Life — July 18, 1912 — page 38: what you’re looking at

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In this crystal clearsoap, wehave caught the real tra- grance of fresh violets. Write to- day for your sample. Addrem THE ANDREW JERGENS CO. Dept. X. Spring Gren Ciaclanat, 0. The Miner at Home ECEIVING another notice of as- sessment on my stock in the Alad- din mine the other day, reminded me that I was still interested in a bottom- less hole that was supposed at one time to yield funds instead of absorbing them. The Aladdin claim was located in the spring of '76 by a syndicate of journal- ists, none of whom had even been openly accused of wealth. If we had been we could have proved an alibi. We secured a gang of miners to work on the discovery, consisting of a China man named How Long. How Long spoke the Chinese language with great fluency. Being perfectly familiar with that language, and a little musty in the Missouri English, he would con- verse with us in his own language, some- times by the hour, courteously overlook- ing the fact that we did not reply to him in the same tongue. He would converse in this way till he ran down, generally, and then he would refrain «for a while. Finally, How Long signified that he would like to draw his salary. Of course he was ignorant of our ways and as innocent of any knowledge of the in- tricate details peculiar to a mining syn- dicate as the child unborn., So he had gone to the president of our’ syndicate and had been referred to the superinten- dent, and he had sent How Long to the auditor, and the auditor had told him to go to the gang boss and get his time, and then proceed in ths proper manner, after which, if his claim turned out to be all right, we would call a meeting of the syndicate and take early action in relation to it. By this the reader will readily sce that, although we were not wealthy, we knew how to do business just the same as though we had been a wealthy corporation. How Long attended one of our meet- ings and ‘at the close of the session made a few remarks. As near as I am able to recall his language, it was very much as follows: “China boy no sabbe you dam slyndi- cate. You allee same foolee me too muchee. How Long no chopee big hole in the glound allee day for health. You Melican boy Laddce silver mine all same funny business. Me no likee slyn- dicate. Slyndicate heap gone all same woodbine. You sabbe me? How Long make em slyndicate pay tention. You April foolee me. You makee me tired. You putee me too much on em slate. Slyndicate no good. Allee time stanem- * off China boy. You allee time chin chin. Dividend allee time heap gone.” Owing to a strike which then took place in our mine, we found that in or- der to complete our assessment work. we must get in another crew or do the job ourselves. Owing to scarcity of help and a feeling of antagonism on the part of the laboring classes toward our giant enterprise, a feeling of hostility which naturally exists between labor and capital, we had to go out to the mine ourselves. 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