The St. Louis Republic., 1902-11-23
Alternates "smokes," "Naps" and
RESTS" With His Labor in
Most Provoking Fashion.
BAPTIST MIssI0NARY's LETTER.
The Reverend w. 81. Sears Writes
From Pingtu That 1t Took Thir-
ty Workmen Fifteen Months
to Build His House.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.

INEf Gfl.lC SfEClAL
Macon, Mo-, Nov. 22-'I pay my work
-. S...s -. ~,
'i'on Every saturday iish'' aiio 'hous" 'ns
average rate Of wages per man is less thar
ID cents day n freonently b.nnens th,,
80. u,, i"ppe M
"hoie wheeioarroW ioad OF Chlnese
money is inadequate to settle with them fol
Inc s,A ua's iaooi' writes 'iie HeSerehu
w. H. Spears OF Pingtu. China, in letter
received to-day by The Republic CORE
spondent
While was in the United States on my
Roxer. ,o,ted ond S...rn,,as .,.or,,,h;,a ,,,s
h.S 80 ;. 80, a"u u.soyeu ever .ni"s ".
we we're away when y fon e,ss hars @
might have been one Baptist missionary
family the Legs IN the world. When l re-
turned to China our house had disappeared
eamas m,1' =. ,a .' .uu". ~ ene ia.u "ouia Law .aVt
lohoWed II the insurgents couid nave
carried 1t on
by the middle of June the mechanics
had engaged had begun work on a new
building Of modest nronnr,,ons II tool on
an averaea tbirt,, worS,ran Geo., 'uon ,,t,,. u
=. ~ ,e. ase' I'M :! Moihtieh hA.eeh lioh."s
to construct house that would not have
cost over 81 200 in America, but for which
had to put up here ST. 600. In other words
1t took these thirty native laborers TO- 0O(
days to put up a little home that half T0v, .
dozen good carpenters in Ameriea A eo,Id
have completed inside Of three tn % months e'ui'
"a
At this price 1 could get twenty or thirty
native builders at about what one good
workman would hava cost and The ;SS;g.
nificant rate was about all they wers
worth.
They are rich in nothing save t;me An
abundance of that is the endowment of eacn
of them. for which thew Saor, to ho oA ts,,, al
thankful. They move around as il they
amd ,ba,, 'ney were gong 20 live forever,
thev axnsctsS S't - nave 70 IVe tnat long II
- ~ " decothpiish much.
THE WAY THEY WORK
by sunup every morning the workmen
are on the grounds. At first blush that
looks like unusual Industry Rut wait Ths
first feature on the day's nroerarn,s No ns 5
a smoke lasting from twentv mini,tes fo
q half hour, This was a neriod ~ rsIaxa. az
ton to recover from the TOO tiresome aT.
fects Of hard nights sieep 7 s,,nnoss
During It not q nail was driven NOT a nIo s.
moved. Then they would worry for an bnmr
and stop for breakfast After hraatra.t
there was another smoke of half hours
duration. Then an hours worL ara 80 .
other smoke, and SO on until dinner anu ftnr
dinner they went to sleep for an hanr
woke up. rubbed their ewes erahbsi, 1Se;r.
pipes and went to their eyerlastine smnk.
ing. 1t was three hours past noon bafor.
my luxurious employees again nirked un
their saws and hammers. PeAeu "p
''They hung around the premises slt.r-
It got too dark to see da,.;s ia M u.it., 4,
from sunup until darkSapnarenfly iabor sberas Is
full disregard OF the eiefS nhc.,r iaHHh,t se
would, % TO / rather have n man frora
America work for me eipht ho,,r. AZ,
than one Of these leisure-Iovine mecha n;cs
from dawn until after twiiiphfs
When you take out Of the calculation