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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-11

Another conspicuous figure in British Columbia is
the Chinaman. He is as industrious the Indian is
lazy He is to the north what the negro is the
SOUTH with the exception that he attends strict
" to business, and, the whole, is efficient
and reliable mental than the coOred servant. He
your bell the hotel blacks your washes
your clothes, makes your bed, curries your horse,
chops wood in fact there is nothing in the way
of servile labor that he won't do. Every fourth
in Victoria is Chinaman nd the ratio is Tsearly
as great in Vancouver. The SNOWY dress Of the Chi
nese women they patter about in their small thick
sOled shoes adds bit Of Oriental color the
of the west. The Chinese baby, with its jet black,
santing is object of curiosity in whom inter
est never seems to As a rule the little Orentas
public schools, and the showing they make is often
quite creditable. When a Chnaman asks you to his
house. the invitation is cordial that his sincerity
cannot be questioned. No matter what time the Wis
itOr may enter Chinese home tea is always ready
10 serve, and its quality, well the manner of
serving il, quite in keeping with the Oriental
reputation Cor excellence in this respect.
Nancouver's interest in the sealing business was
second only to Victoria. Many of the lived
the experiences they met with One incident
by Rudyard Kiplng the bases for a story. 1t
cerned two captains who determined to make raid
into prohibited territory. Each had his
crew. but the agreement made that after the
they should meet and make equal division of the
spells. They killed several thousand seals every
thing went well until the division all but
involved in quarrel its possession. They sepa-
rated in anger, and then Of them worked rUse
which for cleverness and originality beats anything
record. He rugged up his boat to look much
Russian gunbOat possible He used stove pipes to
represent guns nailed several barrels together end on
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SECTION Two.

end painted them black and put them whs the fun
mel ought be. He tore old coat to D. 10 and
it with other material 70 make
table imitation of the Russian nag his paftnet
manned shore where they had separated, talSih
care cal skins. During fog the captain of the
counterfeit Russian gunbCat advanced just close
enough his strengthening craft could be sighted
by the pOachers shore They II and took just
one look They got out OF there in such a hurry that
they all their skins the beach, thinking
they very lucky 10 get away at all The captain
Of the male-beeve gunbOat came into port with
OUT. IL goes Wllhout saying lat ue olIleI crew was
furious when they found how they had been sold 1T
smart trick and shows that it takes robber 10
Guido thief.
Another character in British Columbia is the .re-
mittance man" As generally used this refers TO the
reckless dssipated member of some wealthy English
family, who has been sent away from home
count of wOrthlessness and to whom small monthly
remittance is sent The amount Of the remittance is
but that end is not always attained. There are many
stories about the high carrying Of these sporty
nave d 70 Ioot Tor thefn But there are many people
who depend upon remttances who quite respect
able This comes from the English dot. marriage
settlement 1t IS the custom in the old country for
parents to settle their children when they marry
certain stipend which is invested and the income
forwarded to them each month This is always q great
help to the young people in making their start in life
II is especially advantageous to the girl for
her independent in case her husband does not yet on
we'll or if she becomes widow.
The American custom of keeping estates intact
until the death of the head the family often causes
cldren unnecessary hardship Their share of the
lily possessions IS Wlthneld the they
it most and often into their too late for
them to enjoy il and make the most it. on the
other hand permanent income, large enough to live
upon. often destroys ambition A young man who
might otherwise work and make a name for himself
is cotent to take his leisure This sort of man never
sets the world fire He IS something of genteeI
loafer who does great thing for himself fam
lily or his country The young American who talks
coat and to work support her, is the fellow
you may expect to get on N the world.
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not brought to do neither she led in any
way to concern herself with the general state of the
industry in which she is employed. Wage earning is
not and Eever can be permanent with individual
men, but il is permanent with women s a This,
however, no woman learns until she reaches point
of development where she think it herself.
The great army of working women confne their t.
tentton TO their work, their factory store
office If they should try so outside interest
themselves in the state Of affairs in factories stores
or offices in general, they would receive very little
encouragement from their families. fact any effort
on the part OF women for the collective we'll being
Of their fellow workers would call enormous sac
rices, heroic struggles against prejudice and lastly
financial disabilities which. as a class working wo-
unable to
None of the legal or SOCIAL disadvantages out of
which women have emerged in the last fifty years We're
actively protested against by this class of women.
The women of the superior station. educated women
those in easy circumstances, have been the to
do it. They were able to make their efforts tell be-
cause they appealed to the Intelligence the sense OF
justice, and the common sense Of their own men, who
were of the ruling classes.
There is much that is ging in present con-
diuons The general standard of intelligence is being
gradually raised The improved state of department
stores and the recent nrOduC ton OF the ethical
into trades works cannot fail to have uplifting ef-
rect on employees, women well n working
girls clubs there is tendency take broader views
Of the industrial world in which women must con-
unue. II no actual solution to the problem is per-
ceived. AT least the selfish apathy OF wo-
men has Naen disturbed. A righteous discomfort is
the first step toward reform.
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WORKING WOMEN AND THEIR WAGES
The ParGialy Supported Girl and Her Problem.

The workingman's inability TO support his family
unaided by them recognized by the common law.
which gave the husband full right his wife's and
his daughters earnings. Now he buys his clothes
Guiding his socks burns oil instead candles
and to the factory his carpets furniture.
The thing he lacks is money buy these things
and he sends his girls out to get the money. Prog
ress in the have taken away the industries from
the home
The better class Of department stores in New York
openly advertise that they employ only clerks
who live at home This sounds if the stores were
anxious to guarantee the respecta bity Of their
men employees, but in reality il merely that the
employers glad enough to encourage a state of
affairs in which parents made to pay part of
their chldrens wages The rate wages, as econom-
lists agree, is fixed at the level of subsistence
cheaper to live at home than to board keep up "A
separate establishment; therefore, il is possible for
the employers 10 get cheaper help the ranks
partially self-suppOrting women.
If this class of women workers are position to
accept lower rate of than the women who
entirely dependent their earnings. they ought
to be in position to demand a higher
Family experimentation of income in itself should
not lower wages Up to certain age while girls
are learning their work before they reach their
full Wage-eaTning capacity they must live at home
sary that their earnings should be added to the family
fun capacity for work is attained why is it that
continue to receive less money for their labor than
their brothers would accept for the same work?
The reason lies partly in the fact individual
girl looks forward to permanent sef-support she is
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Brokenstraw Ranch. 1903.

BrOkenstraw Ranch, 1903.
~ EAR ned see by the papers that things
| ] doing IN the franchise line at the legislature
- this winter, and that you stand a good chance
OF lifting the mortgage off your place If you practice
q little statesnanike economy
But as you never were any good legislative
poker, I conclude that il may strike you as a little
late to come into the game now.
However if you should be tempted to take hand,
Jet me give you the tip to remember the modern
parable of the Widows Mite and keep in mind that
this is the great day Of consolidation Both these
servatons point the same moral: bride in the hand
IS worth the safe deposit vauIt-to which the
other fellow holds the key
Probably you have forgotten the little episode Of
the Widows Mite. 1t happened that winter when the
red school house issue left you at home, along with
several other rural statesmen. TO fodder the stock
country constituents
Up to that time every corporation tub had stood
on its own bottom and the attorney of each fran
chise grabbing scheme had settled his own score in
his way. But at the opening of that session the
and the boys had their pockets enlarged TO the size
of meal sacks in order to take Of the prospective
They had just begun to get out their clubs-in the
shape Of bills TO regulate the powers and emoluments
lawyer with Highland Scotch burr i'm his speech
representative Of the corporate interests and vested
psalm tune on sunday but he could dispose of more
factory.
1t was said that the Gas company had brought him
bill Anyhow, he took TO the consolidation idea easier
than his ancestors did TO golf and Scotch whisky.
The morning after the third house had met I'm his
room the word was passed down the line among the
boys that things going done on brand
basis; that the consolidation idea was the
order OF the day and that it was a good thing.
Then the fellows who running things i'm both
houses told to get together on thaAslose COM
nunion basis and be ready take care of AN blsi
ness bearing the consolidation tag that came along
Old Hi in the senate, and Little Danny in the house
gave 90 out that everything fixed and that every
man who climbed into the band wagon would get his
proper share of the great consolidation watermelon
and that it the biggest set up IN the history
OF legislation.
This time, they told the boys things were going
to be handled slick that there going to he
stray seeds scattered around to talk on tho
part Of Fostering refOrmers and newspapers For
this the melon going be put away on ice
until the close of the sessOn-When 10 would be carved
the week after adjournment
Little Danny was appointed custodian Of the melon
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meeting was to formulate a waterproof lie for the
widows benefit, to the effect that Danny had been tbs
custodian Of a pool fund with which he had specu-
lated successfully and that the money in the
ehe venture in which all were to share.
All agreed to this except one young man He stood
out Ihen some one happened to get a hunch that he
was the only unmarried man in the combination
was pam unat he had intentions on the widow and
planned to copper the whole pile by a matrimonial
coup The rest of the gang made short work Of him.
They found out that he engaged to a girl in his
district Then they called him into open meeting and
gave him just a week in which get invi-
tations-told him that if he didn't make good the
altar schedule time the young lady would get a
round robin, or something Of that sort, giving him
He came to taw quick. but inferred that he shoula
expect to be handsomely remembered by his friends
enough pickle casters web-fOOted cake forks spoons
and fable vara 10 stock the hest ayaIy sora the Ij+
tie town had seen-and he opened business right
away after the honeymoon The other fellows thought
they had done something mighty slick
a committee three legislators waited on the
widow. They thought she'd cry and then compromise
for she was too wise not to know what Danny had
told them she'd fight their claim to a finish in open
court That settled it. The boys swallowed their
grief cursed the great consolidation scheme and threw
up the sponge.
From that time the relict Of Little Danny was the
most extensively cheerful widow in ten states-espe-
cally whenever she happened to meet any of his old
So YOU see, Ned, that the old c. O. D. plan is the
only safe If the modern siren of consolidation
tempts your remember the parable of the Widows
Seriously old man, wouldn't it be a revelation to
the dear rustful people if they could trepan legis
lature and see what's going on under the skulls Of
their honorable representatives just to uncover the
real works and watch the secret wheels of legislation
go round for the last day of a session would make
them throw bricks at every state house in the
try and put up signs over every senate and house
reading: This place has changed hands,"
Things weren't bad when started inland
thank God got out of it before the Doodle disease
became universally epidemic! couldn't look my old
dog Bluff in the if I'd been mixed up in that sort
of mess Ned and I'd rather catch my son stealing
scab sheep than see him elected to legislature And
that's honest.
In the course of time hope to live down the fact
that held in the lower house back I'm the
old state But I'll have raise good many chickens
and fancy cattle here the raRch before III
quite get the taste out of my mouth
Write when YOU get time and let me know If yours
still i'm the straight and path
You'H be less lonesome for writing II are hang
ing the oId-fashoned notions square politics with
which started in Yours ever.
WILLIAM BRADLEY.
Copyright, 1908, by Sampson Hodges Co, Chicago.
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any communication between the contracting
parties. The neighbOr who breaks the news to the
young cooks him meal from provisions in the
home of his future mother-in-law, that he end
his long fast and on his rejoicing.
If he is rejected he has to away hungry. If his
suit unfavOraby received the young swain does not
abandon his this stage of the COurtsnip He
quantity irewOod the kind esteemed by the
Indians, takes it the home of the girls parents
and starts a fire for the inmates II the parents
serious in their objection to him. they take the burn
ing wood and throw it out of the house. Still
daunted the youth repeats this performance the
second morning and again the third. Unless there
unusually grave objection he viii be accept
of mouth, but by the elder members of the family
coming and sitting around the fire he has built and
warming their hands over it. He is invited to break
fast and the Of his good fortune spreads
among his friends
The Indian legend about the origin o. daylight
fair sample of savage folklore A seagUI had all the
daylight there smut no in little box. He
risd e around with him. opening the lid far enough
TO light his and all other beings had to
day the seagul laid up with a foot and his
friend, the raven. to see him. The asked
TO examine the foot, and in order that he might
see just a little daylight allowed to escape from
the box The said he could plainly,
and, taking the box, opened wide the lid The long
imprisoned daylight rushel all the world and
could not be gathered again. When the invalid
was bitter he could be consoed That is why
seagulls cry pteOusy they skim the water
wheel in the wind The sorrow of the ancestor had
been visited all generations and finds expression
in the dUefU vail that rises above the tUmult Of the
storm.
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By Forrest Crissey

seen the widow" or whats the news from the
Lady Black?"
Finally it filtered along down the line that Mrs
Danny had found key in the trousers Of the de-
ceased and that in the safe deposit box which fitted
she had discovered 100000 Danny had often told her
she said, that he had made good investment and
a lucky strike two the stock market and had
sailed down snug
While she cOyly admitted that she was little sur
prised the size of the pile that Danny saved
she not wholly unprepared for the shock 1t
only his quiet way of providing for his family
In fact he had in almost his last words, told her
said that she'd find enough to keep the wolf from
door after he gone
At last the anxious attendants upon the coy and
innocent little widow held a grand pow-woW to see
what to be done.
The first item Of regular business transacted at the
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that Little Danny had dropped dead in his own
home.
His funeral looked like joint session Of house and
senate, and there more statesmen among the
mourners Of Little Danny than viii be got
gether again outside the of capitol dome.
For the next few weeks the black-eyed widow Of
Little Danny had a continuous reception. Finally she
closed the house and retreated her fathers home
up in The Patch, three miles away from a railroad,
in back township. But the tide of emigration, on
free passes, followed her, and distinguished
statesmen got off at that little jerk station
while she there than had ever been in the county
before.
She broke all the records OF widowhOod on the
score of delicate attentions from who were
titled to Honorable in front of their names
When one legislator met another he grinned sheep
ishly and asked:
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TATTLINGS OF A RETIRED POLITICIAN
PARABLE- Oh The WIDOWS NM

fund and he passed out the word that he had it put
away snug in his own safe deposit vault.
Every man knew the size of the piece he to get
at the end of the session. and all stood pat the
agreement and delivered the goods roll can with
out finchng.
Day after day little Danny grew thinner and yell
lower. But he kept up whisky increasing the dose
as the session drew to a close. In the last days
was as shaky as newborn calf but he hung on
like grim death-and kept the boys in close line.
OF course. most Of the loaded bills were rushed
through with whoop in the last week of night ses-
sions, and mighty few Of the members wasted much
time in sleep So, when the whole thing over all
agreed to home and rest for three days before
dividing the spoils Then they to meet in the
city in Little Danny's Office and that melon.
But the second morning after adjournment the
hOnorabes Of the state jolted bed by the
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One Wife and Three Queens.
New York Times)

New York Tmes)
A story is told on a Rochester downtown man who
loves a quiet game Of draw poker. Being advised
the phone the other afternoon that five of his
friends about TO open jackpot. he 'phoned
back: How much viii it cost me to come it? Seven
dollars? All right; let who is not playing
draw cards for III stand it,
soon of the outsiders called him UP and in
formed him he had three queens. The business man
chucked and waited for the betting to reach him.
''Ting-a-ling,' rang the telephone.
''WeIl2" asked the wire player.
Ct called you began a voice
sorry" cried the business man, "for I've got
three queens"
why, George, this is Mary" explained the
voice.
It was his wife. He is now trying to explain away
those three queens.
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New York Evening Post.l

(New York Evening POst)
In considering the that the daughters of work
ingmen are almost without exception called upon,
early the law allows them to leave school, to
tribute to the family fund. economists to
look one important circumstance Greed, lazness,
sehshness the feverishness of the to rise above
their station charged against the fathers Of these
girls.
The truth is that the present day workingman is
doing nothing essentially in sending his woman
kind out to earn money. He has done the thing
or what amounts 70 the same thing, for generations
uncounted. The wOrkingman has never supported his
family and he is no better able to do it than in
times past when living was palmer and the state of
society less complex.
Leaving out the class in which husband and wife
sons and daughters tOied side by side in the fields
the man in moderate circumstances has always been
obliged to demand certain well defined services his
children, girls as well boys In the case of the
girls most of these services We're of old performed
within the house but they the less represented
direct money value Besides the cooking the gen
eral routine of domestic labor the dozens
of things for the man which now done for him
by the factories and workshops They wove and made
his soap his carpets his bed coverings great deal
Of his furniture, and Of put by his winters
food Besides all this they very frequently able
TO turn in a certain amount of money each year.
Trades were common enough among American
men of the lower classes long before they began to
work outside the home. They were tailoresses shoe
hnishers, straw weavers, dressmakers. miineTs and
nurses; and this by no means exhausts the list.
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A Generous Alderman.
CNew York Times.)

CNew York Times)
Congressman James Brock Perkins happened
downtown Office the other day and called upon an old
friend, alderman. During the chat Italian couple
came and asked in broken English If the alderman
would unite them in marriage. With extreme grace
the alderman performed the ceremony. and after
cepting his modest fee politely handed bride
umbrella.
The congressman eyed the proceedings graveIy,
and after the couple went out asked: do you always
do that, Charles?"
do what? Marry them? Oh. yes"
mo; mean bestOw present upon the bride"
"a present! Why, wasn't that her umbrella? 20
gasped the alderman.
mo; it NINE" replied the congressman
sadly.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1903-03-05
An Extra Ses sion

Washington. Special.-The President
has signed a proclamation calling an
extra session Of the Senate OF the
Fifty-eighth Congress. to meet March
9Th. The proclamation follows:
by the President Of the United
States of AmeTca.
"A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, Public interests require
that the Senate should convene in ex-
traordinary session; therefore. Theo-
dore Roosevelt. President of the Unit
ed States CT America, do hereby pro-
claim and declare that an extraoTdi-
nary occasion requires the Senate OF
the United States to convene at the
capitol in the city OF Washington on
the 5th day of March next, at i2 o'clock
noon, of which all persons who shall
at that time be entitled to act as mem
bers of that body are hereby required
to take notice.
"Given under my hand and the seal CT
the United States at Washington
| the 2nd day Of March in the year OF
our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and three and Of the Independence OF
the United States the one hundred
and twenty-seventh.
| THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
| "By the President;
| JOHN HAY.
.'SecTetary OF State"
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1903-03-05
Rcdy Recovered.

New Orleans, SpeciaL-MtzGiag for
six days. tire holy OF stephen Fi:zyeT-
aid. agent Of the American Cot-oI
Company. In this city. vas taEe7
from the old basin canal NJ. FitzgeT-
aid was last seen On Satu-l1y aignt.
when ne boarded a car 70 60 home His
family suspected foul play and his
brother. John Fitzgerald. came froD
S.. Louis 10 assist in the search. Ter
were no marks Of violence On the body
and 10 money had been taken from Lis
pockets. II is probable that be fell In
to the canal by accident and was IN
able to get out Mr. Fitzgerald was
from Memphis. where h.s aged mot1er
and sister live