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The wageworker., 1906-06-15
NEW JERSEY 'RlcKlSHAS.
Vehicle of Yankee Make Has Invaded
the Orient with Good
Results

That characteristic vehicle of the
orient, the jinrikisha, is drawn by
yellow cOolie in Japan, a brown Hindu
in India, black Zulu in South Africa;
but look between the shafts of the
'rikisha in any of these countries, and
you will probably find the same name
plate-that OF a vehicle manufacture.
in New Jersey. The Yankee jinrikisha
has invaded the east, and it's invasion
promises to result in a permanent oc-
cupation of countries where cheap la
Dor would seem to forbid sales OF
American goods.
The Yankee 'rikisha manufacturer
competes on prices first. He sells vehi-
cles as good as the native product at
as low as SIG and no higher than $40.
American factory methods permit turn
ing them out in large numbers on the
duplicate system. He also competes in
quality, making jinrikishas with ball
bearings, bicycle wheels and cushion
tires at $50
Different types of 'rikisha are made
for different countries. The vehicle is
common in Lagos, Cey1on, and many
other localities, each of which has its
preferences in the way of weight.
height, hoods, bells, lamps, colors, end
cushions. The New Jersey factory also
supplies the ''pousse-pousse" used in
Madagascar. 1t is a variety of jinrikt
sha with hood and springs.
Another is the Korean cab," which
is nothing more than an improvement
on the clumsy Chinese wheelbarrow,
with it's single wheel, familiar as a pas
senger vehicle in all Chinese cities.
The Korean cab" has a single wheel
fitted with a pneumatic tire, and seats
one passenger, the seat being placed
high over the wheel Coolies in front
and behind balance and prope1 it, and
the vehicle is capable of good speed.
When the YANKEES 'rikisha was intro
duced on the west coast of Africa, it
was so much lighter than the vehicles
previously known that the first Zulu
who drew one presently stopped, lift
ed the vehicle and it's passenger to his
| head, and wanted to carry it that way,
being easier. American wheelbarrows
were introduced about the same time.
and a contractor who supplied them
to his Fanti laborers, returning in 4
few hours, found them all being car
ried water-jar fashion.
The wageworker., 1906-06-15
NICE VEGETABLE SOUP.
Takes Almost Whole Day to Cook,
But a Fine Meal After Long
Hours Of Hard Work.

Italian vegetable soup requires
slow fire and whole day for cooking,
but it is very good, and is a supper
to look forward to after hard days
work outdoors. 1t calls for a pound
of beef, cupful Of red or white beans,
one-half cupful of split peas, four to-
matoes, three carrots, two onions, four
potatoes, parsley, celery, spinach, a
cupful of butter, nutmeg, cinnamon,
pepper, salt, cheese and bread. Put
the beef on covered with cold water
and add large pinch of salt. Cut all
the vegetables in small pieces, but do
not chop. When the meat has cooked
for nearly an hour, put all the vege-
tables in with the meat except the
potatoes. Allow the soup to cook near
ly all day Twenty minutes before
serving brown the onions, cut up fine.
in the butter; remove the pieces OF
onion and add tomatoes; put in the
potatoes, also cut fine; add tomatoes.
butter, ETC., to meat and vegetables
Brown in the oven buttered bread cut
in squares, crate the cheese on to the
bread and serve both in the SOUP
Rural New Yorker.
The wageworker., 1906-06-15
THE PICTURE BLOUSE.
A Delicate Green Glace Silk Embroid-
cred in Small Posies Is q
Thing Of Beauty.

The term picture blouse seems con-
fined to those that are heavily en-
broidered, and the handsomer the en-
broidery the more does the name full
fill it's mission. One beautiful waist
was made of peau de cygne, as glossy
as a mirror. while the embroidery was
in dull silks, made more beautiful by
the contrast with the background.
One of the picture blouses was in
the most delicate cloud green silk
glace The design was as of a bou-
quet of small flowers done in their
own tones. The design was little
at one side of the waist, extending
over and across the front and trailing
over the other shoulder. A compan.
ion waist to this was in the lightest
pink, with flowers done in red and
white and forget-me-not blue.
Old-fashioned frilling finds a place
in the waist of to-day and the frillers
who did not begrudge hemming miles
of soft India frillinGs are now get
ting busy upon frills no wider than
half the width of your little finger.
each frill edged with fine lace. The
waists are trimmed with these frills.
put on in rows, and rows across the
yoke and around the sleeves, and in
rows and rows around the girdle. Ct
course, none but slim woman would
wear these frills, but she who Is tall
and slight is very effective in them
Brooklyn Eagle.
The wageworker., 1906-06-15
Exports from Gulf Ports.

The growing Importance of the
gulf ports for the shipment of western
produce is gathered from statement
recently issued by the department of
commerce. For the 10 months ending
with April Galveston, New Orleans
and Mobile exported $30,000,000 worth
of breadstuffs, against $33,00O,000
worth for all the Chesapeake ports,
including Baltimore, and $37,000,000
worth for New York. New York's
lead is readily accounted for by the
advantage it has in the cheap water
route through the lakes and the Erie
canal, which also give her not little
wheat from the Canadian fields. With
deep waterway from Chicago to the
mouth of the Mississippi New Orleans,
which contributes 16,500,0O0 to the
above total of $3O,OOO,0OO for the three
gulf ports, would in all likelihood ex-
eel New York in the shipments of
breadstuffs and other western produce.
The wageworker., 1906-06-15
Chances of Death in Battle.

In Homeric days battle was a con-
flict of armed mobs. The nearer you
got to your assailant the better was
your chance of killing or being killed
The bigger the man the better were
his chances in the strife. In these
piping times of mechanical warfare:
says the Scientific American, the situ-
alton is reversed. Battles are fought
at ranges a mile or SO. The smaller
the man the less are his chances of
being hit. An ingenious mathemati-
clan has figured out that perhaps the
casualties on the Japanese side must
have been considerably less than those
of the Russians in the recent war if it
be assumed that the craftsmanship of
each was equally good. The advantage
of the Japanese was inversely as the
cubes of their height and breadth.
The average targets offered by each to
the enemy are as the cubes Of 1856
and 1,642, or as LOG to 118, an ad-
vantage in favor of the Japanese of
about IL per cent.
The wageworker., 1906-06-15
LEES'S LOST FLAG OF TRUCE
Incidents Connected with His Sur.
render in Which Maj. Morgan
... Participated.

ri met, on Appomattox day." said
the colonel, "the officer who received
Gen. Lees flag of truce, just before
the surrender, April 9, 1865, This was
Maj. George F. Morgan, at that time in
command of the One Hundred and
Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania in Grif1n's di-
vision of the Fifth corps. The division
was on duty early that morning. Nor
gan being we'll to the front with lines
near AppomattoX. A rebel battery
went into position to check the union
advance, and became so troublesome
that Gen. Griffin said to the command
er of the brigade: Tell Morgan to take
that battery.
Griffin had at one time commanded
the brigade, and he knew Morgan. No
sooner was the order given than the
One Hundred and Fifty-fifth charged
the battery. The guns were whisked
away, and the Alabama brigade sup
porting the battery swung around the
The wageworker., 1906-06-15

Col. Babcock, who escorted him to Me-
Leans house to await the coming Of
Grant, to whom the note had been for7
warded. Meantime all was uncertainty
where the lines were in contact, the
officers arranging for only temporary
truce. But it SO happened that Mai
George F. Morgan, now of Chicago,
was at the most interesting point on
the line ana became a participant In;
the dramatic scenes of the Appomattox
surrender"
Morgan wss also at Gettysburg, y; !,
said the captain, "and he had an odd
adventure on the night of the second
day. His brigade was posted on Little
Round Top and at the night he was
changing his pickets along Plum creek.
in front, when he walked into a de-
tachment of confederates looking after
their own pickets. Morgan was taken
short distance to the rear as a pris-
oner, but watching his opportunity,
slipped between the videttes and
worked his way back to Little Round
Top. He found his lieutenant sound
asleep, and, creeping under the blank
ct, went to sleep himself.
Ill Luc tuS lieutenant
pinched his captains arm to deter
mine whether he was ghost or not,
and there was great commotion, the
men being noisy with joy when they
found their captain again among them
and none the worse for his adventure
| The next night there was on Round
Top quiet little game of poker under
the screen of blanket. When Nor
gan intimated that it was time to quit
the lieutenant remarked, That's all
right, as you have all the money
| ($35O), but will get it all tomorrow
You will be shot and will go through
your pockets Blu. Morgan was not
shot and was kept in training for
many hard fight"
| At Five Forks Morgan was the Sc
nior captain in provisional brigade
in which no field officers were present
| for duty. When Sheridan and Griffin
rode up at the turning point in the
battle the situation was explained to
them, Morgan expressing his willing
ness to assume responsibility. There
upon Sheridan gave his orders and said
/ to Morgan: eff you do just as tell
you we will double their lines back
and break them all up" Morgan
moved the brigade forward, doubled
| the enemy's line back on itself, and, as
Sheridan said, broke them all up.
| Morgan is we'll known among the
older officers of the regular army, says
the Chicago Inter-Ocean. He went out
with Samuel M. B. Young in 1861. The
latter, who enlisted as private in the
Twelfth Pennsylvania, became lieuten-
ant general, and others of Morgan's
old associates came to hold high rank,
/ but none Of them ever forgot the quiet
business man of Chicago who won
brevets at Five Forks and Appomattox
and whose regiment fired the last vol
ley before Lees surrender.
The wageworker., 1906-06-15
CHARACT TER
OF SEX APPEAR
IN FLAT-HUNTING.
Men Hate to Move When Once Set
tled-Women Expose Their
Foibles in Making
Selection.

Here's where you have a chance to
study human nature" says the super
intendent of Chicago apartment
house, according to the Inter Ocean.
why, l can tell as soon as l have
gone over an apartment with a couple
whether they live happily together.
IF they talk over the attractive cor
ners and she tells where his reading
lamp will go, and he says that is
nice corner for her tea table, they are
pretty sure to be home folks.
"If he digs holes in the floor with
his cane while she makes a quick SUR
vey of the rooms and orders repairs
in lifeless fashion, they are merely
getting a shell of a home in which to
hang the skeleton of their one-time
domestic happiness.
You learn to read women, too. in
this business" he continues. The
woman who talks about the lovely fiat
she has and how she hates to leave it.,
but Henry is bound to come up town;
who criticises everything in the apart
ment and fairly shifts the air for trou-
BILE, will make nagging, fault finding
tenant, and if l had my way I'd raise
her rent.
"The woman who wears a stylish
dress in the newest coloring and fab
ric, but whose shoes are run down at
the heel, whose finger tops need mani
curing and whose underskirts hang in
tatters of embroidery below her skirts,
is sure to be sloppy housekeeper and
ruin the fittings in the fiat.
off
but not everything. A doubtful party
always comes well armed with refer
ences, but when woman and man
look at each other doubtfully and Won
der whether they had best give the
name of their uncle, or his employer,
or their last landlord, take heart and
know they are not up to Chicago
| tricks.
"The bane of the apartment house
superintendent is the Sunday rush. All
through April we work early and late
showing apartments on Sunday. On a
pleasant Sunday we show perhaps 200
callers over apartments and rent pos
sibly two. On rainy Monday we have
three callers and rent two apartments.
Rainy day fiat hunters mean business.
| Il do not believe any man would
move If he had his own way. He would
rather pay more rent, put in a gas
stove IL the steam heat is not all that
| it ought to be, sleep on mattress
stretched on the boards laid over the
bathtub, If the fiat is too small-any.
thing rather than move. Moving has
driven more than one we'll intentionet
man to drink"
The wageworker., 1906-06-15
Children of Missionaries.

fathers trade; in America, the land
of change and rapid promotion, he
seldom does. For this reason, observes
the Youths Companion, there is some
thing particularly significant in the
fact that of the missionaries of the
American board in India and Ceylon,
one-third are the children, OF the
grandchildren of missionaries sent out
two or three generations ago. Many
men say to their sons, Mine is a poor
business; try some other The sons
of the missionaries have said to their
sires, yours is noble work; we will
continue it,
The wageworker., 1906-06-15

flank of Morgan's men to compel thei-
withdrawal. Instead of Withdrawing
the One Hundred and Fifty-fifth pro-
ceeded to cut the Alabamans off from
their main column. While this move
ment was being executed confederate
major came forward bearing flag Of
truce-a white pocket handkerchief
tied to the twig of tree. Taken to
Maj. Morgan, he said at once: For
Gods sake, major, stop firing. Gen.
Lee has decided to surrender
Morgan asked why in thunder his
command did not stop firing. The flag
of truce was sent back to Gen. Grif-
fin, the message to be forwarded to
Sheridan or Grant, while Morgan him
self pressed the Alabamans to surren-
der Immediately. This they did, and
Morgan's regiment had the honor of
firing the last volley of that campaign
and of receiving the unconditional sur
render of the first confederate brigade
to lay down it's arms at Appomattox.
Then Morgan, after sending his prison.
ers to the rear, rearranged his lines
houses in Appomattox.
HE was sitting on his horse in front
of the Mclean house when Lee and
Babcock rode up, and his men were in
duty when Grant, Sheridan and the
others came up. Not only were Nor
gan's men closely associated with the
events of that day, but they were ap-
pointed to receive the arms Of the con-
federates, who turned over gup, and
equipment in the next few days. It will
be remembered that Lee, after writing
his last note to Grant, was met by
The wageworker., 1906-06-15
Natural Arm Chair.

A gardener in Korea has formed
natural armchair by twisting grow
ing vine to the required shape. It is
also studded with seeds of the gingko
tree, which have grown into the fiber
of the vine. After the chair was fash
ioned in this way it was cut from
the ground, dried and polished until
it resembled mahogany. 1t is 8
feet inches high, 25 inches wide
and weighs over 100 pounds.
The wageworker., 1906-06-15
Marketable.

Eva-Katherine says she likes to see
man wear nigh collars and Grace
says she likes TO see him wear stocks.
Would stocks attract you, my dear?
Edna-Yes, if they were listed among
the preferred Chicago Daily News.
The wageworker., 1906-06-15
Wash the Soap.

When it is necessary to use the soap
in public toilet room, take the pre-
caution to wash it. Skin diseases are
easily contracted through soap.
The wageworker., 1906-06-15

Two German officers and eight men
were killed and ten men were wounded
In fight with Hottentots, between
Warmbad and the Fish river.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-03-20
HAWoRTH PRosPERING.

l.. w. Haworth, formerly editor of
the Tribune, writing under date of
Feb. IL from Manhattan, New, to
friends in Hilo, states that on Jan. 10
he began publication of the Mail at
that place. Manhattan, he says, is n
typical boom mining town full of good
opportunities to make money of which
he has not been slow to take advan-
tage. Christmas there were y tents in
the town; now it has built up nine
blocks long on both sides of the street,
the hillside dotted with tents, and lots
have risen from $500 to $500 in price.
The boom is founded, he says, on val
liable mining property and next summer
big rush is expected. He says Man
haitian is the greatest place in America
to "Get there Eli' in for making
money. There are also very profitable
sure thing propositions in raising al
falfa and potatoes around the camps Of
Tonopah, Bullfrog and Manhattan. He
started the publication of the Mail on
Jan. 10, has subscribers from all parts
of the country and more job work than
he can handle. He has also organized
the A. l.. Smith Co. to engage in the
business of handling mining properties
and stocks.-Hilo Tribune.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-03-20
JUTE MILL IN PRISON.

BY order of the court, Messrs. j. w.
GirVin and G.. j. Waller, Jury COM
missioners, We're directed to furnish
one additional name to the list of
grand jurors in lieu of r. f. Lange,
who proved to be vice-consul for Bel
gium and who declined to serve. Also
to furnish thirty-eight additional
names in lieu of similar number of
the trial jury list who had been ex-
cused for cause or ineligibility, not
having the requisite knowledge of En-
slish. The following is copy of the
list furnished by the Jury Commission
ers, viz:
Grand Juror-Zeno X. Myers.
Trial Jurors-John c. Abreu, John
Brown, c. w. Booth, Henry c. Carter,
George w. Clark, Clinton w. Crandell,
Paul j. F.. Ehlers, VIM. r. Foster,
Manuel Fretas, John H. Fuller, NJ. A.
Gonsalves, Charles S. Hall, Julian ID.
Harries, Paul Jarrett, VIM. j. Jellings
John A. Johnson, Thomas Jones,
Thomas II. Kennedy, Clifford Kimball
Nelson b. Lansing, George Lishman,
j. Oswald Lutted, Charles G. Murasky
James Mott, Percy NJ. Pond. George
Il. Rugg. George w. Scott, John Will
liam Smithies, VIM. II. Soper, F. j.
Testa, Bertram Won Damn. Frank ].
Wallace. Bernard Waggoner. William
Wilson, Richard Weldon, Henry
Wise
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-03-20

much as does our present main In
dustry.
In order to illustrate the immensity
OF the Brazilian industry, it is only
necessary to state, that she has about
900 600 acres devoted TO it's culture,
and IL necessity and demand require,
Brazil has millions of acres more,
whereby it's culture can be extended.
our concern is however not for Brazil
or other foreign coffee zones.
why should not Hawaii. in conjunc-
ton with Porto Rico. take up vigor-
Gus and sincere campaign to secure for
our future another great and wealth
producing product?
The Advertiser is correct in its con-
tentions. when stating "Hawaii's ac-
ton in this matter has been mos des-
ultory,'' If not seemingly Indifferent
Our commercial bodies and financial
powers that be, should realize that
great things lie before US through gain
ing protective duty on coffee. and
IL would not be amiss II earnest and
sincere efforts be inaugurated of hav-
ing this consummation realized.
Without it, there is no great future
for the industry, with 1t, immense
possibilities and a new wealth pro-
ducing power in our hands
1t would undoubtedly as previously
quoted, Rank next to Importance in
the commercial and industrial history
of the Hawaiian Islands, to the reci-
procitv treaty, existing from 1876 to
under which the sugar in
dustry was established"
A. l.. LOUISSON.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-03-20
AMENDMENTS TO JURY LIST

Il do not know any good reason WHY
the three hundred or more prisoners
III. the Territorial penitentiary should
not be put to work making jute bags
said High Sheriff Henry yesterday
This Territory imports annuniiy $780,
700 worth of jute bags for sugar and
rice. l am of the opinion that at least
a part of this money can be saved.
and the prisoners put at a labor which
will not be in competition with citizen
labor. And I have written to the
Warden of the San Quentin prison. in
California, asking him for data as to
the cost of plant for making sacks,
where the jute is obtained, and about
the process of it's manufacture.
Il will have this data for presenta-
ton to the Legislature, and I would
like in the meantime to get all the.
Information that can relative to the
subject"
High Sheriff Henrys idea is certain
ly worthy of very serious considera-
tion. The utilization of prison labor
is one of the gravest problems that
confronts modern governments. II is
conceded that prison labor should not
be brought into competition with la
eral of the States schemes to avoid
this competition have been tried, and
the sentiment against it is a growing
one. On the other hand, the treadmill
and things of that kind represent so
much energy wasted, and political
economists abhor that
The jute mill in the California
prison Of San Quentin has, perhaps.
been one of the happiest solutions of
the problem so far tried. There is a
market in the California grain fields
for hundreds of thousands of burlap
sacks annually. Jute is not grown nor
manufactured in California, and the
cnly labor the prison jute mill comes
into competition with is the cheap la
Dor in India. The prison-made sacks.
of course, can not supply the Califor-
mia demand, but they do serve as n
check to keep down the prices and the,
manufacture is thus a double benent
to the State.
In Hawaii there is a condition very
similar to that which exists in Cali
fornia. Thousands of sacks are i'm
ported into the islands annually. and
II the prison labor is used in the man
ufacture of sacks to help meet this de-
mand IL VIII not come into competi-
tion, as It does to a certain extent
now. with the free labor. In Hawaii
there is a large abor element, as
everybody knows, that must get work
ON the roads If 1t is to work at all.
The matter was threshed out in the
last Legislature, and is threshed out
at every session-but the prisoners
continue to work in the quarries and
on the roads because no other work
| can be found for them TO do. They are
| sentenced % hard labor If High
Sheriff Henry's plan of a jute mill for
the prison is feasible there will be so
much more work for unskilled citizens,
| il they wang 10 do it,
The jute itself might even be grown
here in certain localities, as it requires
hot, moist soil with plenty of rain
fall II is produced. commercially, for
the most part In Bengal
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-03-20
BOARD OF FORESTRY WILL
A|D.|A PLANTING OUT TREES

the individual planter is to secure the
general Introduction of better meth
DDS, the Division reserves the right 10
publish and distribute the plan and its
results for the information of the pub
lie"
The circular contains a form of
agreement which must be signed by
the applicant for assistance in forest
ing land under the provision of the
offer and says that applications for aid
will be considered in the order in
which they are received, but prece-
dence may be given to those likely to
furnish the most useful examples. APP
plications for the assistance offered
in the circular must be made in writ
ing to the Superintendent of Forestry,
postoffice box 331, Honolulu.
SEEDS FOR SALE.
In this same connection, Superin-
tendent Ralph S. Hosmer, Superintend-
ent of Forestry, has issued the follow
ing list of forest and ornamental tree
seeds for sale at the government nurs-
cry. the first division comprising seeds
collected in the neighborhood of Ho-
nolulu:
FOREST TREES.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-03-20
BABBITT WILL
VISIT KAUAI

Il am going to Kauai next Tues
day." said Superintendent Babbitt NJ
the Department OF Education yester-
day. Il am going to inspect the
schools on the islands and VIII prob
ably be away about ten days. l want
to familiarlze myself with the work
of the department and l think the
best way to do that is to visit the
schools. You see, the men who We're
here before me had a certain famili
arity with conditions everywhere
which / have not got. And l need
that to handle the schools intelligent
ly. The Board of Education should
meet next Thursday, but will hardly
have a meeting before my return. The
teachers committee. however, Will
probably meet on Tuesday"