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The San Francisco call., 1906-12-23
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The San Francisco call., 1906-12-23
GREENWAY DECLINES OFFER
OF AN IMPORTANT POSITION
Former Rough Rider Refuses to Be.
come Commissioner of General
Land Office.
WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON. Dec 22.-Captain
John c Greenway. who was in Pres
ioent Roosevelt's regiment of Rough
Riders, has declined the position of
Commissioner Of the General Land Of
fee, soon to be vacated by Commission
er Richards
Greenway was offered the position
some time ago by the President, but
because Of private interests requiring
his presence in the Northwest was un-
able TO accept
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-23
DEVELOPING BUST AND
CHEST.

Deep breathing helps greatly in developing
the chest Every morning upon arising and al
night before retiring, afterward massage with
Melorose Cream and three times a day take
Willard White Co.'S Vaucaire Galega Tablets.
Drink plenty OF cold water, avoid all drinks
Containing acids. and within month the bust
measure viii have Increased to the extent OF
serera1 inches-Alle. Merlyn, Editor Woman's
PaRe Buffalo Times.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-23

Jade natpins at Neil O'Neil and Karl
Eber's. 81. 1744 Fillmore.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-23
PRESBYTERIAN SERVICES

The following Is the order of service
at Lebanon Presbyterian Church, Twen-
ty-third and Sanchez streets. Rev.
Richmond Logan pastor, this morning
and evening:
Morning service-Prelude, doxology
and invocation; hymn "A, "Harkl The
herald angels sing" (Mendelssohn) !;
anthem, There were shepherds abid-
ing" q. Edgar Birch); responsive
psalm reading, and Lords Prayer; an
them, Jesus the son is born" Cd. w.
Phillips); hymn 78, 20 come, all ye
faithful (Adeste Fideles): Scripture
reading and prayer; Gloria Patri sDr-
Rodney. Day);, anthem, 20 be joyful'
leave thy throne" (Margaret): sermon
by the pastor. Glad Tidings.; offer
bring you good tidings" (Goss); hymn
IL, 10y to the world" (Antioch); post
lude.
Evening service-Prelude; hymn 81,
All hail the power of Jesus name"
(Coronation); anthem. Behold. bring
you good tidings" Oynes); responsive
psalm reading and Lords Prayer; hymn
rs. TT came. upon the midnight clear"
ness lay (steels); Scripture reading
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11
LITTLE FELLOWS

A. "hard case"-an iron chest.
The golden mean"-a miser.
A harder thing to keep than secret
money.
freebooter-the man who does not pay
his cobbler.
An author is queer animal. His tale grows
out of his head.
Every bookkeeper thinks he has the best
entry-way. Every owl has it's own stareway.
A retired school master excuses his passion
for angling by saying that, from constant hab-
it. he never quite feels himself unless he is
handling the rod.
A precocious youth, prompted by an un-
pleasant recollection of the last term," says
that school teachers are like dogs-they lick
your hands. This carries off the palm.
Distracted Mother-Robbie, do You give the
horse to Gertie, if she wants it. Pm tired of
this noise.
Gertrude-Yes, anything to keep me quiet.
"Do you know that my hair used to be pure
gold like yours when l was young?" said an
old lady to her grandson.
"And is it because it used to be gold that
it is silver now?" asked the little fellow.
A certain boy has several sisters, who call
him "Bud," which is short for brother" But
he says they call him bud" because he is a
Guiding genius" This budding genius keeps
in little book a list of the things he wants
but can't afford to buy. This book he has
named his "cught-to-buy-o -ography (autobiog-
raphy)
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11

milk and eight ounces of rye bread. Supper,
as on Sunday.
Tuesday Breakfast and supper as before.
Dinner: One bowl of vegetable soup, six
ounces of meat, half bowl of potatoes and
eight ounces of rye bread.
wednesday, and supper as be-
fore. Dinner: One bowl of mutton broth,
eight ounces of meal half a bowl of potatoes
and eight ounces of rye bread.
Thursday and supper as before.
Dinner: One bowl of pea soup, six ounces of
meat, half bowl of potatoes and eight ounces
of rye bread.
"Friday.-Same as Monday.
Saturday y.--Breakfast and supper as before.
Dinner: One bowl of ollebrod, eight ounces Of
meal, half bowl of potatoes and sixteen
ounces of rye bread.
IN. B.-The bacon and meat shall be with
out bone or gristle."
By this time it is wearing toward noon, and
we begin to think of taking leave; but the
sub,inspector stops us short.
You're going away without the best sight
tary cells yet"
Solitary cellsT echo I. "I didn't know
you had any"
"Oh, yes, we have. The prisoners live
mostly in company, as you've seen, but every
man has three months by himself just after
he comes in, and three more just before he
goes out again. Indeed, they will sometimes
ask to be put in cell alone, and the permis-
sion is always given. Now here, for instance"
l
is man who is having his final three
months before being released"
He opens door on the right as he speaks,
and diseloses small whtewashed cell, con-
tanning only a pallet-bed, stool and deal-table,
| in which slim young man, seemingly about
twenty, is hard at work making wicker bas-
kets. Having saluted us, he proceeds with
his work quite composedly, and seems hardly
to notice when we go out.
THAT cell and this one here are all that
are occupied at present" says my guide, un-
locking the opposite door, and revealing, to
/ my considerable surprise, not fullgrown
convict, but two understood boys, hardly past
their childhood.
What on earth have these little fellows
been doing?" ask.
Burned a house for fun, and stolen little
lat the same time" answered the sub-inspector,
with perfect gravity.
Robbery with arson, in factl Precocious
youngsters, truly! And what sentence have
they got, prayw
This one fifteen months. the other eigh-
teen"
one, broad, full, apathetic, denotes one of
those heavy intelligences which seem doomed
. to be always the passive instruments of evil
in dexterous hands, as this poor little fellow
has evidently been in those of his shrewder
confederate, whose sharp, rat-like features,
and small, cunning, deep-set eyes, tell their
own story.
'sAnd now" SAYS the sub-inspector. with a
courteous bow, '1n afraid that's all have
to show you; but if you care to visit the new
prison, which is close by. I've no doubt
your guide will be happy to conduct YOU
To the new prison we go accordingly; but
the details of our visit to it, and all that we
saw there. must be reserved for another
place.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11

see something to surprise you
to-day" Gays my friend Mr.. j,
as we tramp along the narrow,
struggling streets of Bergen through
a pouring rain, which fully iustifes
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21

d. W. Loar's drug store, single carriage.
occupied by Misses Grace Loar and Maud
Mellinger: white chrysanthemums and red
carnat lions.
Misses Mae Annes, Leila Ager and Pau
line Poe, single rig, red, white and blue
peoples.
Pyncent and Susie Smith, single rig. tiger
lilies
Little Amelia Downing, juvenile rig,
drawn by the Misses Fawn vining, Polly
Oldham, Lillian Merwn, Jessie Hinshaw,
yellow chrysanthemums.
Little Mary Wade, juvenile rig, drawn by
Callie Ellis, Wendall and Bertrell Moore
and Bryan Wilkinson. pink and white car
nations.
Mrs. Ida Combs and Mrs. inertia Merwin,
single rig. Maccabee colors, black, white
and red; red and white carnations.
Frank Smith. comic, tandem mules, with
pioneer harness and pumpkin trimmings
Shimeall g. Son. double carriage, occu-
pied by Mrs. Eddie Reynolds, Mrs, Harry
Baer. Misses Mae Shafer and Nellie Lewis,
yellow chrysanthmums and pink carnations.
Mrs. ]. w. Turner, single rig. red and
white roses
c. L. Freas, double rig occupied by tho
Misses Mabel Baer, Florence Zeiser, Addie
Scheor and Theda Trehearne, white chrys-
anthemums.
w. s. Kelley runabout, driven by Misses
Vina Kelley and Ida Richards, yellow pop
pies and yellow daisies.
Beaver City Lumber company, float, four
horse rig. occupied by the band. red and
white peonies.
International Harvester company. float,
red and white wild roses.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21

VEAVER CITY had a flower parade
in connection with its county fair
recently, and proved conclusively
MlrTtPH that the size of a community
S&s has no bearing on its artistic
spirit. The parade was a success in every
regard and its beauty and general artistic
ensemble won for its projectors and those
who took part much praise. The citizens
were taken completely by surprise, as they
had not looked for such a display. while
the visitors to the city on the day of the
parade were delighted by the beauty Of
the decorated carriages. The women who
were instrumental in arranging for the af-
] fair worked hard from first to last, and
| were rewarded by seeing their plans go
through without hitch and to see flower
I9aTade carried out without a mishap. Those
who decorated vehicles for display did so
with excellent taste and judgment ana all
added to the success of the whole A
novelty provided by the addition of a class
Tor Juvenile, which resulted in some very
pretty minor displays that added much to
the beauty of the whole as well as provid-
ing an element Of variety. Another feature
that Is not usually included in the list of
"a flower parade was the 'comicaP' section
The winner In this went back to first
principles, and drove a team OF mules
tandem. hitched to a wagon OF the olden
bNyiO d2lu ldutn WITH SuCn SLuH as the
early settlers used to drag across the
prairies from the railroad to their claims
A third departure from the conventional
was the participation Of Industrial con-
Germs in the show, and some handsomely
decorated floats representing business en-
terprse. were shown.
The committee that had charge of the
parade, and to whose efforts it's success
Is due was Mrs. +. G.. Downing, Mrs. b. f.
Moore. Mrs. w. c. +. Lumey Mrs ID. E.
McClelland and Mrs. F. NJ Merwin The
JUdges were Mrs. Joseph Einstein of
Araphoe Mrs. C. S. Letson of Wilsonville
and Mrs. 8. c. Forney of Beaver City
The prize winners were: First prize, Miss
Agnes Andrews of Cambridge. second
premium, Mrs. w. c. Il. Lumley; third
prize Mrs. Martin and Mrs. vlning. In
the Juvenile class the first prize went to
the go-cart arranged by Mrs. F. D. Down
ing and drawn by four little girls. The
second to go-cart OF Mrs. c. W. Wade
and drawn by four little boys. In the
comic section Frank Smith was the I'M
animous choice for sweepstakes. BY re-
quest the parade was repeated on Friday
A detailed list of the various rigs is as
follows:
Mrs. Lunley and Miss Efne Harding.
single rig, blue chrysanthemums and white
chrysanthemums.
Miss Agnes Andrews, single rig, decorated
in black and yellow. four little girls dressed
In black over yellow, yellow chrysanthe-
NUNS and yellow daisies.
Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Vining, single road
wagon, tandem team, red peoples.
Mrs. b. +. Moore, double carriage, occu-
pied by the Misses Gertrude Moore, Ruth
COPYRIGHT, Hazel Wilkinson and Maude
Leach: white chrysanthemums and laven-
der chrysanthemums.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21
nCe SANS 25OO Chinese Coolies and How They Will

day and food and it is hardly probable
that those who come to Panama will be
paid less than 81 per day, although they
will probably feed themselves. They will
get more and more as the work goes on;
for, as 1 shall show farther on in this
letter. they understand union methods and
will be able to raise their wages TO the
highest notch.
dollar a day, however, is big thing
for a coolie fresh from China. 1t is ten
times as much as he could make at home.
II our common laborer, who is now receiv-
ing $3.50 or 81 a day, had similar in
crease he would be getting from SIS to
$40 a day. While was at the city Of
Fuchow. in China, some time ago, was
told that the daily wages of masons were
Is cents and that the best carpenters re-
ceived 20 cents. Skilled Chinese masons
and carpenters on the Panama canal will
eventually get from ten to fifteen times
these sums, and then be not half as well
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21

each must then be clad only in piece OF
string and his paper tag. The men VIII
be taken one by one into an adjoining
room to be examined by the doctors ana
by Chinese clerks. who will see whether
their physical appearance corresponds with
their identification tags. II they are found
correct the men will pass on into third
room, where there is a tank OF warm
water, in which he must wash on the
last dust of China from his body. He
will then go on into a dressing room to
put on new, clean clothes and perhaps a
uniform furnished by the contractors of
the Panama canal. 1t is here that the
coolie changes his paper tag for lead
disk, and here he gets his first payment
of a months wages-perhaps in advance
so that he may settle his last bills in
China before saying goodbye to his fam
lily and going on board.
The Chinese coolies who have gone to
Africa are getting from 81 to CO cents q
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21

paid for their ten hours work as our
eight-hour men who do similar business
here.
Women tea pickers in China get some-
thing like 2 cents a day, and those en-
gagged in making grass cloth, a beautiful
goods much like silk receive about 3 cents
from daylight to dark. An old missionary
told me that he could get ten men to work
a whole day for him for dollar and out
of that sum 10 per cent would be given to
the man who did the hiring. In some parts
OF China ordinary field hands get or 4
cents a day with food. and skilled work.
men less than 10 cents. This is. of course,
in the interior. where wages have not been
affected by the modern progress move
ments.
Professional men are paid similarly low
wages. In almost any Chinese city you can
get thirty theater actors to play forty
eight hours for 30 simoleons. and in the
backwoods OF China q doctor will charge
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21

you 20 cents visit and think himself well
paid.
In the factories wages are very low.
There are about 2e,O00 silk hands in the
mills at Shang Hal, and among them are
children who work for cents a day and
women weavers who get cents. 1 went
through a large factory employing mum
dreds of females. and the highest paid
woman In the whole establishment got 26
cents for a thirteen-hour day. / also went
through the cotton mills which are now
springing up in various parts of China
and asked as to the wages. The factory
girls at Shang Hal were then receiving
on the average about IA cents of our money
a day and the poorer hands did not get
more than cents. The hours were from
until g. with thirty minutes at noon for
luncheon These girls were about the best
paid in that part of China. and they
thought themselves lucky to get the job.
Chinese Unions at Panama.
The coolies win probably organize their
own unions at Panama, and that soon after
their arrival There is no country of the
world more honeycombed with trade unions
than theirs, and when they go abroad
they will carry their union rules with them.
This is the case with the Chinese In the
I-nllppiicbs at Oiu6dpOlc.
in almost every foreign settlement, and is
bound to be so at Panama. The labor
unions in China are almost as important as
are oup unions here. During my stay In
Tientsin some years ago Ia Hung Chang
was the viceroy OF Pechilli, and as such he
was interested in bringing the shanhaik-
wan railroad into Tientsin. He was able
TO get IL only TO the banks OF the Peiho
river opposite that city. He started to
build a bridge, when the boatmen's union
objected. and he had to put his station on
the other side. The boatmen are among
the lowest OF the Chinese coolies. and Ii
Hung Chang was the strongest Official the
celestial empire has ever had; but Ii did
not dare to antagonize the boatmen-
Another strong union lie that OF the
wheelbaTow men. They do the freighting
of the empire. carting goods and passen-
gers on rude barrows, pushed by hand.
There are 5000 such men In Shanghai
and when they struck not long ago against
an increase of license there was as much
distress in that city as there was In Chi
cago at the time OF the Transfers strike.
Another strong union Is that OF the slop
carriers. the men who bring the dishwater
and other offensive stun out Of the houses
and carry IL away to be saved for manure.
There are no sewers or modern con-
venienees In most Chinese cities, and these
men form one OF the most important parts
81 the lsbor1nE element EOt long aSs
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21

Secretary Taft is anxious TO throw all
safesuards about the Chinese and TO pro
'tect them in every possible way, not only
as TO their health but as. to impositons
OF any kind. The conditions of introdue-
ton will be about the same as those now
employed in bringing coolies from China 70
South Africa 70 satisfy the labor famine
which exists there. The gold mines of the
Rand have long been short of workmen.
The East Indians who We're imported are
not a success, and the l<o HIS, who have
done n great deal OF work up 10 this time'
are growing more and more unreliable
from year TO year. They will work only
when they are hungry, and, as their wants
are few. they can get enough 70 satisfy
them by Iaboring from one-third TO one-
half the time. The RESULTS they are idle
from six to eight months every year and
the operators OF the mines never know
when a gang will leave In body,
II was in 1904 that the Transvaal began TO
import Chinese coolies. II has now brought
IN thirty or more ship loads. containing
altogether about 5000 Chinese. OF these
more than two-thi-ds have been taken
from north China, OF which less than one
|. in a hundred has died from sickness,
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21

all those employed in the city of Nankins
struck on account OF the unjust arrest uf
one of their members. They refused to
carry out the slops and at the end OF
three days the city stank to such a de.
gree that the people rose and insisted that
their demands be granted.
China has beggars unions BARRIERS
unions and unions OF all sorts OF factory
men. The BARRIERS union once declared a
strike which reached most parts of the
empire, and for a time the two hundred
odd million men and boys I'm China went
about with their heads looking like black
shoe brushes. 1t is not difficult to shave
ones face, but to shave ones head is al
most impossible, and the hair of tho
Chinese grew into bristles on the strike
OF the BARRIERS. ] believe the strike was
for a demand that BARRIERS sons might be
admitted to the official examinations and
] understand that it succeeded.
How Chinese Fight Capitalists.
Our first 1850 Chinese can probably be
controlled without much trouble at PAN
anna, but II their number is doubled and
quadrupled. as may be the case when the
canal is in fun swing. serious strike
might cause considerable trouble and even
danger Of life. There was a strike at
Shanghai some years ago against a magis-
trate there. during which the strikers took
possession OF the unjust official and bit
on his ears, and at Suchow there is a
record OF q strike against an employer
who took on more apprentices in rushing
an order OF gold leaf for the emperors
palace. in which the employees killed the
offending capitalist In this case they bit
him to death, each man being forced 10
take a chew and show that his lips ana
teeth were bloody before he was permitted
TO go home from the factory. There were
80 many men engaged in the biting that
only the ringleaders were punished.
The Chinese unions regulate the num-
Der OF apprentices. In some cases they
IN the hours Of work--as, for instance.
silk weavers are not allowed to work
after . o'clock In the evening. The or
binary hours. however, are long, and If
the work OF Panama is to be paid for by
the hour there win be no trouble IN get
ting the Chinese to put in at least ten
hours per day.
What Coolies Will Do on Canal.
The general idea is that the coolies Will
be required only for the dirty work on
the canal; that they win shovel dir and
be mere diggers OF earth and hswers OF
wood or drawers Of water. This will be
so al the start. but they will rapidly
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