," says Mr. Bryan, "Hoke Smith, Ollie James and Senator Culberson, for instance W hy not one of thesel" Why not any one of a thousand other equal ly $ood men in the South! Ollie James would not have the nomi nation if he could get it, Hoke Smith is impossible and Senator Culberson could not get it when be was spoken of for President in 19C8 when Mr. Bryan thought that he could get it himself. Why not Bryan! Wall Street would doubt -lessj welcome him and be willing to put up a good deal of money to b'oot his candidacy. Why doesn't Mr.; Bryan give the party a chance! Hasn't he had enough? Miser Aids Children. Vienna's charitable institutions are to be increased bv a new chil dren's hospital, bequeathed by Jo aef Spitzer, who died recently at the age of 88 years. His fortune was accumulated by a life of hard work, accompanied by the severest self-privation. " Spitzer was for many years head cashier of a large flour milling con cern in Austria. He seems to have been born thrifty, for at a very early age he gave up taking sugar id his coffee, and persuaded his parents to give him the few pen nies saved in this way to put in his savings bank. And as he be gan, so he continued throughout his long life contenting himself with the barest necessities. Every penDy he could save went into the bank. For many years he lived in a small, miserable room in a poor street in the suburbs of Vienna. The room had neither stove nor light. To keep warm when he was not at business Spitzberger visited the museums and art gal leries, and to save expense of light he went to bed when it grew dark. He mended his own clothes and his whole wardrobe consisted of one shirt. During his last years he lived literally on dry bread, and tea made fresh only once a wtek. He drank this decoction without sugar Spitzberger was a frequent vis itor on the bourse, and made a good deal of money in lucky specu lations. He was interested in pu blic affairs, bat never boaght a newspaper. Vienna Dispatch, May 10. I Democratic Harmony. Woodrow Wilson's campaign manager. Mr. McCombs, has an nounced that if Champ Clark re ceives the democratic nomination for the presidency, he, along with thousands of other democrats will bolt the ticket and support the re puoiican nominee, jur. jjrvan, in a speech last week in Ohio public ly charged that Gov. Harmon's supporters and Wall Street friends in 1908 tried to buy delegates who had been instructed for him (Bry an) to vote for Harmon. Mr, Bry an challenged Harmon to deny the charge in writing. These are only two samples of present democratic harmony. Lincoln Times. An eastern clergyman declares that God sank the Titantic in order to get rid of John Jacob A6tor. 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