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TIIK NH BUASKA 'NDKrENDKNT. S TJtADIi WITH CHINA. A NEWFIELD FOR OUR VARIOUS PRODUCTS. The Late VUlt of I.l Hung Chang May Kvsult In More Exteiixtve C'oiuiuf rt-ial Rc-latlon with the Inhabitant, of the Flowery Kinsritori. ON. GEORQE S. i or the American Textile Manufact urers' association contributes the fol lowing article to Wind and Water, a trade magazine: Cannot trade with China be An empire of 400,- ' Bade profitable? 000,000 inhabitants within easy range of the greatest manufacturing nation en earth ought really to be an object or serious Interest, and we might very properly express our surprise that be ing so near we are yet so far apart in all that represents in a material way the mutual benefits that would accrue to both of these great nations by a more complete system of association than Is at present enjoyed between the two countries. Distance is now meas ured by time, and as facilities for communicatior md transportation im prove, we find ourselves neighbors to a wonderful people, having a great love for home and ancestry and are gifted with infinite perseverance, Industry, sobriety, patience and endurance al most beyond comprehension, with a history as ancient as the records of the Ages. The leading minds of the Em pire are outgrowing their earlier teaching, and overcoming their former prejudice against improvements and are more inclined to accept modern ideas and become a part of the great universe in which we live. Hno rf t Vi O ynnn f m In sin rf f Via T?m pire favoring the advance movement, Mr. LI Hung Chang, who recently vis ited our country and gathered clear Information as to our system of life, social, industrial and political, our fac ilities for transportation, our manufac turing establishments, our banking in stitutions, our chambers of commerce and our great mercantile houses, gained impressicas and information that will hereafter be of immense ad vantage to both countries. China needs Quantities of our manufactured goods, ind her people are able to pay for them. They must see them and understand '.he mechanism and become impressed with the benefits they will derive from their use before purchasing. It seems strange to us that during all these years a great empire of 400,000,000 of people should still cultivate their lands with a epade or a wooden plow, cut their grain with a sickle, travel long distances by land, in the most primi tive style, maintain an existence as a government without a mail service, in fact, still live as they did a thousand years before the birth of Christ The times are ripe for a new dis pensation and an improved civilization in China. They are about to com mence this new era by building rail roads, providing facilities for more convenient association among them selves, and following the construction and operation of railroads there will be a demand for all kinds of improved agricultural implements, all kinds of hardware, iron, sheet iron, all kinds of wire, copper, brass, tin, lumber, watches, clocks, cotton cloth, woolen cloth, blue jeans, muslin, linen,- knit goods, underwear, tools, telephone and telegraph material, railroad material and supplies, household supplies, ma chinery for handling water, such as windmills, pumps and appliances for irrigating their lands, mining tools and machinery with which to develop their mines of mineral ores and coal, with which the empire abounds. Saw mills are needed, cotton factories are wanted, woolen mills will be construct ed, and the demand for Iron in all forms, structural and otherwise, must be Immense. We are their natural GEORGE S. BOWEN. Resident Textile Manufacturers Ass'n. source of supplies. It is Important that we see to it that the best facilities for communication and transportation are provided, and the manufacturers of the United States may soon avail themselves of an opportunity to Intro duce their productions through 'he American-Chinese Chamber of Com merce, who are aranging the construc tion of an Exhibition building in Shanghai, 200x400 with 250 floor space3, that will be rented at a nominal price to American manufacturers for the pur pose of showing their wares, having their own representatives in charge, or fibk i the Chamber of Commerce manage.- ment will receive orders and attend to the delivery of goods, all of whicn will be sold for cash, remitting to con signors less a small charge for services. The management will be American ab solutely and will co-operate with the A Ariran bank to b uk.i4ed lb Shanghai. Col. lfcnby, our minister to China, nnd our Cuiisul General Jerrlgan, at Shanghai, fully approve the establish ment of the American-Chinese Cham ber of Commerce as the best possible channel for the introduction of Ameri can goods in China, as well as the best means of purchasing such articles ai are grown or manufactured In China. Chinese Bilks, velvets, tea and thous ands of articles we are constantly pur chasing through British channels may be ordered through the Chamber of Commerce at a saving In the original cost as well as in freight. At present a thousand dollars of Chicago exchange will provide the American purchaser with about $2,000 current money in China, which will purchase their goods at as lew a price as they have been bought for at any time within the past twenty years. In selling them .goods they provide, of course, for the ex change. Freight charges on American manufactures from Chicago to Shang hai are reasonable, ranging from $1.50 to 13.50 per 100 lbs., and arrangements will be made for prompt shipments. The opening of business in larger meas ure must be of great and Increasing benefit to the manufacturers and mer chants of the United States. In 1894 we imported from China fl6,442,788, and exported to China 19,203,082. Un der Improved conditions our exports will exceed a hundred millions. Our manufacturers need larger mar kets than we now command. We must go to the markets; they will not come to us. British Interests have been and still are dominant in China. Their lines or steamships are frequent and rates are low. They are aggreslve; we are submissive. We must go forth ourselves if we would conquer and our commercial and Industrial suprem acy be maintained. JOINS THE SALVATIONISTS. A New York Jewess Has Taken Up th Tambourine. The unusual happening of a Jewess changing her religion has recently oc curred In New York city, where Ra ' RACHAEL KEMP, chael Kemp, a pretty, dary-eyed Jew ess of 20 years, has joined the salvation army. Miss Kemp works In a rubber fac tory and is a great favorite among the girls employed there, who say Miss Kemp Is particularly gentle and kind in her manners and has endeared her self to them ail. In speaking of her act Miss Kemp said that while it would grieve her parents, she expected no violent objection. She thinks the sal vation army is doing a noble work and has been interested in it for some months. At any rate, she does not expect to share the fate of another young Jew ess of wealthy parentage who told her family she had joined the army and re nounced the Jewish religion only to have her father cast her off. She Is now earning her own living. Once when she met her relatives in the street they tore off her bonnet and tried to beat her. HOW COFFEE WAS DISCOVERED A Traveller In Abyssinia Stumbled Upon the Shrub. The following is given as the original discovery of coffee: Near the middle of the fifteenth century a poor Arab was travelling through Abyssinia, and, finding himself weary and weak from fatigue he stopped near a grove. Then being in want of fuel to cook his rice, he cut down a tree which happened to, be covered with dead berries. His meal being cooked and eaten, the trav eller discovered that the half-burned berries were very fragrant He col lected a number of these, and, on crushing them with a stone, he found that their aroma increased to a great extent. While wondering at this, he accidentally let fall the eubstance in a can which contained his scanty sup ply of water. Lo, what a miracle! The almost putrid water was almost instantly purified. He brought It to his lips. It was fresh, agreeable, and in a moment the traveller had so far recovered his strength and energy as to be able to resume his journey. The lucky Arab gathered as many berries as he could and, having arrived at Aden, In Arabia, he informed the muetl of his discovery. That worthy divine was an inveterate opium smoker, who had been suffering for years from th? Influence of that poisonous drug. He tried an infusion of the roasted berries, and was so delighted at the recovery of his own vigor that, in gratitude to the tree, he called It cahuab, which It Arabia signifies force. Highest Ilulldlnjj In the World The highest building in the world, not counting the Eiffel Tower and tne Washington Monument, is the Cologne Cathedral. The height from the pave ment to the top of the cupola is 511 feet It is 511 feet long and 231 feet wide. It was begun August 15 In the year 1248, and was pronounced finished August 14, 1S80, over six hundred years after the corner stone was laid. SlIKNTIHe AN1 IXDl'STItUl Hollow nhaftiupf ginn favor. There are aluraiunia duck boats. The Kruj'p Works have 1500 fur naces. There is a project on foot for sup plying Lyons, France, with electricity by damming the Khone at Jonage. Dr. Mas Wilf, of Heidelberg, Ger many, has discovered five new asteroid on photographs of the heavens. This brings the number of minor planets np to 423. Over ninety-five per cent of the vessels wbioh passed through the Suez Canal during 1893 used the eleotrio light, so as to be able to continue the trip throughthe great waterway dur ing the night. 4) A new instrument, called the pho-. nendosoope, enables the skilful medi cal man to hear the sounds emitted by all the organs in the human body ; the heart the lungs, the liver, etc, and disoover if they ate in a healthy condi tion or otherwise. Professor Liversidge, of Sydney University, has made chemical experi ments which show that there ate over 100,000,000,000 tons of gold dissolved in the ocean water of the world if the rate of one grain per ton, which he found on the Australian coast, holds everywhere. The mountains of the moon are im mensely larger in proportion than those of the earth. The moon is but one-forty-ninth the size of the earth, uut its mountain peaks are nearly as high. Twenty-two are higher than Mt. Blano, which is within a few feet of three miles high. The highest is a little more than four miles and a half. A twelve-year old boy at Parma has just had his heart washed. He was suf fering from acute periorjditis, and his doctor, using an instrumant invented by Professor Eiva, drew off the puru lent serous matter in the sac, and then washed the heart and its serofibrous covering with a solution of sodium biborate. The boy recovered rapidly. Balloons were used in the recent German army manoeuvres. Each corps had a balloon handled by sixty men. Six gas carriages, drawn each by six horses, belonged to each balloon, and the unloading, filling and sending up took only fourteen minutes. 'I he bal loons were kept at a height of 3200 feet, from which the officers tele graphed to headquarters and sent sketches of the enemy's position down the rope. Life in Great Cities. And as to'the tendency of the growth of great cities to enervate Nations, there is no proof of it at all nnless we identify the life of great cities with the passion for idleness and pleasure and self indulgence, which sometimes, but by no means universally, accom panies their growth. When"you get a large proletariat living, as that of ancient Rome and possibly of Nineveh and Babylon did, on the alms of the rich and powerful, then, no doubt, you have the conditions of a thor oughly unnatural and unhealthy life, and no one can wonder at the rapid decay of such cities and of the Nations which gloried in them. But where the honest working class far outnumber the proletariat, where the middle classes of distributors and manufac turers and professional men are labor-, ious and energetic, and even the class that live on its accumulated wealth contains a considerable sprinkling of terious and disinterested workers, we do not believe that there is the small est evidenoe of any greater danger in the life of the agricultural village or the pastoral tribe. Indeed, we should regard Olive Schreiner's picture of the life of the modern Boers as indicating a condition of things more prolifio of morbid elements, with its almost com plete absence of any stirring or active intelligence, than any kind of modern life that is honestly laborious at all. The Boer life is too sleepy, too desti tute of stirring thought or effort, to be altogether natural. It needs at least the old element of danger and necessary vigilance to render it even bracing. London Spectator. The "Academy Headache." A new disease has come to the res cue of the young art students of both sexes who are looking for a respite from labor. It is known as the "academy headache." Still, it applies to others than students, and is oftentimes so un pleasant that it may well be shunned. A well-known oculist has discovered that when it is necessary to direct the eyes considerably above the horizontal line a number of times a great strain is thrown upon the muscles which ro tate the eye upward, as well as upon the muscles of the upper eyelids, which have, of course, to be corres pondingly raised to accommodate the eye-ball. "This being so," says the oculist. "It is time that those who are responsible for the distribution of the pictures in galleries should recognize the fact that the human eye is not constructed for looking upwardfor any length of time, and if considera tions of space oblige the whole of the available wall area to be utilized the higher piotures should be tilted at a suitable angle in order to minimize the strain on the eje muscles." New York Journal. A Discovery of Perpetual Motion, At Freeport, 111., a new industry is to be started. On a quarter section of land an enterprising Kansas farmer will establish a thousand black cats and 5000 rate, on which to feed the cats, estimating that the cats will in crease 15,000 in two years, their skins being wcrth a dollar each. The rats will multiply five times as fast as the cats, and will be used to feed the lat ter while the skinned cat will furnish food to the rats. Thus has perpetual motion been discovered at last -Warren Sentinel TH li HOSE AND THE THOftH I n!l( xn$ burden for I ho roue Tlmt MimsoniH.l in tlio enrly morri But lo! tliu twilight K'twiii di.iolo.se A bud of nil npuula nhotu, Aud 'neath it Iruwns lh cakud Thorn. -ClttorKO II Conrad, in the Angelas. , nuiioB or THE 1AY. Take care of the poor Indians and the poor Indians will take hair of you. Texas Sifter. "Is she .rioli?" "Yes, but Bhe doesn't know anything?" "Why don't you propose?" Truth, She ."They say he married her for her figure." He "That was quite natural." She "Oh, no, it wasn't." Pioit-Me-Up. A West Union man, after training a dog for several years, can at last make the dog do almost anything it feels like doirg. West Union Gazette. Teacher "What is the true test of greatness?" Little Johnnie "To have your hired girl interviewed by report ers whenever you do anything." Cleveland Leader. Dora "And now, Augustus, how do you like my new coiffure?" Augus tus "Weally beautiful, 'poahonah; makes you look thirty years younger, bai Jove !" Standard. Bess "Why didn't you either ac cept Tom or refuse him when he pro posed?" Kate "Why, you see, we've got a philopena and I couldn't say yes or no." Yale Record. The Fiancee "I'm surprised at you I I saw you flirting with her I" The Fiance '-I swear, Priscilla, you are mistaken ! Beauty has no charms never had any charms for mel" Puok. "This," said the stranger, pointing to the passing cortege, "iB a verysoan tily attended funeral." "Well," said the resident, apologetically, "you see the deceased was a baseball umpire." Waterbury. "You don't make allbwances for our boy," said the fond mother. "That shows how little we are appreciated," said her husband, as he finished draw ing a check. "I don't do much else." Washington Star. Nell "Miss Bjoues uses French phrases in the most peculiar manner." Bell-"Does she?" Nell "Yes, in deed? Why, at breakfast yesterday I asked her how he liked her eggs, and she said they were very chick." Philadelphia Record. Ah, radiant rose, with your grace so do mure. Your beauty the eye and the spirit con tents; But there still lurks the thoru. None would guess, am sure. That you cost me a dollar and twenty-flvo cents. Washington Star. Voice (at the telephone) "Major, will you please bring your family and take supper with ns next Sunday?" Servant Girl (replies back through the telephone) "Master and mistress are not in at present ; but they can't come to supper as its my Sunday out Boston Globe. The Scaly Ant-Eater. An animal made of tin-plate, of ths shape of an elongated fir cone, about three feet jn length, which crackles and rustles with every movement, is one of the latest acqninitions of the Zoological Society of Loudon. Its name is the pangolin, or scaly ant eater, and it belongs to the same fam ily group as the armadillo and platy pus. It has excited great attention ail the "Zoo," for it is if we are cor rectly informed the first animal of the kind which has been exhibited there. Its home is where the termites, or white ants, are found ; for the ani mal feeds on these destructive crea tures, and possesses claws which are designed to break down their strong holds. The claw? are also necessary for burrowing in the ground, fur the pangolin excavates a cave for himself and his mate eight feet or so below the surface of the earth, and in this strange home one or two young are produced every year. The pangolin at present at the "Zoo" is fed upon ants aud their eggs, and also exhibits a partial ity for cockroaches scalded in milk. The scales with which its body is covered are hard and sharp as steel, and it can give a terribly cutting blow with its powerful tail. It can roll its body up into a ball like a hedgehop when it so wills. Publio Opinion. Hloving a Running Factory. A remarkable feat which s re cently accomplished, movig of a fac tory in which the mohinery was maintained in 'operation desoribed in the American Mphinist. The shop referred to is sitwted in Boston, and was moved to nake room for the work being done 1Q tae elevation of the tracks of the New York, New Haven and BVtford Railroad. The move ment of the shop was about three hu7 drjd feet iu one direction and fifty eet iu another, and was effected with out suspending work, the shop being operated just as if nothing unusual was going on. The building is of briok, 350 by fif ty feet, about one-half its length is three stories high and the rest two stories. Electrio motors were at tached to the shafting to supply the power, they receiving their power by wires run from a generating plant put tip for the purpose. The shop was thus moved bodily a distance of 35Q feet and kept in operation during the transition, whioh was particularly desirable on account of rash of busi- Sea Signaling by Flags. o flags to be hoisted at one time in siVaalkig at sea never exoeed four. It vta interesting arithemetioal fact that,with eighteen various colored flags, nd never more than four at a time, to fewer than 78,642 signals oam be givto. Cincinnati Inquirer. FIRST Hon . J. Bryan's great boo jLill bo ready about Jan. IT WILL CONTAIN An nt of His mous Trip. A R.tiew of the Political Situation. U's Most Important Speeches, i lie Results of the Campaign of 1896. His Biography. Written by his Wife. This Magnificent Volume contains 800 pages, printed from large, clear type, on a superior quality of paper, with 32 full page illustration. It will be hand somely bound in cloth, with a portrait of the author forming the design upon the cover. MR. 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