The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, September 07, 1900, Image 3
ji t&mmtu'jm?. rmmmMmmmtmmm mmlMm'mmiviwwili'' . . X. -fo 1 & i UHE TTZOVlCEIlS OF CHIJVA.. V)hey Jre a Happy Class of People. A rich Chlnamnn wears Bilk, a poor one cotton. Since the proportion of rich to poor Is about one In a thou sand, It follows that the growth nml manufacture of cotton are vital nec cessitlM. It Is thought cotton culture was begun In the thirteenth century, tho plant coming In from India, where THE WEAVER, it has been known for 2000 years. In nplto of her tinequnlcil agriculture, China does not raise cotton for export nor, In fact, enough for her own needs. In the growm 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. Thcro are no power- A VIEW OK THE llxt&jianj We occasionally hear adverse reports of the conduct of the Russlnn 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 tho protecting arm of tho czar's soldiers In China, terrible bloodshed would havo resulted at mnny points. Some days before tho cap ture of Telntsln a company of Russian Boldlers entered tho city. Of their heroic efforts in behalf of the foreign ers Mrs. Charles Donby, Jr.. wife of the 6on of tho 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 wcro all aroused at 1 o'clock, und every one who lived in the extra concession went either to friends on the Victoria road or to the town hall. Ah it happened, Mrs. von Hannekln had asked us to come to her In ense of alarm, so wo escaped to tho town hall. There were perhaps 100 people who remained In their homes. All tho rest wero huddled together In Gordon hall for ton days. "Tho Chinese troops wero every where. Two days before the alarm 1.700 Russian troops arrived. They saved our lives. Had it not been for them nil of us would have been slaught cied. On that Monday they fought MISS TILLIE KAHR, lu Native Costume. 5.000 Chinese well-drilled troops for twelve hours. At ono time they thought they could not hold them nt bay, but in tho evening tho Russians still maintained their position. How Ruslans fought and suffered! I cannot describe their courage. Kor threo days they lay In tho open, exposed to a ter rlblo fire, without being nblo to fight back. Tho Chinese wero behind trenches, so the Russians could not afford to wasto ammunition. "All these days wo wore wnltlng and waiting for re-enforcements. We could not believo tho admirals would bom bard tho forts at Tnku, plunge us Into war and then leave us with only n few hundred troops. Such, howover, was tho case. No one known where the fault lay. Thcro wero three drendful days of fighting. Hut when tho second additional troops wero dlspntched from ToUn, after tho arrival of Jim Watts, the bravo Riibalan rider, they were able with such a rs-enforrement to work their way through. Thus they all-arrived on Sunday morning nnd wo were saved." Mlsa Tllllo Knhr of San Krnnelsco, who was also a refugee at Gordon hall, lliiflifligi gins for taking out the seed. Instead, the Chinese use the little hand-gins very like those still to be 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. Tney nro turned by a wooden crank, revolve one against the other, and free the cotton of seed by drawing tho lint The lint Is fed to them by hand, nml It takes n long and steady day's work to gin Ave pounds of lint which means twenty pounds of cotton In tho seed. The cotton Is carded simultane ously with tho ginning. A set owl man stands at the end of the bench beating the clean cotton with the tc,e kung, or earth bow, Into big (laky "bats." These bats the women spin in various wnys. Sometimes they usd the old-fashioned spinning whe'l Much oftener It Is something approxi mating tho ancient distaff. The spin ner twirls It steadily, walking around und around as she twirls, thus wind ing the lengthening thread Into very long hanks. If It Is spun and run In to broaches or quills, they are often reeled with a hand-reel. Chlncso In dustry Indeed Is ns Inveterate as Chi nese economy. Women usually work at such reeling while they stand un.l gossip in the alley ways between their houses. If there Is no le 1 handy they will be stitching upon a shoe so'e, al ways a salable article. Hare feet nro i .r. ' 1 i . .j- : CITY OK GHl'NC, KINO IV. IMPORTANT COTTON CENTER AND A ROXER STRONGHOLD Smed pays a high tribute to Jim Watts, In her diary of June 10 she says: "They nre bombarding us heavier to day than heretofore. Early this morn ing I stood behind a closed window peeping through the shutter hints. Pour bullotn pierced tho shutters, but did not btrlko mo. 1 rushed to the commanding ofllcer and told him that iho bullets must hnvo come from a Chinaman concealed In a tiec Hanking tho window. Calling four Cossacks, we went to the tree, nnd sure enough shook out u Chinaman, whose first Inquiry was whether he bad killed the j lady. I told him 1 was very much alive. .My wouiu-ue assassin was nnmeiitnteiy tried and shot. All else may bu dead, but heiolsin still llves. Jim Watts rides to Tnku to bring us ro tnfoi cements. He heads for Taku, but may lido Into the very Jaws of death, it Is u most perilous undertaking, but brave Jim Watts gladly, gallantly risks his life. I myself heard him offer It. 'Somo ono must go to Tnku,' said the commanding o Ulcer. 'It may mean the lives of women nnd children It may menu denth to tho rider. Who will go?' 'I know the roads, evorj Inch of of them; let mo go,' said a voice. Then Jim Watts stoppeil forward. 'I shall go; It Is right. I am the older brother.' We saw him mount his horse, we heard the thuds of the hoofs bent more faintly and die. Hope took no new lease of life from this. Hefore re-enforcements could reach us It would be too late, granting that brave Jim Watts eer readier Taku. And what more unlikely than Hint?" "June 23. Through the glasses 1 saw tho troops coming nearer and nearer. Are they rc-enforcoments for the Box ers or us? Closer they come, and. yet wo cannot distinguish them. Eyes strain through glnabes nor catch a clow to their Identity. Another half hour. Sudcnly something Mutters to the wind. Tho stars and stripes, thank God! thnnk God! They are coming to us and wo shall not dlo. How good heaven Is, how sweet Is life! The slurs and stripes, and we wept and HOPED tho first time since that day long ago when wo camo to Gordon hall. God bless Jim Watts! Other flags arc now visible It Is 10:30 in the morning. Tho troops reached us Itcforo 2 o'clock. Tho rent of the day has been very quiet. Tho Ohlno.so are evi dently puzzled what move to make next. How strange not to henr tho hhelllng! There are other discordant sounds, though the moo of the hungry cows, tho bray of tho donkeys and fiom the other starved animals cornea n cry for something to eat. Poor creatures; yet It Is Impossible to spare food for them." Uhc JVamc "America," Rlcardo Palma of Lima, the director of the National Library of Peru, has published a book reviving and review ing the old controversy ns to the origin of the name ''America." Ho contends that this hemisphere was not named after Alberlco Vespucci, but that the Klorontlno merchant's nam was changed by a French painter to "Amerlcus" In honor of his travels In the now world; then a German profes sor, either Ignornntly or wilfully, car ried on tho compliment, nnd from a nlcknamo gnro two continents their present title. Jules Marcr-n, In the I bulletin of tho Paris Geographical so ciety for January, 1883, conjectured this origin of "America." Mr. Palma's review of tho facts and evidence unknown In China. Even u beggar wears shoes, though he may have no other clothes than the liead-bowl, which serves both ns a hat and to hold out when there Is a chance of alms. Nothing Is wasted In China. Even grass and wheat roots are pulled up, washed, dried and used for fuel. Scraps of paper ami cloth are pasted together to make the Insoles of shoes, lilts of wood nre glued to build up either a board or a post. Women spin ners and straw-philters earn 2e a day. The spinning, though, Is most coin monly like the. weaving at the hnnd looms, only n part of unpaid house hold labor. Machine-made cloth and tht end have of l.ile" 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, hciico 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. l-'lve dollars a year will clothe a Chinese husband ami wife something more than decently. I'nderwear Is un knownso Is lilting a garment. The onlv measures taken are from the hip to the uround, and from the middle en and makes out a good ea.se for Marconl'3 theory, "America" Is Iho native name of the mountain range betwen hake Nica ragua and the Mot-qulto coast. The termination "Ic," or "nc." Is common lu native place-names all around the C.ulbbcan. Spanish voyngers for years after Columbus were still search ing for the water passage to Indln nnd for gold. Both motives caused them to give particular attention to the western end of the Caribbean. So the name "America" becnnie familiar long before it got Into booti.H. Vespucci's account of his voyages, published lu 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, lu the Latin editions Vespucci's name was Latin ized into "AUtei leus Vcpueiiib." Worn an' Ingenuity. I i nit wives oi ino policemen or I'lllln- dclphla devised a plan for keeping their husbands cool during the hot weather the other day. It, at least, Illustrates how tho ingenuity of a w o m n n m n y mako light of of ficial rules, even though they bo those of a munici pal police depart ment. One of the strict est regulations of t h c Philadel phia department Is that all officers on duty niunt wear (oat and vest, nnd must have the top button of the coat buttoned. No In fractions of this rules are allowed even urer condl- How PhlladeiphlaUona wnlch mako Policemen Keoptho bronze statue Cool. f William Penn sit In Its shirt sleeves. Philadel phia policemen nro all strictly observing tho rule, and yet thoy are keeping reasonably cool. Tho wlfo of each of them lias, taken an old vest nnd entirely cut away tho back and sides, leaving only a single thickness of bluo cloth In front without lining. This remnant has been sewed Into the coat, which is also entirely robbed of Its lining, so Hint while tho nppeir mice remains the substance Is ulmust lncklng. Chinese Code of Etiaueltc. Tho standard book of etiquette in I China was written by Lady Clio 2,700 j years ago. Lady Clio was tho widow or a distinguished literary mnn of north China and after his death waa faithful to his memory. Hor husband's ' brother was historian of that dynasty, ' llllt IL'lir.tl tllu 11,lfls ...nt. I.nlf .. l-i. I .... ........ ..... m.in nuo iiuu cumiueiei! ho lost his sight. Tho Emperor sent a messenger to him asking him who could finish his book and tho reply was returned that only his brothor's wlfo was capable of doing it. The Emporor sent for Lady Cho and she was conducted In the greatest of stato tar the Emperor's pnlaco. Thoro she completed her brother-in-law's work so satisfactorily that It Is Impossible to tell where tho man loft off nnd the woman began. To Make a Garden of ihe Soudan Capitalists of London, according to reporls which emanate from Importers of the breast to the flncer tin. Knsh Ioiih do not change. Winter garment- and bedding are wadded with cotton. Once u year they must be ripped apart and washed, padding and all. How needful is economy may be Judged from a few figure. Unskilled lnborers are paid upon an average 7e a day. Masons, carpenters anil stone cutters, hcie as elsewhere tho aristo cracy of labor, get fiom 25c to 30c a 0m THE STONE CTTTERS. day. According to the average of prices of articles of consumption in China 25e a day Is equivalent to ?2.5t) per day here. Work begins at snn rlsc and keeps up until dark. Not withstanding all which strikes are Vir tuall unknown, and the Chinese la borer is tiie happiest and most con tented in the world. Children, lu tills country, are formulating plans to turn the entire Soudan, lu Africa, Into a gigantic fruit garden. They ex pect that the product of their ventuie will supply the whole of Europe with those fruits that can be raised only In hot .mil moist climates. A largo con signment of fruit trees has already been shipped to the Soudan and if It H found that these lake root and bloom as do the native trees, then millions of other trees will bo shipped nnd B"t out. Experts who have thoroughly gone over tho grounds and consldcied tho enterprise from all standpoints am confident that the schenio U feasible and will prove highly successful. Laboucicrc Accused. London Truth publishes cor respondence ndvlslng ,lluit paper of tho seizure at Pretoria of n compro mising letter from Montagu White, former consul general of tho South African republic In London, to Secre tary of State Rcllz dated Aug. 4. ISO!), and two lcttora from Henry Labou chore to Mr. White, dated respectively Aug. 2, ISOO, and Aug. 4, 1800, which Mr. White appears to have Inclosed to Secretary Reltz. and n letter of Joseph Chamberlain, the secretary of state for tho colonies, Inviting Mr. Labou chcre to offer explanations or observa tions, theieon, and Mr. Labouchorc's leply. Mr. Lubouchere's letters nro brief and amount to advice to the Transvnnl to gain time by the accept- HENRY LABOIJCHERE. ance of the proposed commission to settlo the franchise questions, etc., to gether with an expression of oplntm from Sir Henry Cniupboll-Banuornin'i, the liberal leader In the house of com mons, and tho liberals generally that the British cabinet proposed the ap pointment of the commission with the view of giving Mr. Chamberlain a chance to "climb down," ami that the cabinet wan determined to have no war. Madame Rlchter, Meyerbeer's daugh ter, hah pitvtentcd to the museum her father's piano, a well-preserved Erard, and another donor has added an eight eenth century lyro-shnped piano of great beauty. This royal collection also includes the oldest upright oblique piano In existence, It wn.s made In Paris by the Inventor, Henri Pate, in 183U. Over In Linn county, Missouri, n man wished to innrry a widow who had seven children. With n view of avoid lug nil future trouble, he obtained the consent of all the children anil of tin Intended bride's father before getting a license AWFUL EXPERIENCE. SURVIVES TWENTY DAYS WITH OUT FOOD. 1 drilling Tit 1 1' or 'IVrrlltlo Onlrnl He-lilU-cl l.y Vtltllrini Warn Irk Who Win Itt-M'iii-il I'roni tint .liitt of Oriith off N't-M fnuinllrtlMl CoiMt, After he had spent twenty days on the desolate piece of rock off the southern coast of Newfoundlund, Wil liam Warwick, a sailor, has been res cued and placed under it physlclun'. caie. Ills feet have been amputated, and bis physical condition Is very bad. Ills tale of suffeilug is almost be.vond belief. He said: "On July I, with two shipmates, Oliver Siulthwlck mid llcniy Winn, 1 deserted the British schooner Llttl Pet. We slid down the Hue by which the yawl was made fast astern and cut adrift. Smllhwlck had robbed the galley of stores enough to last for three days. We expected to lench the Krcneh lobster factories on Ihe west coast of Newfoundland, where Winn said there was plenty of work at goo.l want's. "When we had been allo.it about six hours, It blew a gale. The yawl upset, and the last I saw of Winn and Smith wick they weie lighting In tho water to get on the yawl. They were out of sight lu a minute, nnd I fancy thoy were drowned. "I kept alloat. When It got daylight my legs were swollen and cramped, and I had no feelulg in my arms. I saw an Island and swam for it. The surf rolled up on the rocks and pound ed me. remember dragging myself out of the reach of the waves ami g.i lug to' sleep. I woke up about noon and tile sun was frightfully hot. M. skill was all puffed out lu bllsteis. My legs were so swollen that I had to cut my troupers off with a sharp plice of stone. 1 could not get my knife out of my pocket. I lay there lu the hot situ nil the afternoon, too weak to move. When It got dark I went to sleep again for a while, mid when I awoke It was raining. My tongue was swollen so that 1 could not keep It In my mouth. I rolled over and dr.ink my (III from a hollow lu the rocks anil went to sleep again. "On July 3, nt da break, I dragged myself to the top of some rock to ret my bearings. 1 could see the main land, about ten miles off to the north. My Idea was that 1 was off Cape R.ieo, and I was right, for, nftor dark, 1 saw the Cape Race light. "It mny found strange, but up to July 4 I had not been hungry, al though I had not had anything to eit since leaving the Little Pet. I guca I was buffering so much that I forgot to get hungry. There was plenty o" water in tiie hollows of the locks. I went off on a cruise around the Island for soniethliii; to eat and found tha' I was upon a rocky desert. There was not a weed, a bush nor a root on the whole Island. On July fi I beennio very hungry. Tho sun entno up ns hot as lu the tropics and my skin began to peel off. 1 titanic n quantity of water but could not drug myself around much. A fishing schooner passed, but I could not ettract Its attention. "On July 0 I tore up my trou8nrB and made u sort of n hook out of tho buckle. I tried to fish, but, having no halt, of course I did not catch any thing. I was out or my head at times with pain and hunger. "On July 7 I soaked tho pocket of my trousers In which I had carried to bacco, In water, and chewed tho wet cloth. It seemed to mo Hint It stayed the hunger some. On July 8 I was in a kind of stupor. Several fishing boat passed during tho afternoon, but they wero a long way off. I could senrcely crawl, but I kept filled with wato.-. On July !) the sun was very hot and I suffered moro than at any tlmo sines I had been cast ashore. I linil lest nil feeling In my legs from tho knees down. My stomach hurt mo so that I was bent up with frightful cramps. I drank about a barrel of water on July 10, and for tho four succeeding day. all hunger had left mo and I lay with out moving, at the side of a pool of water. I saw a steamship passing one day so close that I could see people on tho dock looking at tho Island, but I could not mnko a movo to cull atten tion to myself. "On July 15 tho wind blew a gnle through tho night and It wns fright fully cold. I managed to crawl to tho side of a rJck close to the water, where I was sheltered from tho wind. My feet wero beginning to turn blue. I remnlned there till the 17th, when I began to feel qulto strong, and, get ting up, tried to walk on my swollen legs. '1 hoy did not hurt, but I could not manage thorn. I had to mnko up my mind Hint I was going to die. when a small yacht came along and appeared about to put off a boat. I Jumped up nnd screamed, but my scream was a whisper. My throat seemed to close. On July 18 I know 1 was going crnzy. I could see bun dreds of boats on the water. "They nil came to tho beach and turned around and went back again. 1 thought there wns a big band playing nt Capo Race and that I could hear tho music plain ly The Idea got Into my head that I had found a rich gold mine. I actu ally crawled around hunting for gold. Toward evening tho wind blew up .cool and fresh and I had frightful pains In my stomach. The lust I remombo was a dream of eating almost every thing 1 had ever heard of. "On July 1!) I can remembor for n short time lu tho morning, nftcr sun rise; 1 looked at my Teet and wondored ir they wero there. Thoy wero burst log, but I did not feel pain. I don't remember drinking water," Mr. James Currle, a telegraph re pairer, while passing Isle du Mnrtc in tils boat, saw the body of a man on the beach, Investigated, and found Warwick, who was unconscious. Ho has a remniknhle constitution, which was all that carried him through his terrible experience. WASN'T A PROPOSAL Hill tlio (l,l Win 'lliniiMnl for Her llMorl'n rrUult' Hint. A New Orleans girl tells this on her self' She went up to the Inaugural ball at Bitnn Rouge In a paity. Ker illnand we will consider him ns such was with Them, the dear fellow who has be n "nice" to her ever slnco she came out, but who has never commit ted hlmxcir. Beauty determined to evoke something: besides ndmlrntlon fiom him nt this last event of the uni son and In ulil of that purposo carried along u choice organdie evening gown, cut Just right, und ns fresh as a new blor.som. They had wait .oil a turn or two ami were moving toward her chap eron, when Kerillnand lenned forward her and unit mured In that only-for-yon voice that will revive Mutters in the lie.nt of u divorcee: "May I tell you something?" Beauty was on the point of telling him that It was not necessaiy that she knew, felt, nil he would speak, but no girl wants to miss the Joy of a pioposal, so she dropped her hoed and tried to he brusque. "If you want to," she said. "You are sure yon won't mind?" he went on. "I don't think I shall," nlie murmured, giving him the upward alant of the eye that, In the lexicon of lllitntlon, means hut why explain? .hint then mamma signaled with her Ian for they had begun to waltz ugaln und Bounty murmured, "Not now; Just wait till we resume dancing," nnd permitted herpelf to he takn to her mother. "Yon have left one of your curl. up lu Its piper, my dear," explained mam ma, sotto voce. "Put your head down as If I weie talking to you and I'll lake It out." Mamma win a very good sort to iMitke tli.i. marring detail und the papllloto episinl' was over in n mo ment. She Joined Kerillnand quietly, as If nothing had happened. They moved along quietly behind un avenue of palms. "And now," she iiald, n world of emotion in her voice. Ills eyes melted over her. "It's nil right now." said he; "your mother took It out." Beauty says the whole social season has been a dead failure. New Orleans Tlmes-D.',niocrat. MOURAVIEFF'S "COUP. llo I'iiIIimI I:iikIiiuI' 111110 nml Won I'orJ Arthur. Count Mournvlelfs most fatuous "coup" was the grabbing of Port Ar thur. Concerning that bit of uctlvo diplomat y on the p:ut of the late Rus sian Minister, the following story Is being told: Mour.ivlerf, It is said, beard at the psychological moment In the iicgntlutlous during tho CIiIikmo crisis of two years ago of Oneon Vic toria's avowed determination never to sign another declaration of war. With this knowledge nt command he held the key of tho situation In the Kar East. He knew that Great Britain would not "risk n war," and, therefore, he rend the brave talk about the "open door" with n smile, and received Iord Salisbury's protests thereby as signi fying so many pretty phrases and bis veiled threats as simply bluff. In this, say those Hint believo the story, lies tho explanation of that sudden with drawal of the British ships of war fiom Port Arthur after thoy had gone In with mien bravo parade. They worn sent ns an ultimatum, but the Admiral dlBcovoicd that there was nothing nt tho back of the iiltlmntum. In short, , Mouruvlcff's discovery of tho alleged determination of the Queen novcr to sign another declnratlon or war en abled him to accomplish without n shot what Russia had secretly been striving to reach for centuries. In the language of the new diplomacy, It was tho scoop of the century. Story of a t'liult. An oxtrnordlnnty account eonies from Devonshire, England, of a chub, found In a muddy" pool, that had' evi dently pushed Its way when young In ro n cago-llko space formed by tho roots of a tree, nnd being unable to escape, had grown Into the shape oi Its close-fitting prison. Lack of room had caused tho tall to develop only lo tho extent of a llttlo deformed stump. The back fin also had vanished, and the whole fish had been distorted Into the gnarled and twisted form of the root cage, being hideous In nppenr tnce, yet seemingly strong nnd healthy. It Ik dlfilcult to lmug!no how a fish could get food for yenrs under such conditions. Puleiit-I.rn'lmr HooU. Nlco patent leather mnkes the neat est of footgear, but it requires care to keep In order. Thoro is no better dressing for It thnn n very llttlo snlnd oil. Before wearing a now pair of patent leather boots It is expedient to well rub lu a small quantity or salad oil and then polish with n sort cloth. This Is to prevent tho leather truin crocking, aB It sometimes does. Pat ent leather should novor bo dried by tho firo, for heat has a wny or causing tho leather to harden nnd crack. .Memorial Dy I'ttrdon. Ex-Gov. Uushnoll or Ohio said recently that while Governor ho made It a regular part of his Memorial Day co!obratlon to pardon somo old soldier from tho penitentiary, always ono who had been n good prisoner nnd who was n prison for life for manslaughter. At one tlmo thoro wcro 119 cx-so'dicra the Ohio ponltentlary. 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