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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-03
AStrange Tribe Of Southwest China

| preme and alone over the entire coun-
try. The sun god, pleased with her
beauty and womanly traits, proposed
that she should return with him to
his home In the sun. She agreed,
provided her father should give his
consent. The old man was so infur-
lated at the request that he immedi-
ately seized his weapons and attacked
the youth, and would surely have kill
ed him but that a mysterious shaft
launched from the skies saved the lat
ter's life. The chiefs daughter and
the sun god were then married, and
the Mossos still hold to the belief that
they are descended from this superna-
tural union. Pride in their ancestry,
however, has no appreciable effect on
their own natures, for it would be
manifest impossibility to imagine
race of people more degraded.
Physically they are fine race, males
and females in few cases being under
six feet in height. and proportionately
we'll built and exceedingly strong and
muscular. gained from their active
out-of door life and constant exposure
to hardship. Their color is light
brown, while in both sexes greasy
plaits of sun-scorched hair hang down
the back almost to the waist. A sim
gular trait among them is fascina-
ton, almost amounting to a mania,
for personal adornment. The men are
tattooed from head to foot with gro
tesque designs, which in many cases
oblterate all trace Of the original col
or of the skin, while heavy iron rings
and metal ornaments are worn about
the ankles, wrists and neck by both
men and women.
Their Two Clans.
The Mossos are divided into two gen.
eral divisions, the mountain and vii
!age clans. The mountain Mossos take
I'D their abode in the high plateaus,
avoiding all contact with the lowland-
ers, and making war upon them when
prompted by hunger. Owing to their
generally 'improvident natures and
the sterility of the country in which
they are domiciled. disastrous famines
are Of frequent occurrence. In meas
ure they seem to partake of the rugged
uncouthness of their surroundings;
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-03

You think have a merry heart,
Because my songs ore gay;
But, oh! they all were taught to me
BY friends now far away;
The bird re.a'ns his silver note.
Though bondage chains his wing;
His song Is not n happy one,-
I'm saddest when | sing.
/ heard them first in that sweet homo
l never more shall see,
And now each song of Joy has got
A plaintive turn for me!
Alas! tits vain in winter time
To mock the songs OF spring,
Each note recalls some wither'd leaf
I'm saddest when l sing!
OF all the friends ] used 10 love.
My heart remains alone.
Its faithful voice still seems to be
An echo OF my own:
My tears. when 1 bend over 1t,
Will fall upon its string.
Yet those who hear mo little think
I'm saddest when l sing!
-Bayly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-03

sign a contract bOfors commencing
work in which they agree to have their
coal weighed after 1t is screened.
In the summary Of manufacture,
exclusive OF the eight prison factories,
the 1853 plants whose reports are In
tabular form show an increase of S13,-
509,578 ever the amount reported last
year.
| The average number OF males en-
ployed during each month Of 1897 was
1890; females 11,457; total. 50,777.
The total amount OF wages paid in
1897 was $21,71O.355. The average
daily wages paid to skilled male help.
1928; unskilled male help, $L21;
skilled female help. $1.31; unskilled
female help, rs cents. Soap manufac-
turers paid the highest average wages
to skilled male help, $2.S6 per day, and
creameries the lowest, $l.54. Cigar
manufacturers paid the highest aver
age daily wages to skilled female help,
S1.95, and soapmakers to the lowest,
95 cents.
The report concludes with the state
ment that, actuated by the desire to
benefit labor organizations OF the state.
an effort has been made by the depart
ment to secure data giving the true
condition of the organized wagework-
ers of the state. To this end the blanks
were prepared and copies forwarded to
the secretaries Of all organizations
whose addresses could be secured. Two
hundred and ninety-seven blanks were
sent to organizations in all parts OF
the state, but up to the time Of prepa-
ration of the report but As have been
returned, these in an incomplete state.
The reports received, summarized. are
as follows:
Total number of organizations re-
porting, IS; number reporting increase
In wages since organization, %; num-
Der reporting decrease in wages since
organization. 2; number reporting sta
tionary wages since organization. IL;
number making no report regarding
wages, 10; number reporting reduction
Of hours since organization. %; num-
Der reporting no change of hours since
organization. 10; organized trades
working ten hours per day, s.. organ
lied trades working nine hours per
day, 8; organized trades working eight
hours per day, II; organized trades
working twelve hours per day, 3; or
gVnized trades making no returns re-
garding hours, 2; total number Of
members in organizations reporting,
5,6OS; total number members out OF
work in organizations reporting, 651;'
organizations failing to report num-
Der unemployed, %.
Above table shows two important
things: That organized workers have
been uniformly maintaining or ad-
vancing wages and decreasing hours.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-03
Kaffir Swimming Feats.

The Kaffirs are great swimmers.
They can do things in the water
which other folk would look upon with
establishment. For example, a KAT
fir hoy" can ford stream shoulder
high, running as swiftly as If shot
from torrent. The way they accom-
plish the feat is thus: Just before en-
tering the water they get huge stone,
sometimes as heavy as themselves, ant
with the help Of a companion place it
upon the head. A weight like this
gives the boy balance, and he can
keep his footing against the heaviest
stream. If he were to drop the stone.
he would be so light that the water
would sweep him off his feet. And
this is Just one Of the Kaffir tricks to
accomplish things against tide AMI
food.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-03

worshiped. to whom sacrifices Of me n
and grain and made several times ,
year. These perennially hungry splr
its are likewise consulted on every
question touching the general veal ant
woe, the Intermediates to their favol
being race Of monks of the mos
fanatical nature. who wander through
the country much like the dervishes o.
India practicing the most horrible
self-torture. Outside their religion.
Offices they have little hold upon the
people, whose stunted intelligence
seems incapable of recognizing any
government or official restraint thai
will interfere with the personal rights
and desires of the individual.
Few Ceremonial Rights.
Unlike most savage races, they have
few ceremonial rites or curious Gus
toms. Marriage Is settled by buying
the girl from her father, while in the
case of birth or death there is no &C.
companying ceremony; in fact, they
seem possessed of no higher order OF
intelligence than that Of simply ex-
listing. They have no idea of time or
distance-no name for hours, days or
years, no amusements and without
even the faintest knowledge of medi-
cine. When a member of tribe con-
tracts serious illness he is driven
from the village to which he belongs,
and Is allowed to wander in the jun
gle, subsisting as he is able, until
death relieves his sufferings. 1t is
not strange. therefore, that disease
causes frightful inroads, and unless
conditions change 1t seems probable
that few years will see their absolute
extinction.
The greatest obstacle to travel In
their country and an effort to learn
something concerning them is the abb
solute impossibility of mastering their
language, which is confined more to
various signs with the fingers and
other parts of the body than express
sions in word of mouth reducing tina
traveller to the necessity of mastering
the meaning of innumerable signs,
grimaces and cultural sounds.
The weapons of the mountain and
lowland Mossos are rudely made bows
five or six feet long; their arrows are
hardened at one end by being covered
with thin covering of clay, drawn to
fine point and baked in the fire, with
which they are far from skillful, the
animals which they secure for their
subsistence being caught in huge pit
falls dug in the jungle, and which are
constant menaces to the traveller who
seeks to pass through their country.
Owing to their lack Of knowledge oil
the most minor character concerning
their country it is impossible to esti-
mate their exact number, but it is
probably in the neighborhood Of 5000
or 5000.
WILLIAM JAMESON REID.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-03

The Bishop of Wakefield was once
consoling an east end costermonger
for the loss of his little son. The poor
fellow was rocking to and fro in his
distress. He suddenly looked at the
bishop, and with tears running down
his cheeks. said: Dye think l could
get the young beggar stuff'd?"-Lon-
don Daily News.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-03
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST TO
UNION WORKMEN.

Increase In Work and Wages, while
Hours We're Reducod-signifcant Facts
shown by Onicisi Reports Of Organi-
Nations and State Authorities.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01

western horizon beyond which looms
and becllons the beWildering mirage of
the splendors and glories of a civiliza-
tlon yet 10 oe"-with the knowledge we
nave OF our great resources, which
must be seized upon and developed to
keep busy the men and money of this
republic, with our geographical loca-
tlon such as to command trade and in
Vite settlement from vast tributary
reg1on-with a climate unexcelled.
with panics and Improbable local fric-
ton behind US, and all the immeasur-
able possibilities for energy and effort
before uS-why may we not on this
good day, look forward with confidence
10 the future for dividends on the
dreams, hopes and ambitions of the
past?
IL all the signs are not awry. the next
lew years are TO be good ones for Utah.
expect to see real estate so long A
laggard. soon trip lightly forward to
the music ef a rising market. L expect
to see mining development take phe-
nomenaI strides. / expect to see this
capital city the scene of the building
or great blocks and handsome resi-
dences, with the moneys that Utah will
produce. l expect to see thousands
from less favored regions, attracted bv
our progress, moving, with their money
and families, towards Utah. and with
IN the next five years ] expect to see
this city by the lake peopled with 1O0.-
900; with railroads reaching to the
southern California coast; with two or
three new eastern rail connections;
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01

portion of the mining dividends of 1897
and 1898, roughly estimated at $500, 600,
have been placed in Salt Lake City,
the money thus added to our circula-
ton being responsible for our improved
business conditions. Loyalty to the
state on the part of it's own citizens is
essential 10 its future greatness. 1t
ought to be the pride of every man who
succeeds in Utah to make grateful re-
turn by investing his profits therein.
If you would have an illustration of
what this sort Of loyalty means to a
city, look at Denver. She owes her
sturdy growth and beauty of construc-
ton to the unswerving fealty of the
Colorado people. The first thought of
the Colorado man who attains to for
tune in that state is that he will build
a fine home or a fine block in Denver.
1t should be so here. Utah has paid in
mining dividends over $50, 900 900. Where
has it all gone? Certainly not here, else
we would have more beautiful homes
and stately business blocks. You can
count on your fingers the fine homes
and large buildings that have been
built in Salt Lake by Utahs Million
aires since that stream of dividends
began to flow.
BOOM PREDICTED.
1 predict real estate boom for Salt
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01
MINING CAMPS
AND THEIR FINE RECORD
Total Production of Metals Reached Nearly Eleven
Millions In 1898
Gold Mines Increased Their Output BY Nearly 0nethird
General Revival In the Mining Industry


period since the first claims wera
staked in that forbidding desert. With
the capital essential for wide. exten-
sive and judiciously- planned explora-
uons, Utah may in very truth be said
to be on the threshold of an epoch OF
great mining prosperity. for today the
signs are that the sinewS Of war are not
to be longer withheld.
Briefly, such is a fair. plain setting
forth OF the status Of the states min
eral industry on New Years, 1899. It
will suffice for an introduction of the
tabulated statements of tho achieve
ments of the mines, as succinctly told
by bullion and ore shipments, by the
carefully prepared regular annual es-
innate of Wells, Fargo & Co, by out
line reports of the home smelters, which
give the aggregate summings up for all
the camps, and finally the CHEEKY story
of each separate district, with its con-
tributions of the grand totals. Not
withstanding the stagnant and dis
heartening conditions which prevailed
for more than the first half Of the
year, the 1898 yields of gold. lead and
copper are all greater than those Of the
prior year-that of gold being over so
per cent iacrease-while silver is about
the same for each year. And there are
not a few who still believe that 1898
was an of year in Utah mining Tn
doubtedly it viii so appear when the
record for the ccntury's closing twelve
months is made up, but today there is
small occasion TO complain.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01
Bullion and Ore Shipments.

A weekly statement is prepared for
the information of smelter folk and
others of all base silver-lead bullion.
blister copper, copper matte, ore and
concentrate products shipped out of the
state. To metallurgists, mine owners
and large metal dealers. who know the
composition of the smelter products Of
the different districts, this affords the
most accurate information Obtainable
Of what the mines are doing. In this
summing up everything from the
states precious metal mines is inclUd-
ed, either in the form of bullion or
Smelter products, except the ore ton
mage treated by cyaniding. pan ANAL
gamatiOn, or by the Russell process at
the Marsac mill. Park City. This rec
ord is kept by Mr.. D. S. Spencer Of
the Oregon Short Line, who has kindly
compiled the totals from the fifty-two
statements of last year, which are here
given. For convenience of comparison
the shipments of the prior year are also
given. All totals are in pounds:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01

be made that it has been satisfactory
True. part of the time il was handl-
capped by unhappy local differences.
and later by the bursting of the Argen-
tine bubble. the failure of Barring Bros.
and the panic. but it has been satisIac-
tory, nevertheless.
PANIC PASSED AWAY.
Speaking of the panic-perhaps that
was the most untowarf event in our
business history. 1t came with its de-
stroying forces upon the heels OF a
boom which had stimulated everything
animate and inanimate. and which.
departing. left behind ii the whole west
prostrate under weight of indebted
ness. We had some of this boom in
Utah. but metaphorically speaking.
we only just stepped on its taii-its
greatest force having been spent before
it reached here. The portion of it we
enjoyed. or suffered. was of com0ara-
lively short duration. It commenced
to show itself in the fall of 81. and was
entirely oui Of business when the flow
ers began TO bloom N the spring OF
80.
In the meantime it doubled the popu-
lation of Salt Lake. and ran the real
estate transfers of the city up to about
s50. 600, 900.
Naturally some OF our people We're
caught at he end of it with the bag in
their hands: but, on the whole we did
not suffer the damage from it that
other western cities Gid. This was be-
cause Of the caution OF our people
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01

Lake-not a wild, ungovernable one,
not one that will magnify values be-
yond all reason, but a boom that will
be confined to the best business and
residence localities and be healthy and
enduring. This Will result from the
home investments L have predicted
from the fact that there is a plethora
of money in the east which will be
driven here for invest stment by the low
rates of interest and the scarcity of
opportunities for profit-making in the
larger centers, and by the fact that
our real estate values are abnormally
low. The latter fact is unauestioned.
Real estate is worth no more today
than it was when we had half our pres
ent population. The value of it must
rise to the level of present conditions
gradual and steady, and every new sale
will be a stimulant.
But there are other things to Justify
this forecast. The Philippines are ours,
and American spirit will soon COM
mence to increase the trade and de-
velop the resources of those distant
islands. AS result, for every ship
that now plies between our west coast
and those far-off shores there will soon
be two, and the cities on the western
slope will grow accordingly. More rail-
roads will then be needed to transport
the increased tonnage from the Pacific,
and the great systems now hesitating
along the eastern fringe of the Rocky
mountains will build westward. Out Of
all this some dividends will come to
us, you may be sure.
And now comes a man from Butte
celebrated as a conservative and ex-
perienced mining eXpert-one who
knows all about Butte's great copper
bodies-with the alluring and astOund-
ing statement that there is more copper
in Bingham than there is in Butte.
1t. seems he has recently exhaustively
examined the Highland Boy and other
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01

Bingham properties. and is willing to
stake his reputation upon his state
ment. He predicts another Butte in
Bingham canyon. Well. Why not, if
his statement is true? The same forces
that peopled Montana's mining metrop-
oils with $4,000 and built an Anaconda
for the overflow, can operate similarly
again. He says the lack of water in
Bingham will compel the treatment of
the ores on the Jordan. That would Of
course make Salt Lake the Anaconda.
The prospect thus opened to us is GER
tainly an alluring one. Given a Butte
within twenty-five miles of Salt Lake,
the Imagination can rub the lamp, for
splendor's greater than Alladin behaldi
Graded in the mountains. blessed
with climate, surrounded by resources
great and varied. with a third of the
territory of the Union to pay us trib-
ute, with wonderful springs, lakes and
scenery, to what great heights of ex-
cellence may not this diamond in the
desert aspire, if it's people so will?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01

the forerunner of other kinds of local
speculation. The spirit for it is now
awakened. Under its stimulation new
dividend-payers Will enter the list, and
the dividends therefrom will go into
great buildings and good homes, and
real estate will rise, and lands and lots
will sell, and the city will grow as it
did decade ago, and We will-but
never mind about us.
NEED MORE PEOPLE.
I am aware that the same kind Of
people who object to speculation be-
cause they fear the subsequent head
ache, also object to the rapid growth of
the city because they argue that there
will be nothing for the added popula-
tion to do. | remember that ten years
ago, when Salt Lake was budding and
unfolding and blooming like an Amer
lean Beauty rose, these same people
were worrying about what we were to
do to sustain the increased population;
but | have never heard of any of them
starving to death, or of any being very
hungry. except, perhaps, some of the
real estate men, whose feed has been
at times a little short-but then you
know, according to some peoples esti-
mate, they don't count for much of
anything anyway.
The local real estate market is al
ready showing marked signs of i'm
provement. Several large transactions
in business property have recently been
made, and the demand for good resi-
dences and building sites is much
greater than it was six months ago.
This is due, in a measure, to the fact
that, for the first time in the history
of the city, some Of the men who have
made fortunes in Utah are investing
here, rather than elsewhere.
Messrs. Keith, Kearns and others
all honor to them!-have CONTRACTED
this habit, and the indications are that
it will become general. A considerable
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01
WHAT utah ACCOMPL |SHED
AND HER ROSY PROMISE
Substantial and Enduring Advance Of Every Form
of Property During 1898.
Values Daily Increasing and Prospect of Renewal of Boom
Prices On Actual Basis of Worth.
By E. coLBURN, Secretary Commerce

/ cheerfuiiy comply with The Her
aids request for a review of the busi-
ness affairs of Utah during the recent
past, and for a forecast of her future
fortunes, although l do not know that
my observation has been close enough,
or that my foresight is keen enough,
to give to either any particular value
I am told the New Years edition Of
The Herald is to be freighted with up
to-date information about the state.
Such enterprise is commendable, and
makes every citizen its debtor. NV
portion of this obligation L will en-
deaVor to, in part, discharge with this
contribution TO its columns.
Looking backward-our interest in
the dying century begins near its me-
ridian-On that day in 1S47-Utah's
birthday-when The Immortals-the 143
men, three women and two children
Who comprised the first band Of pio-
neers TO enter the state, halted in the
valley of the Great Salt Lake. and
there, in the midst of a wilderness.
laid the imperishable foundation of this
empire Of the west. But we have so
lately sung their praises, and told Of
= their achievements in story and pag-
eantry, that my only purpose in speak
ing of them here is that L may call at
>rention to their indomitable energy
and record the fact that it was trans
initted to those who followed them and
to their descendants. and so has be-
come a characteristic of Utahs people.
That energy redeemed the wastes and
Grove away desolation when opposition
was great, and the strength of the peo-
pie puny; but it's achievements have
been as nothing to what they will be,
now that the ship of state is fairly
ahoat, and all Of the opportunities Of
the passing century are before us.
Reviewing our progress since the
birth of this state-the statement can