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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1910-03-26
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Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-12-16
MESSENGER BOYS AND THE
TENDEKIOTN.

tits a lot of fun to be out on The
street and around meeting people
and seeing places, so we like the job
one messengers are never satisfied
to leave the T~enderloin after they
have been here a WHILE" said one
little boy.
The dangers for young messengers
of this fascinating night work have
led to the passage Of a new law In
New York that went into effect Oc-
tober 1. This act, which prohibits
Sin first and second class cities the
employment of boys under twenty
one years of age after 10 P. NJ, or
before s A. M, as telegraph messen-
gers, it the result" says The Sur
vey, ''of a recent investigation OF
night work of messenger boys in
tenderloin districts Of large cities.
Their intimate contact with disor-
derby houses and their surrounding
evils was proven so c~onclusively by
the New York Child Labor Commits
tee in advocating the bill, that the
LEGISLATURE went to the limit in ex-
tending the laws protection. The
extension of this law to include all
minor messenger boys marks a new
era in child labor legislation, and
places New York at the head of all
the states in the protection of Mi
pOrsp
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-12-16

difficulties OF doing business with
the "niggers." The Europeans
treated him like a hale fellow well
met, and then, straightway, with the
intent of conserving their own in
terests against inroads from the
United States. saw to 1t that the
natives learned all about the Ameri-
ctan drummer's pleasure at meeting
white" people in Central America.
In consequence of this, the Am
erican found that he was welcome
40 buy refreshments galore for poll
ticians and to talk about his ma
chinery. He was conspicuous by his
presence in public places, but no one
saw him enter as a guest at any
family gatherings of note in official
circles. He went away, openly ours
ing ringers" and vowing that Latin
America wasn't a white mans oun
try, anyway.-From "Wry Latin
Americans Hate U.s." in December
Technical World Magazine.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-12-16
EUROPEAN VS.. AMERICAN DRUM
RFErpG

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A Swiss drummer rendered con-
spieuous by a pair of tight French
riding trousers which apparently
were intended to be worn standing
up furnished me with a means of
comparing the European with the
American method of doing business.
His line was French agricultural
machinery, and inasmuch as he had
been making" the coast for several
years, 1t was fair to assume that he
was a success in his business.
For three weeks after his arrival
at the Lupone, he did nothing save
sit in the covered front yard of the
hotel and idly speculate about the
progress of the war while ragged
urchines. after the manner of the
country, polished and repolished his
shoes. He assiduously cultivated
and bought drinks for politicians and
listened to their bombastic utter
ances without in the least commit
ting himself in the matter of opinion.
By the second Sunday night he had
progressed far enough in social in
tercourse with the existing political
regime to secure a place at the presi-
dents table for dinner. The week
after that he went riding in a broug-
ham with some of the women of the
presidents immediate household and
dispensed Central American small
talk between %mouthfuls of the thick
red dust which overlays Managua
like a blanket. At the end of a
month he sailed away, a lamented
social lion, carrying with him or
ders for machinery which could more
a~cceptably have been filled by Am
erican manufacturers. He had
caught favor in high places and his
honor had been reflected upon the
plantations.
An American drummer had burst
into Managua about the same time
as the Swiss, buoyant with affability
which but thinly concealed his con-
tempt for his prospective customers.
He bought drinks for natives in the
open, Dragged about American ma
chinery night and day and produced
truthful figures to demonstrate its
superiority.
When with European traders he
covertly congratulated them upon
being white" and in the confines
of the International Club, he drew
long breaths of relief and told Of
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-12

there away from the eyes of the po-
lice. 1 hear it whispered that girl
oaoies are strangled and that poison
is sometimes laid on their mothers
breasts so that when they suck they
eat no more. The poisoning OF them
with opium was common in the past,
and 1t Is mentioned by old writer's.
About twenty or thirty years ago the
government passed an infanticide act,
and at that time investigated condi-
tions. 1t was found that in certain
localities hundreds Of children We're
annually carried off by wolves and,
strange to say. the wolves took only
girls. In the year 1870 200 girl
babies were stolen by wolves from the
city of Amritsar Before that the
wells of some parts of India were pol
luted hv the drowning of infants and
typhoid was common thereby.
One of the worst things that can
happen to these baby brides it to be
married to old men. This is not un
common. family often being glad to
make a union with a higher caste.
even If the husband be gray. In
such cases widowhood is almost sure
to come early. and in India to be
widowed is hell.
Indin's Baby Widows
VI all the women on earth there is
none whose misery is so great as that
of the widow of India The moment
her husband dies she becomes an out
cast, her touch is pollution, and she is
the slave of the family. she must
take off her good clothing and dress
In coarse cottons. Her head must be
shaved and she cannot battle as the
rest OF the family do. She must not
sleep on a bed, but on the bare
floor with nothing but piece of mat
ting between her and the bricks. She
| cannot eat with the family and must
| have but one meal day and that OF
the coarsest food. She must fast every
| two weeks with special fasts now and
then. the idea being that the more
she is tormented the greater will he
the happiness of her husband in heaven.
She must not allow her shadow to
fall upon the food or drink of the rest
of the family, and all told, she is
worse than a leper. She will bring
bad luck to any one who meets her,
and no man Will continue a Journey
If he passes a widow on starting
such is her condition at home and
she cannot get away. She is ostracis
ed everywhere. She cannot hire out as
servant. for no one will take her.
If she is good looking she may be
employed at the temples: but as a
rule her life is the most horrid slavery.
This is added to by the belief of her
husbands mother and sisters that in
prosecuting her they are helping the
dead. They do not dare to pity her,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-12
BY FRNAK G. CARPENTER.

/ saw wedding procession to-day.
II was headed by oanlels with trap
pings of gold. ridden by barelegged
men in red and gold turbans. Be
hind came an elephant, followed by
twelve Arabian horses, each of which
had gold leglets above their fore
knees and silver bells around their
necks The saddles were of cloth of
silver and the trappings of the brides
were of gold. Behind these animals
came the wedding chair, and farther
back a band of music and crowd of
men singing and dancing. The we'd
ming chair was little covered with
the red and gold canopy. Upon the
mattress inside sat the bride and
groom, face to face leaning back upon
pillows. 1 looked in through the cur
tains and saw them They were child
rem. The groom was ten-year-old
boy of gingerbread color. and the
bride a little brown baby of two. The
boy wore gold cap and suit en-
broidered in gold. He had heavy gold
rings on his ankles and wrists.
Around the girls neck was a gold
chain, and she had gold bracelets and
nnklets AS I looked in the groom
smiled and waved his hand at me-
but the baby bride did not open her
eyes. and 1 am told she had been
firugged to keep her quiet during the
ceremony. Since / have been in India
have seen a score of wedding pro-
SESSIONS. and in every case the brides
have been children. although the
grooms may have been full grown men.
Some of the brides were six and eight
years of age and have seen two OF
five. This is my first sight of bride
who really a hahv
Child Wives by the Millions.
You have all heard of the child mar
,iages of India. They take place every
day, and number millions year
They are chiefly among the Hindoos
who form two-thirds of the popula
tion of Hindustan. l have before M
the figures of the last census taken b,
ihe British. They show that Indie
has now more than 100000 wive:
under ten, and 100000 of five years
and under. 1t has 100000 married
women OF from ten to fifteen. and g.
100000 more who are between fifteer
and twenty There are altogether 6S-
100000 wives in the country. and one
fourth of them are under the average
age al which our girls marry
There are also millions of child
widows, whose fate is far worse than
that of the married babies whose hus-
bands are living. | shall write of
them farther on in this letter
Marriages in India are always ar
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-12

The bride was not present. and wheth-
er she was a baby or not / do not
know. The chief feature OF the cere-
mony was the dancing OF some Nautch
| girls to the music of two drums and
an Indian fiddle. The girls went
| through the most surprising contor-
lions. They twisted themselves this
way and that; they bent back and
forth as though they were india rub
Der. the most of their dancing being
without lifting their feet from the
ground. Some of their motions were
beyond description indecent l am
told that the Nautch girls are pro-
fessional dancers, and that their pro-
fession is about the ony one open to
the young women of India. They are
by no means as good as they should
be- but being bad is part of their bus
mess. and the people respect them.
Allied to them is a class of girls
who are bad for religions sake. They
are the temple brides who are bred to
dance at the shrines, to pander to the
priests and sing obscene songs TO the
gods. They are obtained while vet
children by the temples through pur-
chase or as gifts from the parents.
and are educated for the purpose
sometimes man who has recovered
from illness buys girl and pre-
sents her thus as git to the gods,
or II one has a stroke of good luck he
may make thepriests such present II
the temple brides have daughters they
are brought up as dancing girls. being
taught to read and sing and instructed
In all the arts of seduction These
girls are licensed by law, but of late
years their exercises have become such
that even the natives have begun to
object. Three years ago number
of Hindoos asked the Bombay govern
ment 20 suppress the customs in that
state. and there was an attempt to do
so. 1t failed because the masses OF
the people looked upon the institution
as having been sanctifed by religion,
and because the British make 1t a
principle to do nothing that affects the
faith of their subjects. Just now
similar action has been taken by
Mysore. one of the native states. and
it may be that it will succeed.
Education for Women.
The awakening of India, now going
on. cannot but better these conditions,
The women could not possibly be
worse off than they are. and any
change must be an Improvement
am told that the native leaders realize
this. and that even the Mohammedans
are holding conventions in the inter
ests of female education. India has
about 60,ooo,0o0 Mohammedans, and
this means that there are half that
number of women and girls. AS 1t is
now only 1000 such girls are in school
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-12

ranged by the parents. They are a
matter of bargain and sale, and the
father of the boy gets the money. At
present the price has risen, and one OF
the native newspapers is insisting that
the parents of boys come down on the
dowries they ask for their sons. They
say that the parents of the brides can
not stand the charges, and that the
extortions are a disgrace to the coun-
try. Every Indian father is anxiou.
to marry off his daughters, and, ac
cording to the Hindoo religion, he will
be punished If he does not A man
whose daughter becomes an old maid
must expect to spend 100000 years
In hell for that crime. He will be
disgraced while he lives and sneered
at by his fellows. AS a result of this
belief girls are often betrothed in
their cradles. They are married as
soon as they are able to walk, and are
old women at the ages our girls be.
come wives. Indeed, there are bu,
lew females in India who are not
wives or widows by the time they
reach fourteen years of age
One of the native states recent,v
passed a law prohibiting the marriage
of girls under eight and forbidding
men of over fifty to we'd girls under
fourteen. The baby marriages are
usually little more than engagements
or contracts which cannot be broken.
When the wedding ceremony is over
the little bride is taken back home
and she stays there until she is eight,
ten or twelve years of age, when she
must live with her husband.
No Race Suicide.
There is little race suicide in India.
The people want children. They
marry for that purpose. and the more
| they have the better they like it. A
, woman who has no children is curse
to the family. and she who does NOT
bear son is considered a failure. The
marriages are at such an age that there
are thousands OF mothers of twelve
and thirteen, and there are some LITTLE
), mothers of eleven or ten. There are
twenty five year old grandmothers and
! have heard of Sreat-great- grand
i mothers at forty eight years of age.
j The country is thickly inhabited. and
| 1t grows greater every year. There
J are forty million more people here
| now than there We're in 1880 the aver
age increase being thirteen per cent.
every year.
Girls Not Wanted.
Indeed the condition of women in
India is such that no parent wants
to bring a daughter into the world.
He knows she will be a slave as a
wife and an outcast as a widow. For
this reason infanticide was common
few years ago, and for the same
reason 1T is still practiced here and
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-12

for the superstition IS that those who
pity a widow are likely soon to be
widows theselves. At the same time
she is dependent upon the rest of the
family Women cannot inherit prop.
erty among the Hindoos, and all that
is left by tho husband goes to the
children.
What fate is this for the woman
full grown or the old woman who as
a widow has but few wears to live.
1t Is more terrible still for the babies
and children who become widows be-
fore they know what marriage means.
Their whole lives are continuous tor
ture, and, unsinning. they are punished
until death.
Twenty-six Million slaves.
And how many human beings do
You think are now undergoing such
torments? / can give you the figures
from the census of British India, as
they were gathered last year. They
put the number OF widows at $4,000
600. a number equal to almost one
half of our whole female population.
India has one widow for her every six
women and girls. and millions of
these widows have many years We.
to live. AS to the baby widows, there
are $4,000 OF five years and under. and
more than 100000 of between five and
ten years. There are 27500O young
girls, who range between ten and If
teen years of age, undergoing the
slavery of widowhood. worse slavery
than has ever been imposed upon any
nation. white or black. in any other
part of the world.
You have heard how in the past
the widows threw themselves on the
funeral pyres of their husbands and
burned themselves TO death. In 1904
the British government kept count
and its records showed that 800 women
had so inundated themselves within
thirty miles of Calcutta in the space
of six months. In the next twenty
five years more than 10000 We're so
burned. and it was not until long
thereafter that the custom was stopp-
ed. This burning was called "suttee,"
and it is questionable whether it was
not preferable to continued widow
hood, which is now known as cold
suttee. The widow is condemned to a
living death. She burns daily with
want, disgrace and shame. her pre-
decessor was happy in that she died
but once.
The reYnu1o pr,.Jo.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-12

There are. however. 100000 village:
and towns which have no resident
physicians. and the women as a ruls
have practically no efficient medical
attendance.
Copyright. 1910, by Frank c. Car.
penter)
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-12
The Temple Brides.

l attended wedding the other night
at which five hundred Hindoos were
present. The groom was about six
years old. He was a bright little fell
low in a red velvet coat, tight velvet
trousers and a cap of cloth of gold
The Nome daily nugget., 1910-08-31
MRS. SAGE TO AID
 WOMAN BUILDER.

NEW YORK Aus ei have ua desue 10 az. and Drrrfar horses c,eu automobiles" -aa Mn Russell Saea taday
 truour6 nearly ~l yyu old. Mrs sage metsfea la@ her country place II Lawrence Loue island. ta tha atia= Iau deid at Mncau this aftcmru S+a aa- Ws,eu@fHied and Heaug- H= tp tHe AeruH4HliaaI -a-5ete.= shsa vent mta lbe work shop and closely Inspected al ua aefarlmas. including =He-e that bad b-sa wrecked aud Were teme repaired. and tH5zr Iu proeess ai construction. Nrs #S5g, displayed JH Ea.re-t interest in tHe ueu science
 AIrs. S4se J= mEueulrIz interested la an aeuarLaur which Is being cou- =tfuctad#by Mr- F. l.. rodd thy auG samJu aeropIane builder in this coun fas. and said -be=aaz wiling to heIf hrr
The Nome daily nugget., 1910-08-31
METHODIST PULPIT
 TEMPORARILY VACANT

Pm onefeeatiou af tho Methodist gmah and others who hise become a-Haint.d Al4 The Roy A | Ja-lyn ma lis amay Uu tegr.t L. learn ..zs h" has resigned #fa charge and
 5H go back ta haz home n=oraeon - the UmatHa Il aa- mol hI- inc eH.far tt ramau hera auather Win .ee#ff. he eeaH3 ayota f. hm aid cv- -e#t fe -t4s #tH A#= successor Was sh7seu Samo personal matters. hove eNer. make f uec,sslee roI hin. Ia. -..t home ae speedily az raseible. and t,- .fay ha Nirad thy. bishop that he would lefalt fram Name immediately.
 Ai- Jo~en has brru hrr practically ? vaar and has occupied the raIrir of lhr M,thadizt Church to The autir. satisfaction of th.. eauere4alian. and aslde from that has made many friends. who appreciate him for his oaudar and earncstanes. and will re- eHet chat h. Is leaving IT, is a @efaefH. peak-r man of attain waHfs and has been highly apprecf- lated in his work in Nome
 r fha fmatHIa daH# not sail before .e HIl preach his farewell sermon next Sunday In ease it should get aNaH before that date. there sfl be no service held u uHe church next Sunday.
 Alr Jo=tyn does nat know yet whether a successor vfl be sent up tAia fall hut h. says t i- au uHWIitten law in that denomination that there =l=il Doe na vacant pulpit or mcm- n..Eea minister. and thinks it entirely a.thatle that the vacancy will be G"ed
The Nome daily nugget., 1910-08-31
MINING OPERATIONS IN
 THE ToPKoK DISTRICT

Paul Kieestad. who iz operating on the mouth claim of Daniels creek. in the Topkok district, is in town for a few days. He reports that considerable mining as Well as prospecting is being carried ou in that section of the coun- try. An the dumps extracted last Winter hv the boys who had leases from the Topkoll Ditch Company have been washed up, and as a rule they banned out well. The leases were lcf on the ground that had been worked by the bedrock Hume. but the pay ex- tended into the bedrock several feet below the Hume and had to be ex- trarted either by an elevator hoisting during the Winter. CT by a dredge.
 There is considerable work going on in the Topkok country. on Eldorado creek and Silver Bow. also many other creeks which empty into Rering Sea along the coast line down there.
 AIr Kjegstad expects to return to Blun in a few days to continue the work he is doing down there.
The Nome daily nugget., 1910-08-31
HE pREpGE SOUVENIR.

Mo-~re Divine and Maynard arr meeting with aaod doal of encour- Hgemcnr In thr matter Of the publica- tlan of the drodee souvenir that they have startsd an Tbey have rented an ottice on Steadman avenue opposite hayison's real estate office for the convenience of those who gre inter- e@fed in the proper presentation of such publication where they can be consulted reeardng plans Both of these gentlemen heinz practical print ers they ought te hr able to get out a job that WiI he credit alike to them and their patrons.
The Nome daily nugget., 1910-08-31
-lTTlN ANDREWS ILL AT
 SEATTLE wtTH TYPHOID

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 H..n a. a4aa. and l.far, Cables have H Andrews aad tn, s..#f Ii. a.s condition but #Heh om e--t.rday. i'm HHta. is ter. sick fs far aau Doctor says voU bet .- e.H.."
 hr Andrews immediately started to -ff H.aae te aa .aa rha aat boat which eal h. th4 Senator THs daughter ffHf. ...-- #e.a.r Hm H. win WlI ueN Spring lIaHa Andrew known ta all tna # .#fHH and thee win la sorry hz= amiefi=H
The Nome daily nugget., 1910-08-31
PETITION FOR GUARDIANSHIP.

J J Cole Inf He Miners ##a Me- eH4ut- Rank. nun af tbr principal yrgd= Itar. .af Hiram Wilson. who 44s ad. .adeed Insane few da>z ago. h4. He'd a ret.tiau with the probate court skiing tH4tsrtter- af guardianship l..
 sued tu A. A. Ninu
 \ citation Na- issued. serving notice a arpom within teH d9>s. and at thf Xrilatiau nf that lime Mr A \. Allan a1l probably he appointed guardian sar th, e=t9t. of Mr Wilson.
The Nome daily nugget., 1910-08-31
BRYAN MAKES
 PREDICTIONS
Naaaet's Special Service.

tNhIANAFatIS. Ans William i-rrug- Hvm mHdg srrcrh h,re t.5y. dWWs m, raarsa or which He #sat taat he did uat heHsN, tho appeal frs-fdeHt T1tt H Hi- eaHruieH .sEtsr. would sufficiently heal the rEHgH in Inc party ra make frs sue at the Autumn elections possible T. admits tH8' t x strong paper
 thinks tae insurgents hazs made Hst ha4e IT the party alignment H#z# the election - Democratic tf###a I- IHaefflhJp.=
The Nome daily nugget., 1910-08-31
ASKS PARDON FOR
 BANKER WALSH
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