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fulfil if wyAy Ay e 'HERE SHALL THE PRESSE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN. liNAwrn BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." VOLUMN XIV. MOCKSVILLE. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 2. 1912. NUMBER 13 I I THE GASH ING FROM i Wirt al llitiil to Fl int! Roosevelt Campaign BE FACTORY GOIIDITIOIIS. New Ycrk State Investigating Commit tee Found Pale, Worn Women Work ing In Tvvine Manufacturing Concern Owned by the International Harves ter Company. Awful conditions have been found by the state factory invegating com mittee of New York in tt mills of the Osborne ine company, No. 3, at Au burn. N. J , owned by the Interna tional Harvester company, of which George W. Perkins, chief financial backer cf Theodore Roosevelt In his Bciieme to ruin the Republican party. Is a director. "The appearance of the women workers in tLIs plant," said a member of the committee, ."was very dis heartening. They were worn and pale and tbcir clothes, faces and hands were covered with oil and hemp cloth. Many of these women, so called, are only children iu age and they have to lug huge piles of hemp, weighing 150 pounds each, across the floor, the load in some cases being bigger than the women themselves. In the spin ling room, where women are employed alone, to the exclusion of men, who would have to receive higher wages, the clatter cf machinery Is so fright ful that a voice below a shriek cannot be heard. The rooms are dark, though for no necessary cause, and no at tempt is iu;ide to remove the dust, which is kept In constant motion by the line shaftings despite the require ments of the law. This dust is breathed continuously by the women, many of whom complaip of chronic toughs ami colds. The dust and dirt are so thick upon the clothes of the girls that at the noon hour which in many cases consists of but a few minutes and at the close of the day's Ovnlehfs labor, the erirls have to eep each other clean with brooms." It Is further stated that the custom of working the women all night' is permanent, married women beln? se lected for night work, ' their hours being from sundown until 650 o'clock to the morning. Of 400 women em ployed In the mills, 200 work all night When George W. Perkins was asked by a New York Times reporter for an explanation of the conditions In an establishment of which he Is one of the directors, he made, in part, the fol lowing remarkable reply: "This night fork has been rendered necessary largely because of the government's perfectly unreasonable attitude toward large corporations, which has made it Impossible for managers of large con cerns to know whether they were on foot or horseback, whether they could expand their plans to keep up with Increasing demands or not" The late Mark Twain in. his brightest foments never uttered anything more grimly humorous than the foregoing explanation by George W. Perkins of t the company of which he is a di rector is working women all night ttnder the frightful conditions disclos ed by the New York state factory in vestigating committee. Meantime it ought to be of Interest to millions of Republicans throughout e United States to know where the mney comes from to finance Theo !0rf Roosevelt In his campaign of rule or ruin." Th Wilson Fall -Frost. I he free trade Evening-Post publlsh :s a ,ot of figures to show what would PPen if all the states voted the same s Vermont in November. A two-and-three-makes-flve " school er could tell the free trade Evening to v at lf a11 the states should vote a JNovember the same way Vermont "J voted Taft would have the whole tectoral college, t came early, but it came with a Z n Uthe W1Ison fal1 frost- Bryan Parker were both elected In An- and buried under a snowstorm of ti i in November. and Wilson la '"Ting to the same snow pile. Tke Siamese Twins. Jhe Charlotte Observer's "side Ui man clips from the Carolina rnl L an interesting story Tie 0me times one comes across a home-gpun history the conventional article J&e case with the story of that This Chang virr g' tbe Siamese twins as xr. Carolina Pythian ,by t J raes G- Bair Months this summer in spent Surry , wuere the twins grew up WHERE IS COM i . T - uiaiiieu, me iacts as dag up by Major Baird are arranor ed in readable shape. The twins were born in Siam in 1811 and on their travels in tbis country with Old John Robinson's circus, reach- it - eu cue town ot Salisbury There a native of Surrey couty 'got stuck' on them and they accepted an in- vuauon to go to his home on the Pish and Ararat rivers, in the county mentioned. Thev were so pleased with the country that they deemed to make it their home. We let the Major tell the rest: Eng invested all his money in negroes and Chang invested his in lands. They were unusually inter esting in every undertaking. But the war took away the slaves, and an equitable division was made of the lands. They built a comfor table home on the left bank of the Fish river, which they occupied until some time just prior to the Civil war, when Chang conceived the idea of getting married. They were great hunters, and in their wanderings, they had gone over into Wilkes where Chang saw the girl for whom he had been longing. He served notice on Eng of his in tention and gave the command to come and let us visit the home of the Yates There was nothing for Eng to do but to obey. Chang's story of love fell upon a listening ear, and in due time a union was formed between him and Miss Yates, The household was now made to number three. A year passed and Eng began to think. The smiles that played up on the face of Chang were too much for Eng. He too must go and tell his story. The family ot three had doubtless attracted much attention. "Who is to be the wife of Eng?" It did not take Eng long to decide. Another of the Yates girls was left. The good qualities embodied in the one must be inherent in the other. So Eng said to Chang, ''Come, let me go a courting too." How many visits Eng made before he accom plished his purpose, we are Lot tld, but a little thought would suggest that they were not many. For the second time Eng and Chang stood in the Yates home before the parson. The family was tow made four. "But two women, though they be sisters, in one house is one too many. - Another home must be built." A beautiful site was on the other side of the stream. An other home was built there for Eng. The question then came, lHow shall we divide time between these two homesl" -A knotty question, but satisfactorily settled. Every Mondey morning ther j was a shift from the oae to the other rain or shine. Alternate weeks there was a home on the banks of the Fish without Eng and Chang. The pass ing years biought children into those homes. Eng was the father in one, and Chang was the father in the other. How the discipline of the one accorded with the ideas of the other we have not been able to learn. Doubtless each father controlled his own home, for it is known that each had a will of his own. JNine cuuuieu vttuiv mm either home. These have all grown up, and are now living in the bounds of Surry county. Among them are some of the most substan tial n ei of the county. The wife of Chang is still living at the old old homestead, in good Health, with promise of many years. Major Baird learned that the matter of cutting the binding that held them together received con sideration from the best talent of America and Europe. It was the opinion of all physicians consulted that they could not-be cut apart and live. The connection was vital. So they passed through life. They were men of very different temper aments. Each had a will that ne ver failed to asseit "itself. It was a common thing Jbr them to get -into very animated discussions, agree Sinn WOFCk . -J ,1 mi ! ing very frequently to disagree. T-l ' x5iow8 were sometimes passed. A magistrate is still living in the county who had one arrested at the request of the other and tried for assault. A fine was imposed with the result that they went for days without speaking. The blood of the foreigners is distinct in every one of the chil dren. Black hair, dark eyes, brown complexion, typical ot their Eas tern birth. They lived to rather an old age. They died in the year 1874. One was often sick without materially affecting the other. They were distinct personalities. Each had his own favorite diet. Both enjoyed comparatively good health Occasions for a doctor was rare. The immediete cause of death is not stated. They retired early as was their habit. . Before the clear dawn of day Eng awoke and found Chang dead. A doctor from Mount Airy was, summoned in all possible haste. When he came he found the blood from the dead man bad coursed its way into the living one. Death was inevitable. So it was decided not to separate them. "Let them die as they have lived join ed together." Their bodies were taken to Philadelphia, but were afterwards recovered by one of the sons and brought back to Surry where thev are buried. Coughs, Colds, Watery Eyes Cured In a Day by taking Cheeneys Expectorant also cures consumption, whooping cough, droop- pings from the nose, and throat. Bronchitis and all throat and lung troubles. Cheeneys Expectorent a liquid preparation, tested for 50 years. Thousands of cures made where ail else failed. Try it. Safe, sure and satisfactory. Druggists 25c and 50c. A NEW KIND OF POLITICS. That is Not Politics at all, but that will be the Economic Regeneration of the South. An inquisitive subscriber asked Agricultural Editor Nivan of At- Jauta the question: "What are your politics?"' Orange Judd Sou- hern Farming frankly replies in words that should make every far mer in this state sit up and take notice: 1. To make three bales of cot ton grow, where one grows now, 2. To make forage crops, grass es and pasture five times as good and 10 times as profitable as at present. 3. To make tobacco, fruits, ve getables and other crops better in quantity, quality and. profit. , 4. - sTo finable the South to make more and better corn, wheat, oats and other grain. 5. To proniote improved live' stock until the South exports to the rest of the United States and to foreign countries a vast surplus of meats, butter, cheese, eggs, and manufactures therefrom. 6. To reform distribution, banking and currency,so as to make universal more economic methods of marketing the products of Sou thern farms and factories, forests and mines, and in supplying our people's consuming needs. 7. To wisely utilize the South's natural resources so that they yield handsome profits at present and yet be conserved for future gener ations. 8. To improve the South's high ways and railroads, rivers and har bors, until they are adequate to the needs of a mighty people. - 9. To improve onr schools, na til every young person in couutry or town may be trained in 'efficien cy, health and character and im bued with that wisdom which is knowledge and the capacity to use it. 10. To link more closely school and home, farm and factory, so that the one may more benefit the other. 11. To aid, -in these and other ways, the South to have fourfold its present population, each of whom shall enjoy "life, liberty and the pursuit cf happiness!" . 1 12. Thus to make for a Greater Nation through a Great South. This is not needed. Each plank speaks for itself. But you won't find, any of our planks in the plat form of any political party. Yet how much more important is the Southern Farming's platform Just think a bit, and you will see how true is our statemont. For air the candidates for office might mi raciously disappear, congress and legislatures might not meet for a couple of years, yet the United States and the world would go right along with scarcely a ripple. But let Southern farmers for a single season fail to produce a surplus, or to make a cotton crop, and the eco nomic fabric of the whole Occident would be upset! Soil and seas, mine and forest, support the world. Better farming means better living and better times for all and this means, also, that people shall l4get into gear with nature," or in tune with the Infijite, and enjoy the harmony of body, mind and soul that is the realest thing in this life. So we reckon pretty much all our folks down here will say amen to Southern Farming's platform. Now let's all pitch in to work it out, for god helps those who help themselves! "SPEAK OUT! SPEAK OUT! it Democratic Stomachs Revolt Against ; Wilson -Marshall Mush. ."Speak out! Speak out!" Is the al most desperate cry of the New York World, the newspaper chiefly re sponsible for the nomination of Wood-, row Wilson In 1912, as it was for the nomination of Alton B. Parker in 1904. , Day after day, it seems, the World has been waiting with ears to the windward for some point, some virile, vital expression from Its latest presidential jack out of the bor on questions of the hour, some solid positive utterance by the candidate, which it could grab and lay about with as a campaign shillela. It haa waited in vain. Rounde periods of dreary drivel, pedagogical . common places that might have come out of a third reader and which had about as much relation to Issues of the cam paign as "It is a sin to steal a pin" has to Metropolitan opera, have been fed to curious crowds and to editors waiting with whetted pens for red hot meteors of inspiration. Disappointment and disgust are not confined to the World office. "We asked you for bread and you gave us a stone" Is paraphrased In Democratic sentiment by "We asked you for meat and you gave us mush." Nause ated with Wilson they turned to Mar shall only to find him as aperient of vacuous platitudes as his coadjutor. It's a hopeless appeal. As well try to seize the elusive tail of a greased pig at a county fair as expect to get anything definite out of Wilson. He was definite enough when he said in his "History of the American Peo ple" that "the Chinese are more to be desired as workmen, if not as citizens," than "the coarse crew crowding In at eastern ports" that is, immigrants from Europe. He was definite enough In saying in the same book that con gress had "dealt very harshly" in passing the law excluding Chinese from the United States. He was defi nite enough In denouncing immigrants from Poland, Hungary and Italy. Evidently Wilson can speak out lf he wants to, and the Inference is that he is afraid to. On the Issue of a navy powerful enough to defend the interests and uphold the honor of the United States he Is silent for fear of offending the Democratic majority in congress opposed to strengthening the uavy. On the tariff he is, to quote an old comparison, "neither a man, nor a mouse, nor a long tailed rat" but more like one of those ancient Egyp tian monstrosities carved on the mum my cases, with heads looking contrari wise. On one point he is definite he wants to be president, and he doesn't care much how he gets there. He is willing to slosh through a sea of bosh to the White Hodse, and now that he has the nomination he counts upon the world and the rest of the 'whang doodles to follow, whether they like his style or not Perhaps they will, notwithstanding grimaces of disgust and protesting cries to speak out But the people they want a man for president ' Fortunes In Faces. There's often much truth in the saying "her face is her fortune," but its never said where pimples, skin eruptions, blotcl -es, or other Flemishes disfigure it. Impure blood is back of them all, and shows the need of Dr. King's New Life Pills. They promote' health and beauty. Try them 25 cents at all druggists. THINK OF US WHEN IN NEED OF DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS Or anything kept in a First-Class Drug Store. Our stock is fresh, clean and pure. Our prices areas low as first-class goods can be sold. Your patronage appreciated. MOCKSVILLE DRUG CO.H GEORGE F. TYSON, Manager. 21 A Nudge at Democratic Boasting. Mr. Josephus Daniels, of the publicity department ot the Demo cratic national committee, figures it out that at the rate of gain in Vermont "Wilson and Marshall will carry practically every state in the Union in November." But no such ratio of gain is going to be maintained. The bottom fell out of Maine, only Monday. Claims of that sort will be simply laughed at by the country, as they ought to be. Charlotte Observer They Make You Feel Good. The pleasant purgative effect produced by Chamberlain's Tablets and the healthy j condition cf body and mind -which thty create make one feel joyful. For sale by all dealers. Delivery for Smaller Cities. Washington, Sept. 17. Post master General Hitchcock today announced that he was preparing to establish limited free delivery service for post offices of the second and third class. The experiment will effect nearly thirty n.illioh people, and is in accordance with an appropriation of $100,000 made by Congress for experimental free delivery in small communities. ' Saves Leg of Boy. "It seemed that my 14-year old boy would hAve to lose his leg, on account of an ugly ulcer, caused by a bad bruise," wrote D. F. Howard, Aquone, N. C. "All remedies and doctors treatment failed till we tried Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and cur ed him with one box." Cures burns, boils skin eruptions, piles. 25c at all druggists. "Remember, my son, that beau ty is only skin deep" warned the sage. "That's deep enough for me," replied the young man. "I'm no cannibal." Cincinnati Enquirer. Is This You? What is a home without a pa per!" A home without a news paper is no home at allr It is a kind of dreary den a rendezvous of bedbugs and fleas, where the in habitants live in blLsful ignorance of what the world is doing. It is inhabited by a class who do not know who is president or what he is president of who never find out that a thing has happened until long after everyone else has forgot tea it. The children grow up in rags and dirt, while the wife gen erally finds consolation in darning socks and lugging a pipe loaded with long, grcea tobacco and the man generally lives because he can't die aiid he is to lazy to kill himself. He goes out on electioa days, and does not know who he is voting for, but just takes the tick- e b- aring the name his great great grandfather voted for. Ex. .". ' i . , CASTOBfA For Infants and Children. . The Kind You Haie Always Bongfcf Signature of Hard Worked. "I think I will take my phono graph along when I take my vaca tion," said Mr. Homely. "That's a good idea," assented Mr. Nextdoor. "It certainly needs a vacation." Cincinnati Enquirer. A Log on the Track of the fast express means serious trouble ahead if hot removed, so does loss of ap petite. It means lack of vitality, loss of strength and nerve weakness. If appetite fails, take Electric Bitters quickly to over come the cause by toning up the stomach and curing the indigestion. Michael Hes sheimer of Lincoln, Neb., had been sick over three years, but six bottles of Elec tric Bitters put him right on his feet again. They have helped thousands. They give pure blood, strong nerves, good digestion. Only 50 cents at all druggists. The new paper money which the Treasury Department is planning to print will have the face of Geo. Washington on thel bill, Thomas Jefferson on the $2 bills, that of Abraham Lincoln on the $5 bills, G rover Cleveland's portrait on the $10 bills. Andrew Jackson's iaco adorn the $20 bills. Franklin's the $100 bill?, and the face of Alexan der Hamiltou the $1,000 bills. - Very tew editors will get ac quainted with any of the portraits above that of Geo. Washington. Ex. Pistols and Cigarettes. It is the violation of the law for a man or child to carry a pistol u bout with him, but it is not a vio lation for a man to sell him a pis tol. That is one queer case. But the case against cigarettes is queer er. It is a violation of the law lor a dealer to sell cigarettes to minors but it is not against the law for minors to smoke them. In the first case the dealer helps to create law breakers by displaying in his win dows firearms which the child or man is prohibited from carrying around with him. In the second case, it is the purchaser that helps to create law breakers by being permitted to buy with impunity what the storekeeper cannot sell without violating the law. Do you know that it is not unu sual for boys twelve aud.fourle2n years of age to carry pistols to school? And of course 3ou know that boys of this age can buy cigar ettes. Iu every transaction, if it i wroDg for one party to enter into it, it should be wrong for both par ties. Xorth Carolina Education. Saved By His Wife. She's a wise woman who knows just what to do when her husband's life is In danger, but Mrs. R. J. Flint, Bra in t es. Vt, is of that kind. "She insisted on ray using Dr. King's New Discovery," writes Mr. F. "for a dreadful cough, when I was so weak my friends all thought I had only a short time to live, and it complete'y cured me." 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