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CHE 'P'RO'DVCE'RS OF CHIJVA.. Uhey fire a Happy Clam'S of People A rich Chinaman wears silk, a poor one cotton. Since the proportion of rich to poor is about one in a thou sand, it follows that the growth and manufacture of cotton are vital nee cessltles. It is thought cotton culture was begun in the thirteenth century, the plant coming in from India, where THE WEAVER. It has been known for 2000 years. In spite of her unequaled agriculture, China does not raise cotton for export —nor, in fact, enough for her own needs. In the growtn and manufact ure of it, as in everything else, the aim is not, as in these United States, to save hand labor, but to use as much of it as possible. There are uo power r~ ... ,.i • gins for taking out the seed. Instead, the Chinese use the little hand-gins very like those still to he found in the homespun regions of the Appalachian chain. The gin is nothing more than a couple of small wooden rollers, made fast In uprights affixed to a bench. Tuey are turned by a wooden crank, revolve one against the other, and free the cotton of seed by drawing the lint The lint is fed to them by hand, and it takes a long and steady day's work to gin five pounds of lint—which means twenty pounds of cotton In the seed. The cotton is carded simultane ously with the ginning. A second man stands nt the end of the bench beating the clean cotton with the tee kung, or earth bow. into big flaky "bats.” These bats the women spin in various ways. Sometimes they use the old-fashioned spinning wheel Much oftener it is something approxi mating the ancient distaff. The spin ner twirls it steadily, walking around and around as she twirls, thus wind ing the lengthening thread into very lung hanks. If it is spun and run in to broaches or quills, they are often reeled with a hand-reel. Chinese in dustry Indeed is as Inveterate as Chi nese economy. Women usually work at. such reeling while they stand and gossip in the alley ways between their houses. If there is no reel handy they will he stitching upon a shoe sole, al ways a salable article. Bare feet are unknown in China. Even a beggar wears shoes, though he may have no other clothes than the head-bowl, which serves both as a hat and to hold out when there is a chance of aims. Nothing is wasted in China. Even grass and wheat roots are pulled up, washed, dried and used for fuel. Scraps of paper and cloth are pasted together to make the Insoles of shoes. Bits of wood are glued to build up either a board or a post. Women spin ners and straw-plaiters earn 2c a day. The spinning, though, is most com monly like the weaving at the hand looms, only a part of unpaid house hold labor. Machine-made cloth and thread have of late come to bear heavily upon the cotton-workers, but that fact is in a degree offset by the growing import of raw cotton. Still some of the light yellow hand-made fabric, know the world over as nan keen, from the city of export, Nankin, is shipped abroad. It is made from a peculiar yellow-staple cotton, hence not dyed. The same yellow-staple cot ton Is grown and manufactured by Ar cadians in Louisiana, but the fabric is so scarce it does not compete with the Chinese one. Five dollars u year will clothe a Chinese husband anu wife something more than decently. Underwear is un known—so is fitting a garment. The only measures taken are from the hip to the ground, and from the middle of the breast to the finder tins. Fash ions do not change. Winter garments and bedding are wadded with cotton. Once a year they must be ripped apart and washed, padding and all. How needful is economy may be judged from a few figures. Unskilled laborers are paid upon an average 7c a day. Masons, carpenters and stone cutters, here as elsewhere the aristo cracy of labor, get from 25c to 30c a THE STONE CUTTERS, day. According to the average of prices of articles of consumption in China 25c a day la equivalent to $2.50 per day here. Work begins at sun rise and keeps up until dark. Not withstanding all which strikes are vir tually unknown, and the Chinese la borer is the happiest aud most con tented in the world. ---t T_—in 'iiMnamniiir—i \rw^.ru ■ A VIEW OF THE CITY OF CHUNG KING Ft\ IMPORTANT COTTON CENTER AND A BOXER STRONGHOLD. 'Ruffians Saded XOomen and Children. Wo occasionally hear adverse reports of the conduct of the Russian soldiers ■ In the field. As a matter of fact, such reports generally emanate from un truthful sources. The fact is that, were it not for the protecting arm of the czar's soldiers in China, terrible bloodshed would have resulted at many points. Some days before the cap ture of Telntsln a company of Russian Boldlers entered the city. Of their heroic efforts in behalf of the foreign ers Mrs. Charles Denby, Jr., wife of the son of the ex-minister to China, writes from Tientsin: ‘‘Enormous fires in the native city were started and the Boxers began their attack on the settlement; so we were all aroused at 4 o’clock, and every one who lived in the extra concession went either to friends on the Victoria road or to the town hall. As it happened, Mrs. von Hannekin had asked us to come to her in case of alarm, so we escaped to the town ball. There were perhaps 100 people who remained in their homes. All the rest were huddled together in Gordon hall for ten days. “The Chinese troops were every where. Two days before the alarm 1,700 Russian troops arrived. They saved our lives. Had it not been for them all of us would have been slaught ered. On that Monday they fought n*. MIS8 Til.UK FAHR. Ill Native Coat lime 5,000 Chinese well-drilled troop* for twelve hour*. At one time they thought they eould not hold them at tmy, hut In the evening the Hnyslatin atlll maintained their po*ttlon, How Ituaian* fought and Buffered! I cannot dcMcrthe their courage For three day* they lay In the open. egpuand to a ter* rlhle Ore. without being able to tight back The Chine**' were behind tranche*. mo the ltua»tan* i ould nut affotd to wa«te ammunition '"All theae daya we were watting and watting for re enforcement* We could not believe the adtutraU would Unit bard tbe fort* at Taku plunge u* Into war and then leave u* with only a few hundred troop* Hie h however. «io th.> ej**r v- m i. . i* ... fault lay There were three dreadful day* of lighting Hot when the * niid additional troop* were .lupati hc l front iaku, after tbe arrival of Jim W*tta. the brave NunUa rider, they ware able with mm h a re ettfor* ement I work tketr way though I Hu* mev all arrived utt Hunday morning and Were waved Mian Ttilm k’akr of Han Krttrlwu gku VM •!*** » refuge* at tiordoo kail pays a high tribute to Jim Watts. In her diary of June 19 she says: “They are bombarding us heavier to day than heretofore. Early this morn ing I stood behind a closed window peeping through the shutter slats. Four bullets pierced the shutters, but did not s.trike ine. I rushed to the commanding officer and told him that the bullets must have come from a Chinaman concealed in a tree flanking the window. Calling four Cossacks, we went to the tree, and sure enough shook out a Chinaman, whose first inquiry was whether he had killed the lady. I told him 1 was very much alive. My would-be assassin was immediately tried and shot. • • * All else may be dead, but heroism still lives. Jim Watts rides to Taku to bring us re enforcements. He heads for Taku, but may ride into the very jaws of death. It Is a most perilous undertaking, but brave Jim Watts gladly, gallantly risks his life. I myself heard him offer it. ‘Some one must go to Taku,' said the commanding officer. ‘It may mean the lives of women and children—it may mean death to the rider. Who will go?' 'I know the roads, every inch of of them; let me go,’said a voice. Then Jim Watts stepped forward. ‘I shall go; it is right. 1 am the older brother.' We saw him mount his horse, we heard the thuds of the hoofs beat more faintly and die. Hope took no new lease of life from this. Before re-en forcements could reach us it would be too late, granting that brave Jim Watts e\er reacher Taku. And what more unlikely than that?" “June 23.—Through the glasses I saw the troops coming nearer anil nearer. Are they re-enforcements for the Box ers or us? Closer they come, and yet we cannot distinguish them. Eyes I strain through glasses nor catch a ! clew to their identity. Another half ! hour. Sudenly something flutte-s to ' the wind. The stars and stripes, thank Coil' thank God! They are corning to us anil we shall not die. How good heaven is. how sweet is life! The stars aud stripes, and we wept and HOPEI) the first time since that day long ago when we came to Gordon hull. God hi*ss Jim Watts' Other Hags are now visible It is 10:30 in the morning. * * • The troops reached ns before 2 o'clock The rest of the day has been very quiet. The Chinese are evi dently ptixxled what move to make next How strange not to hear the helling* There are other diacorduiit sounds, though the inon of the hungry [ cows, the bray of the donkeys and from i the other starved animals rotnes a cry 1 for something to eat Poor creatures; j yet it Is impossible to spare food for them.™ ,Aume *’ A mine«,’* Mo onlit Palm nf l.ltna, the «llret tor ! i»r «h.* National Library of pern hat t»i|!»a»hf.| « booh reviving anJ review j Ing Ik* «bl itiolnivrfii an lit the (trialu •'< hr nniur America.** ||,. ■ iiinlrnitn that Hut he!iii*|»here wan not nalueU after APterb • V**i>it‘ | bill that i hr Flore Mi nr ru»r< haul* nmt • wt changed by a French y«lgwr io Awrii. i* ' la honor of hia travel* In the n** world, then a tiernnn profvw *or, riihi Ignoi iHiir or wlliullj mt I . .1 OH tit |,l » 1 ft,,m t nb It name gave two mat! aval* their |»rw*«* title Jttle* M*|.OH m th< hulMia of the Part* Orogr*|i ,t, *1 *, I t'lriv for Ini i*(jt ittt i unjev Hir* t I hie origin of tMit** M - Palma . review of Ibr fa> I* an I #vi4<w makes out a good ease for Marconi's theory. "America” is the native name of the mountain range between Lake Nica ragua and the Mosquito coast. The termination “ic," or "ac,” is common in native place-names all around the Caribbean. Spanish voyagers for years after Columbus were still search ing for the water passage to India and for gold. Both motives caused them to give particular attention to the western end of the Caribbean. So the name "America” became familiar long before it got into books. Vespucci’s account of his voyages, published in 1504, was the first printed description of the mainland of the new world. It ran through many editions In several languages, and brought its author's name into much notice. In the Latin editions Vespucci's name was latin ized into "Albericus Vespuclus.” Woman's Ingenuity. The wives of the policemen of Phila delphia devised a plan for keeping their husbands cool during the hot weather the other day. It, at least. Illustrates how the ingenuity of a woman may make light of of ficial rules, even though they be those of a munici pal police depart ment. One of the strict est regulations of t h e Philadel phia department is that all officers on duty must wear coat and vest, and must have the top button of the coat buttoned. No in fractions of this affijfej Lj, rules are allowed even under rondi How I’hiladelphiaiiojjj, which make Policemen Keepthe bronze statue of William Penn alt in Its shirt sleeves. Philadel phia policemen are all strictly observing the rule, and yet they are keeping reasonably cool. The wife of each of them has taken an old vest and entirely cut away the back and sides, leaving only a single thickness of blue cloth in front without lining This remnant has been sewed into the coal, which is also entirely robbed of Its lining, so that while the appv tr ance remains the substance Is aluc^t lacking Chtntte Cede of Etiquette. The standard hook of et lunette In <"hina »a» written by Isidy ('ho I.TOU years ago Lady (‘ho was the widow of a distinguished literary man of north China an I after hi* death ta< faithful to his memory Her husband* brother was historian of that dynasty, ‘»ui when hu » irk was half completed h* Uwt his sight The Kniperor sent a messenger to him asking Mm who < otild nnish his book and the replt was returned that only bis brother * wife *|4 apatite of doing it The Lmpefur 44ut for i««|y t'bo and she was wS'lwlol in the greatMl of .141, to the Kniperor s twlscr There shs • >mpt«twi h*r Mart heron ■ la * • work ho **tuf • tonly that It la tniptrealble III tell W le r I He MaWtt b*ft iff and th woman Inman faMufraCar^rsef fkr .t'wnfus j CipCallcIs of Low b n 4 or ting ti N * *i ii OIM4A4N ff »«t in this country, arc formulating plans to turn the entire Soudan, in Africa Into a gigantic fruit garden. They ex pect that the product of their venture j will supply the whole of Europe with ! those fruits that can be raised only in I hot and moist climates. A large con i signment of fruit trees has already j been shipped to the Soudan and if It Is found that these take root and bloom | as do the native trees, then millions i of other trees will be shipped and 8"1 i out. Experts who have thoroughly gone over the grounds and considered the enterprise from all standpoints art confident that the scheme is feasible and will prove highly successful, Labouchere A ccujcd. London Truth publishes cor respondence advising that paper of the seizure at Pretoria of a compro mising letter from Montagu White, former consul general of the South African republic in London, to Secre tary of State Reitz dated Aug. 4. 1899, and two letters from Henry Labou chere to Mr. White, dated respectively Aug. 2. 1899, and Aug. 4, 1899, which Mr. White appears to have inclosed to Secretary Reitz, and a letter of Joseph Chamberlain, the secretary of state for the colonies, inviting Mr. Labou chere to offer explanations or observa tions, thereon, and Mr. Labonchere's reply, Mr. Labouchere's letters are brief and amount to advice to the Transvaal to gain time by the accept* •ir IIKNKY bAIIOrCHEHK ance of the proposed commission to settle the franehise questions, ete,, to gether with an expression of oplni in | from Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. the lite ral leader in the house of enm I bom. and the liberals generally that , the British cabinet proposed the «p 1 pointmeut of the commission with the view of giving Mr. Chamberlain a chaiiie to “climb down," and that the cabinet waa determined to have uo war. 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