The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-18

gates lead into it from the street, one for
people and another and large one for wagons
to pass through. Brick and stone are the
materials from which the newer bulldogs
are put up, while the old buildings are of
logs, plastered and whitewashed within
and without, topped off with high straw
roofs underneath which the grain is stored.
These are now prohibited by the govern
ment owing 10 the great risk from fire.
The farmers generally have one part of the
village to themselves, and form the aristo-
racy of the place, and the poor peasant
looks up to them just the same as he did-to
the large land owner whose serf he once
was. The main population of such avillage
consists of those who have little or no prop
erty. Some may own dingy cottage with
two or five acres of ground, one or two
cows, aud few geese and chickens, while
others may have only the geese, but there
are many whose sole property is their daily
earnings which is just sufficient to keep
them from actual starvation. Thus the
Bohemian village with its
DIRTY HOUSES AND DIRTIER PEOPLE,
the manure pile in front of the house, the
half naked children playing in the streets,
is repulsive sight to the visitor.
La the MIDST OF all this comes the tax COL
lector and he appears in numerous forms.
L understand that the ingenuity of the gov
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| people all it can, in the shape of direct and
indirect, personal and general taxes fines,
duties, stamps, etc, and when poor fellow is
/ completely squeezed out then soldier is
quaruered upon him to board out the con-
: tumacious dues. Then there are other OBJ
/ legations to meet. When new babe is
/ born, or a couple is married. or q soul takes
its fight to heaven, there are certain ices
/ to he paid. There is great difference be-
! tween the manner poor man or woman is
carried TO the grave and the way wealthy
one is. There are bells of different sizes in
the church tower and when the dead man
/ is carried to the church and thence to the
grave, either small bell or large one or
all the bells are tolled according to the
amount of money that his relatives pay.
| Money also decides whether the priest &C
companies the corpse the whole or only part
of the way, or not at all; or whether he
praises the virtues of the deceased over his
coffin in the church, or whether it is carried
TO the grave without song or music.
1t is strange sight to see the dead car
ried on a bier while the mourners and
friends walk behind followed by the CARR
ages, and frequently wagon goes along
for the flowers.
There are in every village few persons
who may have served their apprenticeship
in the cities and who stand on higher
level of culture. They are the large landed
proprietors, their employees, and sometimes
the merchants. The farmers are usually
mobiles on whom the poorer classes depend
for their means of living, but too often they
reside in the city and leave to their mana
gers the running of their estates. The lat
ter to economic and still to be able to send
good dividend to their masters, even after
having provided literally for themsel es,
keep the wages at 8 minimum, and as the
majority OF the speculation depends on then
for work, 1t has TO submit to their standards
which are low enough indeed.
An unskilled laborer for doing clever
hours work receives about
FIFTY KREUZERS DAY
which is equal to about twenty-five cents
in summer, and less than that in winter
To keep his family alive, his wife ant
grown children have to live out doing tn,
same kind of work for about one third lea
than he receives. The small income makes
it necessary TO derive some use out O
everything and to reduce the cost of Living
as much as possible, if not as much as is al