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Gard of Thanks.

l wish to thank the membrs Of the
G.. A. R., the Women's Relief corps and
all the other friends who so kindly
assisted me in the funeral of my be-
loved brother. John Pieper.
G.. r. PIEPER.
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Leave For Lewiston.

r D. Galloway and o. B. Open
heimer were passengers on this after
moons train for Lewiston, Idaho,
where they will remain for some time
transacting business.
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FIRE CARPENTERS
DON'T LOWER PAY
ORGANIZERS SENT FROM SPO-
KANE AND SEATTLE ISSUE
UITIMATUM.
Agreement Has Been Reached Be-
tween Organizers and Contractors
Which Settles Trouble.

Discharge the incompetent work
men, rather than retain them at
lower wage was the ultimatum of the
organizers who were sent here from
tween the contractors and the carpen
tiers, George Won Eschen, of Spokane,
having given out the ultimatum of the
union agents upon his return to the
Falls city.
Mr.. Won Eschen was commissioned
to assist in the adjustment of the diff
ficulties which grew out of the refusal
pay the scale to some of the union
men, whom they claimed were unable
to earn that amount because of their
inferior workmanship.
Mr.. Won Eschen states that the
whole matter has been settled and
that the contractors ale now paying
the scale. The objection to the
workmanship of the union men was
taken up, and it was agreed that
whenever carpenter was found to be
unskilled and unable to earn the scale
he should be discharged and not be
retained at a lower wage.
Organize Unions.
During his southern trip Mr.. Won
Eschen visited the towns of Pasco and
Kennewick, in his capacity as organ
izer of the United Brotherhood of Car
penters and Joiners for the Inland
Empire. Pasco, he says, is enjoying a
building boom, and many men are
being employed. At a large meeting
addressed by Won Eschen it was de-
cided to organize two new unions, the
painters and the plasterers, at the
railroad town. c. 0. Young, gen
eral organizer of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor for Oregon and Wash
ington, will attend to the details of
the organization
Mr. Won Eschen states that he has
sent number of carpenters from Spo-
kane to PaSco since his return He
says that the demand for teams in the
Columbia river town is now greater
than the supply Both KenneWick and
tial building boom.
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Has Scarlet Fever.

Miss aMtie Mccoy, 500 University
street is confined to her home with
an attack of scarlet fever.
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ferrari School in Opera.

Musical patrons will be pleased at
the announcement of the Ferrari in
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knife bench & approach up with chloro-
form E. sharp manicure sets If you be
SO kind ] say-so, please to include my
Heart & Brain when you remove my in
terror Why you wish you should lose
Heart & Brain?' require Hon. DR.. with
Hon. Digestion have went them Mike
robes might be lonesome for place to go
& settle down on my Brain & Heart.
What result? | should grow dodder q
drop in love with some Chorus Lady like
oldy mans is SO apt to do When l WAS
age 142 years this would be undignified
for one of my advanced youth So Hon.
Dr. would scoop me out & l would walk
off feeling lighter & more permanent"
Il should not want to have my inward
part removed like Chicken suppose
inc. And yet | shall require to live
to Age 40, like Prof. Mushykoff say
might. Therefore. would you not join me
in another glass sour-milk?
Not to do, thanks request me &
Euro with sinickel smiling.
"All WELL" say Nichi Then you young
& fool-hard Japanese can continue muir
dering yourselves with square food AL
ready seem dispeptick. Good health f,r
me, When you are buried away l shall
be in the midst of life drinking butter
milk with your grandchildrens."
So me & Euro depart off & leave Uncle
Nichi to his Fairbanks sips.
But that evening, at late p. m. Uncle
Nichi, who sleep next room by me.
jumped out of his slumber with howell
G. yall enjoying following loud symptoms:
sporting feeling in seat of stomick as
if Ache & a Pain was running a
footrace there.
2Shriek-cries from poor Uncle, which
was too bad.
3-Panick Of phone-call for DR.. Midzuno,
20 Mr.. Sir, please come too hasty to
Patriots of Japan Board e. Lodging
where Uncle Nich don't know what
he got.''
Arrival of DIR. Midzuno with medical
baggage.
What you been trying for to do?" re-
quire DR.. Midzuno from Nichi
Drinking sour milk so | could live
forever. This afternoon L drink Sufficient
to pickle me 30 years: SO l am surprised
to be dying SO SOON. This from Nichi
with grone.
DR.. Midzuno look to Uncles Tongue &
say for wisdom.
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of old women.' This is the stage man
ager gently expostulating. The siren
voice stops protesting against the reason
ableness of ''moonshine' and the siren Is
chestra-
Look! Look" again yells the stage
manager venomously. TRY 1t again.
Now, don't be dead, Now. down. One.
two. three. four-now. up,.one. two.
three. four-now-say, get UP. You girls
make me tired. Move move.
And they do move, shade less enthu-
siastically than the order is given. per-
haps. but in manner which gives
modicum of satisfaction evidently. They
revolve and twirl, they do cute little
stunts with their heads. they march and
stroll. and they sing. all to the cues given
by the music, in manner which to the
eyes of the mere person who had come
humbly to see was little less than mar
velous. and removed any lingering doubt
they may have still harbored as to their
ability as actresses who will in the flu
ture show the world how acting should
be did
Their personalities were most diverse.
There was a tall girl. plainly thin. who
looked like Vassar B. A.. resident of
Boston. and next her stood little red
haired Juvenile thing in short black
while beside her was a plump girl who
appeared to keep jolly at all costs. There
was another with the form of Juno, who
had the bottom of her shirt waist hanging
over the band of her skirt and between
her and I'd wide-awake girl In bun
princess was disheveled girl in white.
Quite AT the end of the line was pretty
little creature of the Edna May va
rety'' in Dutch collar. 1t seems a. pity,
but what can one do If the soul is bound
to expand and the limelight is more be-
coming than is domestic dimness?
The rehearsal over. the Interested One
proceeded to the sanctum sanctorum OF
the chorus girls behind the scenes. where
she finds cut various things. The Vas
sar b. A. fused to was clerk in a
ten-cent store the Juvenile red-haired one
had a notified and interesting past, the
Jolly girl was a bundle wrapper. the Juno
held a position in the bureau of engrav-
ing and printing and the Edna May dupli-
cate was the victim of shattered
dream romance.
stage?' asked the Interested One Of the
Titian-haired ''youngster,' whose name
was Alice Kopp.
'.Oh. + think was born for it, is the
convincing reply. MY mother made me
go to school until 1 was suspended.
What for? Oh, for some scrape
ruther-I was awful wild,-and then my
mother put me at the tailoring trade.
Well, I worked at that all day like a
dog. for Is cents a day. and l got tired
of it. So I ran away to New York and
left my baby with my mother. Sure. I
was married first, but he treated me
like a dog. / was married two years.
Well, | went to New York, and I saw
notice that a restaurant wanted
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You are enjoying a slight poisoning
of the toe-main, which is in the Stomck
where 1t is.
would it not be nice to remove out
Uncle's stomck before Hon. Mikerobe
gets the rest of him. I require alarmly.
ut should be done, report him writing
drug store language in tab-book.
But 1t are oftenly did in Paris TO cure
old age" / snuggest.
"Al scandals comes from Paris de-
ploy DIR. Midzuno So he take Uncle
Nichi's pulse & depart away with 1t.
He arrive times daily to look at Uncle
Nichis tongue which he think very beau
tiful. Yesterday Uncle Nichi' refuse to
do SO.
Make poke-out of tongue" say Hon.
DR.. scientifically.
20 not shall!' report Nichi like mule
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awhile yet. No, l have never married
The plump girl declined to give her
name, but she was very lucid and brief
to her story:
Il never worked in a store but three
days. I was bundle wrapper in Golden
STEMS and l got 81 % week Well,
hadn't been there morn day or two
when l handed out $50 worth of goods
to a woman who had bought a ten-cent
pair of stockings-yes, it was in the
hose department-and when Saturday
night came they handed me dollar and
told ME I was not wanted any longer. So
| said 'all right and stook myself away.
l didn't want to work in a store any
how. Too much like work for me- This
is the life for me, no work to speak OF,
and nothing to worry you. It certainly
suits me, and / wouldn't give 1t up for
anything, not even to get married to
millionaire"
MAY i ask your nameo' inquired the
Interested One of the junoesque girl.
Sure, said she. MY name is Edith
Aser. I used to work in the bureau, but
the work was so hard and 1 got chance
to go OF the stage, SO l went. l worked
in stock this year, but / made my start
with Elsie Janis in The Vanderbilt
Cup l can remember every bit of my
first line it began like this: Split, split,
champagne split. Rub it behind your ear.
luck and love all the year round There
was some more to 1t. too I've been
supe in some of the big theaters, too. so
I had experience enough. l got dollar
a performance when l played with the
big companies. 1t was while | was play
ing at the Belasco that I met my hus-
band. He sent me mash note. and L
met him after the show. He was lovely.
] thought, and l married him. No, |
don't live with him now, l live with
my mother. l have d baby five months
old. My mother takes care of 1t while
/ am away. You bet, | like the life It's
easy. and they're good to US. OF course.
the stage manager hollers at US. but he
don't mean anything. Sure, | firt with
any one l want to, it's lots of fun. Amt
it. girls?"
There was chorus of .ayes" and no
nays" The girl in the buff princess
waxed enthusiastic on the subject
You ought t see some of the mash
notes we get" she says There is
the door after the performance and then
it's a supper for us. I used to be
stenogra pher and typewriter in a business
office for 81 a week but j had a voice,
so when found out they wanted a girl
for the chorus, / got the place without
a bit of trouble. Comic opera? No,
don't care a bit about comic opera, but
l should like to sing in grand opera
Oh, yes. think | could sing some of
the big parts. Which? Oh, I'd love to sing
'Aeeda.' My real name is Ethel Safer,
but that amt my stage name. I've
got q speaking part in this show. and
I'm going to work my way up. / play
Maggie Sweeny in abrams Christmas,
and I'm six months widow, when |
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time / was q little toddling tot but I
never tried before. ! have always had a
good voice. and I think l shall make my
way all right. / was millinery appren-
tice at Cams. and ! got $3.50 a week
Yes. was married a year ago. but that's
all over now
Have / not seen something about your
divorce lately?'
1T was only granted a few DAYS ago
No, do not like to talk about IL
Enough has been said already. l think.
/ will tell You, though don't like TO talk
about It, I married him last year. and
we only lived together four days. No he
was not mean to me. Is that all you
wish to know? No. I don't suppose
shall ever get to be a grand opera singer.
but I should like to work my way up 10
be a comic opera singer. I'm going to
try hard. anyway. No. / hardly think I
should have ever gone on the stage II
hadn't had the trouble I did, but now I
am on. I'm going to make go OF II. Yes.
| live with my mother, and / am just
eighteen now
Say, tell about your stage fright" in
terpolated Miss Safer speaking to Edith
ager.
THAT was the funniest thing ever" re-
sponded the latter. 1T was on chorus
girls contest night, and I went out to
sing 'Dearie.' Well, I never got any fur
Their than TIL when / stopped and
couldn't go a word farther So I Just
stood there and hollered right out: Don't
leave me, Ollie to one of the girls, and
I got hand and took the second prize
Don't you know what chorus girls con-
test night is? That's the night we all go
out and sing something. and the girl that
gets the biggest 'hand--that means APP
plause-gets a prize OF So It's q great
night for us and We try hard to win. l
tell you
Who sends the most mash notes. the
old men the young. and which sort of
mashes do you PREFER
"Oh, the old chaps said half dozen
voices. You can get rid OF an old man
when you get tired Of his company but
the young fellows are stickers for fair.
and they worry you to DEATH said Miss
Safer. land the old ones believe what
You tell em, but the young ones are too
foxy for that" Not a kindly word for
the Stage Door Johnny who sometimes
spends all Of his nine-dollar-a "a week SAL
airy on them In a single night
Manager Thies, who has eight shows
like this one out on the road, came UP
and introduced Messrs. Boyd and Pier
son, the Washington composers OF the
piece. which is to introduce to fame
bunch of grand opera and comic opera
stars such az were never heard before.
Heigho. Calve. Schuman-Heinke, Tet-
rezeni. look we'll to your laurels for there
is formidable army advancing against
ington comedian. who really Is. you know,
made the Interested One acquainted
with 'Slim." budding leading man Of
majestic proportions, also OF our own
city. and then the second rehearsal was
called.
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''say-so that all Human Bodies is built
like N. Y. City. They are full of streets.
alleys. viaducts, bridges. subways ~
tubes. All departments of Hon. Human
Bodies Is inhabited by imported Germs
& criminal microbes what imagines they
owns the place & goes running around
with Black Handlers & other wicked
chums These sinful Germs, who IS
ing dept. police force & all Politics-and
first thing he know Hon. Human Body
do not care to continue on, thank you
So he quit &, die at the early age of So.
just as he are beginning on some career
of usefulness. Human Body. say Hon.
Mushykoff are like lots other American
Populus.
'Aint they no way of discouraging
them immigrant Buss?" 1 ask alarmly.
There are one way described by Prof.
Mushykoff." say Uncle Nichi. Folks
what wish remove Hon. Old Age must
not eat nothing but sour milk
How long could live if done that''
are next question for me.
Forever report Inc.
eff i couldn't have nothing but sour
milk l should not want to live forever.
are brite comet for me.
Il read in newspa per Journal say
Euro, chow DR. Discardo educated meat
chopper employed in that Pasteur Dog
Hospital, have discovered how folks can
live forever without any drinking of
dissipated food can be eaten by this new
way.
.'BanZai.'' ! retort. this are good Doc
tor for me l admire them Italians for
smart intelligence. How could you
neglect to get old by DR. Discardo' $
way"
''Dr. Discardo say-so that Diseases
comes from folks insdes. II they didn't
have no insides they wouldn't have 10
Diseases. If they didn't have no Diseases,
nothing could kill them except foolish
ness. Therefore, everybody must go to
hospital & have his insides cut off,
This sound so easy it appear decep-
tive. l reproach. by this scientific
hara-kiri any child. however feeble, could
grow older than McThusaleh, gladly
should elope to some Carnegie Institute
& decry. Hon. Doc kindly to vivisect
me; but be gentle as possible. please
So this Hon. Surgery would lay me on
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But l must examine Hon. Tongue to
derive condition of Hon. Stomick," nego-
tiate DR.. Midzuno.
IF you are SO wise say Nichi. you
can look at my Stomick & maybe tell
about my Tongue from there"
DR.. NIidzuno snatch hat disgustly.
Mr.. Togo" he say me at door by
Whispers when a Patience gets so
peeved like that he are surely convolut-
ing toward getting well. Hon. Stomick
are better, but he got gloomy frame
around his mind. Please make some
cheer-up for him.
Goodbye for DIR. Mdzuno.
So / collect together Cousin Nogi &,
Bunkio Saguchi & little Annie Anazuma
& Arthur kickahajama & a japanese
who call himself Frank Smith to get job
in bank. To bedsted of Uncle Nicni
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THE LETTERS OF A JAPANESE SCHOOLBOY

ness" notate Cousin Nogi with sinickal
eye-wink. He done SO because he were
too glued-up & snobby to wish for be
seen in Central Park riding in the same
seat with mule"
When Sydney Katsu. Jr.. say-how he
got deiciously sad anecdote about Hon
c. w. Fairbanks & the oldest statesman
IN Indiana. Uncle. Nichi bounch out of
bed with mad expression Of Athlete.
Kindly to bring me my congressional
shoes, my umbrella, my kimono my
derby hat he jounce with brutal voice
''Where you going. please?' I require
like a nefew
ITO some restaurant or restaurants"
depopulate Nichi. why should I lay
here with a room full of Anecdotes 6
nothing to eat?'
Shall 1 not bring you slight sour
milk or a little nourshing yeast for old
age?" require Nogi.
Not to do" relapse Nichi. II shall
not kill myself attempting to live forever
no more. Life are like any other good
job: if you work too hard keeping it you
are apt TO get fired. Therefore, let us be
slightly careless & eat whatever Germs
we can afford. Even If we can't live for
ever, we can live forever as long as
we're alive, can't we?'
No answer for this. So Uncle Nichi
elope away with 35 cents intending 20
spend all of 1t.
And yet l say to Nogi for slight
sorrow feeling. Il feel slightly too bad
to Uncle Nichi cease sour-milking Just
as he are getting used to it. Might It
not produce long-live germs? Possibly
might. 1t sound as scientifick as any
other sood-health ideas. And 1t would
be SO nice to have some member OF our
Family live to 800 years. Maybe men
would be ready to quit IL they lived 20
that age. Or maybe they could be fool
fish for $50 years & wise for $50 years. so
they could practice which way was most
fun. Would 1t not be sweet thought To
know that Hon. Jo-Uncle Cannon. when
he have arrived to age $50 years. could
look back to year 100 & say, 'Ah, we'll!
/ was only 20 then. Whatever mistakes
/ made at that time-and there was quite
a row OF them-was mainly caused ty
youth & inexperience.'
Hoping you are the same.
Yours truly.
HASHIMURA TOGO
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Hon. Pierpont Morgan. who are noted
for his skilful workmanship had white
mammal name of Sadie who were a very
talented kick. One day when Hon. Nor
gan were a-riding his mule, as usual. in
Central Park, N. Y, Hon. Sadie begin to
behave so Wildly West that she throw
her legs lavishly in all directions; and
finally she make such famous kick that
she put her left hind foot in the syrup
what Hon. Morgan were occupying at
that time. So with immediate quickness
that great Financeer jump down & ex-
clam. Sadie, if you wish to get into the
saddle ! will get off,
This story show that Hon. Morgan.
though oftenly cruel to Human Persons,
are always chivalrous to Animals" no
tate little Annie.
Hon. Morgan did not do SO for kind
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healthy.
Whose you do-so?'' require me &
Euro In unicorn.
''Because-so, say Uncle Nicili; II have
now arrived at the curio age of III an
nual Years when auit-time of Death
might be approaching. But I are unwil-
ing TO do SO, thank you. OF recently l
read in aper-print about a Scientist
working in DR.. Pasteur's Mad Dog Hos
pital. Paris Prof. Mushykoff are name
of this man. He have made some great
only reason why folks don't last forever
is because they dies too SOON
stand CAST for this important knowl-
edge.
Hon. Prof. Mushykoff have discovered
OF q great TRUTH ottor. IF he could
only discover the other Y. who knows
h"w long We might keep"
What additional truth must that Hon.
Prof discover" require Uncle Nichi.
How 10 keep folks from dying are
sharp report for me.
Hon. Mushy are working on that
problemb now say Unc. land he have
nearly finished IT, Maybe he will get
done next week in time to get picture in
Sunday papers"
"Hope-so he WILL l corrode. because l
are fond of reading about Science, how
ever untruthful ii may be-
This Prof. Mushykoft" say tNichi.
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waitress, and l went and got the job.
You see, I only had S125 when I landed
in New York. and / was so green that I
thought the lady who gave me a room
for it. but when she asked for fifty cents
the next mornin' l almost fell dead.
Well. when l found out that the restau-
rant people paid five dollars week, I
thought it was tn finest salary I'd ever
heard of. TIL manager asked me if l
had any experience, an / told him yes.
SO l cinched tn job all right. The next
morning l says to a girl what'd had
experience, Say, learn me how to do it,
will you?' for T didn't know tn first
won't do nothin' of the kind, learn your
own self So | had T. learn my own
self. an in three weeks 1 was head
waitress"
Didn't YOU get a raise, them"
You bet your life. Got eight dollars
per when l was head waitress. That
wus at one place, an then ! went to
Smith & McNears, down by TIL wharf.
an they abused me so l couldn't stand
it there, so / left an went on tn stage.
Oh, I just went to a theater an asked
to be taken on, an they tried my voice,
an / made good. After that l married
again and came back here t live, but
if ever you're an actress. | guess you're
always one an | just couldn't stay off
tn stage. So this year ! told my hus-
band to let me go on one more year,
and he didn't object a bit. Oh, I'm a
buck and wing dancer. All right one.
amt l. girls? No. indeed, I don't have
to. ] got two houses in m own name.
and my husband is a business man and
rich. Certainly He runs a business on
9TH street southwest. Mean t me- Well.
l sh'd say not, He never calls me any
thing but darling or doll baby and
he gives me everything money en- buy.
He gave me these di'monds. Stage life
is SO fascinatin, though. and l wouldn't
give It up fer anything!"
The story Of the next girl sounded like
the Flower Song" in comparison with
Miss kopp's history. In the first place
her real name was Violet Flowers, and
she was tall and willowy, and retiring.
She had lived a quiet life with her par
snts. but always under her calm exterior
there had been the knowledge that she
was intended for better things. Her
voice was remarkable for range and
power, and her eyes were fixed beyond
the narrow environs of a sheltered home.
So. ambition rendering her bold. she
sought out a manager and without the
slightest trouble got a place in the chorus.
''This is my second year on the stage"
said she. II want to get into opera No.
not comic opera. l would like to sing
in grand opera. oh. yes, | think with
little study I could do any of the big
parts. My voice has fallen off in sweet
ness some but 1t is awful strong and
high Yes. love the life because it is
an easy life, and you don't have to
bother a bout anything. I'm nearly TWEEN
ty. so l can afford to keep on trying