Show Chinas Tea Trade hou Ie J I r j = = uu Id Y 1 a How tlio Biiiiliiow Is I Doelitiltitf mul thu JCH > ct almost I of the Wnv Upon It tea t t that I I jtf t hare it I II 1i p ii I u trine Me Till It RM ecad Iew ill fnp nttr Uu Mt > MH t > FuM and vast r a i iJ h t I ty Girli and SuM Mlt IArnMw S nlA Hill N a JMtt Tn > < violted f I Tit and Now stay p bwMi < i Tf vents Ctoixu TnThi AtuUntHtn of tea I j I Ht Crtn Till h < Wi > rd Sttt fait Perkily fittUnt lltrrt grl i H rn tnl Tea IIld Hoi ltttk ttj ll lnnJ mWAi w a Italen Smoke naked lIt i u I ffnfrhltJ ttSoulMg jUtxl Ophim h OIJU Turlbli eceeare gown i The Wtrldt Itlggttl Oftom Dt amt line CUalM Otlmn Snuttn Try he A 1 I I h Rtfiin with I I I rrrialtbnrrnarns f tit noes = rtll I I rrIt4 c ioN t Rook U CaePauef 11 IJ I I t t l 111 TIIU WAR In Chlnii affect tbt lea trade j a hT Thin Is a mutter 1 1lQ I 1 t I f mut-ter which Ungi ItA l I r ting the mtch nnln > nJ which i AI i I 1 5 t oil won be l of t III f M 1 y i 1 + N Interest to ten I rl11 it drinker all over the United Slates The tea I bud have 1 1 already sprouted and by the lint oft 1 t May the new crops will begin to come I t F Into the market host 1 steamers are hi now Ion thtlr way Iruni Europe and ou i Ursula to China They to by the Mediterranean I J 1 I Medi-terranean and SUM canal and they Hop j I at Ceylon and Singapore They no from J r I c t I thence to Shanghai anl up the Yang tee I hair i KUng pro mile Into the Interior of I China They slop si the city of Han kow which U the greatest lea I market o In the world Hire they load at quick I r u ly I at iDMlbte and team luck home ni i t fait a > they can These tea lilrit run Ace a-ce curry year and the steamer which I ECU In teat receives the liljhest price I lor In tea The lint ol the ten crop U 1 leI le considered the best and should I the I r I Vnle riser be closed by war In May It will remit In a great IUM 1 to the tea I I merchant The price of Japanese tea i will certainly be Increased and Ito export 1 ex-port will probably be greater Hum ever The Japanese tea I la by no meant 10 good 1 ai that of China It h I nerve o I enduing and 1111 stands It become Mllcr Die majority ol people of the country du not know what Kood tea I It They like gen tea and they mix the i r 1 green and black together inn I trust bar barons way They think they I ore paying 1 pay-ing a high price when they give ft 1 toe a Z I I pound of tea and It will be surprising I I 1 to many to know that there Is I a tea In China which U worth Jj a pound and I have heard of lea which COIl t more than f too a pound I I J fiaslUlNT IIAkHUONl fljo TEA Perhaps the moot costly tea ever h I brought this country WI ionic In Ulan lea which WAS presented to In u I Janinllirriion while tie was President I t inSr 1111 Ien ol the United SHIM u came from a I I i Steal tea company In Ceylon and It aIn presented a-In a lea caddy mule of an i I elephant look which had been hoi lowed t out Into 1 heaulllul I box TJili con jm f tamed literal pound of tea of a try < I choice variety and in the center ol the r box there was a little casket containing a t I handful rr 10 of tea which was worth J I fiju A pound and was perhaps the I j 1 cosillot tea In existence The tea out = = tide of HIM WM lUllclous but the fijo t tea woos drink for the god President Harrison 1 showed the ten t lo his friends and now and thin had a drawing made for those who were tiniest to him One dry a western Senator who knew ai much nh ut Iri es n fax does about cliocolale caramels pent an evening at the Whii llouie During his lay I Preildent Harrison spoke ol this wonderful i ir J uiJ I hr l I derful tea and mid ho would give him a bit of It supposing of course the nun would uidrrstnnd thai he would Iran a drawing mAte and they would tip to I gather He I sent one of the servants lor the I precious casket of one hundred and filly iloll ir lea and handed It overt to over-t the Senator la examine The Senator Sena-tor look it and < l looked I l at It and tlien said I am truth obliged I Indeed Mr Iresident and I will take 1i Irani I to the utadam Ho thereupon put the box ill his nocki One ol the Presidents official family I who wit prevent at the time told Inc of the ImMent and I atknl him as to wiat the President did What could he do was the reply lie couldni oak the mm to glvult lack without offending him and the I result roan that he earned away the box wlikh was worth more than Its weight In gold and which I venture was nu more prcclaled hy the people who got It than the poorest of the lanauese arlel I > WHAT IJOOD TIA t The Chinese lea which we get for a dollar a IWIMM bring about twentylive cent a pound In China and what the Chinese call good teats worth at least a dollar l a iwund whaleaale I In China and It would bring I In l the United 1 State two dollars a pound Tea which roM ten dollar a pound h by no menus tin common among rich Chinamen and there are tome Chinese nabobs bee b-ee up filly dollar lea to their guests The nlAn who knows nothing of r tea but thliilt he knows good deal wanu the liquor robe dark colored and consider con-sider this i n ilgn of strength The best Chinese lea It olttn f I at clear at crjiUI i and sire color ol good tea should be avery a-very tight > ellow haidly as dark as light amber The trot leaves ol the lea plant are the lenderesl and the first licklnit of course brings the mint nionty We ore < every year about eleven million dollars worth of Chinese tea I and we are last I becoming big consumers of Ceylon I and Indian tea 1 have traveled through the lea district of the Himalaya mountains and have tailed the lea which growl on the bolder or Thibet This It said to be the national home of the lea plant and it U clalmei l that the lea was taken Iruni here to China and 1 there grown The Lngllsl now hate vail lea plantations In r nf rube and these are Increasing every > ear The Chinese tlo nut think that t milk or lugar should be used with lea IIoiling 1 I water should be poured over thin tea I but the lea should by no mean ti boiled twat I treated ton cup ol lea during a v isitl 1 nude follow I yua the famous millionaire of Canton this I I man Is said to be worth fifty million dollars and the tea which the servants bruuuht in Wa IOul Iha vlr u rrgu rmc < IIINusn ens DHef The VanKKeklane is I Ihensue winch tight through the center 01 Umr Chlnesr empire cutting lee country lt thu rr1 lcll jst In half 1 wai loU that the btu were raistct wnith of tin river and t no good l tw could be groan above The Kfat 1 central tea market l O 1 110 llankou Here there are t tea factories and tea warehouse t the very air rn flleil I with lea ei I d many or the factories during my and the method of preparink the for mantel an by no means ol an appelit ng nature Just outside one ol bllJ 1 grlA ei ablMiaranu I taw a hall coolie who hid pulled otl his and was plcklnz out ol the teams certain unmentionable animals I whch cracked between his fingers and ate moment lacer I taw that same cnolte his panlaloom pulled UI lo his knees Liaising In n bon ol tea which was about la be stripped to England and treading the leave I within ills order to pack them closely to ship them A dozen other coolies alto in their hare feel Mere engaged In the ama work rime heather waa warm and the perspiration pers-piration was rolling down their yellow I skins and was I judge readily I ah xirbed by site leA In the Iwxen I In another utt of the esmbllshmanl I saw I a lot of Chinese girls who bad feet no lugger than jour fills pliklng over lea I heir I feel which was bandaged were half covered with the leaves of the second grade leawhich Diet had thrown down don Into the baskets below them as they rapidly handling the I leave toning over each and every one of the thousand of liny bits of green before them At Amoy 1 was told that a vast amount of tea was polled AbDUl a > ear or so ago It was so ruined by I dampness or something that 1 the Chinese r Chi-nese would not use It The factor then spread it out on the dirty wharcee where it was reined with all kinds of foul stuff and dried rut shipment lo America and England I have heard It stated that the lea ground of some Chinese restaurants are taken out and redrled and In lome case hipped to America I doubt this very much but It Is I Ituo that the Chinese me their lea grounds over and star again wiling r ln ahhI l them lotlM poorer tissue I The preparation pre-paration of the tea for the market U I almost altogether by lund The lea districts I are generally hilly and they are 11 llhXYb laid out In beautiful terrace About Poochow there are 40000 men and women who do nothing I but act a pick anlmaU for Ihe earning of tea They have It packed In basket which they carry on pole acrou their thouldcrs up and Juan lute mountain pane They get about Iwcmyfwe cents a day It costs about two cents a pound to pick Ihe tea and there area number ol local team which will now probably be really increased on account of the war llnw MICK TKA II 11 MIX Great < Unllliei of lea are exported 1 to Kuwla and Mongolia every year In slope of brick I hoe are nude ol the lower grade of lea and of ten dust The I leavet are ground up and steamed and cooked unit they are soft and I mushy They are then nut Into mold about the tUe 1 of an ordinary brick And are pressed into shale to that iney become be-come at hard at chocolate ekes The finer varletlta are molded Into matt cakes In fait of lust about the lIe 01 the mull cake of sweet chocolate which you buy In the candy stores I vitited teterat of the factoriei In Hankow which make this kind of tea and the I process wat even let I apptiiimg than that which I described ai to tin ordl nary tea The faclonei In the lint place are very warm The steaming tat Is handled by dirty tootles and III U sweetened by perspiration Alter Ihe bricks are finished they are carried h by boats up the rlters and coal to Tieni alit and from theme goon camels Into Mongolia and on to Kuwla Them are I about inly bricks In one package unit they are 10 arranged that they can bi carried on camels Hilt brick tea okra I he glare of tmmcv < i Many part of Asle 1 and In Mont n II iaaser its current cur-rent tech brick i w > rth from fit tern to twenty u nil I lie lit nllols livlde a brick Into i illV equal parts Iller I boil it with mil urte sheep fat and salt Hung came lung l fur fuel I visited one of I the I ingest of Ihe brick lea factories Ilanko and 1 met Rut lam then who wile making fortune out ol shipping bn k tea I to Rutsia Some ol the factories nplov more than a tlrousand hands an I He business It almntt at glut as tiiil 1 of slnimlng tea 10 Europe THE DECLINE OF Tins TEA TRADR The Chinese tea trite hat been declining de-clining for yens and this war Will be a terrible blow to It Inula I I Is las I pushing II Is way Into the tea markets of the wurldnnd you And good Indian lea now sold nil over the I Untied Stales The rude hat practically grown up within I the pas twenty five year and lime 870 the Chinese tint kelo have been I ttiadlly declining In 1870 i England imported ten million iminds of tea from Amara Ten years later I dl It amore taking a-more than ilxty million pound and here see now more Iran I a quarter ol a ntlllon stem ol tea pi mtatlant In India The Chine have been adulterating heir tea and they mimic been steadily oslng ground while I Ihe j Japanese and he Indian a merchant t a line been nTh n-Th Indian tea now brings a higher price In the Engh h markets Ihan the Chinese tea t and not half nt much of the Chinese ten It wed as was twenty five i > ears ago I had a tlunie he Lee sane thing of Ihe tea I dellx India luring I a journey whltli 1 nude six lenrs ago to Daqillng in the llmulaya I moun taint Ilila I cny It I more than u mile above the tea and you ride for A long I distance through well kept garden the bushes 01 which are very much like those I ol our currant Those garden turn out more than three bundled bounds uf len per acre and there are Ive plcklnfi I beginning hl In March and ending cl In Notembjr Ilse I moil of the tea plant are raised Iron the teed The tea seednames of about the also 1 of a hazelnut They are town In nuntrut in December and I January and by April the tnrouta are ready tv > U Iraniplanled The I beet sod ril virgin forest land and i the richer the better The plant begin to I bear In their third tear and they reach their ben yield in their ninth year after which the bush Leglni to decline Thu Indian i tea It I grmrallv grown in large I plaoialbnrIre Chinese tea cornel Iran little palrhis scattered over the country and UK ho dng ara genera gen-era ly small In Cla In lea plant It in full teal during tin hinter part ol May at which lime ii the second picking A good 1 tea Ire will yield from ten to twenty ounces of leaf an I Ihe belt pick en average about Silicon iounils u day The wage for such penont It I from six I to light cents per day and women and children do the work I He most ol the Japanese lea U now hrcd In cupper or Iron pan which are let Into bake ovens and Vcpt hot by lives under them A great deal of the Chine tea ll i dried over charcoal a stovelrotng rubbed with tine lund until lire contents are perfectly dry and the Icatel become dark OKKXN TEA AND III AlK Ten It ll supposed by many in tills country coun-try that green lea It caused by the copper cop-per I basins In which the tea u fired This it 10 to a certain extent but there Is n natural green tea flit It a green tea produce i without i the use ol coloring i nutter Any tkmd of lea may be made green or hack accordIng accord-Ing to the length ol time at bring br-ing If the ten U pick ml when not et ripe and fired + quickly It will lute a green color Tills green hoer It often produced by pulling l Indigo and soapstone into the dr > mg pans and I I taut a lea merchant In japan ulna told me that most of the green tea was colored col-ored In this way and not with copperas Ihe natural t color of the tea leaf it green and the 11ur1 of lea which It i known as the nun dried lea it ol a Ken color U c are now Using a 5r > t dent 01 > th lornioii J ten win h rank as ei > ftle beat ti ai ol l the world Some nielics 1 Ol lids I Its I cost Inn and upward a pound and quite a lot ol Indian and Japan lei I h to i been put upon tin mar net at Formosa tea ll will surprise many people I to know what an immense number nl I Ki lehl hl there are In she world Grant llnljin It laid to drink one hundrel l l million cup of lea per S = no cldld day and ever min woman or child In Great Ilrltam contumei five pounds often of-ten every year The Australians nee lht rearm lea drlnkcri In the world and hey average over seven pound per year They take a great deal r ol r Chi 1 nest and Indian teas The greatest consumers of the Japanese teas re Ihe United Stale and Canada and we take Iho bulk of the Japanie teat Tea Irinklng Is Increasing In America and 1 I he English drink more lea and IBM I cob fee every year The Japanese and Chi Jnir nese are drinking tea all the lime and a visitor 10 l served with a cup whenever he call It It I estimated that there are five hundred million tea drinkers In China and India THE CIIINEUE AND OP1I M I am told that the falling off of the lea I crop of China U mote than nude up hy lie increase I In the opium I product i l Opium la grown now all over China and there are plantation of II In the north beyond the Chinese wall I was reeled with she sickening smell of opl um wherever I went and In the city of oochow I which It about at big at Si Louis there are one thousand registered opium dent Shanghai It I filled with opium I joint and the blgcett opium den m the world I I li to be found there It It an Immense threestory building cover ng what would be about OliO hall of an Americas city block and it lurniihed ts gorgeou < ly ai were the caves ol Monte Ctlito 1 he cushions ol Ihe beds nro ol the finest clvel and Ihe frame of I he coucues are Inlaid with mollierof > earl Hi re are hundreds ol rooms mil when I visited this den the air was blur with I iiplum smoke ob Upon same of lu edt l men and worm n laid together ind 1 smoked 1 tide by aide Them were IfIl Ir b higgird old men and Iron I young bo > i theme wire malt ulna I king together sell there wrre null arms in silks I and c yilct in rigs In the IIITerent rooms Thu enC was lighted with the electric light and Ihe whole of the Interior Hat made up of Ihe finest c irvlngt of costly teak wood The iliffrent rooms wer graded and you counl get a smoke here lor a few cents or pa Ing nearly as tlgh at a dollar for tonic ol lice pipe and Ihe Host gorgeously fitted up rooms A great steal F of the smuklng U done m the nlvate houses and llli is I at common In Jnlna I lor your host lo slier you a pipe I of opium at It ul li In America to be otlercd a cup of lea or a gnu ol win There it I considerable discussion among the foreigner of China as to the erfeci of opium upon thbie who use It 111 1 It claimed by many lhat the habit U no worse than that of drinking and a repot t from the hospital Canton show thai the moderate opium smoker gains fleth rather than tons IL The effect ol smoking opium is laid to be lean I iiuurl out than that ol eating ll and the Chi = Ihl n51 11 yl nose use the drug dllTerenlly from us We take ll lo make us sleep Pie Chi Irl r rc li inmn uses ll u we do wine to itlmu talc confers lion and two Chinese gentlemen gen-tlemen will lie and 1 smoke for hours while they clutter to one another The habit It I very costly and the poorest ol the Chinete cannot arlord to I smoke a great deal There are thousands 01 moderate opium smoken In China just at ibeto ore thousand of moderate drinkers In the United Stale and the number of tmokert ls laid lo be Incicts ing At the present lime I was told that about one tentlt of the people smoke opium and I heard many In slnncct of r men hat KI ruined I II Ihe mteltei I by the habit All rl the ho < piili w Inch are kept up by the mltsionarl hate many patient who with lube cured or opium lIIok rig and some ol the wealthy Chinamen buy certain blunts 01 food with A boles ol strengthening them a111If 11 el nunrber f helve ogalnti it 1 so A i number of opium sots in China They are called by the people opium dot lit and not a few of them tmuke themselves Into their grave Now and then one of thin mandarin will try ro t slop the Iallicln hit district and line taxes on opium are nlvtoyi high The great Chung Ch lung the tlceioy ol Hangkovt nude such an attempt during my stay In China but it vvisa lulure and l the opt I um saloons aie as wide open as cm I i I ILs f Lz |