February 23, 1902.
TIIE ILLUSTRATED BEE.
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TYPEWRITER,
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STONE WALL. AND FASCINE AT HANGCHOW MR. CARPENTER. STANDING ON THE WALL, IS FIVE
EIGHT AND ONE-HALF INCHES HIGH, GIVING YOU AN IDEA OF THE HEIGHT OF THE WALL.
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Carpenter's Letter
(Continued from Sixth Page.) .
molding pllla and putting them away In
atone Jars. Adjoining this room wm
another, which might be called a pill ware-
there Is a foreign settlement and the Eng- house. It contained an enormous number
Ilsh, Germans and Japanese are already of atone Jara, each holding about fifty gal-
beginning to do business.
Ions of pills There were enough pills
Right near Soochow is the great Talhti there to physio all China. The Jara were
lake, which Is connected with the Grand arranged la sections. They bad different
canal by a marble bridge with fifty-three labels upon them, although those on . one
arches. It Is one of the finest bridges side of the room seemed to have about
In China. It la very long and Its archea
are as perfectly made as though cut with
a sculptor's chisel. I sailed by this bridge
on my way to the city.
the aame character as those on the other.
I asked the men how the pills were graded.
He said that they were packed up accord
ing to the diseases for which they rserrv
Soochow has many pagodas and It la also intended; and, also, according as they were
celebrated as a literary center,
of pagodas haa a queer story
One group
connected
for women or men. Each sex must hr.ve
Its own pills, whether they be for the
with It, which shovys the superstition of headache, the collo or what not.
the Chinese. Originally the group con
tained but two pagodas, with a pool of
water near them. Shortly after the pa
godas were built It was noticed that the
students from Soochow always failed in
their examlnationa when they were In
Deer Horns and Tla-er Boaes.
A curious department of the store was a
menagerie. This was a little soologlcal
garden, containing animals which were to
be ground up Into medicine. There were
Pekln. The necromancer, were asked to about twenty deer ranging from fawn.
determine the cause. They found It In the ,UBl D?ru " u,u "u"5" V . iT .
1 b.m th... Deer norn "re supposed to have great
pagodas. Said they. properties, and these deer are
xou nave nere me waier. pointing i . - - .,, ,
. . ground up for medicine. Great quantities
pointing to the pagodas; but you have . no Imported. This 1. also
. . ' . . . true of tiger bones, and especially of tiger
ars write essays with only brushes and . . 8 . ' . , arK
kept for ithelr horns, which are cut off and
water!"
"Ah," said the Chinese, "we will fix
that." - And ao they built a third pagoda
In plain black, the shape of a Chinese ink
pot. This changed the fortunes of the schol
ars immediately and Soochow since then
haa become the "Athens of China."
It took us a long time to get around
the walls of Soochow Into the city. Soo
chow has at least twelve miles of wall
about it. The wall Is as hlr- as a three
' story house and as wide as the ordinary
country road. It Is today almost as per
whiskers. Pllla made of these things are
worth their weight In gold.
FRANK O. CARPENTER.
Handling Baggage
(Continued from Fourth Page.)
exposition In Omaha the baggage rooms
were overcrowded, and much overflow waj
handled outside, but It waa all kept under
cover of the carsheds.
Thousands of pieces Handled.,
The number of pieces of luggage shipped
feet as when It was built, and there are in and out of Omaha In a day, a month and
parts of it which have been recently re- a year forms an astonishingly large loiai.
paired. Other parte are being torn down Just now it Is the dull season, but at
and rebuilt. The Chinese have walls about Union station they are handling over 800
all their cities and If a new city were built pieces every day, at Burlington station
today It would have a wall about it. Not about 400 and at Webster street station
long ago aome hundreds of thousands of 200. In 1901 there were 357,000 pieces
dollars were spent in repairing the wall handled at Union atatlon, 141,862 at Bur
et Nanking, and I suppose that one of the lington station and about 75,000 pteces at
first appropriations made by the govern- Wobster street station. The figures all
ment, after they have arranged for the show substantial Increase over those
Interest on the foreign debt brought about for 1900.
by the late war, will be to repair the walls The fall months from August to Novem-
of Pekln. ber are tha heaviest In Omaha.
Soochow fills the most of the space within And twenty-five men do all thla work the
thla wall, and in places the city has gone yesr around. There are twelve at Union
outside. All along the banks of the canal station, nine at Burlingtcn station and tour
under the wall are be it car huts, sheds of at Webster street. These employe work
straw. In which live people more ragged split trlcka, because .the business comes In
and filthy perhaps than any beggars of the fits and starta during the day. There are
world. Many of them go about in boats certain perioda of two hours or so when
and whine for alms while they thrust out the trains bunch In, and then the men are
at you long poles to which are attached needed in number.
other innovation now is the separation of
this from the ticket accounts at all large
stations. The Omaha depots have cashier
In their baggage rooms to handle the ex
cess rate, while formerly the ticket agents
did this, and still do in many small sta
tions.
Theatrical luggage forms such an exten
sive part of the baggage business that at
Ur.lon station a special track at the east
end of the building Is set aside for this
use only, and on that all cars of Thespian
. - switched. There are special
MWiitiuui.! ul rates,' ' '"baggage
as regards excess and charges. .
Changes In the handling of baggage have
been no more radical than those In the
luggage itaelf. Each year bring out a
novelty in the trunk line, and some of the
schemes resorted to by those who wish to
keep their clothing in perfect condition are
very novel. The wardrobe trunk Is espec
ially interesting. This has a round top and
round sides, so that it will sit only on one
end. The reason is that several autts are
hung on hangers at the other end, and they
would be disarranged were the trunk stood
upside down. As it is built, however, It
cannot be made to stand save on the desired
end. Similar results are attain with
trunks not originally built so by avlng
circular rockers screwed to them i - the
Mm WrHIt. It la AmlmA 1 aY
It is calculated that the modern bagJJS
car will hold 250 pleoea of luggage. Tli
capacity of a car la always measured by
cubic dimensions, and not by weight, for
that is a matter that variea too grr tly in
baggage. Burlington baggagemen aay they
could put 8,000 pieces In their room and
handle it comfortably, while at Union ata
tlon the capacity Is nearly double as large
eiett th damp,
KecpMne leaih.
er toft and pli
able, quiches
oo not Dreak
Ko rough rtir-
lac to chela
sod cut. The
barnrat not
only kerpt
looking like
ti, but
wear twin
long by the
e of Eureka
Hamate Ou,
little baskets or bags In which you are ex
pected to put your gifts.
Blearest Drag Store of the World.
In Hans-chow the other day I went
Excess baggage la a big feature of the
business today. A large percentage of the
trunks and case are over weight. In
deed, at Union station $200 a day execess
money la a fair average and at Burlington
through the biggest drug store of China taUon ,t runi over gio.ooo a year. Each
and one which Consul General Goodnow pagBenger ma, carry i50 pounds and no
aaya Is the largest drug store In the world. more tnan 250 poun(U can g0 ln any one
It covers a vast area ana is snu. v i trunk on any condltlont.
many rooms in which Chinese clerks are
selling drugs of all kinds and making rem
edies for all sorts of Chinese ailments. The
store was filled with purchasers, wholesale
and retail, and the talk was ao noisy that
It made me think of the stock exchange In
Wall atreet during a panic. In the factory
I found them grinding roots and bones to
powder for pIlW'The grinding waa dons
ln mill stones moving one on top of - the
other and fed through a hole In the top
stone. The motive power of each mill was
a half naked man, perfect blind, who
pushed round a pole attached to the top
stone, like a horse in the bark mill of a
tannery. I asked why blind men were em
ployed and was Informed that It , Is for
two very good reasons: One that It is
considered charitable to give blind men
work, and another Is because It is cheap.
Leaving the grinding, I went Into another
' department, where score of men were
This adds a big financial feature to the
baggage end of the railroading, and an-
It isn't the Cook's Fault,
It isn't your Grocer's Fault,
that the bulk coffee you just
purchased turns out to be differ
' entf rora the "saraekind" bought
before. Coffee purchased ip
bulk is sure to vary.
The sealed package in which
LION COFFEE is sold insures
uniform flavor and strength. It
also keeps the coffee fres'c end
insures absolute purity.
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