The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-02-10

starvation was sad and pi,lful. bu,
death e. her Old age Is not so bad as
the llte OF many OF the young married
women who chained themselves to
brutes and have to 20 10 the courts &c
get unclaimed, but neither courts por
time can hear their broken hearts. Nav
the Lord bless the resolution of those
Atianta women Who are going tc
avenge Sarah Stones death bv provid-
Ing home for aged aud triendless
"omen IL takes "a death like hers to
arouse our humanity. People are no.
by natule unkind, but they are neg
iecNul. they are too busy to huat
for misery and when il is thrust upon
ITEM they are ashamed and amazed
and suddenly star; reform movement.
Jist as the women did when Hoods
Song Of the shirt" came out men
L women wept and went to work.
And there another good WORK those
Atlanta women are consIderinc-tGe
wage CT working omen ! don't be.
lieye much III trade uOIODs Of any sort.
but DO wish thl3 relief association
would mae a book and catalogue The
name and wages Of every woman who
works Tor wages III Atlanta, and let the
employer know that he ia under fire
yes. the ire Of 800 Of the best women in
Atlanta, and that he Will De boyc Cited
n tabooed II no mattreats the hum.
biest girl IN his employ. Most OF these
wage earners are widows or orphans.
and if l were an employer I would ba
afraid to pinch them down to what
they would have to take. The Bible
has many curses upon those who op.
press the widow or the fatherless, and
my religion satisfies me that providence
is their special friend. II am the God
of tie widow aud the fatheriess" is re.
reated many times IL the good book. I
was rurniuating about this because 8
riend asked me last night how it was
hat the woman outlIveu tne men. We
ounteu tea widows IN eight houses,
two men. Every consecutive dwelling
had Il or two widows. Then we
counted fourteen widows ia our little
Presbyterian church and only four
wldowers. We thought that maybe the
widowers had married again, but there
was only one man in the church who
had a second wife. Then We thought
that maybe some Of the husbands of all
these widows were killed or died in the
army, but there was not q woman who
was made q widow by the civil war.
Then we let Il minds wander over the
town, and found widows all about.
There were five in five other dwellings
that almost touched each other. Verify,
this Is a good town for women to move
to If they wish to outlive their hus-
bands. But wldowers are more given
to a second marriage than widows, and
they generally choose a spinster-an
old girl who has never been married.
Elderly widows are generally content
with their experience, and don't banker
after another man. Their comfort aad
consolation Is in their children and
grandchildren
But, aside from all these reasons. it
is a fact, and always has been, that
women outlive men in all civilized
countries. Fifty years ago the average
of all males was ~thirty-three years,
and of females 3.years. Longevity has
gradually increased, and the lates.
tables give manhood thirtv-se ven years
and ~womanhood fortv-one y ears. but
the average duration of human Life is
three score years and ten-iust as i,
was ordained by our Maker. More poo
pie live to be old, out no more go be-
yond the mark. 1t is q curious prob
lem. this one OF longevity. 1 am near
~ seventy three. and my expectation
OF life Is eight years, which would make
me eighty-one at my death; but if
live to be eighty-one, my expectation
is then five years more, which would
make me to die at eighty-six, and if I
live to be eighty six, nv expectation il
four years more. AID so on and 90 on
Tho longer [ live the longer I have a
chance to live, according to the in
surancs tables. aud so If a man car
keen M with the tables he Incident die