Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-15
ra. and fetch the types from other
parts of the room
WITH THE BINDERY GIRLS

next went into the binding depart.
ineht and spent some time there watch
ing the girls. There were hundreds of
I5' ZEN dressed in long blue coats and
I'm, liz trousers. with bands of black
SILK over their oily black hair. They sat
a. tables with their little deformed
-Set Just touching the floor They
worked so busily that remarked upon
II; whereupon the manager, who acted
as our guide. said,
we pay them by piecework, and
they have no time to waste"
asked MS to their wages. The man
replied: MAN
On. they are making much money
LOT theml Some of the best earn 81
MeSican per week. or about SO in
god The average workman is paid
about $3.50"
These girls were stitching and sew
ing. folding and pasting and also feed
ing the presses. Their hours were
ABOUT twelve per day The department
contained much modern machinery
and the work of binding was economi-
cally done.
THE CELESTIAL BOOK PIRATES.
China has no copyright law. I
found the Commercial Press stealing
everything that its managers think
OF value for the new Chinese schools.
NO matter what the copyrights are,
foreign authors must be content with
the hope that their books may do
good, even though they do not add
to their financial receipts. AS I look
cd over the volumes printed by this
company for the new education I
found many we'll known American text
books which have been translated into
Chinese. ] saw also stacks of my own
Geographical Readers" published on
cheap paper. with abominable illustra-
tions, I was told the whole series had
been prepared for the press, and that
my books on North America and
Europe were already in use. The mat
ter has been translated by the Eng
lsh-Chincse scholars. and. as far as
possible, verbatim, but how correctly
only those who can read the Chinese
characters can know.
AS I looked at my books the mana
ger of the company said they sold
we'll and that he expected to get a
| good revenue from Carpenters asia"
| which was then in the press. He ex-
plain apologetically that they had
been forced to change some of the
| literary matter in the chapters on
| China, as their people did not like to
| be told that they had buttonhole eyes.
| pigeontailed heads and deformed feet
| He made no bones about taking my
| books without pay, and even offered to
| make n royalty contract with mo II
| I would write him n new reader or
| so especially adapted to the Chinese
| market I replied that 1 was very
| busy. and he thereupon suggested that
| the book could be written for me in
| their office. and that I could revise It,.
| But in that case they would expect to
| nav q much less royalty. / told him
| such a proposition was out or the
| question: but Notwithstanding this he
| brought it up again and again; ana
| urged it upon me at chinese dlh-
Il haf
| Among the other books in the ware
| house T saw piles of Chinese English
| dictionaries They were In two volumes.
| each as big as an ordinary table Weo-
| ster. They are practically a translation
/ of the standard Dictionary. Wnlch Is
| so largely used in the United STATES.
| They were edited by DR.. Yam, who mas
| heen connected with our legation in
| Washington. The two volumes are
widely distributed; they sell for about
| civ dollars In gold Pocket dictionaries
| arc also printed, and native law
| dictio<ary is now in press. rms VIII
| he sent out to the law schools. Which
| are now being estaDlisheu at a'i '"e
| provincial capitals.
SCHOOL SUPPLIES.
After visiting the editors. I was taken
| to another large building. when CON
| tains a curious branch of this publish
| ing house 1t is devoted TO schooi
| supplies, and makes everything from
| desks to blowplpes for the chemlcai
| laboratories Tt manufactures pen
| dulums, globes. Indian CLUBS ana oulno.
| bells. The dumbbells are cast from
mig iron; they are made In great guam
titles. and 1t Is intended they shall be
used in all public schools.
Every room of this schoolbook rae
tory is lighted by electricity. and all
| are connected by a telephone system.
The machinery Is up-to-date, and on
the whole 1t shows one something or
what Is going on In the new emma
MISSION SCHOOL BOOKS.
At present a large proportion of the
| new text books are printed upon the
| mission presses The missionaries have
! been at work in China for century
and they have established schools IN
all parts of the country. They were
the authors of the first new text DOCKS.
and as teachers their graduates are
nov, In demand. The American Pres
byterian mission press at Shanghai has
been pouring out volumes for num-
| her of wears at the rate of 80. 100000
| napes per annum, and the consolidated
mission press OF the American Method
lists has also published numerous edu-
| cational works. The American Bible
| society distributes between nall mil
| lion and a million volumes of the Scrip
| tures in Chinese each year. and there
| &c now q mission educational asSocia
| tion. supported by all the Protestant
sects. which is preparing new text
| hooks for the schools At some OF the
missionary stations they are making
school museums, including such things
as stuffed birds and animals mounted
| fishes. electrical machines, globes and
model railways. They have printed
charts of the Chinese provinces. with
the principal industries and resources
marked upon them, and have inaugur-
| ated new methods of teaching the peo-
nile Indeed, the work which the mis-
| sionaries have done cannot be over
| estimated. and the situation here jus'
NOW IS such that money spent upon
missions will return a thousand-lold,
A CARNEGIE OF CHINA.
Tn this connection, a bright woman
clerk of the mission book store ol
Shanghai said to me today
..What China needs more than any
thing else in a system of circulating H.
braries. which shall contain the simpler
hooks of our modern literature. in
Guiding the Scriptures, concordances
and the western classics. These people
are pining for the new learning; bu
they arc unspcakably poor and canno
afTord TO buy books. The Chinese wom
on want them. In every community
cIubs are already established. where
the women come together weekly o
daily TO gossip and talk. If they coulC
have such books they would be reac