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Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-15
Daily Life of a Chinese Miner.

The daily life of one of these Chinese
may interest you. He wakes about 4
o'clock in the morning at the sound Of
the bugle, and takes his place in a gang
of thirty. which is in charge OF a boss
boy, who leads them into the dining hall
for breakfast.
He eats under the electric light, sitting
at a table. At the close of the meal a
bugle again sounds and the men march
out gang by gang. The roll is then called
and 1t is ascertained just exactly what
coolies are working. and the reason for the
absence of those who are not in the gang.
Then the bugle blows again and the Chinese
move off to the shafts and go down under
ground. Each takes a half loaf OF white
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real mistress OF the lighthouse. When his
death came she applied Cor and was given
the work. Since that time she has been
steadily at It, cleaning, tending and>watch-
ing the light that it may be never dimmed.
Then her mother died In the old light
house, and the woman was left alone with
her work. She loves 1t. and is never sat
isfied If she is away from It for long. Her
only recreation in an occasional visit to
her brother. who lives at O~ceanside, and
gathering in sea specimens. a collection
OF which she recently gave to the Santa
Cruz library.
Fortunately for Miss Hecox, the Santa
Cruz lighthouse is not built on a rock
bound coast, but is powered among trees.
The light is a modern one, of 12-candle
power, multiplied by reflectors to some
thing like Cos candle power. During the
twenty-seven years 1t has been tended by
Miss Hecox, no ship has been wrecked on
the Santa Cruz coast.
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"I WENT INTO THE KITCHEN"
the way of food supplies and other stores.
Their dividends were between 100000 and
&S,OO0,0O.
When the Chinese have gone It is sup
posed that their places will have been
filled by natives. There is a great preju-
dice here against the Hindoo, and It is
hardly probable that he will be imported.
As to the negro labor supply, a large part
of that now in the mines is from Portu-
guese East Africa. 1t was brought here by
contractors, who pay the Portuguese gov
eminent S425 per head and agree to give
the natives good wages and good treatment.
Indeed, 1t is said that before the Chinese
came more than 80 per cent Of the colored
labor was brought in from outside the
TransvaaL.
On my way down the coast I met the
agent OF a labor organization who had
been drumming British Central Africa for
labor. He had contracted for a large num-
Der Of negroes of various tribes. whom he
marched down to the port Of Chind and
there loaded them on the steamers. Central
Africa is not thickly populated, but 1 am
told here that about 10000 natives can be
annually brought from there to the Rand IL
the proper inducements are offered. At
present the wages in that part OF the world
cents or a dollar paid in the mines seems
riches.
Another possible source of labor is Rho
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bread along for his luncheon at midday.
As to the time the men stay in the mine
this depends on their skill and on the jobs
on which they are working. If on piece
work they can depart when they have done
a certain amount. For instance, the ham
mer boys, who drill holes for the blasting,
are supposed to make two feet in a day,
but IL they can drill that in three or four
hours they are at liberty to return to the
surface, or they can stay and work on at
the rate of one cent per inch for all above
that. The most ever made by any one in
a day is 70 inches, and one of the Chinese
gangs here has an average of fifty-four
inches per man, which means that they
make about Sc cents per day in addition
to their board and lodging. AS a rule the
men work on until 8 o'clock, when they
march back to the compound for dinner.
thus closing the day.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-15

James Mcintosh. Il. D., or North Platte
who gave an historical summary Of the
church from the time It was founded.
Rev. Thomas B. Greenlee. Phi. D.. for
merly pastor OF the North Platte church..
but at present pastor Of the Clifton Hill
church OF Omaha, delivered an address.
Exclusive OF the cost of pipe organ, the
new edifice viii cost at least $4,000
Thirty-five years Of activity was pictured
by Rev. Mr.. Mcintosh In his dslinsation OF
the church's history. Starting with q little
group OF ten members. its growth 10 a
nourishins organization with over 100 COM
municants was narrated. Mention was
made OF the ten ministers who have oc-
eupied the pulpit at various times Ancs
1874. Rev. Mr.. Greenlee being mentioned
as the one having held the Passionate for
the longest period
Following the usual custom In laying
cornerstones. rolls OF membership OF the
church and its dependent organizations,
copies OF the church and local papers. q
list Of the subscribers to the building fund
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desia. There are now many negroes from
Basutoland and -Bechuanaland here. Dur
ing my stay in Rhodesia l was told that
the negroes of that country make fairly
good workmen, and that IL rightly superin-
tended they will form an efficient labor
supply. They move slowly. but they work
steadily and do not loaf on the job like
the average American or European. The
ordinary working day is about eleven hours
$40 per month. including the cost OF feed.
On railroad construction ordinary workmen
are paid 50 q month, and receive their food
in addition. The extension of the Cape to
Cairo railroad Is being constructed with
native labor, and I am told that these
negroes can lay track almost as fast as
the best track-laying machines of tho
United States when manipulated by our
white labor. During the last stretch of the
railroad which ends at Broken Hill they
laid five and one-half miles in eleven hours,
and on the average they laid more than a
mile of track per day for something like
400 miles. In this work the rails and steel
ties were brought along on the cars as fast
as the track was laid. The natives took
the rails from the cars and carried them to
the ties. About fifteen men were requlred
to each rail, and the stream of carrto,g
went on continuously from dayligh{ 20
dark. I doubt not they could do S1ra,Iv
well in the mines.
4 FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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In the

1 understand that many of these Celes-
tials never had a bath until they were
stripped naked and secured at Tien-Tsin
before they took the ship for South Africa.
Since then they have enjoyed this luxury
regularly, and they now wash them
selves quite as much as the whites. The
bathroom OF the Simmer and Jack must
cover about a quarter of an acre. 1t
is filled with great tubs and watts, and
during my visit to 1t 1 saw at least fifty
of these yellow-skinned men splashing
about in the water.
I then went on to the kitchen. where
hundreds Of great kettles of steaming
beef stew were ready for distribution Each
kettle contained about as much as a cider
barrel and the aroma was appetizlng.
There were also great pots of rice and
vegetables, the whole comprising the ra-
lions for about 1900 men. d.
AS 1 looked the Chinese came in to get
their food. They marched in in regular
order. each being known by his number,
I saw many of them eating and observed
that they used knives and forks. At first
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with the Chinere Miners.

During my stay here l have gone through
the mines ard watched these Chinese at
work. They are far more industrious than
the negroes and form a much better labor
supply. While going through the under
ground workings Of the Simmer and Jack,
the greatest producing mine of South
Africa, I was told by Mr.. Seagraves, the
manager. that the Chinese will do at least
one-third more work than the native Afri-
cans. Said he;
w nave increased our output that
much with 10 per cent less men, than when
we worked negroes only. 1t Is only a few
years since that we had 5000 native Afri-
cans. We lave now 1900 Chinese to. take
their places and our product is one-third
greater and the work more satisfactory.
Tho Chinese are more easily handled and
are more reliable"
Speaking OF the teRchability OF the Chi
nese as WI watched them drilling the holes
for blasting and loading the ore Mr.. Sea-
graves said;
'"rhose men came to us green. Their
homes are not far from the Chinese wall,
and they probable never heard of dyna-
mite until they reached here. Notwith-
standing that they were doing efficient
work within two months after their ar
rival. and at the end Of six months they
were equal to our best white miners at
home. To give you an idea OF their relia-
bility in comparison with our ordinary la
Dor supply we had to IA white overseers
Will every negro gang. and we have them
stu, The Chinese could get along by them
selves. I have something like coo white
men employed In these underground work
ings. and / could. II necessary. dismiss
them all"
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wei AAAo 06o@
tending credit to the woman in the case.
fact the wife agrees with her husband in
the course adopted as a means OF checking
the Irresistible Impulse she feels whenever
a bargain ad meets her eye.
The parties involved are Mr.. and Mrs.
Luther Martin. The public notice reads:
NOTICE is hereby given that I, Luther
Martin, OF No. 20 Llewellyn place, West
Orange, N. j., hereby diCclaim all re"
sponsibility for purchases made or In
debtedness incurred by my wife, Kate a.
Martin, or any member OF my family
household, after the date hereof, and
that any Indebtedness so incurred by her
or them will not be acknowledged or paid
by me.
Dated New York. Nov. 2. 1908.
Nothing, II would seem. would be more
likely to rouse the fiercest anger in a
wife, but Mrs. Martin is so far from being
enraged that she only smiles when her
friends chide her about 1t.
The fact is, as learned by the New York
World from Stephen A. Mcintyre, OF No,
lis Broadway, Mr.. Martins attorney, and
from the governess of the Martin children,
that the notice was published with the
knowledge and consent of Mrs. Martin,
and after many heart to heart talks be-
tween husband and wife.
tits a case of a woman who could not
resist the attractions of a new bonnet"
said MI. Mcintyre. "She realized her own
weakness and took the only means OF pro-
tecting herself from her own extravaganza
There's nothing more to the case. Mr.. and
Mrs. Martin are better friends than ever,
and the course that has been taken prom
ises to save both OF them from q greaI
deal OF ~unhappiness."
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-15
In the Chinese ComDounds,

During my visit to the various mines I
have gone through many OF the Chinese
compounds and have watched the men
both at work and at play. They are
health y-looking fellows. taller and more
muscular than the Chinese of the United
States, and. as a rule, better citizens.
The compounds are walled Enclosures.
entered only through turnstiles, so that
every man who comes in or goes out
leaves a record. Each Chinaman has his
number and this is taken when he comes
in. He is paid by his number and by it
he gets his food and supplies. In fact,
the 1000 odd celestials in the Simmer and
Jack mine are not known to their en-
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The New Labor Supply.

The question as to how the loss Of the
Chinese is to be repaired is discussed
everywhere in the Transvaal. At present
there are In the mines about 5000 whites.
9S,0 900 natives and in the neighborhood
of $1,000 Chinese. The number of mining
companies employing Chinese is over thirty
and these companies produced in 1906 more
than $50. 100000 worth OF gold. They paid
out in wages and salaries something like
SIS, 900, 900, and in addition considerable in
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they would eat with nothing but chop
sticks. Now many are adopting western
clothes and western ways. The rations
allowed each man are one and one-half
pounds of rice. one pound Of meat, one
pound Of white bread and one-half pound
of vegetables per day. They drink a great
deal of tea, and the managers supply them
with all the lime juice they will consume.
The men sleep in hunks, in rooms about
forty feet square and twenty feet high,
with nothing but a zinc roof overhead.
Such a room is supposed to accommodate
sixty Chinese. although it has seldom more
than forty-eight
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-15
Long Vigil in LiEhthouae.

Miss Laura A. Hecox. who for twenty
seven years has attended the light OF the
Santa Cruz lighthouse. has but recently
returned to her post from the last of the
six vacations she has taken during that
period. Since 1881 this woman has had
absolute charge of the light. and in all
that time It has never gone out during the
night.
Miss Hecox followed her father In charge
Of the light. relates the Los Angeles Times.
He was a retired clergyman. who took the
work OF caring for the light when his
health broke down under the stress of his
pastoral duties. With him went his wife
and girl, who cared for him as well as the
light.
During the thirteen years her father was
in charge, Miss Hecox was practically the
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North Chinsso the Best.

"Is It not uncommon to get labor from
north Gilman I thought most Of the
emigrating coolies were from the south ?"
Yes. that Is so as a rule" replied the
mine manager. THE Chinese OF the
United states come largely from Canton,
while those or the Philippines are from
about Annoy. We tried the Cantonese,
but we find them hard to handle and not
90 efficient as these men from the north
They do not smoke much opium. and,
IS q general thing, they are orderly and
lAw-Rbiding. Their chief vice Is
gambling. They viii bet on anything.
ana they spend their holidays in playing
fGn-tan. Now and then We have a sui
eide from q man who has played away
all his savings. Sometimes the men hang
themselves and others take enough opium
70 cause death"
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Notable woman Aeronaut.
Increasing Her Chances.

A Wisconsin woman has advertised for a
husband, but not in the ordinary way. She
isn't advertising because she is anxious TO
marry, but because publicity affords her a
wider choice when she is ready TO choose.
In the minor town where she resides the
available masculine element is small and
pretty thoroughly picked over. By adver-
Using she reaches new and widely scattered
material and thus may find a life partner
who is entirely to her liking. In short,
she steps out OF the petty homs market
and appeals to the markets OF the state.
Naturally, II will be assumed that the
woman is merely out for the entertainment
that may be found in an extended CORE
s~pondence. On the contrary, she is a bus
mess woman, 50 years old. OF sound health
and good complexion. with the title deeds
to a farm and with none IN the bank. 1t
will be seen that the man who wins her
will secure an unmistakable prize.
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native how to work, and he will not
contract for more than a few months.
Half of his term is spent in learning,
and as soon as we have made him thor
oughly efficient he wants to leave The
negroes here will not work more than one
third of the year. and we cannot be sure
of more than three or four months from
any Of them. The Chinese work right
along year in and year out. The native
when he has four months wages ahead,
like as not. goes home and buys a wife
and we see him no more. 1t would take
$50, 900 or 200, 900 negroes, supposing each
man worked only four months. TO equal
the steady work of the Chinese, who are
now to be shipped back home"
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RewardinE Fidelity.

That New York organizations which re-
wards faithful housemaids had its annual
distribution Of prizes the other day and
thirty-nine candidates for official recogni-
ton at the society's hands received practi-
cal forms Of appreciation. There were
cooks and laundresses ard nursemaids and
housemalds, and they were given prizes
of various values. from 80 gold pieces and
finger rings down to brooches made in
the shape Of golden bees-the emblem of
industry. One maid had ten years of con-
tinuous service in the same family to her
credit, and the others had shorter terms. a
number of them being two-year maids
winners Of the golden bees. All Of the
thirty-nine were highly recommended by
their employers, and each can feel quite
sure OF securing an attractive situation
should she sever her present domestic rela-
lions.
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caves from Fashion. Notebook.

Very wide ruchings nave missed in their
bid for fashions favor. An inch is the
limited width and narrower ones are still
better.
Triple cape and triple reyers are favorite
modes for the straight cutaway coats. It
Is not necessary that they be used to-
gether. There Is one very decided novelty
In the combination OF a tilet. cape and
collar, the revers being of the coat ma
terial and the collar Of military design.
,OpsS n Desun 70 IeSeLvS ISSosnl-
some good dressers. A striking coat OF
this fur v made OF selected gray skins,
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every fundamental law OF Difference to
authority ingrained in their natures.
In society these well taught youths
would go, and obedience to law would be
as natural as the inbreathing of the vital
air.
And with this gift the foul fierd of di-
vorce would cease to blast with the breath
Of the bottomless pit the fairest flowers
of the home paradise.
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instance of the
tempting influence OF bargain
counter rushes has become pub
lc property In New York
through an advertisement,
warning merchants against ex-
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-15

HE cornerstone Of the new North
Platte Presbyterian church was
laid in the presence of several
hundred people from the sur
rounding vicinity. The ser-
vices were conducted by Rev.
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carefully arranged d~iagGna,,v 20 o.. - u.
an eiIeCt somewhat 4iEe that of chinchiiIa.
~ sTna = one Pf the warmest and Coolest
VI turs ana ls~very inexpensive.
,,orita Pe1erine and shawl shapes are IA
S anaS SSEes for erm1ne and other flat-sur-
,,ssd1/ furs, while caracul and lamb are
uSey for the loose. straight backed coats,
YYtmenterie. Black fox, In conjunction with
Velvet, will be greatly worn, for II is all
ways a rich, handsome and becoming fur.
One OF the latest notifications of the
sheath skirt Is In two pieces, in empire
and hipless effect, the seams and invisible
length on the left side the seam meets an
inserted section. SO arranged as to look
like an inverted plat. This Is headed with
a braid ornament. which forms the only at
tempt at decoration.
The gilet continues to be an Interesting
feature, both of gowns and coats, and the
shops are showing many beautiful ma
and pompadour silks and others of more
pronounced design, in which the figures are
outlined with heavy gold or colored silk
cord, .velSsts upon which there are heavy
satin brocade flower designs. others printed
In small figures and still others In striped
effects.
A dainty tea gown designed for a bride
was fashioned of white net, encrusted with
lace applications almost to the knee, where
the material was laid In tiny tucks, out
lined by a laurel wreath worked In outline
stitch with green floss silk. over this
cut away in front, OF souple satin worked
with gold in a laurel wreath design and
Delted with a gold girdle studded with
Jewels. There were tiny little pouf sleeves
OF the satin, while the hard line Of the
inner kerclief of white tulla
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what Women Are Doing.

Nine. Michaels, an architect. is now con-
structing what will be when finished ths
iBsrf Z b oHl'd an ,ea IN o Mar ssmeSs w 6reas
architect, Miss Elizabeth McClelland.
In Fort Wayne, Ind. there.is an organ
ization for the training of housewives. 1t
science work, ard by it all the members
OF the family learn something. II is under
the direction of the club women OF that
city.
An American woman who heard Miss
Christobel Pankhurst at a recent suffrag-
cite meeting described her as e very young
girl, very good to look at. Miss
said that II all woman wanted TO marry
they could not unless polygamy Is author
lied by the state, as they so largely out
The German Housewives society OF New
York offered prizes to all servants who
had been In their places for two years and
received the priHes' the Longest SERIES
being twelve years and the reward being
2 $40 gold piece. Thirty-one had occupied
the same place for two years.
The League for the Civic Education of
Women, incorporated some time ago by
Mrs. Richard Watson Glider and others,
has been Incorporated as a national body,
and will have branches in all parts OF
the country. The object Is to study poll
ties from an anti-suffrage, point Of view.
Butler Of Columbia university. Mrs. An
drew Carnegie and Mrs. Grover Cleveland
are honorary vice presidents.
HOW the club women or Terra Hauto
enforce the pure food law was the subject
Of an interesting report at the Indiana
federation recently. Officers OF the club
organization OF Z e city visit all the places
where food is SD and make out a white
list. These cards are placed in the win
dows OF places in the list. and only these
places are patroniZed by club women. The
consequence Is that most OF the houses In
the town try to come up to the standards
set by the club women.
In some OF the eastern hospitals Indian
girls are taking courses In nursing, ana
are said to make the best kind of nurses.
Application was made to Commissioner b.
10. Leupp and he was very much in favor
OF the graduates Of Carlisle and other
schools entering training schools for nurses,
as many OF them were better fitted for
that work than for positions as stenog-
raphers, teacher and other ~employments
open to them.
Miss Agnes Deans Cameron, a well
known Chicago writer and club woman,
who left in April for a tour OF Alaska and
the Arctic regions. has returned after a
siX-month trip through the basins of the
Mackenzie and Peace rivers. She was ac-
companied north by her niece, Miss Jessie
Cameron Brown, in the capacity OF COM
panion, secretary and stenographer. Miss
Cameron has the distinction or being the
first white woman to pen many OF
the places sha visited.
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Do Not LlEe Native Miners.

DO NOT Like NRuVo MInera.
How will you get along without the
Chineser' I asked
Il really do not know" was the reply.
SXou see. Il AXE some time TO teach the