The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1867-02-16
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The Lowell Factory Girls.

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articleion sFactory, Girls, w hich shows that
while the rich manufacturers are making
from so to loo per cent on the capital, the
girls and all the employees in ther mills are
greatly oFerworked, nnderfed, and nnderpaid;
and all are subjected to asrigor Of discipline
which admits of no relaxation until nature
itself gives way. The average earnings OF
the giCds are stated to begssabout ST. a day.''
for which sHHnost of them toll eleven hours a
day" although some mills have reduced, or
are about to reduce, the time to ten hours.
1t is oily wlthinsa few years that it has been
.redSced from fourteen bours. They pay for
board So per week, to which, In Lowell,
the factories add SO cents week. AT such
a pFiceit is impossible that the fare should
be decentiy good. 71It is charged, also, that
the paint and floor in the rooms of the nper-
atpes are never washed, and they are allowed
''only one clean sheet in two weeks, aid
two towels per week for thirty five boardets.'
Also, stouFagasSis not turned on until a quar-
ter before six, so that we have but three
quarters of an hour to wash, put up our hair
do our chamber work and eat breakfast y
Then as o'diseIpline, everything is done by
the tap Of the ibell.a In the morning, three
taps of che bell are given for starting the
engine, and inthree minutes after the yard
gates arefcIosed.n This rule is SO rigidly
enforced that, ''a few weeks ago a young
woman5 after walking two miles, was shut
out because she reached the gate three min
utes too late, and had to walk back, losing
her day." During the day "no operative
Inustlea the room in which sheFis employed,
not even sif the machinery stops" and no
talking or readingiis allowed. For violating
rules, forfeiture of wages is the common re,,
suit; and 1.-TWO weeks notice must be given
to leave, or: two weeksa wages are forfeited" {"
OF course, wages ARE not paid every week.
as they are. earned. This is how the work.
men of Massachusetts, are ssprotected" by the
people who scream out for "protection to
Americalpindustry" and calls any one bad
names. who daresyt oppose them tProtecL
Lion to American, industry" means sendngTto
England for your machinery, half starving
and tyraaizing over your workmen and
women, and, declaring dividends 4ot 80, 40,
so and hooper cent. per annum.
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q CUsToMssoF ORIENTAL SHopKEEPERs. The
Americans, who divide with the Greeks and
Jews the entire mercantile traffic OF Western
Asia, are accustomed to sit down and weep
bitterly, when they have sold any article of
value, declaring. thatthe purchaser has ruined
then.a The Jews, on similar occasions, rend
their garments (Which, by the way, are said
to be worn purposely for such sacrifce) with
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"a The Greek shopkeepers;ain most of the
Turkish towns, sendia crier through the city
to proclaim the arrival of new goods and
their prices, every announcement being regu-
larly concluded with declaration that his
employer is running himself, but must sell.
In; n;Asiatic Russia, ,theshopkeepers consider
it incumbent on them 8 to absolutely refuse
selling their goods to any customer, and the.
latter is expected to employ himself at least
an in pnrsuadihg the merchant to deal
with him. mees tss8v sli 81 g1jn
i But the most extraordinary custom is that
which prevails among the merchants of
Tbibet, g. regular stand7n fight being. re-
quired to take place between the seller and
purchaser, on the disposal of any consider
able quantity of goods, the former absolutely
rejecting the price to which he has already
agreed, and theilatter as fesolutely forcing it
upon him. 1T is notlbusiness-iikeL to settle
matters 'pilbayfew blows have been exchanged
on both sides, after which they peaceably
snake hands, and the bargain is concluded.
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- Sr1TIsTiCs OF lDauNE EgNsEss. - The Buffalo
Commercial ADVERTISED says that the annals
of the Inebriate Asylum at Binghamton, n
X, reveal most fully the fact that drunken
ness is by no means confined to the lower
classes. The asylum was partially opened in
1861, aud Up. to 1864 there had been 7,l45
applications for places from every State in
the Union, and from Europe, Mexico, and
British Provinces, etc: OF the whole number
80 were clergymen, 8 judges, 1917 lawyers,
326 physicians, $40 merchants, 566 farmers.
24Oa gentiemen, and 805 women, 1t was
stated atlthe late Temperance Convention at
Saratoga, that the names of 1900 rich mems
daughters are on the list of applicants for
admission to the asylum. % 20" s
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DEgEKEN SEAAToRs.--The Radical papers
continue to hold up the intoxication of Sem