The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-20

and as he told US without any embar-
rassment he missed the yearly addl-
ton of a child TO his family during
the same period He has only eight
children now. If one could keep a /
wife and eight children on IS cents
cav in the states, we would hear no
further complaints about the cost OF
living.
Respect for Age.
The japanese have a great respect
for age. and to refer to anyone as
"old" is q term of the highest regard
But when the japanese paper at hSo-
To came out with a paragraph an
nouncine that "old man Timberman is
stoDping at the MyakO hotel" my
friend Timberman, who is a little over
so years OF age, went into mt ana
started for the newspaper ofhce 10
clean up the shebang. When our
guide explained that no greater dls-
nftv could be conferred on him by the
japanese than TO call him "old man.
he consented to let the newspaper
continue publication.
At Manila we found ourselves IN the
hands of our friends-Old-time Salt
.Iakers who made things so delight
full that you want to settle down and
live with them. Harold Pitt, formerly
of Bradstreets at Salt Lake, is doing
so nicely that all Manila looks up 10
him as an authority on resources and
possibilities OF the Philippines. Willis
Peardsley, formerly of Beardsley's
Tavern. is at the head of the whole
postal bank system Of the Philippine
islands, and has four hundred thou
sand depOsitOrs on his books before
the United States has her postal bank
fe h.a i'm
portant man in the detective bureau
at the head of the system. All these
called the moment they heard We We're
in Manila. and kept us going night and
day with entertainment.
Just in passing, I want to say that
think few people at home know
what a treasure we have in the Phil
ippines-they viii become for US an
asset as valuable as the Louisiana ter
ritory. out of which We carved so
many states
Shanghai in Panic.
Shanghai was in the thrOes of a
busted boom in stocks; milliOnaires
had gone broke" banks had failed
and spectators were Wailing. How
ever. it wasn't a mining boom, but
! collapsed rubber stock boom, which
brought disaster to this wealthy city
/ of the east.
When I had a fellow as my "hOrse"
in Japan for 8 cents a day, I was
heartily ashamed of myself and often
/ felt like giving myself a good kick.
But when I got TO China. where two
/ Cinnamon carry you around on their
shoulders Gin q chair) for IL cents
/ per hour, 1 realized that the japanese
rickshaW man was a plutOcrat by COM
parison. Our Chinee washermen in
D IL VrEn r. I ELL
and Carnegie and Sam NeWhOuse
| rolled into one, when their condition
4 is compared to their cOuntrymen at
home. Humanity is so thick over here
/ that one must conclude that the peO-
/ pie spawn. 1t is no crime. so l am
l told, for a mother to throw a girl
/ baby into the river; but If she should
\ kill a boy baby she is tortured and
! dismembered. joint by joint. Such
punishment was melted to a woman the
day we were in Canton-and much
more, of which / do not care to write.
China Is Developing.
In spite OF such depFavity, such
Il, barbarism, China is rapidly develop
/ ing. Enormous iron and steel mills,
! great factories, magnificent bridges,
tell Of the new day. Most significant
Of all, the Cinnamon are beginning to
! cut or tnelr plg-ta1lS. The emperor s
/ bodyguard have all done this. by i'm
/ perial order. which in the same line
/ tells all Cinnamon that the pig-tail
I is no assurance Of strength, as has al
/ ways been taught
! America is not holding her own in
/ this section Of the world, am repeat
eddy told. both by our own people here
and by outsiders. We. have been 50
\ prosperous at home that we haven't
\ cared about our foreign trade; besides
which. England. Germany and France
are giving aid and announcement To
their Asiatic commerce through gov
/ eminent subsidies.
4 But to turn aside again from serious
TO simple topics. I have to relate an
amusing experience. Arriving in Japan
AT big resort Of some sort after a
warm walk, we appealed for ice wa
L ter There was CONSERVATION among
the attendants. but by sign, gesture
land symbol. We protested that we
knew what we wanted. and that was
ice waterl Again there was eonsulta-
4 ton and discussion and despair
amongst the Japs. We finally quit in
disgust and went on. Next day we
II learned. to our amazement. that the
place where we insisted on ice water
was one Of the famous hot springs of
japan.
Il Judge McNally. who used to hold
2 probate court at the city and county