IVliniiir.v .!. 1!M)1. THIS ILLUSTRATED II K K. Big Chances For American Goods iuul la quietly Introducing tht'tu Into differ ciil parts o( tlio country. Tho (lorn mis have built up 11 big busi ness In mm II no dyes. They liuvo the mo nopoly of such sales all over Clilun. Five groat factories In Germany are kept busy suppbiug the trade, according to the orders (Copyright. 1901, by Frank a. Carpenter.) ,0w. but his surplus comes In n lump ' o by the (lornmtw. They hayc itnvn ifnvn n,.,. n innn-ninnnini nnr. ... .1 ..1 .1 " , " stud oil tho colore which are most i sod In IIO.NG KONG . )ee .0. uoo -(Special Cor t the end of tho year, nnd ho snves It Ho ,,,, ,, v ,, ,., lv., ,. . .., rospouiioncu or me lice. 1 lie emperor 01 has to cut down his living expenses during .. ., V,,," ,,. , Germany is tho king drummer of Europe tho yenr to tho size of his salary. Tho Eng. , . , . nnd his territory Is tho world. He has his llshmnn, on tho other hand, spends nil ns agents in every country, his vessels on lie gets It. eery sen, his couriers on every road. Within tho last ten years ho has Hooded China with trade solicitors whoso business 11133 nVllPl' imrl f.if tlm ....I.. A l. I.. It Is to push Gorman manufactures nnd tho ' " '""""" """H result Is that the (iermaiis are getting all tho new business. They have subsidized their steamers which come to the western Pacific and within the last few months they have been construct lug river steamers which will go up the Yangtso as far Inland as from Salt Lake City to New York. The Increase In the (ionium houses in China Is enormous. There are a number In every foreign colony and every establishment has its agents working among the Chinese re tailers. Until now the foreigners have denlt almost entirely with the Chinese wholesalers and the agents of other nation alities ore doing so still. Tho (Jormans are building up an acquaintance with the retail dealers. Their commercial travelers are learning Chinese. They propose to do thelt business direct with the merchants nnd tin I tobablllty Is they will get the bulk of tin 1 ra (li lt Is Interesting to watch how tho Ger mans work. They keep truck of all tin aow appointments, visiting every new icero or governor at his capital city. The agent lakes a lot of presents with lllm nnd pre tends that his call Is a social one. lie gets tho viceroy's Ideas as to foreign nrtlcles and wirks him for government contracts. If he talks electricity tho Gorman, like ns not. has a model of an electric light or tele pln tie with him. ami if he deprecates the condltlt 11 of his soldiers he proposes to sell lilm arms ami munitions of war. 1.1 iniiiitt 11 rinse ( iii'iiorii I Ion. This work of the (loriunns is exclusively for Germans. Each llrm keeps its own In formation as to the market to Itself. There Is 11 big opening here for uicrlcnn patent medicines The Chinese have 11 great respect for foreign medical skill 'I I lev are lovers of limns 11 ml mir inmtl. The Americans should establish houses at 1 mcs, pioperly advertised would have a rge sale. In chatting with one of the lli'iimiiifi'N tor xiiH'iiciin 1 N, offer thorn IBIB Photographic Art Studies Those aro tho works of tho Tonnoson Sisters of Chicago, and there Is probably m more capable photogrnphlc nrtlsts In tho world than these onthu.dnstle young women There are twelve subjects from which to choose, of which we reprod.ico eight These pictures nro handsome enough for nnyono's drawing room ami may lie used effectively untrained, or will look splendidly with a simple dark frnmo. How to Get Them TlieKo pictures aro mounted 011 handsome black raw silk stock mounts, Bixlfi Inches, tho photographs aro 7x9 Inches. These have never been sold at tho art store for less than one dollar. My securing an Immense quantity of them wo are nblo to With a Coupon for 10 Cents. When ordering statu the name of the subject, and If they are to bo mulled enclose four cents additional for postage nnd packing. THE BKE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 17th and Farnain Sts. (JltOl I' OK CHINESE MEUCII ANTS IN (INK OF TIIEIll CI. I II G UtDEVS Wo should send out our own drummers ami d, ctors, who Is now loiiuodod with tit. work the country for ourselves. At pros- university at IVkln. lie loltl me he though ent tho most of our business Is done by for- iy c-nll make a fortune ir lie cared lo gi elgners. One of the chief iron works of the nbout (he country selling drugs, espcclall United .Stntcs lms n German agent here. A f iu, hnd a lot of pictures labeled 'ilofon Ituge part of our cottons are sold by the and After Taking." adopted to the Chines- English, nnd this is true of cial nil and WIicoII.iiiii.un im.l ltlc . !.. II other articles. These foreign agents. In I am stirnrlRcd that some Aineilcan has tabulates the different sections of its terri- most cases, also soil Kngllsh or Gorman not thought of making wheelbarrows for tory, showing Just what goods are In do- gocds, nnd they naturally put in their home tho Chinese trndo. Tho wh ellni'i-ow Is the mand. how they should be packed nnd wha goods when they can. Mirny if these m n farm wagon, tho freight wagon and the pas tho people are paying for similar articles know nothing about the United Stntcs or senger train for the greater part of China It nscertnlns the standing of the various lis products, one of the head salesmen of It is used by tho hundreds of thousands In moronanis ami makes up a commercial ill- a Shanghai establishment handling Ameri can cotton, for Instance, recently told Con rectory for itself, If an Englishman or an American dis covers nnythlng new he publishes It; the G( rman does not. Not long ago tho kaiser sent a commercial commission to China Th s commission studied tho country and It wants. It took samples to Germanv show- every Chinese slate. You And It near the Chinese wall and you have to step aside for sill General Goodnow Hint we could make It In (he crowded streets of Cunton. You meet long lines of wheelbarrows pushed by men, carrying freight from town to town. Wheelbarrows are the drnys of every Chinese city. The streets ure too narrow for carts and the same Is true of most of none but the coarsest prints, and that It wns necessary lo go to England for lino cotton gi.oils. Tho German will say that German haid wnro Is Just ns good and cheaper than ing tin different kinds of goods most used American hardware. He tells the truth as the roads throughout (ho country. Ther by the Chinese, rhere were .1,000 of thes to cheapness, but not as to quality, and tho aro a.OOO licensed wheelbarrows In Shanghai MiinpicH i.uiiu or wnicn were ot cotton result is tliat tlie Liilneso buy the cheap and almost every town has its wheelbarrow g-tot's There wen manv kinds of s'lks an 1 stuff of the Germans. Our exporters are union. These barrows aro all made by hand. Thev are henvv and eliimsv. Tliev cannot bo oiled nnd they screech ns the move. A far better wheelbarrow could hi Hindu by mnchinory nnd if Bent in pieces Knocked down, tho freight would bo com paratlvely low. I am told a big demand might bo crentet for cheap bicycles. There ore Ameilcai bicycles used In nearly all the ports, bin they aro very hlgh-piiced. You find Chlnesi n w mid then riding them. They use ladles bicycles, because they nro better adapted to their stiff petticoats and full pnntaloons What should be sent here Is n wheel thai could bo sold for $LY It should be strong but need not have nil tho modern Improve monts such as pneumatic tiros or an easy saddle. I know several Americans who expect to work the Chinese markets from (he I'hlllp plno inlands. They are going to buy ii homo of the hardwood forests and supph liimbor for the Chinese railroads, ami es porlally for Chinese undertakers One of tho big markets for lumber in China Is Hi collln market. There is nothing for which tho people pay so much as for colIlns. Thoj often buy them long bofoio death and keep thorn in their houses ns parlor ornaments The colIlns nro made very thick and thos lotinufaciured fr haul wood IuIiik Hi ,, , , highest prices. Today a great part of tin all sorts of tools and machinery. These boglnnlng to realize this, and they aro now oillu od comes fn ni Fit ('h.ni between samples were opened in Berlin nnd shown sending out their own men. A lumber here nnd Shanghai. Large trees are needed there, but only to German merchants and house, which has tho chief trade of the ami lumber of this kind Is scarce manufacturers. Outsiders were not nd- western Pacific, keeps It because It has a Tho new railroads will create a great mlttfd nnd tho report of the commission was wlOenwake New York man watching out demand for ties and brldge-bulIdlng ma furnished only to possible exporters. foi It. Tho most of our tobaeoo Importa- terlnls. If the mines are to be developed In Shnn Tung province, ah .tit ns Inrgo ns Hons como hero through n llrm which has they will have to bo timbered ami It will tho states of New York and Connecticut, an American drummer on the Bpot, nnd It I tnko forests to supply the wood needed containing about 3ti.000.000 people, the Ger- so with other things. i,......ui .mi mans have resolved (hat other foreigners ,,. , ,.,.,,,.. Our cotton trade Is steadily ' In. .easing shall not lmvo a sharo ot tho trndo. Shan , , . ;, nr.. now Bniim.- .,.,. .., ... ""Mmh Tung is German China. It Is the state In ' wls" " "I"'.! "n-SH American ,V , CI M, , ,o, f "S l'! which Klau CI,,,,, is situated and the one wlt " W the main chance would "r11' '';" " " r ,,""rr "!"' where the Germans have concessions for ,,",', llcro' ' would ilnd many things to ' r " h J . , i' "T.'!" hy railroads nnd mines. In the concessions It ",V(,Kt "l ' H'" wny of manufacturing for N " . !, " V i V , . '! ,"k ."f ,l10 """ iu .1 ii .....i. . (ho Chinese. Thorn nr.. Hnnrn, of ,,rti,.ie t.. 'otlons which nro sold by the English mid from Germany nml that tho railroads must amnion use now mndo by hand which 0,'7m" t'irn,'Kll0,'t ''" '''Ktse vail, y and bo built entirely with German materials, f"'11 1,0 turned out In quantities by Amerl- R"1',1" mm . In Itusslan China, on tho other hand, tho can machinery nnd shipped hero so as to materials used are largely American, and 1)0 80,(1 nt a Krpnt Profit, this Is so on tho rnllroid s steins of I'okln Tnko rarnrs, for Instance. Thoro Is n ami Tien Tsln. which have been financed I'lK opening In them. Tho Chlnoso shave by the English. their henda, ns well as their fnees, ami Tho best clerks nut hero are Germnns. every man nnd boy hns to lmvo his bend They work harder, work longer and savo shaved. Tho shaving must bo done sevornl more money than any others. The English times a week and somo men aro shaved clerks put in short hours and are always every day. Thoro are tens of thousands of In evidence nt cricket, golf nnd the rncos. barbers In China. Thoro is a barbers' lno German goes to work early nnd stnys union, which covers tho wholo emplro, nnd THE BIND BIG FOItEIGN' EOIl MEIHCN GOODS IUSINESS STREET IN' SN'GI1I CHIEF I'OIIT At present our trade Is confined almost to tho north. .lust before the war began wo were selling more than half the cotton goods Imported at Tien Tsln and there Is a stonily Increase In the sale of American drills at,d nheetlngs In Manchuria mid other parts of n..rth China. We are also selling a great deal of cotton to Corea and tho possible extension of the trade Is unlliiilteil. What our big cotton factories need Is to lmvo men hero studying tho markets and II". Illt'l M . . late. Ho gets lower wages than other for- thoro nro thousands of men who do nothlmr " . ! V l"" '""nrlca nt "0,no nofltr(1 elgners, but at tho end of tho year his em- but make razors by hand. Mnny of tho v ,r"!np" wnnt nn'' llnw 11 ployer evens up matters by giving htm a per razors nro pounded out of old horseshoes, B,"ul(1 b pnoked. cent ot tho profits, according to his vnluo tho horseshoes bolng brought by tho 0 , " Kre,n, trn,l,,,eH wltn the Amerl- to the firm. I hnvo hoard of presents on Milplond from Europe for this pur- " "'''"P0'1 t0 China Is In tho this basis which amount to ns much as $000 poso. Tho razors are small and they 'V 1 ,.B" , , ""wo now going far a yenr. Tho result Is that tho Gorman could bo mndo by machinery at a low price. lno ,nlerIor uml tno Kooia should bo clerk receives ns much as his English fel- Germany Is already manufacturing thorn (Continued on Eighth Page.) llOl.OltES THE ItOSE ...It 'mm wit flk H '"'B HUSKING TIME BACCHANTE. Eft:1 1 KJifl ASTKUTIDK. 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