Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1914 — Page 2

WOMEN MILL SLAVES

Ute of Drudgery in English Factories Shown. Government Report on Nearly 90(M)00 Factoriee and Workshops la Which More Than 4000,000 Men, Women and Children Labor. ' London. —Some unhappy stories of factory life are contained In a blue-book-which gives the result of a year's work by the government's staff of 217 men and women factory inspectors. Nearly 300,000 factories and workshops in . which more than 5,000,000 men, women and boys and girls labor, were under inspection. It is stated that the number of fatal accidents increased from 1,260 to 1,309 last year, and other accidents increased from 154,972 to 176,352. Last year was a period of trade activity, and better trade means more accidents. Miss Tracey, one of the inspectors, Sfleacrlbes the effect on girls of the succession of long days in a factory. “A well-known man in a Lancashire town,” she says, “was telling me only the other day about how he would wake in the morning to the clatter of the girls’ and women’s clogs as they went past his house at half-past five in the dark on their way to the mills. “He had exceptional opportunity of judging of the effect of the long day's work, and he told me how bonny children known to him lost their color and their youthful energy in the hard drudgery of this daily toil, how the girls would fall asleep at their work, and how they grew worn and old before their time. “We see it for ourselves and the women tell us about it. Sometimes one feels that one dare not contemplate too closely the life of our working women, it is such a grave reproach.” Miss Tracey gives an account of a day in the life of one of these women: “She told me she left home at 5:15 a. m., walked two and a half miles to the 'work factory, stood the whole day at her work and at 6, sometimes later, started to walk home again, and then had to prepare her meal, mend, and do her housework. This case is only typical of thousands of women workers.” Some of the women and girls have to handle heavy weights. Miss Whitworth, another inspector, found a delicate woman helping another to carry 53-pound weights. “Is it right I should have to do this kind of work and only have eight shillings a week?” asked the woman. ▲ case of a woman who worked as a jute spinner until 6 p. m. on the night her baby was born is mentioned. Another woman returned to the factory 11 days after the birth of a child. Women in a laundry had to work from 6 a. m. until midnight on Friday and from 6 a. m. to 9 p. m. on the next day.. In a Midlands bakehouse a boy of seventeen was at work from 1 a. m. until 1 a. m. the next day, being allowed only an hour or two for sleep. In a jam factory women and girls were kept at work from 6 a. m. until 9 p. m. four or five days in the week.

Sentenced to Find Wife, or Go to Jail.

Elizabeth, N. J. —Judge McMahon sentenced Dennis Boyle, thirty-one, to find a wife in 30 days or be sent to prison. “You drink too much,” the judge told Boyle, “and you need a wife to take care of you.”

Reunited After 35 Years.

Keblar, Colo. —James Sheen was reunited to his sweetheart of 35 years ago, Miss Amy Dodd, whom he had thought dead, when a runaway accident brought them togethea

Caught Without a Cent

German Kaiser’s Pockets Empty When Tackled by Bevy of Red Cross Girls. Berlin. —It is an erroneous idea which some people possess that kings and emperors have plenty of money. Only a few days ago the kaiser had to admit that he had not a cent in his

Emperor William.

pockets when tackled by a bevy of pretty girls selling trinkets oh behalf of the Red Cross society. It was a rather embarrassing situation for the girls and they sadly lacked in enterJirtse by neglecting to offer his im-

SUMMER HOME OF WILLIAM J. BRYAN

A view of “Blue Briar,*’ the beautiful home on Sunset mountain, .2,850 feet above sea level and 600 feet above the city of Asheville, N. C., will be occupied during the summer months by Secretary of State Bryan and his family.

FINDS NEW FATHER

Mexican Boy Orphaned at Siege of Vera Cruz. Marines Adopt Little Jesus Estrada Whose Father and Mother Were Killed During the Street Battle In the Mexican City. Vera Cruz, Mex. —Jesus Estrada lost his father and mother when the Americans took Vera Crus. He wasted no time in finding himself another father —Captain R. S. Hooker of the Eleventh Company of Marines. Jesus, who is fourteen years old, and his new dad are great pals. The boy's father had a small clothing store in the plaza, and he and his wife and Jesus, their only child, lived in the rooms over the shop. When the firing began, that first morning, Estrada, the clothier, rushed into the street The plaza was crowded, and, as the fifing grew louder, the people ran aimless hither and thither. Estrada did his utmost to keep his little family together as they were carried this way and that by the panic-stricken mob. By and by the human stream carried them into a side street, and a block along it to the next corner where an eddy swept them through the doorway of a hotel. Vera Cruzians were sniping from balconies and housetops. The American sailors and marines were taking street after street, block after block, their machine guns especially doing awful execution. A squad of marines appeared on the run around a distant corner, dragging a machine gun. They wheeled it about so that the muzzle was directed down the street. It happened that it pointed as the open door of the hotel. Jesus Estrada knelt huddled on the crowded floor, kith his face buried against his'mother’s breast Estrada, the clothier, placed himself, between his wife and child and the door. He was a man of peace, this clothier, but he would face death for them. A lieutenant of marines gave the command to fire. > And in an Instant the floor of the hotel office was a shambles. Later an army officer, prying around in the heap of corpses, came upon two bodies—a man’s and a woman s. He

perial majesty a month’s credit. But the kaiser came to the rescue by borrowing money from willing lenders in his staff and one carnation cost him two and a half dollars.

OPPOSED TO COSTLY FUNERAL

Isabel Basnett Deplores Vast Waste In England—Should Copy After Switzerland. London. —Agitation is being carried on here against the expensive funeral. Isabel Basnett thinks England should copy Switzerland in this respect “The greater the grief,” she declared. “the larger the profits, is a legend that might well be written on the bills of many undertaking concerns. “Could we reduce to figures the manner in which the living are sacrificed to the dead we should be shocked and horrified. “Every year 155,000,000 is subscribed in pennies to burial societies in England. “Switzerland is the country which has, up to the present time, done most to point the way to the reform of funeral undertakings.”

2,000,000 Muskrats In Bohemia.

London. —Prince Colleredo-Mansfeld, says a Vienna dispatch, liberated ten pairs of Canadian muskrats on his estate in Bohemia in 1905, hoping that his gamekeepers would be able to trap them and sell the skins. Today there are 2,000,000 muskrats in Bohemia, and, like rabbits in Australia, they are spreading all over the fruitful regions of the province, even entering the houses in Prague.

THE “EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

could tell from the positions of th<» bodies that the man had tried to shield the woman, but that his breast, sc bravely bared, had not stayed the pellets of death.

Beneath the bodies of the manand woman lay a child, but he was not dead. For the officer saw him stir ever so slightly. And when the bodies were dragged' away, the officer saw that the boy's eyes were blank with fear. "I'm ordered home,” the officer told Capt Hooker, “and here I am with this kid on -my hands. I can’t take him with me, and I’ve taken a fancy to him. Look after him while I’m gone, will you, old man?" Capt Hooker didn’t want to do it Small boys ate a nuisance. He had never seen Jesus Estrada. But h« couldn’t very well refuse. The captain looked him over casually, told an orderly to keep an eye on him, and then forgot bis existence. Next morning the captain’s shoes were polished to a mirror-brightness. His leather leggins reflected the light. The captain took notice then oi Jesus Estrada. “Some boy!” he said. Not understanding, Jesus sprang forward, trembling, eager to propitiate this big American, whose slave bo was. That Is what Jesus thought—that he was the captain’s slave. “Senor,” he said. “I can’t talk your lingo very well, muchacho,” the captain explained. “1 said you were some boy.” Now that Jesus has become “one oi the family,” the captain is decidedly cocky whenever the boy is mentioned. “Finest boy I ever saw,” he says. "Best mannered and smart Why, my Spanish has improved by leaps and bounds since Jesus took me In hand, “But it isn’t the things he, does fol me,” the captain explains; "it’s the boy himself. I tell you, he’s fine!' Think of what that kid’s been through —and never a whimper, never a play for sympathy. “What am I going to do with him? I’m going to take him home with me. We’ve got it all fixed up. And then what? I haven’t made up my mind yet I’ve got to study him

INDIAN CALLS ON PRESIDENT

Famous Chief of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe Shook Hands With ' Mr. Wilson. Washington.—Two Moons, a famous chief of the Northern Cheyenne tribe in Montana and one of the conspicuous figures in the Custer massacre, was a visitor at the White House recently, where he shook hands with President Wilson. Two Moons was introduced by Indian Commissioner Cato Sells, and was sq pleased with his reception that he cordially shook hands with a number of the paleface visitors after

Chief Two Moons.

his visit to the president General Scott assistant chief of staff of th< army, was there to see ths old Indian and made an engagement see him later. General Scott probably knows more Indian sign language than any other white man and Two Monas is ax expert in this mode of

GINGER SNAPS

Most feminine faces are prettiest la repose. Nature is the only genuine beauty doctor. ,' Should old maids be classed among the also rans? Some experiences make one a wiser and a madder man. Every dog has his day and some dogs have ev'ery night The average man is not much to look at, evefi when fussed up. Telling people to be good does not reform them, it just bores them. The playful antics of a giddy old widower are amusing but distressing. You can bank on the friendship of a man so long as you are necessary to his business. In most of us the margin of unselfishness is too narrow to be seen with the naked eye. The rich do not find the short and simple annals of the poor very interesting reading. Quite a number of English poets have been distinguished by not being appointed poet laureate. Truth, a newly discarded lover and a summer resort in winter are three lonesome looking objects. Business should be regarded as something more than merely a means of prying money out of people.—rA. W. Macy in the -Chicago Herald.

EPIGRAMS

A henpecked man never crows over it. , - No man is as handsome as he thinks the girls think he is. Many a man starts on a honeymoon only to come back on a lecture tour. Love is the only thing in the world that is at once a necessity and a luxury. ■ An original person is one who does the sort of things you’ve always wanted to do, but never dared. If- our air castles should materialise, most of us would realize that Nature never intended us for architects. Sometimes the woman a man marries proves to be a riddle he can’t give up.—Smart Set

FUNLETS

It takes two to make a bargain, but only one of them gets it The world doesn’t judge a man by bis own clothes, but by his wife’s. A great deal of what passes for dignity is nothing but genuine laziness. A man is soon forgotten after he is dead —unless you happen to marry his widow., A woman in her best clothes wants admiration; at all other times she prefers love. z >' Shortly after marriage a man be* gins to realize that he talked too mOch during the courtship.

IN-SHOOTS

There is no use of being born great if you do not intend to work at it. It is difficult to draw the line between vanity and certain kinds of pride. # Election results occasionally knock the statesmanship all out of a candidate. So live that your friends will grieve more than your creditors when you pass in. •,

RAM’S HORN BROWN

There is always good and sure pay for doing right. , Riches have never yet given any man either rest or peace. ♦ Some of the biggest lies ever told can be found on tombstones. The man who is right with God will ,hot be wrdng with anything that is good. |»WI" “ If some men would drink more water their families would have more bread. There are some folks in every community the. devil can catch with a bare hook. . If you want to know for certain and sure whether a man Is a- Christian ask his wife. The man who sneers at true religion turns up his nose at the best thing< on earth. / •.

Tn The City Of Bremen

JUST at sunset it was that' our boat sailed into Bremer-Haven. The sky was. tinted all the shades of pink and violet with a tiny bit of yellow at the horizon. The water was white and smooth, only here and there reflecting the colors of the sky. Everywhere overhead, in front and back of the boat sea-gulls were flying. They cut great, graceful circles In the sky with their wings tilted sidewise. Some were resting on the water, moving languidly up and down with the slight niotion of the wavelets,- and still others were crying and fighting for the waste food that was being thrown from the back of the ship. Their snow-white wings reflected the pale sun-set colors, writes a correspondent of the Pittsburgh Dispatch. Slowly the boat was steered in between long, narrow points of dark green land. Silhouetted against the sky were wind-mills and tall straight trees. Nothing seemed real for we glided so slowly that we seemed to be on a plantom ship in a dream. The bustling stewards and. cabin-boys broke our reverie with the exciting news that the customhouse officials were waiting to Inspect our/baggage that night and if anything can bring a dreamer back to earth it Is a practical German customhouse officer with his formal uniform, his great mustache and his gutteral withering query, “Clgarren oder liquer?” Bremer-Haven is the home of the North German Lloyd steamer officers. These men love the sea and they live as near to It as possible, even after they have retired from active service. They spend their vacations in the Hartz mountains taking walking trips. Sea Captain’s History. Last June there was an ex-captaln on board and he had a curious history. At first he Impressed one as being very old, but when he took his cap oft we saw his hair was not the least bit gray. He was dressed as much like a real captain as was possible for a man to be. He always wore dark blue with a cap on hip head. He was silent and melancholy except when the Titanic disaster was mentioned, and then he defended Captain Smith

Bremen to Barfield elevated railway

with a vim that seemed almost unwarranted. One day the deck steward told us his history. Three years before he had been a real captain, and no prouder man ever rode the seas. He was taking a freighter through the Mediterranean when suddenly in broad daylight he ran his ship upon a sandbar, and the boat went down. No lives were lost blit the cargo was very valuable and his stripes were Zaken from him, and he was! made steerage inspector. It was easy to see why he had so championed Captain Smith and said that disasters can happen to the best of captains. But it is one of the traditions of the sea that a man who has once lost a ship must never be captain again. Bremen is a very attractive city; Running through the center of the town is a long narrow lake, along whose banks all the fine residences of the city are situated. They, are very charming villas, ornamented with many flowers and trailing vines. The lake is full of ducks, little ducks, big ducks, white ducks and black ducks. Their homes are little houses anchored in the center of the lake. They are high and dry and filled with straw for the little ducklings, and far away from the bad boys that grow even in well-regulated, military Germany. ' - One of the most important things In Bremen is the Rolanda, a colossal figure in stone that stands in the Rathaus square, and Is the symbol of civic, liberty. Reland is as primitive as Cubist art and looks like he might have been a production of that school He stands very straight and stiff, holding a sword in one hand and a shield tn the Other. Roland is the mascot of

the city and if anything should happen! to him the people would be very much alarmed about their safety. ’ Nearly all the important building* In Bremen are gathered around the Roland and the Rathaus square. The old Rathaus Is one of the most Inters esting in all Germany. The upper floor of the Rathaus is occupied by the Great Hall, which lai always left open to the public. The celling of this old hall is very unique, for it is set with the portraits of all! the emperors from Charlemagne to Sigismund. In -between the portraits are hung models of famous old ships. • The lower floor or cellar of the ' Rathaus Is occupied by a\ famous rathskeller, where only two kinds of , drinks are served—Rhine and Moselle wine. Nd food can be had unless the, wine is first ordered. The rathskeller is a great favorite with the men of Bremen and many have their favorite table, and here they sit and smoke

Unloading Train at Bremer-Haven.

and talk and let outside world! wag as it will: Bismarck Most Popular Hero. The end of the Rathaus square is occupied by the cathedral, a tall, uninteresting looking building, with two big towers. Standing at the front door is Bismarck on a horse. It is one of the nicest statues of Bismarck yet erected. In time every city in Germany will have its Bismarck statue, for he is today the most popular German hero. Next to the cathedral is the exchange. This exchange is neither ae large nor as Important as the one in Hamburg, but nevertheless a vast

amount of business is done here without much apparent effort except noise. The men congregate between one and two o’clock, and seem merely to stand around in groups. Back of the exchange is a large square where stands the statue of Gustavus Adolphus, the Swedish emperor. He is dressed in the costume of the days of Gharleb I, but in spite of hjs courtly robes he has the fire of a great fighter in his eye. The statue was originally intended for the city of Gottenburg, in Sweden, but as it was being transported from Germany a great storm arose and the vessel was wrecked. The statue was rescued and brought back to Bremen. The German seamen raised a fund, purchased the statue and stood it in their city. < < Not far from the Rathaus is another square, which is occupied by a unique fountain, j it Is a boat containing a beautiful fisher boy, which three maids have captured, and they* are dragging him into the water. It is very original in coinposition and design and reminds one of the pictures, of Bochlln. The stores in Bremen are very attractive, especially if you are an admirer of hand embroidery and beautiful hand sewing. The store windows are full of dainty waists and exquisite things for babies, but a snare, however, for while they are beautifully sewn, the fit is Gherman to the extreme, with no style, whatever.

Numerous Ties.

“I don't care much for LonelyvUls.* “Why den’t you move then?* “Too many ties. Our neighbor has my card table, another my wheelbarrow and a third my lawn mower.*