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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-15
WHY HE CAN'T SAVE
Government Clerk Quotes Fig
ures for Senator Williams.
EXPENSES EXCEED SALARY
Annual Cost of Living in Washing
ton Demonstrated.
QUOTES FROM ACCOUNT BOOK
Average Expenditures for Family of
Six Persons-Presents an
1temized Statement.
EXPENSES EXCEED SALARY

A government clerk of the higher class,
commenting to Star reporter on the re-
cent remarks of a United States senator
who declared that government clerks
should save money out of their salaries,
makes some pertinent statements. back
ing them up with figures taken from his
family account book. He undertakes to
show the impossibility of saving anything
out of clerks salary
According to the figures given. this
clerk, whose salary is considerably above
the average, runs 800 or more behind
each year, the deficit only being made up
from private funds. the savings accumu-
lated before he entered government en-
ploy.
His statement follows:
Senator Williams said recently that
government clerks should save money out
of their 'munificent salaries and so be-
come Independent and solid citizens /
wish he would point out how 1 can save
something, although 1 get far more sala-
ry than most government employees. 1
keep an expense account and know what
sure the honorable senator that 1t is diff
ferent here from being a blacksmith in
Mississippi
Quotes His Book
1.-THE actual figures given are taken
from my expense account and include ex-
penses for the last year. My family
consists of myself and wife, boy and girl
in high school, and a boy in the grades.
besides my wifes mother, who lives with
us, making a total family of six.
"Our expenses for the year are as fol-
lows: Groceries, meats. milk, ice. soap,
etc. for six. $720; clothing, self $40. wife
$50. girl So. boy $65. boy s25. $3.50; rent,
$426; fuel and lights. $12O; law school
tuition s125; washing. $50: music lessons
for girl SIS; life insurance. 1905: church
and benevolences, 10 per cent Of salary,
$2lO; miscellaneous. 500; total. $2.272.
This makes a total Of 1922. My
mother contributes So month to my in
come and buys her own clothes. l re-
ceive salary Of $500.
NOW the bill for groceries looks large,
but it averages about $40 month per
person, or about $3.50 per person per
week. When / first came to Washing
ton in 1908 my children were smaller and
prices of living decidedly lower. and it
the naveraged SLIGO per person per week
with strict economy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-15

And yet! Still and kicking about the
And could
you
this
that much
It's high time looked these homes and compared them with THIS
PRICE and TERMS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-15

It
mont apple IN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-15
Price, $4,000
Cash: $500
Monthly: $26.92
And You Can Buy |

G mad O.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-15
Law Course Necessary.

"My law school course I have to pay
for, as the head Of my department
claims that graduates in law are inval-
liable to the office (see commissioner re-
port, 1903 and 1912. I am glad to take
advantage of the excellent night schools
of Washington. but it costs money. 1t
also takes at least four years of my time.
and, while it may be to my advantage, 1t
also certainly increases my value to my
employer. and is therefore not luxury.
I'VE hire a washerwoman. who needs
the money, at $1.25 day, four days each
month-s5. In Mississippi the black
smiths wife does her own washing.
Music lessons for my daughter I sup
pose the senator would class as luxury.
If it were not for my law course l could
teach her myself and thus save money
both ways. Does the senator consider
should live like blacksmith in Missis-
sippi and pass over these available ad-
vantages for my children?
Probably the item for church and be-
nevolences looks large to the senator.
Does he give 10 per cent Of his salary to
similar purposes? Freely We have re-
ceived, freely give Go We into all the
world and preach the gospel Whose
ever shall give cup of cold water shall
not lose his reward l get constant APP
peals from the Associated Charities and
others to aid the unfortunate, and my
little 10 per cent looks small to me.
Regarded as Money Saved.
MY life insurance I regard as money
saved. 1t may care for my wife after
1 am dead, or I can take the cash sur
render value lat a big loss) and live off
it when 1 am fired for old age.
For removing my furniture each year,
So for literature s.: school books in
high schools and law course, SIS: carfare
q walk to and from work. for family
of five, $50; miscellaneous for five people.
$40 year, and the latter must include
physician. dentist, medicine, vacation.
visitors expenses, postage and gifts and
all forms of recreation. Does the hon.
orable senator regard this as excessive
How much does hts blacksmith in Missis-
sippi spend for these items?
Il have been to a theater four times
in seven years. / don't drink liquor,
smoke. chew tobacco nor own an auto
mobile. How can I? And on my princely
salary of $500 year 1 save just 500
in the form Of insurance. The other
$172 which I put into 1t comes from pri
vate funds saved before I was married.
How long before / can retire on COM
potency?
Il can only say. heaven pity the many
clerks in Washington who get from a
generous government the princely salary
of $500 or $1,000 year,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-15

If you want work read the want col
unans Of The Star.
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Advance in Cost of Groceries.

I'm the last five years the advance in
third. We pay cash for our groceries
and buy to the best advantage and would
be glad to reduce this bill il we could.
but it can't be done without danger of
decreasing health.
That the increase in living cost is not
due to increased luxury is also shown by
comparing relative retail prices at that
a pound now 6: for oatmeal, cents a
pound, now 6: flour As of cent pound.
now l. Meat has advanced from one
third to one-half in price; milk was q
cents a quart, now 96 coffee. 80 cents a
pound, now 40: butter. 30 cents pound.
now 80, and so on through the list of
foods. So our grocery bill is only reason
able, and not extravaganza The black
smith in Mississippi probably buys his
groceries cheaper.
"Our rent is less than many families
pay. We require four sleeping rooms,
which means at least a seven-room house.
house we occupy has nine. Where can
get a decent seven-room house within
walking distance Of the patent office for
less than $33 a month";
''Our clothing bill averages $50 per
person per year, and I consider this eco
nomical in view of the bargain price sign
in clothing store on It'll street which says,
We will clothe you for 81 a week.
'I would like to spend less for fuel and
so cheaply built and heating systems are
so poor that although 1 spend so much
for fuel our house is only partly heated
in winter.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-09-27
Broncho Busting is an Everyday Sport Eor
the BuckarOo; it is Second Nature to Him

That battle between man and beast
that Is seen daily in the arena at
Roundup park, when the bucarooes.
by supreme strength and accuracy
with the "lass rope" bring up a
broncho captive to pit his bucking
ability against the skill of would-be
champion busters. is only reproduc-
ton Of performances that occur each
morning in the corral that is a nee
essary adjunct to each of the numer-
Gus cow-camps in Umatilla county, a
photo cut of which accompanies.
Each morning the horse wrangler
arises with the camp cook at $3.50
O'Clock, hurriedly rides out" the sur
rounding country rounding up sad
die horses for each cow-puncher in
the outfit for that days trip out on
the range. Driving them into the cor
raj, by the time his companions are
up and dressed, he leaves them to
rope" and saddle their respective
mounts.
The real fun begins with the first
swish of the rope and unhappy in
deed Is the lot of the "old woman"
who misses catching the elusive cay
use with the first throw Of the lar
lat.
The horses once caught, the next
thing is to saddle and take the
rough off" of each horse that has a
"crook in his back" as most COW
horses have after a rest of a week.
In most camps one day each week is
all the riding on the range a horse
is required to do. Each puncher usu-
ally has a string of six or seven
bronchos
In taking off the rough" the
same performances are repeated as
those seen in the broncho busting
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-09-27
BEING A CAPTIVE ON THE BACK OF
ABUCKlNG HORSE HAS ITS THRILLS

with suppressed laughter. Mine
must have radlated the murderous
thoughts that were bursting my head.
Finally, Mr.. Edems addressed me,
saying:
$50 you think a man must take a
horse into the Internal regions to
dlsmount, do you Mr.
could not understand why ne
should start TO have fun with me In
that manner and asked him to ex-
plain his query. He told me that
while he and Mrs Edems were to-
gether waiting for me. that Tom
rushed up to them and beloved out;
"Mr, Edems, Mr.. - wants to
know how in hell you get off Cou-
gar?"
Tom declares yet that he repeated
my message of distress, word for
word
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-09-27

ingly as horse possibly could and
soon demonstrated to me that he
knew more about rounding up and
corralling bunch of horses than
did l.
In fact / had little time to engineer
the work. for Cougar in his eager
ness to keep the horses punched to-
gether. would dart here and there
after each animal that showed an in
clination to leave the herd and his
short turns made 1t absolutely ne
cessary for me TO pull leather" or
hold myself in the saddle by grasping
the saddle horn with both hands,
once did venture to take up the
bride reigns. Cougar responded and
then had to again chase horse
which had gotten away because
misguided him.
Now when he had the horses cor
rallied, my mission was ended. l felt
rather proud that / had accomplish
ed the task so easily and took al
credit to myself / reasoned that Il
was unnecessary to consider Cougar
in the matter, as l was alone and nC
one would know or appreciate the
aid the animal had been to me. a
feeling OF satisfaction started to set
tie within my breast. for the moment
making me forget my tortured body.
started to dismount To close the cor
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-09-27
THE OLD EMIGRANT ROAD

Aged and desolate. grizzled and STILL
1t creeps in slow curves round the
base of the HILL
or its once busy traffic is left little
trace,
Not a hoof-print or wheel-track is
fresh on its face.
Rank brambles encroaeh on its poor,
ragged edge,
And powders crash down from the
mountainside ledge;
The elements join to efface the dim
trail,
The torrents OF springtime, the
winters fierce gale.
Yet, with pioneer sturdiness, patient
and still,
1t Ringers and clings round the base
Of the hill;
outlasting its usefulness. furrowed
and gray.
Gaunt phantom of Yesterday. haunt
ing Today.
Carrie Blake Morgan,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-09-27
The Worlds Ingratltude.

A newspaper man can say nice and
pleasant things about man and his
whole family for many years and
never hear a word from them, and
then in one short week, by some hook
or crook, get ma seemingly unchar-
liable phrase and get blowed higher
than Gullderoy's kite and incur their
life enmlty-Plattevill wis, Witness.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-09-27
was Coming Anyway.

First Stranger (to second strangely
Did you rider
Second Stranger( who Is from
Portland) )-Couldn't get a thing. 1
walked.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-09-27

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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-07-27

To the hog an ear5of corn in the pen
is worth two in the bushel.
Jealousy is the Weevi1 that eats the
germ out Of the grain of joy.
The pole of success Is creased so
that there is always room on top.
A political i1literate is Just as bad
possibly even more so-as any other
kind.
Money is the rich mans faith. the
poor mans hope and the good man s
charity.
A friend Is a man who shows I'D
quicker when we need him than when
he needs u.s.
The land-boomer may not study his
Bible very much, but he surely be-
lieves in paradise.
The man who Is not a hero to his
little children is missing life's might
lest opportunity for good.
Do you think that the trusts will
now disgorge, since they find that the
farmer will not be George?
The idle dollar,slike every other
loafer, is out Of place in the life
scheme of practical man
The farmer must be in love with his
calling himself If he is to inspire his
children to stay on the farm.
The best things in this life are free
joy, contentment, love- Deserve
them, and they will come to you.
Helping ones fellow man to get a
broader vision Of life never yet les
sened ones holdings in eternal life.
OF course you are not figuring on
increasing your cotton acreage this
year just because your neighbor has
decided to reduce his.
+ The successful farmer is the one
who listens to all the advice offered
by his neighbors and then t,oes ahead
and acts on his own judgment
Many a farm boy who seeks his for
tune in the city does not regret break
ing home ties until he is counting the
ties on the railroad on his way back.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-07-27
Farm Machinery.

The traction engine and the large
plow will undoubtedly supersede the
horse, and as q consequence costs OF
production will be cut down. profits
will be smaller, and to those who con-
tinue with the old method the rents
will increase. If the farmer can CO.
operate with his netghbor by pooling
his land, purchasing machinery, and
carrying on the work together, he Is
able to secure the benefits of larger
capital, of better machinery, and of
a constant supply of labor. It is true
that there might be quarrelling, as
there could be In any kind of cooper
atiYe enterprise, but there Is no rea-
son why men should not agree in the
cultivation OF the soil quite as much
as in the sale of dry-goods, farming
implements or other merchandise.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-07-27

streets of Seoul Ponies are ridden, but never
used to draw vehicles as they are In other
countries and cattle are never killed for beef.
Cows, which have been known in Corea for
scores OF centuries are never MIXED, or were
not cntil few years ago, and the Coreans
never knew anything about dairy products.
In most countries the horse Is considered a
better mount than the donkey. Not SO in Corea.
There the meek and slow moving ass Is re
garded as the best riding animal.
Street signs are relied upon in the cities OF
other countries, and nowhere are they more
used than In China, which formerly exercised
a shadowy suzerainty over Corea and was her
neighbor. But In Seoul they were not used at
all before the Japanese came. In almost all
other countries women are fond of going shop
ping and merchants strive to please them.
In Corea 1t Is otherwose. The women regard
shopping as necessary evil, and the mer
chants keep their goods in closets instead of
on counters and shelves and in showcases
The merchant does not hustle for trade or
argue for a sale. If the customer asks for
something else she is likely to be shown what
the merchant has and told that he has nothing
like what she wants.
The Corean method of lingering the violin
Is exactly the reverse to that OF western PEG
pie. The Corean fingers the instrument near
the bridge with his right hand. With his left
he plucks the strings at the other end and he
uses no bow at all.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-07-27
Corea, A Land of Contrasts

\, contrasts between the customs of Corea and
80 80 q otner countries are striking every
'usse' In other lands when q man wants to
49,. hog from one pasture to another he
1a.es ~ OF tolls 1t with corn Not SO In Corea.
800 ~ stout laboring man catches full grown
t sos, ues Its feet together puts it on wood
!. y. made from the limbs Of trees and carries
~ ! - market The same wood frame ia used
sta.. 40 porter who carries your trunk from the
~. 70 tne hotel instead Of using truck or
~ ouer countries the tiger the leopard and
tss.. elephant inhabit the tropics. In Corea
- use ~ animals flourish In a climate as severe
49,, saae Oh Ontario The fur of the Corean
60, - longer and glossier than that OF bfs
ss.'l IN the 1ungles Of tropical India for the
y =, reason that the coat Of raccoon ia Amer
= inter than in summer when II Is not need.
ed for warmth - - noe heeo-
saa. &c Sorean tiger is a royal looking beast.
nos,t,. nequently standing in a commanding
zioo.,S upon snow-covered mountain side
ana Gown disdainfuly at passing train
M Twin SWING the protesting natives answer to
sna as.eA OIL the invading 'xogul"
hosa pof.lhg Eng1ishmen have a few shoot,np
tbara !. - eofea and like to hunt elephants
abla because the climate is far more arraa-
Afsio. ~ them than that of Burma, Cev,on or
Il 49, "nefe elephants are found
nse sa'e ouiis loaded with the branobas of +aan
= nFewood are common sight in the
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-07-27

In most countries retailing liquors Is not
regarded as a suitable avenue Of activity for
an ar1stocratic woman whose fortune has dwin-
died. In Corea lady In distress may operate
saloon without fear of any social stigma rest
ing upon her. And bar is the only kind Of
shop she may keep with impunty. Her maid
acts as barmaid, but the saloon Is given
space in the residence without injuring the
tone OF the establishment woman Of social
distinction may make shoes provided she
makes such as the common people wear To
make shoes for her own class would remove
her from that class
A Corean lady in reduced circumstances NAV
become physician, and to protect the occupa-
ton from oEercrowaIng the law Of Corea be-
fore the Japanese occupation, provided that no
woman who was not an aristocrat might prac.
ttce medicine. Powdered tiger claws, bears
gall and other remedies that do not appear in
the pharmacopoeia are prescribed But the
common custom is to cure disease by making
straw image of the patient and emphasizing
the seat of the affection by making the af-
ficted region or member abnormaIly large
The manikin is thrown out of DOORS and it ia
believed that any one who picks it up viii get
the disease
psychologists agree that this is sometimes
the case, but they disagree with the Corean
physicians as to the relief Of the patient by
this means. The appearance Of the manikfns
found in the street or along the roadside is
often ludicrous. When all efforts to cast off
the devil fall the patient is put out Of doors
and left to die.
Even In the amusements Of children con-
trasts with western customs are observable.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-07-27
IOWA SOCIETY PAYS DIVIDEND
Rockwell Farmers, Cooperative Asso-
citation Does Yearly Business
Aggregatins $55e,o0o

The Rockwell farmers cooperative
association held their twenty-fourth
annual meeting recently at Rockwell,
City, Ia. This Is one of the biggest,
Oldest and Wea1thiest societies Of its
kind in the world, and societies taking
their bylaws havs been organized in
all parts OF the world Their report
showed that they had done business
aggregating 1904 during the past
- months, and this vast amount at. an
expense Of only $3.50 No other IN
stitution in the country can make any
thing like showing Of this kind,
writes Harry E. Stanbery In the
Orange Judd Farmer. This years
business exceeded last years by $780,
084, and the institution Is immensely
wealthy. Dividend after dividend has
been declared, and two years ago $780,
900 was set aside as a surplus. Be-
sides that, shares which originally
cost but so are today worth s161.
Standard Oil n.its palmiest days never
far outdistanced the Rockwell farm
ers' cooperative, and it was not or
ganized for the purpose Of making
money In the way 1t is doing. 1t was
organized SO that its members would
be able to get the very highest prices
for their grain the market afforded,
and this they have done. They also
desired to buy coal and lumber at rea-
sonable prices, and this they have
been able to do. There are no more
prosperous farmers in the state OF
Iowa than are those who have remain
ed with their society In and around
this little town.
The auditing committee showed as
sets to the amount of s54,737. The
total liabilities for the year were s34,-
$50, giving g net asset January /,
1912, of $19,787. This report surely
refutes the prediction made OF this
society 20 years ago: 1.-TWO years
from now the grass will be growing on
your driveways and the katydids and
swallows will be building their nests
In the cups OF your elevators"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-07-27
Growing Tomatoes.

On rich garden soil, tomatoes are
set 4 to feet apart each way and q
inches deep, In the north, where's
early frosts occur. it may be advisable
to prune off foot or more Of the
growing shoots In August to hasten
maturity Of the crop.
A light mulch Of hay or straw Isl
often put under the plants to keep
the fruit off the ground.
Tomatoes should be trained to-
stakes or frames
When stakes are used, one stake 8
feet high Is used for each vine and
the vine pruned to one to three stems.
Many recommend pruning to a single
stem. Pruning is said to increase the
size Of the fruit and the earliness OF
the crop.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-07-27
Need Of Records.

Many farmers do not know wEletfs
er they are making or losing money.
They have no idea where the profits
or losses are coming from. One de-
partment may be losing money and
another department making money.
But how can the farmer know which
Is which unless he keeps books.
Many lawsuits and much unneces-
sary trouble ara caused by farmers
not keeping books. Accounts that
were paid long before his death.