The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-03-02
Interesting Notes From All Over
the Country.
WORKING MEN And WOMEN
A Glance at the Toilers In Their Strug-
gle for Kight-The Social State
OF the Present Age.

TNCTy
in the United States" remarks the Co
operative News, points to a way to
every able-bodied man to help himself.
The normal instincts of every young
man and woman reach out in longings
for a home a home of their own, a
home they can call in its fullest sig
nificance our home The rented tene-
ment house can never be home in this
sense; no tendrils run out from the
heart and cling to a rented home. 1t
is but stopping place to shelter from
the winds and storms, the sun of sum-
mer and the cold of winter. A man will
be a better husband and father the
wife a better housekeeper and mother
in the true home, the children will be
better reared"
Mr. Charles Collins, a western journal
list, claims to have been putative pa
rent to over 100 newspapers, says the
American Pressman. He has been
everywhere and seen everything in the
west, and his proudest boast is that he
established the first daily paper in every
territory of the Union, except Montana;
and that he also established the first
paper ever published in the Black Hills.
He was on a paper in Virginia CITY,
New when Mark Twain was on a rival
sheet i'm the same town. He was also
proprietor of the Omaha Times, an even
ing journal of the early days of Ne
braska. when Henry M. Stanley, after
wards the African explorer, worked for
him as a reporter at a stipend of 80 per
week.
! number of miners. at the Virtue mine
in Oregon, working in the deep shaft,
! fov ri
! 1925. Their complaint is that the shaft =.
is very damp and that they are wet from
head to foot during their entire eight
hour shift. The places of the strikers
have been filed.
In each of the big down town stores
where the profit sharing system is in
force. the employees will soon be made
happy by the distribution of the fund set
aside for that purpose from the prohts
of the firm, says the Chicago Record.
Early in the year business was exceed
| ingly dun, but toward the holidays II
frightened up so perceptiby that the
share for employees will in many cases
be a snug little sum.
In one company all of the salespeople
who had been in the employ of Che com
pany one year or more were informed
that if the amount of their sales for six
] months exceeded the total of the same
period of time during the previous year,
they would receive commission-aver-
aging 2la per cent throughout the store
on the excess. Immediately the young
men and women behind the counters be-
gan to increase their efforts to sell goods,
and when the first distribution was made
last July, some surprising results were
shown. Shop girls drawing $40 a week
in wages received as high as $50 in pre-
. miums for the six months. At the dis
tributiOn soon to be made, Mr.. Wood
says that there are saleswomen in the
s store who will draw more than 800 as
their share of the profits.
The salary of the employees is raised
q in ratio with the excess of the sales,
and according to the wage percentage
Il which governs the department in which
n he works. For instance, girl receiving
$40 a week would ordinarily make $500
in 20 weeks. If, however, she was success
ful in exceeding the amount of sales ne
cessary to make a salary at the percent
age fixed i'm her department, by say
., $1,000 she would receive a commission
- on this amount of about pc per cent, OF
- $25 Besides this she would have her sal.
airy realised for the next six months by
an amount equal to the commission pei
Is week that she had earned on her sales
IL In this example il would be One-twen
y tieth of $25, or Sl.25 advance per week.
lie large number of concerns in the city
III also have quasi system of profit shar
. allowed to buy stock in the company
and receive the same dividends which
rs are paid to the head of the house.
~ Says the Anaconda Standards Man!
NJ a man in Montana will be sincerely sorr,
to read the dispatch from Detroit, Mich.
announcing the death of Richard +
Travellick. For more than 30 years Cap
Is tain Travelick was a conspicuous figur
lg i'm the ranks of organized labor; he wa
IN one of the most sincere men that eve
took rank as a so-called leader of labor
s. on the platform or in the public pres
We his expressions commanded respect; h
was earnest, able and honest. Capital
'eI Travellick loved humanity; during hi
?" eventful career he did what he could {
amelorate the condition of the laborin
classes. Born in England nearly 20 year
ago, he early went to sea. In New Zes
zee land and Australia he was PROMINENT
ia identified with the eight-hour movemen
In 1865 he was president of the inferno
m tiOnal labor congress in Europe. He Of
ganzed the National Labor union
r. America and became its president in 1877
r. "Of Captain Travellick it has been sal
that he never considered the fnanci;
consequence as related to himself. I'll
M labor congress of America voted hil
5000 as president, but he declined to r,
ceive so large a sum; he said 81, 800 We
enough for him to live on. Besides b'
ing a lover of his race he was a gres
lover of dumb brutes; he was ardeI
devotee of nature, and he loved II
'ui forests. hills and uplands with all II
IN enthusiasm of one of poetic mind +
sought the good in everything, and II
T. sweetness and charm of even the imam
mate things that surrounded him