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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-03-18
-, lI1NI1oDA1 MARCH 1877.
FACTORY WAGES IN RUSSIA.

Barely BunRcfcnt 60 Keep Soul and BODY
WoGenheH.
AS for the distribution of wages, the
pay OF "a wpman amounts to three-quar-
ters of that of q man, that of a boy or
girl of IL to II. years to one-half, that Of
nichild under II years, to one-third Of IA
crown mans wages, says the Catholic
World. The advantage arising for the
factories from women's ana childrenTs
wages is such that no humanitarian ut
tcmpts have been as yet able to solve
that harassipg problem in any civilized
country. But as the wages of working
men in Russia are absolutely reducedto
n minimum and scarcely sufficient to
keep soul and body together for more
than a3 hours toll it is a cruel ulIi,E
gross injustice to cut working womenss
wages lly a third, since the first neces-
s;sries of life are, alike in men and wom-
en- regardless of sex. The monthly
wages of an adult laborer. man or wom-
an. in, England are 2h Q24.O5 per
cent? in America 44-5 (379. Ia per centO,
times greater than the wages of q lfle
1aborer in the Moscow factories. Since,
however, the duration of working time
~ VIZ SiisSTS 10 hflhotSIt, MI.
Dcmentieff has, reduced the compari-
son of wages per hour and come to the
conclusion that wages in England are
by 2s4.5 per cent, In Massachusetts BY
1873 per cent. higher than those in the
Moscow factories. If we make good
allowance for the higher cost of living
in America---which, however, is to. be
understood cum gramo sails, only the
luXuries of life being dearer here, not
the necessarics, like meat, flour, bread,
still no comparison can be drawn be-
tween the mode of living of an AmeTi-
can and Russian laborer.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-03-18
We'll NIaRnr.

American wheelmen travelling alone
in Europe have many queer experiences.
A young man who was bicycling i'm
southern France was pushing his wheel
up steep hill when he overlook a
peasant with a donkey cart who, was
rapidly becoming stalled, though the
little donkey was doing his best. The
benevolent wheelman, putting his left
hand against the back of the cart affd
guiding his wheel with the other, pushed
80 hard that the donkey taking freslr
courage, pulled his load up to the top
successfully. The summit reached, the
peasant burst into thanks to his bene.
factor. "It was very good of you, mon
.sieur," he said; II should never in the
world have got up the hill with only one
'donkeyi"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-03-18
NothInI lacking.

Citizen--Great place, this town OF
ours, amt it2 Travellers oil seem to
like it. t.,,.sp4,a .rsyr5 ,a..s nc ,.,a
,atVisitor ', enthusiastically should
'&My sol Why, you've got 10 lines Of
railroad that man can get away from
it on!--Boston Traveller. .
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-03-18
DAILY INDEPENDENT. F i

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erisser.
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Issued every day. Sundays excepted.
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One Copy, orB year., ~ .--..s t8ltD
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Dsliysred bg, ,oarrier I'm dolkoat twenty |ARs3
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= Et'r.E9S -tSHI -.7y.
ADVERTISING RATES. 4
win be made as low as is consistent With
sound business principles. Apply ut tho Of \
Gee for terms.
sEeuY aH1HpENaEEF.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-02-06
WIT AND WIZARD.
Bill Nye's Clever Trick on Prof. Herr
mann, the Magician.

Bill Nye's Clever Trick on Prof. Herr
mann, the Magician.
A few years4ago, Bill Nye and Herr.
mann, the magician. met for the first
time in small Ohio town. They
stopped at the same hotel, and were
given seats at the same table in the
dining-room. They bowed politely and
began talking about the weather, each
believing that the other did not recog
nize his vis-a-vis. Just as Nye raised
his knife and fork to cut q dish of let.
tuce salad, Hermann uttered cry OF
protest. Excuse me, SIR" remarked
the wizard, ''but thought saw some.
thing queer there in your lettuce
The humorist carefully looked over the
salad, leaf by leaf, but found nothing
and again raised his knife to cut it.
Again he was stopped by sharp cry
from Hermann, who added, apologet-
ically: II beg q thousand pardons, but
there is something there. Excuse me-
and he pointed to large lettuce-Ieaf,
raised it, and disclosed underneath a
magnificent diamond cluster ring
Nye slowly picked up the ring, and,
without the slightest manifestation OF
surprise. drawled out: This sort OF
thing has gone just far enough. I'm
continually shedding diamonds wher
ever go. Day before yesterday 1 lost
a solitaire in sugar-bowl in Pitts.
burgh, and in Cleveland this morning
the echambermaid, in sweeping my room
found three or four more. II is posi-
lively giving me brain-fag to keep track
of these things, and I'm going to give
it up as a bad job. !" Reckoning to wait
ress, he slipped Herrmann's ring into
her hand and said: Heres a trife for
you. Keep it to remember nae by; it's
yours" 1t took the owner of the ring
about half dag TO recover it, Sar
Francisco AFgonaHt.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-02-06
he .Must of stra,nt ner.n


Along in durin of the summer and fall
campaign Col. Bob Afilligan has made
316 stump speeches, more or less, fo1
the cause of free silver and the people
And now consequentially the colonel
is knocked out and laid up for repairs
with various and sundry complaints
Of the throat.
AS for me and Col. Bob-we have been
friends and fellow servants clost and
constant from way back there in ou1
young and gallin days. But here o!
late he always puts me in mind of Tom
Billy Simpkins and his old army mus.
ket.
Years and years ago Tom Billy had
one of these old long army muskets
which stood about six feet and three
ax handles to the first peckewood
hole. And the way Tom Billy use te
could shoot with that old musket was
plum marvelsome to behold.
Whenever you see me throw long
Betsey acrost my shoulder and 60 forth
into the woods somethin is bound ia
drap and there is meat in the pot right
HOn, 1OLu biliy was WOlBt u I'D y
'She never ficl1ers and she never fails
Rufe. Every time I draw bead and
pull the trigger there is death and de-
struction abroad in the land"
But onct upon time met up with
/ Tom Billy down there at the bridge in
Bear Creek swamp. He had his "lona
Petsey" with him, but in his hand nc
game he brung, and he was lookin
| powerful down in the mouth. When
helt him up and wanted to know what
in the name of love and mercy what was
the matter, with sad and tremblin
voice he told me that s1ong Betsey"
had fickered and went back on him
that whereas he use to call for fresh
meat at every fire, he couldn't take her
and hit the side of Deetin house now,
"What in all the round discovered
world do you reckon has got the mat.
ter with her all of suddent, Tom Bill.
ly?" saysI /.
"Raley, Rufe, couldn't say for Ger.
tain what is the matter with her." says
Tom Billy, in sad and cholsin voice,
"but the other day I shot her uphill
and hita lightwood stump, and reckon
must of straint her.
RUFUS SANDERS.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-02-06
AN OBJECT LESSON.
Tho advance Agent of Prosperity" Fails
to Work.

Apropos OF one thing and smother, as
they come under it's observation, the
Brooklyn Citizen remarks editorially:
"Tnformatksn given yesterday Of the re-
duetion Of wages In shoe shops OF Lynn,
Mass, and vicinity, and the closing up of
some temporarily. illustrates the value, or
perhaps the want of value OF the pre-elec-
ton praise Of Mckinley as the advance
Of Bryan as the advance agent of COM
mercia1 and Industrial ruin =
This constitutes am object lesson in
the value of campaign promises, sew
eral of which the republican party will
have high old time redeeming during
the next four years. Tt was g fine thing
TO be in position three years ago or
more, to charge the democratic party
with being to blame for the hard times.
It is not so fine a thing, however, to
be unable TO shift the blame for prom
ises unredeemed- The advance agent
of prosperity" billed his show all right.
but the attraction is not filling it's dates.
There's something wrong, evidently,
and the people are naturally beginning
to wonder il they really voted for some-
thing ON November 8, or If it was all a
dream.
The mills of the gods grind slowly,
but they are the personifcation of hus-
tie in comparison with the mills that
republican victory was to throw open.
-Binghaznton On. " Leader.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-02-06

that of Plato or Seneca. Let him go on
and scatter seeds of virtue and patriot
ism all over this broad land. We can
afford to pay him for it, for we do not
live for ourselves, but for our children.
Indeed, a state or nation could not
spend money more wisely than to en-
ploy number of great and good men
to teach the people by popular lectures.
Some years ago heard Prof, Proctor,
the great astronomer, deliver three lee
lures on astronomy, and ] have had
far more respect for the science than
ever had before.
The Christmas holidays are here, and
we have gathered our boys from New
York TO Mexico, and our happiness is
only marred by the thought that they
are soon to leave us for their distant
homes and we may not see them any
more in the land of the living. But the
Lords will be done.
Once moro I must do what | can to
help a poor old soldier who wants to
find some officer or member of his
command by whom ha can prove his
service in the late war. His name is
G. NJ. Stewart. His post office is Yark-
borough, Gordon county. Ga. He joined
the first Georgia regulars in February,
1861, company c. Capt. Cannon COM
monding, and served three years and
two months, and was then transferred
to the navy yard and was taken prison
er, carried to Point Lookout and kept
in prison until June, 1865. see by
Col. Avery's records that Col. Fl. D. D.
Twiggs commanded that regiment.
Will some survivor who knew Mr.
Stewart in that service write to him or
to me? The old man is an invalid and
very needy.-Bill Arp, in Atlanta Con-
stitution.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-02-06
THE poor TO SUFFER.
Mckinley Taxatlon Exempts the Capt
ta1ist.

Mckinley Taxation Exempts the Capi-
taiist.
In none of the republican schemes
for increasing the revenues is there
suggestion of restoring any OF the
higher taxes on clothing, food md
shelter, but no taxes on luxuries, ON
accumulated wealth or active capitaI
This is the McKinleyite programme.
It is proposed to restore the barbar-
Gus and cruel tax on wool, to Increase
the taxes on woolens, to raise fhe rates
on crockery and glass, to reimpose
duties on lumber, eggs, potatoes, onions,
cabbage and hay, but to continue the
exemption of wealth in every form.
In 1866 the internal taxes collected
ON manufactures, aside from whisky,
beer and tobacco, aggregated $122, ,00o,-
600. They were all repealed.
Other taxes collected from wealth in
that year were: From incomes, $61,-
OH, 1882; from banks, railroad COM
panies, ETC., $13,279, ,142; licenses, S18,-
o3s. .097; gross receipts-fn,m 2ha to 3
per cent.of publishers, telegraph, ex1
press and insurance companies. steam
boats, ferries, stage coaches, theaters,
operas, circuses and museums. $lo,-
0e2, ,7o7; legacies and SUGGESTIONS, ST.
17o,97s; stamps, s15,o44,37s. All those,
one after another, were abolished at
the instigation of wealth's lobby.
There were other small taxes, likethose
af salaries of public officials, on pass
ports, etc, the proceeds of which bring
the total of internal taxes repealed inn
mediately after the war up to s24o,ooo,-
900.
This exemption Of wealth left the
whole burden of the cost of the gov
ernment upon consumption mainly OF
the common necessities Of the people.
And this is where the party bossed by
Mark Hanna, with Mckinley as its
fgurehead, deliberately proposes to
leave the burden.
IL it shall do this, the history Of 1890
will repeat itself in the elections of
1SG8.--N Y World.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-02-06
THE OLD AND THE NEW TERROR.

A Piece of tho Original Craft Hidden Away
Somewhere in the Present Monitor.
It is known generally THAI the moni-
tor Terror, which has just gone into
commission, has been building for a
score of years. The same is true of the
other monitors, Puritan, Monadnocf
and Amphitrite. The Miantono1noh,
which went into commission about two
years ago, was also started at the same
time that the others We're laid down.
That was in 1874 and in 1875.
This group of monitors represents q
different grade of vessel from that for
which they were intended originally.
The delay in finishing them has result
cd in making them modern. They are
now unsurpassed in their fighting quail
tiles. They have modern guns. modern
armor, modern engines and twin screws.
These ships have been built and rebuilt
To convert them into fighting machines
of an advanced type it has been neees-
sary to rebuild them under the guise
of repairs" II is believed generally
that the Terror has never been in COM
mission until recently. The executive
officer of the Terror surprised his mates
in the wardroom the other day by say
ing:
do you know. once sailed into Ha-
vana harbor on this very ship. That is
to say. the Terror was in commission
when / was a young officer and | was
attached to her. This is supposed to
be the same vessel. It is a new ship
instead. Still there must be some one
piece of the old ship in this one. She
has been completely rebuilt under the
repairs system. Some day I'm going
TO try to hunt around and see if eau
find that piece of the original vessel
IT must be here somewhere, but ven
tire to say it will be many moons be-.
fore we find in. 7. Sun.
In the Louisville city court the other
aaY there was q nagTess aiSa red hair.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-02-06
ONLY A SCARE.
Tle Republican Blur at an International
Monetary Conferences.


Monetary Conference.
Pursuant to their recent campaign Of
buncombe, hypocrisy and false pre-
tense, the republicans are getting ready
to give their interna tional monetary
agreement bluff send-off at am early
day. Plunger Wolcott, who represents
the state Of Colorado in the United
States senate, has been chosen as master
of ceremonies. He has his set of reso-
lutions oiled and creased and will pre-
sent them to the senate as soon as the
holiday recess is over
1t is said the resolutions represent
the hard work of a committee of five
senators friendly to silver, but not
boilers, who were appointed some time
ago for this special purpose by the re-
publican senatorial caucus. While VOL
colt has his international agreement
resolutions on the silver question ready,
as he says, he is not prepared to go into
particulars or to outline how it is pro-
posed to bring it about. All that the
senator in charge of this international
agreement humbuggery is willing to
divulge is that the president of the
United States is to be requested by con-
gress to invite certain European
powers to call conference to see if
they cannot arrive at some plan by
which silver can be minted and circu-
lated by the principal commercial ma
tions as freely and unrestrietedly as
gold is, and fixing the ratio between the
two metals.
The senator from Colorado knows,
MS do all his colleagues in both houses
of congress, that this international
agreement talk is the same old bum
combe with which tine republican lead
ers and their employing trusts and cor
porations have been beguiling the
voters for the past 20 years. It is nearly
that long ago since the first of these in
ternational monetary conferences was
held. Four others have been held since,
and we are further away from a res
toration of silver to it's otd-time stabili-
ty and equality as money as we were
then.
II a monetary conference is called by
President Mckinley there is no reason
able hope that it will effect any more
substantial benefit for bimetallism than
its predecessors did. All such meeting
can do that may prove beneficial to the
country will be the additional proof it
will give the American people that the
democratic party was right when it
made its magnificent fight for the free
and unlimited coinage Of silver at the
prevailing ratio, independent of the ac-
ton of any other nation. This bene-
ficial effect will be still further expand
ed when hundreds Of thousands Of re-
publicans in the middle western and
| western states who were cajoled into
| staying with their party last fall with
| the old siren song Of an international
| monetary agreement will have their
eyes opened by the failure by Senator
| Wolcott's international conference to
achieve the emancipation of silver, and
| will as consequence vote with the dem
ocrats in favor of bimetallism at the
next election.-Kansas City Times.
i
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-02-06
REMARKABLE PIGS.
Habits of the Rooters of the South Sea
Islands.


When the pig is not only domestic
animal, but family friend, as he ap
pears to be in the Marquesas islands, he
develops unsupported cleverness. I'm
the South Seas one of Robert Louis
Steyenson's last books, gives many in
stances by way Of proof. "Many
islanders live with their pigs as we do
with our dogs" Mr.. Stevenson OBJ
served; both crowd around the hearth
with equal freedom, and the island pig
is fellow of activity, enterprise and
sense.
HE husks his own cocoanuts and
I am told-rolls them into the sun to
burst; he is the terror of the shepherd
Mrs. Stevenson, senior, has seen pig
fleeing to the woods with lamb in his
| mouth; and / saw another come rapid
ly-and erroneously-to the conclusion
that the Casco was going down, and
swim through the flush water to the
rail in search Of an escape.
1T was told US in childhood that pigs
cannot swim; have known one to
leap overheard, swim 500 yards to shore,
and return to the house of his original
owner.
II was once, at Tautira, pigmaster
on considerable scale. At first, in my
pen, the utmost good feeling prevailed.
A little sow with bellyache came and
appeared to US for help in the manner
of child; and there was one shapely
black boar, whom we called Catholicus,
for he was particular present from
the Catholics of the village, and who
early displayed the marks OF courage
| and friendliness.
"No other animal, whether dog or pig,
was suffered to approach him at his
food, and for human beings he showed
full measure of that toadying fond
ness, SO common in the lower animals,
ond possibly their chief title to the
| name.
Zone day, on visiting my piggery, /
was amazed to see Catholicus draw back
| from my approach with cries of terror;
and if I was amazed at the change, |
was truly embarrassed when learned
| it's reason.
Zone of the pigs had been that morn
ing killed; Catholicus had seen the MUIR
der, he had discovered he was dwelling
in the shambles, and from that time his
confidence and his delight in life were
ended.
"We still reserved him a long while,
but he could not endure the sight OF
any two-legged creature, nor could we,
| under the circumstances, encounter his
eye without confusion" Youths Com
panion.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-02-06
a PLEDGE REDEEMED.
How Republican Campaign Promises Arc
Fuf6iled. -

Fulfilled.
The most comfortable theory we have
yet seen advanced is that which has its
origin with the Carnegie Steel COM
pany. That company has issued notice
to the effect that it will continue TO
pay the same scale of wages during 1897
that it has paid during 1906.
The comfortable theory that goes
along with this notice is the announce
ment that the refusal of the company
to raise wages is, in itself, q virtual iu-
crease of the wages of 5000 men on acc
count of the reduction in the price cf
products. This reminds US of the ag-
ricultural genius who tied green spec
tacles on his mule and in that way irl-
duced him to eat shavings. The idea
was original and unconventional, and
we have heard nothing to equal it un-
TIL the publication Of the Carnegie an
nouncement that refusal to increase
wages is, in fact, when regarded rightly,
virtual increase.
It is to be hoped that the men will
take the theory as kindly as the spec
tacled mule is said to have done, for il
would be sad indeed If there should be-
any doubt or dubiousness in regard 10
the theory which the Carnegie COM
pany presented to its worklnen as o
Christmas gift. Discomfort at this time
would be poor return to make for the
great victory that has been won fer
sound money" and protection--a poor
return for the great wave of prosperity
that is said to be preparing to flood the
country, having already begun its work,
II the New York newspapers are to be
believed, the day after Mr.. McKinley's
election.
Consequently, we would advise tho
Carnegie men not to examine too closely
the theory that has been thrust upon
their attention, but to take it serious
", and go about their business feeling
that they are richer and better of tiSan
they were before they discovered taat
u decision not to reduce wages is, in
effect, an increase.
It may now be claimed, and with ex-
cellent reason, that reduction OF
wages is no reduction at all, but mere
" q substantial evidence that although
q reduction has been made, the wages
remain precisely the same. We trust
1t will be long before this logical de-
duction from the Carnegie theory is
put into actual operation. Atlanta Con-
stitution.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-02-06
That Hellatious Bad Eight.

Aha1 hAOA1htAONH ASsSA n EtBhSs
But il you ever saw white man that
needed good soft place to lay down
and laugh all over, it was me at thu
Cross Roads on last election day.
1t was way long in the shank of the
evenin before old man Dick Wallace
showed up to vote. and when he did
come he brung with him all the marks
and signs Of fight. He was black and
blue in spots, and all bunged and
bruised up tesa scandlous extent. Some
of the boys wanted to know of him
where he was when the cyclone passed.
and old man Dick responded back and
said:
"Well, boys, have jest naturally had
a most hellatious bad fight"
Now, as everybody knows, old man
Dick Wallace is one Of these good, lazy,
good-for-nothin kind of men, and didn't
come from fghtin stock nohow. Sc
the crowd was powerful staprised to
hear the news, and at onct the boys
wanted to know all about the fight.
"It was all on account Of politics
no doubts-wIich / have been stickin
my finger in the pie considerable here
of late," says the old man. "But at any
rates, way long in the dead hours Of
last night three men rode up TO my
house and hitched their horses and
wanted 10 see me in hurry. When ]
responded to the call they met me al
the door, they did. led me out through
the front. gate and took me off down
there in the woods, and tied me to tres
and beat me up scandlous."
"Was that all?"
"Yes, thank the Lord, that was all"
says old man Dick, "and tell you, boys,
it was most hellatious bad fight"
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-02-06
the .Yalisr Dog Clause.

| was right smart tickeled the other
day in regards to red-hot political ar
gification which was goin on over at the
Cross Roads between Blev Scroggins
and Lige Runnels.
In the main time. you must recol-
lect. Lige he had took and jumped the
fence in the general fall election and
wouldn't vote for the reglar democratic
congressman. Whereas. Blew was say
in everything he could think of, except
his Sunday school lesson, to Iige and
givin him the all-overest draggin you
ever heard tell of, perhaps.
.Iige Runnels," says Blew. 'many
and rnany's the time have heard you
stand on the hoGsetops. as 1t were, and
preach forth the doctrines of all-wool
democracy. Many and many's the
time have heard you swear by the liv-
in and the dead that you would vote for
yalier dog If the democratic party
put him on the ticket. Now. whater
yer got 10 sa 2"
't.So d1gbts h,!t what gou have heard