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r D ' THE OMAIIA SUNDAY BEE; JANUARY 30, 1910. 3 0 1 V 1 i i I 1 r1 V .if King: Cotton in China and Child Labor (copyright, r.'m, by Frank O. Carpenter.) If A . i r r t - 'ii".mi, lw.-(Speclal Tor I 'P'pondence of The Bee.)-Th I growth of frhnnghal beats that or the gourd of Jonah, which apian up in a night. It it now a modi rn Klironenn lt :u : It has business blocks which mlnht b dropped down In New York or London and not bo out of place, and residences which would be flno In Washington nr Trl. 1 J Along the Hand, the wlda road which face uie nver, ar a dozen or mora bank whoa capital runa Into the Una of mllllona and whose managers are so trusted that they ran dip into the pockets of the nations and draw out at pleasure. On the same street are club houses, some of which have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to build. There are big hotels where you can live as well as at home, and shops, with plate glass windows, containing European goods of every description. Shanghai is the Paris of the far east. It Is one of the richest cities of Asia, and It takes the boat of all that Is going. In the IIIk Cotton Mills. ' Shanghai is preparing to manufacture for the new China. It is putting up fac tories and foundries and starting all sorts of new Industries. It has silk filatures which are producing bales of raw llk for our American weavers, modem flour mills equipped with Milwaukee machinery, and a cigarette factory owned by the American Tobacco Trust, which employs more than 1,000 hands. It has eight great cotton mills' with several hundred thousand spindles, and some which have 80,030 or 90,000 spin dles In a single establishment. In these mills over 30,000 Chinese men. women and children are employed, and they are spin ning and weaving cotton quite as well as In any of our American factories. The, most of them are managed by Chinese foramen and they give come Idea of how the Celestials expect to make their own cloth in the future. During my stay here I have visited lama of the biggest of the cotton factories. I wont through the establishment of the Soychee Cotton C3t 1 . . , , MrVl MriMl rr errr rva nw 9 rA n xr T Han . ' " t"tWh'mrV,Ver' th .br?nch f l10 luuu' 'wigwa wiiiuii chives onuiKntu access lo the sea and It Is so situated that the bales can be landed right at the mills and the goods shipped thousands of mllea Into the interior by means of the rivera, or to Japan or the United States. The auburb connected with It Is known a Hongkew. Thla is a great factory center, and Its smokestacks dot tha stream, running along Its banks to the Yangtze. , . . Chlld Labor at 4 Cent. Per Day. a. UU..U..IBI i viiv oujr wkj wiupiui cover severaj acres, ihoy are or gray brick and are shadowed by a smokestack which rises to the height of a twelve-story flot V . .I Y. ., ... T -3 1 W ,,ctv. 4ll7l4l.e infill, A iUUHU UVDr l.VW men, women and children at work. I went through room after room filled with girls who were weaving and spinning, and I saw 200 children tending the machines. Some of them were little tots not higher than my waist and many did not reach to my shoul . Vn. "T1 ! K?rtUV WW8 i"' 8 . ? .J Z about the rooms. The larger ones were tending the spinning mules and all were working so hard that they scarcely looked up as I entered. I asked as to their wages, and found that they were about 4 of our cents per day, and that the pay to the older hands ranged from that to 20 cents. Think .of working ten hours for 4 cents, and that In the dust of a spinning mill. I photographed some of the children, frightening the little onea almost to death as I did so. The manager tells me that he haa many whole families employed In his factory father, mother and children all working. There are no laws against child labor, and the babies aid In keeping the wolf from the door. Speaking of babies, there were several of theae in the mill. Some were still at tha breast, and their mothers had brought them along that they might not lose work, I remember one girl ofg 18 years spinning away with an almond-eyed Infant at her knee, and another had a baby In a basket bealde her. The child was quiet As I chucked lt under the chin two yellow dlmplesj broke out in Its cheeks, and It smiled. In another place I saw a g-months- old baby lying In a pile of white cotton otton 'l I waste on the floor of the mill. Cotton Yarn for Hand Looms xiim jaciory wonts uay ana nigni, ana .....I w 141411.V m ftucMir laumicM aiupiuyeu in me nigni snm as in tne daytime, One thousand hands are always busy Sunday and week days, all the year through. Its chief product la cotton yarn for the do mestic weavers. This Is made up Into bun dles, which are then packed Into bales of 400 pounds each, and Bhlpped all over the country. The yarn Is woven Into cloth on hand looms, and lt supplies a large part of the clothing of the common people. It comes Into competition with the mills of India and Japan, and also with those which are now starting up in the other parts of China. I am told there are something like 300,000 spindles now working upon such yarn at Shanghai, and also a large num ber at Nlngpo and Soochow. There I one big mill at Hangchow, one at Canton, and some at Hongkong, Wuchang and Hankow. The labor I. abundant and the people easily learn to handle the modern machinery. New Mllilusf Machinery. ' ' The Chinese are rapidly Introducing the better class of machines, and their mills are already about as well equipped as our own. A great part of their machinery Is Imported from England, and only certain specialties come from the United States. In one factory I found an American light plant with C.000 electric lamps burning, and In another there were modern fire ma chines, and the employers had a fire drill every day. In nearly every place the waffes were as lov or lower then those I have quoted, the highest price paid the men being something like SO cents per day. while a good average wage was 8 or 10 cents. 1 found girls at work in all of the factories, and I know of none which does not employ children. At present a considerable portion of the cotton used In China Is Imported from ubroad. We have the bulk of the Man crtrlan trade, although Japan Is doing Its bist to compete. The h'ngllnh uld guater part of the f goods brought in to the Yangtze valley and south China, and the Hermans are pushing their cloths every where. Within the last year or so, how evtr. the Chinese officials have been stall ing small factories In which hand looms tro used. I saw some In Tientsin and other parts of Chihll, and I am told that there are more than U.000 Buch looms now ut urk In that province. China's Cotton Hnpplr, China Is doing all It can to Improve Its native cotton. The officials are sending out men to study cur cotton belt and our methods of cotton raising, and edicts have been Issued to encourage the growth of the crop in sll the provinces. It is claimed that cotton will do well In most parts of -b!na. Much of the country lies In the Wliude of our southern states, and from Hrmghai northward there are rKh plains wiucn ma experts say are fitted for cotton growing. WitU unscientific method of , Jbp o KO is'-s -'-t -i ' : "rn Ht i H rnm 1 - m s w "it R) (r- oTT ig .. l i... t. . , . Mmetita. ilk. toT, " e.T pr0duCln terlal lt ',,,, 1 , , CPnn ,,, " , . " 1 ' " tT. " " " 11 . . . ' w vwvtuu ID vi tJ lllt. W D ItkUIO. It IB brniicrVir Kara t . it is Drought here In boats upon the T'"KUe Kllig and It. trlbuVarle." and aJ. in sencmin, , . . . iftn(Js farther south It la nut 1 i h, 0f enormous size but so loosely packed that one twice a. i.r-'r. .. . VT ,.. . " - only 200 pounds. It is loaded and unloaded by coolie., who carry lt upon their heads from the ships to the factory other farmers ship their raw cotton In basket-work bales the size of a hogshead The bales are opened In the cotton yards nl the lint is sometimes rebaled in pack- ages of 600 pounds for export to the United Diaies ana uurope. The nature of the native cotton makes It especially good for underwear, and some of it is sent to th United States for that purpose, Nation In Cotton. Our cotton factories should send their gents here to study the market. These people dre.s In cotton Instead of silk, and the most of the cloth used Is spun and reeled by hand and woven at home. With - .. ..... lv "eW olvlll!,aUon wae wl'l th9 ChlneM wll morn cotton than Short and Pointed Tales of A Food Faddist's Fix. OIIN D. ROCKEFELLER, Jr., was congratulated In his office recently on the fact that he like the poet Maeterlinck and other famous men, has taken to the motorcycle. "And has motorcycling benefited your health?" his congratulator. a Journalist ventured to ask. . "I think it has," Mr. Rockefeller replied. "I won't ask you. thoh my clear eye and good color or I might find myself In the food faddist', fix "A food faddist was lecturing to a lares mi itninrina . i. audience pn the marvelous results to be obtained from chewing soup, or eating nut butter, or something of that kind He was not a very Imposing person physically but. swelling out his chest, he slapped It thrice with the palm and cried: " 'Friends, two years ago I was a wa'k- lng skeleton, a haggard, miscrabib wreck Now, what do you suppose brought about this great change In me?' "He paused to Ut his word. .Ink In. and voice asked: "'What change?' "St. Louis Globe X)emocrat. Helping; the Minister. A Scotch preacher had In his congrega tion an old woman who was deaf. In or der to hear the sermon each Sunday, this old lady would seat herself at the foot of the pulpit stairs. One day the sermon wa. about Jonah, and the preacher became very rhetorical. "And"1 when the sailors threw Jonah overboard," ha .aid, "a big fish swallowed htm up. Was it a shark that got 'lm? Nay, my brethern. It was ne'er a shark. Was lt a swordflsh that eat him? Nay-" "It was a whale," whispered the old lady excitedly. "Hush, Biddle," said the preacher Indig nantly. "Would ye tak th' wo.d of God out o' yer ana meenl.Ur s mouth?" Suc cess Magazine. Some Ways of Wrongdoers. "There are a few places where the pro fessional crook operates," ' said Seymour Beutlor of New York, for twenty-five years chlrf of the rinkertn forces on the New " muraea, ai ma Wlllard. "Pickpockets generally work In crowds, np niinna. Knn rnnnv ri.ir.. . . . v. .. - hii huiinn . 1 wnue neiping an old man or woman on a car. Of course, these crooks frequent crowds, and. In tha case of 'prop-getters,' for Instance, the thief will use a handker chief In front of a man's scarf and with the other drftly lift out his pin. J remem ber one Incident when two- of these 'prop getteis' were working together. One of them spied a beautiful stone In a scarf of a prosperous looking passenger who wa. standing in a crowd on a street car. He tipped off his partner and signaled that he was going after the stone, when the latter held him back, saying. 'Nix, on that; nothing doing.' " 'Why, what's the matter; It Isn't a phony,' returned (he crook. " 'No, It's all right, but there must be honor among thieves.' "The .man w ho was about to be touched was one of the most notorious pickpocket. In New York. "On one occasion at the Saratoga race course a big storm came up and several persons were Injured In the grandstand." continued Mr. Beutlor. "Bob Plukerton was one of the first to go to the aid of the Injured. He found a woman who had been hurt by a flying chair, and as he stooped to take her arm lie found that another man was assisting her also. He looked at his co-worker, who said: "Well, Bob, I never thought you and I would work to gether." "It was Red Leary,' the bank burglar." Washington Poet. Worklasrtlie Boy. Jerome 8. McWad the well-known Du- luth connoisseur, said sf th management ever befor- At present It I. safe to say that r at ast 400,000,000 of them w" are" " uch good, all the year round. They wear only one or two thin garmenU In he summer, but In winter they have several suits well wadded to uiciiiaoivfHi warm, ana in tne nortn- ern Provlnn" th"v Pt on suit arte? suit weather grows colder. Indeed, some "Mhy Chinese In full winter dress have trnnhta In rftln. v, v. trouble In getting through their own door- ways, nut even at one suit of twenty yard, to each person per year tha amount of cotton used is so great that at least 8,000,000 yards are required. Thl. amount Is beyond comprehension. It would carpet a pathway Bixty feet wide from the earth to the moon, or cover one more than twenty miles wide from New York to Chicago. Our snipments or cotton goods to other countries Is less than 33,000,000 a year, and m we send to Asia sells for less than $3,000,000. That which goes to China would hardly patch the knees of the celestials, let alone make their clothes. How American Oil Lights China. If our cotton Interests could handle this ..m.. nk 9 w.v -.t.uii4 vii wo, iu Port" t our southern states might run into the hundreds of millions a year. Tha market as the Standard Oil does, the ex- of children in a recent Sunday school ad- "Diplomacy succeeds best with, the little M- ia oi s years came, ail purnng an1 rov ln out f the cold the other night and said: " 'Pa, I'm tired. I've sawed enough wood for thl. evening, ain't IT I'm awful iired.' " 'Tired? cried the father, looking up from hi. paper with an air of surprise and from hu paper wlth an 01 disappointment. 'Why, I bet your mother a f,uarter you'd hve the whole pila done before supper.' " Dld vur 8nouted the boy, taking up J-"u uu 1 unouieo. me Doy, taking up hl hat and mlUen" ''Bain. 'Well, you'll W'n your monejr ,f the aw holds out. NoboJy over bet on ma and 't!' ' And h rushed back to his hard task aaln' h1' eye8 faming with enthusiasm." , -,r F"W 8,om"en VIo, Warden McClaughry of the federal penl- J.entlary Btory tne flrst tlme that he served on a Jury. t " Wa," ac? 1Sf4'" h saM -ocently. telling of the incident to a friend. "I had Just come home on a furlough from the army and lt was the night before Christ- mas, a pold, bitter night. A school teacher out In the country, where the snow was inches and inches deep, was to be tried for South Dakota's New Capitol HILE lt will be midsummer be w fore the last of the workmen are out of the naw capltol of South Dakota at Pierre, many of the state officials will be r 9 located in their new quarters belure the final finishing Is put upon in- terior work in some parts of the building, In fact the official, expect to begin mov- lng Into the building by the first of March, and the city, which has purchased the old building, has orders to get It off the grounds In April, a. It i. expected that everything will be moved out by that time, The work yet to be done Is the com- pletlon of the marble finishings, the final closing up of the Interior decorations and a small amount of carpenter work. W. Q. . , . i . . ,L. . "" .uii work, says he Is fully 75 per cent done with that part of the work, and caa com- VEWT .. - ..',' 7;. ' -V- W.. v V ; v - f ' 'i '5 B T ... k (; ,..:,...' u-u 0 ; o o Q r n r EJ'n.u 1 Ml iU ti, U .1 J ' ' i ! Ml - l Standard Oil company ha. It. own agent. In all the provinces, and It 1s pushing Its business In every city. Twentv vears aro fh nil w ahtntvoi hur in tin r.an it i now brought in tank steamers which carry 10,000 tons at a toad. The vessels start from Ban Francisco and land at half a doten different ports, where the ol oil Is pumped out into great storage tanks. I found such tank, at Hankow, 600 miles up the Yangtse Klang, and saw the steamers . . . unloaded by means of a pump. The tanks there hold tens of thousands of barrels, They have factories connected with them, where the tin plate la made into five-gallon cans. These are filled with oil and are distributed by the Yangtze and its tribu- tarles. The stuff Is economically handled. being sold In smaller and smaller pack- ages as it get. farther away from the ports, and In some places almost by the spoonful. The Standard Oil company has tanks at Tientsin and Hongkong. It does by far the biggest oil business In China, although the Burmese, Russian and Su matra companies compete. Within the last year one of these latter companies has opened up a new oil terrl- tory about 200 miles north of Peking. The ivijr auuui w iiiiAco tiwiiu ui .reiving. in7 oil Is carried In cans on wheelbarrow, over 100 miles to a' canal and thenca floated Real Life Gathered from whipping a boy student. There were six of us impaneiea ana an roae oui logemer in a big slplgh to the home of the Justice of tha peace where the trial was to be held. After a vigorous lecture from the honorable "Jus tlce and a good deal of testimony on both sides, we were asked to adjourn to the kitchen, the room next to where the trial was being held, to deliberate on our ver- diet. A. I .aid, It was the night before Christmas, and the kitchen ' was full of good things that go to make up a real good old-fashioned dinner, "We organized at that fine line of pi trat line line or provender. A 'serving committee' was appointed and I wai made a member of lt. We served all right. For threeiuarters of an hour we did glorious Justice to that food. Finally we had dls- posed of everything in sight. "Then we returned to the court room tm- mediately and with solemn facts announced that the verdict was that the boy had not been whipped enough'-Kansas Journal. . The Way of Most Folks. city Henry Arthur Jones, the noted English playwright, was giving the students of Yale an address onthe drama. "Your American vernacular Is plctur- esuuo," he said, "and It should help your plete all but the mural work In a little over thirty days. Mr. Andrews haa Just returned from a trip east. In which he found the mural work, which I. being done by B. H. Blashfleld and Edward Simmons, both of New York, and Charles Holloway of Chicago, is well along, and he thinks he can have, all the paintings In place be- fore the first of June, but this work will not In the least delay the occupancy of the building. The marble work Is well along, all the pillars being placed, most of the wainscoting being In place and the placing of balusters and stair treads now being pushed along. On account of the demand for room the commission has added a large amount of space for storage In the basement by hav- . .. ...... ... me wnoio 01 wis oasemeni noor con-, creted. making large amount of storage room, Hi-! .'a i 1 -Sr BOUTH DAKOTA CAPITOL BUILDING AT in the Big Mills at I I I iown to 4,18 capital. The wheelbarrow men go in caravans of fifty barrows each. They are paid something like 4 cents gold a day and other labor is proportionately cheap. Our Tobacco Trust. Another American institution which Is doing a big business in China Is the To bacco Trust. It ha. Its agents in all of the cities, and has established several big fac tories. There is one at Shanghai which employ. 2,000 girl, in making and packing cigarettes. There Is another at Mukdon, and a third at Hankow. Indeed, the Amer icans ar changing the Chinese from pipe smokers to cigarette smokers, and ma chine made cigarettes are now to be bought as far west a. Thibet. The busi ncss is aone unaer tne name or the Brit- lsh-Am.rlcan Tobacco company, and it has in Us employ both British and American ness I. done under the name of the Brit- playwrights to build strong, racy plays; dui netiner vernacular nor anything else is of moment If perseverance is lacking. "No playwright can succeed who is like a man I know. I said to the man one New Year's day: " 'Doyou keep a diary, Philip?' " 'Yes,' he answered. 'I've kept one for the first two weeks In January for the last seven years.' "Indianapolis Star. The Supreme Test. An Indianapolis toy dealer tells an amus once to do justice to lng story about Booth Tarkington. "Mr. Tark neton." he beelns. "cam Into my shop one day at Christmas time, and said: " 'I want a Noah's ark, please. Not one of your modern Noah's ark, but a good, o:d-fashloncd one one wherein Noah Is the same size as the elephant.' " 'I think I've got what you want, sir,' I answered, 'up in the attic.' "Ana I soon brought down to him a dusty old Noah's ark of the kind that I had sold when he was a little boy In a bib. "Mr. Tarklnflton nnpneil iha lirl nAr.i1 in, and said: '"Aha, this la the tlokat. There ihy all are. There is Noah, the bainc size us the dove, and the dove is the same size as the elephant. But to make sure that this Building The work on the grounds la also being pushed, but with the present appropria tion at tha command of the commission about all which can be done In that way Is In the grading and leveling. The com mission ha. begun the preliminary steps toward securing a number of lota along the eastern end of the grounds by con demnation to give the required space for the lake to be located on the east end of the grounds. - Contractor Olsen has pushed work from the start and will be ready to turn over a completed building to the commission under the contract time regardless of the fact that numerous changes which would extend his time have been asked for in tha progress of the work. The people are get- Xlng a fine building absolutely without .aai . ,r.... j 3 tl H 3 w -3. i n q n 14 H 1 .J S kit . 11 '1 u - . . PIERRH. t m w I L h Cm&f CMD LABOR. MXt10f7tlt,ltm4rU! corro NiustJMMffiYcmurfMTtcrs. amy. Many Sources U a genuine old-fashioned Noah's ark I will apply one last tejt. I will, sir, with your permission, taste Noah's head.' ."And Mr. Tarkington laughed, pretended to taste the b.ight paint on the head of the patriarch, and, paying his bill, walked out with the old-fashlonad Noah's ark under his arm." Indlanapulls News. Reflected Glory. Mr. Jones was an excellent man, pros perous In his business and modest in his ways, but not distinguished for anything In particular. His wife, however. Mrs. Smith-Jone;, was a woman of rare accom plishments. She was an artist of more than ordinary ability, a brilliant pianist, and porsesbed a voice of remarkable sweet ness and power. At a large laity one evening, at which she and her husband were present, her singing captivatea a stranger who was one of the guests, and he asked to be Intro duced to hr. III. request was granted. After a few nUnutea' conversation the hostess came and took him away. "You mustn't monopolize her, Mr. Sim mons," she said. "I want you to meet Mr. Jones." "Who Is Mr. Jones?" "Ha is her husband." "What is he noted for?" "Noted for?" echoes the hofUsK, "Why, for for his wife. ." Tit-Bits. Twain TurutTtUe Tables. ' ' Mark Twain, when he worked in Nevada, on the Virginia City Enterprise, inserted in the news a good many boarding house Jokes. In revenge, the humorlst'u sensitive fel low bocrd'-rs In Virginia City decided to put up a game on him. They enlisted the landlady's help, and at thu Thanksgiving dinner at the boarding house Mark Twain, by a dextrous piece of slelght-of-hand, was served, apparently direct from the fowl, with a turkey leg of painted wood. "You've changed your poultry dealer, haven't you, ma'am?" , "Why, no, Mr.' Clemens. What makes you think so?" "This turkey," he answered, giving the wooden drumstick a little whack with his knife; "It's about the tendereet morsel I've struck lm this house for some months." Detroit Free Press. Suppose. A friend of the lato Father Tabb of Ellicott City, Ind., said: "This fine poet and good man thought that class hatred was due to Ignorance that the rich knew too little oX tlio poor, and vice versa. "He once Illustrated this Ignorance with the story of a Methodist bishop's wife who addressed a meeting of slum housewives on their homo duties. The address mada the home life seem all very fine and Ideal, but one housewife voiced the opinion of the rest, perhaps, when she said to her neigh bors with a sniff: " 'She's all right as far as she goes; but what I'd like to aak her Is this what does she do when her old bishop comes home on pay night with his envelope empty and a flghtln' Jag on?' " The Chief Hequlalte. Richard Watson Gilder had a dry wit of his own. He once received a call from a young woman who wished to secure ma terial for an article of 3,000 word, on "Young Women In Literature." "It wa. a fetching subject, full of meat." etplalned the young woman afterward, "and I saw not only 8,000 words In the story, but at leant 6,000. But I never got any further than the first question. Mr. Glider's answer took the very life out of me. I asked him: 'Now, Mr. Gilder, what would you say was the first, the chief, the all-essential requisite for a young woman entering the literary field? "I waited with bated breath, when he answered; 'Postage .tamp..' "Boston Globe. Shanghai officers. The chief manager Is an Amerl can, who lives here at Shanghai. He tells nie the Chinese are a nation of tobsroo smokers, and that they have been raising- . and using tobacco for ever SOO years. The weed was Introduced from Manila less than fifty years after Columbus discovered America, and It has been In use ever since, although many of tho Chinese emperors have repeatedly tried to wipe It out. Much tobacco Is still smoked In pipes, two kind of which are In use everywhere. One of these Is a dry pipe, which may be of bam boo or clay or wood. Its bowl Is small and seldom holds more than a pinch of tobacco. The other pipe Is a metal box filled with water, through which the smoke Is drawn before It enters the mouth. It has a tube about a foot long, and this bends over at the mouthpiece. This pipe Is usually made of copper and silver, or an alloy of copper, zinc, nlclicl and Iron. It Is used by both men and women. The natives make cigarettes of corn husks and bamboo leaves. They also roll tobacco In brown paper. Of late years, however, the rice paper cigarette has come Into Vogue, and It H used more and more every day by both men, women and chil dren. Strike of Tobacco Klrla. One of tha Americans employed In the tobacco factory at Shanghai tells me they had a big strike tho other day. A thousand odd girls loft the establishment and re fused to return until their grievance was from a coffin. The girls were in the habit of changing from one department to another without asking the manager and they looked so much alike that the foreign official, could not tell If they were In their right place. Thereupon a system of badge, was Insti tuted, giving to each girl a pin labeled with characters Indicating the name of the department to which she belonged. Every girl had to have her own badge and wear lt. The badges were round, square or shaped like a keystone, according to the room. In which the girls worksd. It was the last badge which caused the trouble. The day after the order went forth the girl, with the key.tone pins struck and the nail noon the other west out. It was afterward found that the ob jection lay In a superstition that the key stone badges would bring bad luck to their wearers, because they were shaped like tha head of a coffin. It was soma time before this could be remedied and the employes ' brought Into line. e in Boyoottlnsr the British. And this brings me to the new boycott which was recently Instituted against the British steamers on the Yangtse-KLang. I am told that some of the companies are losing a thousand dollars a day and that the Chinese are refusing to ship by them because a certain deck passenger died from a kick given by one of the steamship ticket collectors. The British ar . much alarmed about the matter and are doing all they can to appease the Chinese. The first great boycott against foreign ers was that imposed upon the Americans, two or three years ago. The merchants of the largest cities then bound themselves) not to buy American goods and Imposed a penalty of (40,000 upon any member of their organization who did so. After this boy cott was raised the trouble with the Japa nese caused by the importation of arms on the Tatsu Maru was instituted and lt was continued until lt cost Japan many mil lions of dollars. About six months ago a Chinese official told me that the dam ages to Japanese trade had already aggre gated mors than forty millions, and that the guilds of Canton had sworn to make them 1160,000,000 before they got through. That boycott was most powerful at Can ton. The people there would use nothing; Japanese. The women had anti-Japan clubs and the merchants refused to ship in Japanese steamers. The loss of trad created financial distress all over Japan, and the government officials at Toklo wsre at a loss as to how to handle the situa tion. Said one of them to tne: "We cannot fight the Chinese because they will not trade with us. The powers would not stand for a war of that kind, and we are practically helpless. This is so because the United States knuckled down and permitted the first boycott. Had she acted otherwise she might have stopped Chinese boycotting forever." "But how could she do that?" "Easy enough then, although not at all now with the precedent established. I was In Peking at the time the boycott was . started, and I told your minister, Mr. Rockhlll, how he could stop It Satd I: " 'What your government should do Is to make a firm stand against the boycott, and at the same time send a gunboat or so along the coast under pretense of sur veying the waters. The ships should stop .t the Islands, and now and then make an expedition off through the country. Th Chinese will become alarmed, but the naval offlcea-. can tell them that they ar merely surveying for science, adding at tha end of each reply a significant question as to what China intends to do as to the boycott. The government will fear that the United, States is about to retaliate and an edict i will be sent forth that the boycott must b stopped.' " "And what did Mr. Rockhlll say to that?" I asked. '"Oh, replied the Toklo statesman, "h hod not enough backbone to try lt He said he had no doubt bat that the plan would work, but that he did not dare to suggest lt. When I asked why not, he significantly said: 'I don't dare to do lt. J don't dare. Our Toddy would Jump at It In a minute.' "And," concluded this man, " I have no doubt but that President Roosevelt would have Jumped at lt; and bad he done so there would have been no further trouble as to American goods and none as to other . foreign goods In the future. As It Is pow the psychological moment ha. passed, and not you, only, but also we and all others must get on our knees to these boycotting celestials." FRANK O. CARPENTER. gome Duties of Ambassadors. Senator Tillman at a Washington dinner party was talking about th duties of an ambassador. "They are Important duties," said he. "A really good ambassador should know all about the country he is sent to. Then lie wouldn't mak th mistake committed by an American in Afghanistan. "This American entertained tl shah tada for three days, giving him a vry handsome suite of rooms In his house. "The morning of th shahsadaa arrival th American host visited him In his apart ment and was amazed to see th royal guest and his entire staff hopping about the floor in the oddest way. They con versed politely and gravely, but instead of walking they hopped, taking great leaps of eight or nine feet. "The host ventured to ask th reason of Ms hopping. Th shahzada politely re plied: "You see, thl. carpet is green, with whit roses here and there. Green 1. a sacred color with us, so w ar obliged to hop from rose to rose. It Is good exercise, but rather fatiguing, I confess.' "Philadelphia Record.