TIIE OMATIA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 23, 1909. D Features of Social and Business Life in the Capital of Manchuria' A ' . - ;u yv - . J-" - ' '. --"ja .AS :rUL r - -j-- - i i i !i Vf';. r-:: ';i 44. - i , !"' 1 A, . l-f "... ' MUKDEN'S CHEAT DRUM TOWER. ENTRANCE TO THE VICEROY'S PALACE. r even more convenient for walking. Some of the latter are odd, a, for In- tlona of all Ports tn Bilk, satin and fln The soles themselves are quite thin, but stance, the peddlers selling falfe pigtails, leather for women. The felt shoes have attached to them are wooden supports, Each of thee has a white cotton shret soles an Inch or more thick, with uppers which extend down from the center of the stretched taut over a framework of bam- whose thickness will average a quarter of shoe, much like a French heel. Such a boo. This is leaned agalnBt the wall of an Inch. They look clumsy and heavy, shoe Is the badge of a lady, for no work- a house where the crowd Is the thickest, but are wonderfully light and remarkably 1 In woman roulit wear them. Another Upon It are pinned many long DiacK cneap. ine cooncs wear snoes 01 leauior d badge of high blood la the long finger nail, switches of human hair of the length of much like moccasins and the officials crotected bv a sheath of silver or gold one's arm. Each switch la divided into nave ooots ot DiacK sun ana veivei. to keep It from breaking. ..f n WOODEN BOOT USED FOR SKIN. M Stores of Mukden, No one can go through the streets of Mukden and not be Impressed by Its busi ness. There are miles of one-story booths, Scimetlmea black silk is used for this purpose. CnpR nntl Shoes Mukden has a large trade in hats, caps dreds on any main street. They are stacked "me timt to learn whence It came. At mnch rHce )n PeklnK (Copyright, 1S09. by Frank O. Carpenter.) and mules, single or double or three or tour UKDEN, Manchuria, 1909. tandem, there are many pleasure vehic.es, (Special Correspondent of The great two-wheeled cabs without springs, Hee.) I am In Mukden, the covered with blue cotton, drawn by superb caultal of Manchuria. It Is a mules, which go on the trot. Some of the n n nnA . i , ...., .. , lioi'lf nt ttVifiih am U'flrBhrii:Hps t&i with r; cny or j;iu,vw, lyiiiH iwcivo caDB nave ouirioers wearing. swnne imis . 11nnV hours by express train almost and red plumes; and now and then there fine goods. There are sireets of fur due north of Dalny, and twenty hours or is a foreign carriage with coachman and stores and streets devoted to the making more south of the Russian frontier. By footman In livery. The town has some and selling of silver, copper and brass. the Imperial Chinese railway It Is twenty- droschkles left by the Russians, the horses There are Innumerable peddlers, who go and shoes. There are winter shoes and up outside upon shelves, which are laid mx hours from Peking and Just twelve of which have great hoops over their along crying the wares, and places summer shoes, shoes for Woikingtnen and up along the walls of the buildings. They hours from Khanhalkwan, at the eastern shoulders. There are numerous Jin- where the goods are put out in the open shoes for officials. There are men's boots are made of fur, silk and felt, with rolls end of the great Chinese wall. It Is the riklshas brought In by the Japanese, during the day and taken in at night. 0f leather, men's boots of felt, and crea- which can bo turned down to cover tha l.Ugest city of Asia, lying north of Peking, There are also huge wheelbarrows pushed . and Is one of the most important of the by sweating Chinese, and last but not whole Chinese empire. It Is the home of least, I must mention the long three the Manchus, and the birthplace of the seated buckboard of the Astor hotel. This r'.l nasty which now rules the 400.000.000 was brought to Mukden by an American Chinese. It has scores of noble Manchu patent medicine man. and for a long time families, and It furrishea a large propor- It had the name of President Roosevelt three strands, so that they can easily be The shoe merchants display their ware braided together, forming a beautiful on the sidewalks, and there the cobbler queue. Many Chinese men are Inclined to "Its and mends your boots while you wait. ears. There are also hat and cap stores, or another. The rootles have suits of baldness, and they buy this hair to braid Near my hotel a wooden boot Is hung and places where fur ear-tabs are sold. sheepskins and goatskins, while the r.a- Into their few remaining locks, thus out as a sign. It is painted white, green $ hobs wear foxsklns. mink and snble. The making a false pigtail of luxuriant growth, and red and Is quite as big as the shoe Ho Water Peddled. Manchu houses are poorly heated, and In which the old woman lived with all of ul lno l""" UI . rur-ilnca cloines are worn inaoors ana out. her children. rounds Is a shrill whistle which may be A. a rule tie i(,gi fur, nr(, exported. I had heard In almost every block. Jt is long thousht to havo bought an overcoat here, all kinds and can be seen by the hun- an(1 lo,,.- and nUnuovK. Still Is took me but am U)M ,nRt j call pul.chase one at u first I thought It might be the whistles these people tie to the tails of their pig eons to scare off the hawks, but I after ward learned it was the advertising cry As to the extent of the fur trade. It Is enoimour. In addition to the vast quan tity ut-xd by the natives several hundred thousand skins arc annually exported. A Quaint Features of Everyday Life liuii of the Chinese officials. Mukden a Tartar City. Mukden is emphatically a Manchu town. It makes one think of the Tartar section of Peking, except that it is better laid out and its streets are smoother and cleaner. The city has two great walls about It. painted upon one of Its sides. It Is now the hotel bus, and It makes dally trips to the railroad station four miles away. Among the Tartars. The crowd on the streets Is far different from that of the cities of China. These Manchus are not like the small-boned. T Sikh Ootnlti Lawyer. the bait. She headed for home, dragging cult. The meat consumed each day is some- latter pipe soma charcoal la lighted. As It HERE Is a Sikh out in Victoria, the line and fish. It was not until Dr. F. where near 1,000 pounds. Such provisions burns the dIds warms the water and the IS. C, where Sikhs are about as !. Olmstead had performed an operation as celery, young onions, strawberries, rad- steam is forced out, not through the spout, oi uro not waier peomer. mm. oi arRe t (f (he pr0(Ic.t Bop. to America, hot water on the streets as a business! ftnJ ho thpre are ,hou. "a U1" oreu"'u .many ...u . Qf doBsk,n mal, am1 dol?8Kin rugs. muKurn. i ney nava great i aritr Bmuvia mado like gigantic tea kettles. These ket tles have a stove pipe in the middle, con- . ... ,j . y .u t gr skins, which bring as high as J400. from the aids near the bottom. In the " . ... ..a as well as hales of sijulrrel trills and fox talis for muffs and hnt deenrntlnn. Some of the furs are fine. There are and leopard skins at from t-0 to J'iO apiece. Something like fi.OOO sables are annually exported, the best of them yielding $ 5 The outer one is of mud and is thirteen sawed-off Celestials we have in America, popular as Japanese In San and removed the hook that tabby was re- Ishes, melons etc., are bought in each but through an opening on top In which kln. Last year about 2.000 silver foxes Francisco, who got himself out lieved of her finny burden. town, often cleaning out the entire mar- is a whistle, of the sama shape as the tin were k' sm of whh'h netted 30 a skin. of a serious predicament by a ket. An advance agent of the commissary two-penny affair used by our school boys. Over 20,000 red fox furs brought from $10 clever rune. H v ..n am.r..r Horse Ileal, a Train. department keeDS well in advance of the The steam blows the whlstla and the boll- to 130 each, and as to the Bklns of wolves, tiie law and as he was something of a As tne Spokane express was outbound show, contracting for its supplies, fur man ing water thus advertises itself. The peo- badgers, goats and lambs, they were sold miles long. The inner is about four miles with yellow complexions, snub noses and" black "h'P even among the Sikhs it from 1'ortland, a few days ago, a bay and beast. pla come to such men with their tea kettles by the tens of thousands. In length, and it Incloses a circle of eyes which look out of button-hole slits looked as if . it would go hard with nim. holse about Bxlen hands high, and a . and gruel. They pay a fraction of a cent $ houses a mile or so wide, comprising the in their faces. They all have more or less n had a bad record in Hong Kong most beautiful specimen, according to those I.llte Bird. for enough t0 mak, toa for a famny and Manchnrla'a Dog Farms. old Tartar camp of the past. Manchu blood and many look like pure nl this was known to other Sikhs and 8aw Mm- look '""laht at the approach- E. R'ce. keeper of Eastlake park. I,os thug 8ave th8 expense of keeping a fire. The biggest part of the fur trade with A great many or the Manchu cooking America Is the dogskins. The country is utensils are made of brass or copper. Not so cold that this animal grows a long, thick far from the Drum Tower is a long street coat, worth so much that dogs are raised devoted to the brass-smiths. Here are for their skins. The best skins bring 14 blocks of brass stores, In each of which a apiece, and they make beautiful ruga I half dozen men in blue jackets and trou- am told there are many- dog farms be- sors sit before low anvils and pound out tween here and Siberia, where the animals brass pots, wash basins and dishes. They ar8 bred for this purpose. They are killed The Inner walls are of brick. They are Tartar They remind one of our Amer!- to the prosecuting lawyer. So he arranged ,I1B w""e let'u",s 1,1 a pasture a.ong- . -v , forty feet high and so wide that two two- can Indians. They are giants in com- to have an unfriendly Sikh informed that slde tl,e trttck about 01le lnile 'um "".'f , ' , ,LT1,TLh , m4 . horse wagons could be driven abreast parison with the people of Canton. I see for a crime in Hong Kong he had been Falrview. and, starting down the track. ..llhJ.r?h' upon them. They run In an almost perfect many men who .re six feet tall, with big branded on the left arm. The unfriendly ran tor 8even mile8 at allnu8t top spei!l1 , he other Li fh.V f J Lid h crele around the Inner city, being entered frames, heavy bones and large heads. Sikh lost no time in passing the informa- down lhe center ot the t,atk ln n'"1 oi Mr Alee w L g"thering a lot of fish from by eight gates, each of which has walled fastened to broad full shoulders. Their lion to the prosecutor. tne ,raln thB ,' k8 . hltrUp, as Breakfast for fish, injures about it. so that you wind in complexions are more like copper than The lawyer held the information until he ,In that ,Bven m'lt8' hor" Jumpe animals ii the o ull he dipped and out going through. The Manchus do cream; their tyes seem wider apart and wanted to make a telling point at the BlX'een Ca,tle 8UardS' and ran a' a up a mess o ' the fish, one .uuck a bEk nut ueilfve III BliaiKIll 1 OUUS. lor lliey ruplr nnwett lire nrtpn nil to nrnmlnrn t.ini a.. u . t am , ftv.uaa m bui.ni.iyii i mil vau believe straight rouds, for they their noses are often quite prominent, trial. Then he pointed an accusing finder think, that evil spirits may be loat or They are not unfriendly looking; and as a at the Sikh and called out sternly: l"" ruie tney do not run when we point our "Pull up the sleeve on your left arm und lhe most inportant part of Mukden is cameras their way. ,et tne court see the brand Ucei the,.e the inner city. This contains the palaces . jJoll Kon jU8,i .. of the emperor of China, ln which are Fine Looking Manrha Maidens. t.5. rg "8 " ... . Htored fortune in Jew., and precious The Mukden women are especially fine, ..t'" -tone., wonderful carvings In silver and They are big-framed and broad-hipped, and ter o knoJv tha branding crlmlna". force a n. worth their 'weiul.t In e.iM ., , . .. . ' .. . yer ala not "now tnat Diandlng criminals " inry pio.hu biruiui as iney warn aiong me The palaces rise high above the rest of streets with a swing. Their feet are not the city. They are great temple-like build- bound 11Ue thoPa of the Chinese women, lugs, with curved roofs of the Imperial nor do they fear to look a man In the face, yellow. Thoir woodwork is painted ln Indeed thev seem to dress f.,r the .treat. not ln fashion ln Hong Kong. The point w a. so telling that the accused Sikh got off. rate , across about sixty feet ln length, without a slip. He was only scared off the track when the train entered Troutdale, and when, at the call of the whistle of the locomotive, the station agent there and employes of a near by livery stable, cornered and caught him with a lariat. Most remarkable of the whole thing was make brass rhaflnir Drives with holes below up through the water and twlttled a pro- thwn f(r charcoal tncene DurIler3i candle. leak. x ilia iiiicicaivu 4.11. nice aim lie luviv the beak fish out and placed It ln an impro vised aquarium. Either the fish is too young for feathers or is molting, for no plumage has ap peared. But tha beak and birdlike head are much ln evidence, as well as the mixed nemiilaDA fihnii'n hv Oia riimhlnnl c rn the speed which the horse kept up in the and goldr,Bn body distance. The only time that the train slowed down perceptibly was at the brldga Dr. David Starr Jordan probably Is the only man who can pedigree the ancestry Cat Get. striae ot Fl.h. outside of Troutdale. where It was feared of ,,, flsh( ,f u a Qr b,rd ,f R u bright red and green, and Is wonderfully And such dressing. They wear pantaloons. Juno the dlvln- and tiahlng cat' belong- th horM mlght 8llp throuh t,,e tles and a bird.' .uived. The roofs are of porcelain, and but over them long coats coming down to nK to Charles La Croix who lives in b cau?hl- He k'PPel the ties like Mr Rloe stl un the , allow tiles shltie Ilk. gold under the ,he ankles. The coats are often of silk placei Conn., home wlt a the most experienced tie walker. he hould provld9 a sticks and the great brass gongs which are used by the mandarins to warn the common people to get out ot their way when they ride through the town. Beyund this is a street of silversmiths' shops, where one can find most gorgeous hair pins and bracelets of silver decorated with enamel. Such wares are sold by weight. The extra charge over tho actual weight of the silver being for the workmanship. Makden'a Ilia; Far Trade. Just before spring, while their coats .re Btill long and warm. The killing Is done by atrangulatlon, for the reason that a knife might injure the fur. The dogs of the cities are treated In the same way. I see many ln Mukden today which I doubt not will be turned Into American rugs ln the next year or so. Japnne.e Speculation In Dour.. The people here look upon dogs a. so much live stock, and bitterly resent their being killed on the ground of hydrophobia sun. For months last year the palaces ned with ,llr. Every glrl pttlnt her "T were tilled with walling officials, who went ch,ek, and eyelids with rogue and her f h,k T'?J? k!, ? undecided a to whether cage of a Jar for its This place I. one of the chief fur mar- or for ltn,'y reasons. At the close of kets of Asia. The country above Mukden the Russian war when the Japanese took meie aay arter day to weep Tor the em- head Is more gorgeously dressed than those li or and the old empress dowager. of any other women of Asia. She has a silver framework, which rises over her Aew Government Balldlac. ; crown like the comb of a rooster, and Mukden is the seat of the viceroy of about this she twists her black locks in a Manchuria. The palaces of tills man are gorgeous creation. The marcel wave or string of fish trailing behind her. There were weakflsh, dogfish, eels, skate und flatfish. Her catch broke all records for a oat, but Juno did not seem to me espe cially proud of It. The big hook was stick ing too deep into her throat for her to Dlnlna; Room ot a Circa. The discipline of an army reigns supreme in circus life, says Popular Mechanks, home. Jodie Sentenced Old Schoolmate. .warms with wild animals and their raw Possession oi muku i.icy ru.. ..-! ... skin, and furs are brought her. for .ale. d" narket. and made something like VA Thera are more than forty tanneries in 000 ln en" tlie Bk'"s' T,,e c,'mo wa originated by a party of Japanese trader.. larger than those of the emperor. They the pompadour would be Puritan-like In ,ind any oy anything. cover, I should say, a half dozen acrod Mukden. and contain hundred, of officials In addl- Some of the women have plates of silver, lion to the viceroy himself. Tartar soldiers fold or other metal, ten Inches long and The cat left home ln the morning to go to the water front to dive for fish. W nun she got there she saw a nice fat mummy mrtn ihnnt thA eftv finri nnn iaiib lurnhji. .T.ioita rtnvmnniY muyil'ai! rf tttm sirlmlnnl , , . . . . . ni .. m and it 1. ..way. Intere.t.ng to watch how co ol rcVk.bu7g7 W . Va. senten and -tore, everywhere. Th, fur shops - ? J the thousand or more people of such an Fred B. WooA former cashler of the WMt are all open. Th. sk n. ar. displayed Just TtTll it" . of the cUy should organlxation are fed three meals a day Virginia bank to serve six vears ln the a. they come from the tannery and also 01 r l,ial au lne aots" OI ;ne "" . " without a bitch, and a. silently a. a big 7, penUentiary a! Moundsv.ll. in -'' " the shap. of the man- b dld ' "thelr own kT.r, hotel. The grass serves as a carptt. anJ pttssinB sentence, Judge Maxwell said: darln coat. Such a coat Is large and full. la. This order enabled their own killer, the forty or more waiters move quickly -i do not know of a more painful duty the fur being afterward cut and fitted to to accompany them und thus they got pos session oi tne .Kins, wnicn numucieu uui ln and out. The kitchen tent Is completely a Judge could be called upon to discharge the shape of the wearer. Many such furs eouloued with oastrv ovens, warming timn in nro.,i..,.. ti. tMm.ni of h. are used for linings. Uie outsldes being of "r 80- Among ineHe weie many Vn With gun. In their hands stand at th. two or three inche. wide, which they a rew incnes Deneatn tne .urtace oi tne tables, steam vats for stewing, steam urns law upon a conviction for a felony against brocaded satin or silk, and some are worn 88- i,1B pe0J0 KUum ..ul ..... .ubu gates and richly dressed Manchu. may be fatn on the back of th. head. They wrap water and dived, seized and .wallowed It. tor coffee and tea, boiling ovens and a friend, his neighbor, his one-time school by the Chinese with th. hair outward, the an outrage today. seen going in and out at any hour of th. their hair round It so that It stands out Then she started for shore. To her aur- numberless other cooking utensils. The companion, roommate, and bedfellow." lining being of silk or other materials. S day. The viceroy's palaces ar. of modern !lke Kral wings on each side. They go out prise, she felt a sharp pain ln her throat force of cooks numbers sixteen, includ- There are also rug. of various size, and . Uo ,or Uonrlem. construction. They ar. Immense one snd upon the ,r"ts without hats and eem and discovered .he wa. being held by the three which tend the camp fire, Everybody on Mother's Side. furs for Bale to foreign dealer., such as In tne nr"-'rn pu,t. uf Manchuria It la two-story building, .urrounded by wall. Proil(l of their clothes. . something. She began to struggle vlo- at w hich nothing but soup 1. prepared. "I see that you have company at your sable and fox. There ar. buyer, who ,alJ that, dug farming Is carried on much twentv-flv. feet in helirht Thev ar. of These w. men have shoes of various k'ndi. lently. Finally something gave way. She The ranges fold up. and are carried in house. Tommy." come here from all part, of Asia, and after the manner of sheep farming In Aus- .wt .inline iv w.v v - - . . . . . . . . . ...... .... . trulla in mimji iiIuitb llm tivm r ruarnii noma wrr looigrar oi sua ana sann wnn neaaea ror snore ana maae u. nenina wagons, and the tent, are lighted wltli "Yen; aunt from the country." large snipment. ar. made every winter - - chocolate-colored brick, well constructed, and are among the finest building, north of th. Himalaya mountains, Look Over Makden. X should Ilk. to glv. you a view of Muk- , den from the great Drum tower which cuts the two main atrect. at on. corner. This , tower 1 about 100 feet high. It rises from a pedestal fifty feet wide, through which two tunnel-like roadway, cross at right angles, ln passing it thl. morning I no tied the wicket gate open and without asking permission 1 slipped tn. 1 found two flights of stair, with high, narrow Steps, up which I climbed slowly to a great drum which I. hung among the pigeon roost, under th. roof. Suppose you Cand there beside me and look over the olty. Helow us, extending out to the wail on all side., is a gray miss of low one-story brick buildings, which cover at least 1,000 acres. Through' it run wide streets, cutting each other at right angles, and over the whole rise the red walls and yellow roofs ot the Imperial palaces. The common buildings are of the samo architecture. They are of gray brick, with ridge roofs of black tiles, the round :orab of each roof sloping up Into little horns at the ends. The wider streets are lined with stores, and these have double ro fi. so regularly fitted from house tn houss that lliey form a sharp valley, banked with Itl.s, running through the air a'.ong the roadway from one end of the city to the other. Flowing up and down the street Is a wide stream of while, blue and black, made by the clothe, of the people a. they Fo back and forth. There are cart, and l.orsts by scons, and the Si-enps are as buy as In the busiest cities In China. Mukden U mi. of the richest places of the wl.oie empire. It has a vast trade, and its peuple are on the go from daylight to dark. irret Traffic. Hut let us rrawl ('own the steps and take a walk through the streets. The Manchus re quiet, and we can go where we please. . shall have to pK-k our w ay, however, and must now and then Jump into th. lore, to keep from being cruthed by th. crowd. In addition to th. freight cart, carrying bean cakes, coal, grain and all sort, of merchandise, hauled by donkey. to Shanghai, Tientsin and Peking. In connection with goats, and single farm In such re- tnicg. riat oie, HKe trios, of the men. her trailed twenty-five feet of a set line elei-trh-ltv at nlnht. It la not unusual to "Aunt h' m vnnr uihr.. iinr1 Other, hav. beautiful shoes built udoii which fishermen had baited with mum- mrvt i mnnv us & Ottfl nanraliMi for hrenic- "V..t i,v a inf,ii Vwu-, !,,.,, in n.ta Imrln- tha eoldut wuihur tha Trlr rnay have a hundred or so aolea three times an hlirh an th unool- m't unl nlaoe.l in tha ia.ii.nr to filnh fast anil AVI Inavai of hnuil arm g. !,.. h.o l, .... n,ntl..'. .1,1. . ln hia northern nart of lha ininln uk.b r C'on. dOgS are Often given as Wedding almost nothing els. but fur. of one kind "u ' . ...n dozen as her dowry. Inasmuch a. a dog heels used by our ladles, and such shoes larger fish. Juno had swallowed part of each, day, in addition to cracker, and bis- be trouble." Omaha Yougsters Out for a Summer Frolic ...."" Z-T-.'"T-Trr'.1".' ""Z " -p. ioaam r . I,' . I i- . . i , . : . .'..! I 1 r ' . - - I r. "-f- r. ' - k ft ,rt r . . 4 A t r GROUP OF OUKSTS OF MRS. GKOKUK A. HOAGUAND OS X RECENT SULTRY AiTCRNOOM. 1. ready to breed In eight month, it will b. seen that a fortune could easily arise from such a beginning. Such dogs are fed upon mllU't, and they have also what they can get by foraging outside. The flesh of th. eninial is used for food, dog meat being lairttly eaten In both Manchuria and Korea, ln Seoul there ar. certain seasons when the flesh of these animals la considered the sweetest. I have tasted dog roast In Seoul and ln Canton I once vlblted a res taurant where a dog stew was cooking. Some Uuit Medicine. Connected with the fur business ar. cer tain drugs, which come In as a by-product. Among these are tigers' bones and claw.. Several thousand pounds of tigers' bones are annually exported 1mm Manchuria to China, and the deer horns used for til. same put pose nuuiuered 1,W0 pairs in on. year. A fcood pair of such horns Is worth and one with n.uny antlers will bring as much as t-W. The Manchug usu dog meat as medicine, and as a rule the flesh uf a black dug is cona.d. red the b' bt. Nut lung ago a tier man consul came here bringing two put dachshunds along. One was Lrowii and the other black. At about the sume lim. a Chinese duclur had a Manchu mandarin as one of his patients and was trying i.q cure him. The Mandarin had the dropsy, against which the doctor's tiger bunei "Jhid cats' claws did not avail. One day th. doctor saw th. German consul going along with hi. puppies, and he .tiafghtway told his patient that the only medicines that would really cur. his drupulcal legs wer. two long-barreled fchur,-lcga;ed dugs with, drooping ears. "What yuu need," said he, "Is to get a black dog of that species for your right leg, and a brown dug of the samo bread fur your left ieg. Cook their meat into stews and th. rich broth will flow down your legs and drive out the dropsy." The Maiidurln thereupon Sent out hi. servants and the dachshunds wer. soon lq the soup. When the consul cam. to loair . .. . . . .... Via .IBM nM I I. n , .. , . infill " iu.w. mb iiv WUUIO. IlDa them ln th. right and left leg. of th. of fender. FRANK U. CARPi;N.TER '