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Show E 'P'ROmCE'RS ? OF CHIjVA. hey tre a Happy Class' sf People. Current Topics 15 -- A rich Chinaman wear ailk, a poor gtaa for taking out the seed. Instead, ana cotton. Sine the proportion of the Chinese use the little hand-gin- s rteh to poor la about one la a thou very like those still to be found in the and, it follow that the growth and homespun regions pf the Appalachian uanfactur of cotton are vital chain The gin is 'nothing more than It Is thought cotton culture a couple of small wooden rollers, made waa begun In the thirteenth century, fast In uprights affixed to a bench. the plant coming in from India, where Tney are turned by a wooden crank, revolve one egainst the othr, and free the cotton of seed by drawing the lint The lint is fed to them by band, and It takes a long and steady day's work to gin live pounds of lint which means twenty pounds of cotton lu the seed. The cotton is carded simultaneA second ously with the ginning. man stands at the end of the bench beating the clean cotton with the or earth bow. Into big flaky bats. These bats the women spin In various ways. Sometimes they use the spinning wheel Much oftener it is something approximating the ancient distaff The eplo-ntwirls it steadily, walking around and around as she twirls, thus winding the lengthening thread Into very . THE WEAVER, long hanks. If It Is spun and run Init haa been known for 000 years. In to brioches or quills, they are oftefi Chinese Inspite of her unequaled agriculture, reeled with a hand-ree- l. China does not raise cotton for export dustry indeed is as inveterate as Chinor. In fact, enough for her own nese economy. Women usually work needs. In the growtn and manufact- at such reeling while they stand and ure of it, an In everything else, the aim gossip in the alley ways between their la not, aeMn these United States, to houses If there is no reel handy they save hand labor, but to use as much of will be stitching upon a shoe sole, alit aa possible. There are no power- - ways a salable article. Bare feet are tee-kun- g, er unknown In China. Evea a beggar wears shoes, though he may have no I. other clothes thsn ths head-bowhich serves both as a hat and to hold out when there is a chance of alms. Nothing Is wasted In China. Evan grass and wheat roots are pulled P. washed, dried and used for- - fuel. Scraps of paper and cloth are pasted together to make the Insoles of shoes. Bits of wood are glued to build up either e board or a post. Women spins earn Ic a day. ners and The spinning, though. Is most commonly like the weaving at ths hand looms, only a part of unpaid housesloth and hold labor. Marbinc-tna- d to bear thread have of lats com but heavily upon the cotton-worka- r. that fact Is In a degree offset by the growing Import of raw cotton. Still some of the light yellow band-mad- e fabric, know the world over as nankeen, from the cty of export. Nankin, Is shipped abroad. It Is mads from n cotton, henee peculiar yellow-stapl- e cotnot dyed. The same yellow-stapl- e ton Is grown and manufactured by Arcadians In Ixiulhlana. but thdr fabric Is so scarce It does not compete with the Chinese one. Five dollars a year will clothe e Chinese husband anu wife something more than decently. Underwear Is unknown so Is fitting a garment The only measures taken are from the hip to the ground, and from the middle 4 the breast to the Unger tips Pashto's do not change. Witter garments aid bedding are wadded with eetlua. fhre a year they muat be ripped apart asd washed, padding and al.. How needful la economy may be Unskilled Jldged from a few figures w & ft & &2 & Wtlhelmina $&&& ?& to Wed. The 1 yokel Ansetgvr announces tbe engagement of Queen Wtlhelmina to Prince Frederick Adolf of lthorers are paid upon an average 7c At frequent Intervals a d.i Masons, carpenters and stone since Wtlhelmina ascended the throne enters, here M elsewhere the srlsto-cr&- i rumor has had It that she waa tip wed y of laboi, get from 8S to 90s a this or that prince of a noble house. Among the princes named as aspirants have been the eldest eon of tbe prime regent of Brunswick, Prince Frledrlch-Helnrlc- h of Prussia, born on July IS. was s 1874, end whose grandmother Dutch princess, the Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, and Prince Bern-har- d who Is still of more nearly related to Queen as his grandmother, who was strsw-plalter- t MeCklen-burg-Schwerl- a. Saxe-Welma- r, a, THE STONE CUTTERS, to the average ol day. According prices of articles of consumption la Chum 2fe a day Is equivalent to $1.69 Work begins at sun-ntper day here and keeps up until dark. e all which strikes are vir- tually unknown, and the Chinese laborer la the happiest and most contented In the world. Will Re Her Third War. - rich young American girl has gone to China to assist In caring for the soldiers of Uncle Bam and the other countries who are battling With the Chinese hordes She I Miss Margaret Livingston Chanler, sister of William Aslor Chanler .congressman. explorer and soldier, and a lineal dsscendant of the original John Jacob Astor. Three years ago Miss Chanter relinquished pleasures of society to become a member of the Red Cross society She learned to be a trained nurse In New York, and when the Spanish war broke out she went to Santiago aa one of Clara Bartou a Later she was sent to Porto Rico, where she established A private hospital for eoldlera. For har beroie services In Cuba and Porto Rico Miss Chanler was voted a gold medal by congress and a vote of thanks by the New York state legislature. Mias Chanler went to tbe Philippines not long ago. She is now on the United States hospital ship Relief, which Is cruising with the American warship off Taku, within easy reach of the allied forces now In Pekin city. Her seal-osympathy for the soldiers haa tr.ade her deeply beloved by our boys In blue. Miss Cbanlar enjoys a private Income of $35,000 a year and Is said to devote all of this sum to philanthropic work. A the us 53FS? A VIEW OF THE QUEEN WILHELM1NA. also a Dutch princess, waa tbe sister of King William IL Prince Harold of Denmark, whose maternal grandmother, the late Queen Louise of Sweden and Norway, was a daughter CITY OF CHUNG KING FU. IMPORTANT COTTON CENTER AND A BOXER STRONGHOLD. of Prince Friedrich of the Netherlands by hla marriage with the Princess Louise of Prussia, a daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm III, waa also thought to have a fair chance of success, and In most of ths young Protestant fact pays a high tribute to Jim Watta. In makes out a good case for Maroonls in this country, are formulating plans to turn the entire Soudan, lu Africa, princes of suitable age have been In her diary of June 19 she says: theory. America" is the native name of the Into s gigantic fruit garden. They ex- turn spoken of as the future prince. "They are bombarding us heavier tomountain range between Lake Nica- pect that the product of their venture day than heretofore. Early this mornGreat Railroad Tlan. ing I stood behind a closed window ragua and the Mosquito coast, Ths will supply the whole of Europe with A great scheme Is now being seri-usl- y peeping through the shutter slats. termination "ic, or ac," is common those fruits that can be raised only in all around the hot and moist climate. A large conFour bullets pierced the shutters, but in native place-name- s discussed by a company of for signment of fruit trees bet already voyager did not strike me. I rushed to the Caribbean. Spanish capitalists. It Is nothing less than mak'ng commanding officer and told him that years after Columbus were still search- been shipped to the Soudan and if It is a trip the bullets must have corns from a ing for the water passage to India and found that these take root and bloom possible from Parle via Chinaman concealed in a tree flanking for gold. Both motives caused them as do the native trees, then millions the window. Calling tour Cossacks, we to give particular attention to the of other trees will be shipped and net Berlin, Moscow and 8t. Petersburg to went to the tree, and sure enough western end of the Caribbean. So the out. Experts who have thoroughly shbok out a Chiasms- - whas first name "America" became tamUlar long sons ewer the grounds end considered It got into books, Vespuccis tha enterprise from ell Standpoints ar rail. To do this inquiry yea whcther.be had killed the before account of his voyages, published In confident that the scheme 1 feasible 1 was alive. I told hint much strait will very lady. Bering assassin was Immediately 1604, was the first printed description and will prove highly successful. be bridged, which My would-b- e All else may of the mainland of the new world. It tried and shot.' at Its narrowest Laboucher Ac be dead, but heroism still lives, Jim ran through many editions In several Is about point London corWatts rides to Taku to bring us re- languages, and brought Us authors Truth wide. publishes miles twenty inforcements. He heads for Taku, but name into much notice.- in the Latin respondence advising that paper of Tbe preliminary may ride Into the very jaws of death. editions Vespuccis name was Latin- the seizure at Pretoria of a com profor investigation It Is a most perilous undertaking,' hut ised Into Albericua Vespuclua.' mising letter from Montagu White, the route will soon be commenced by former consul general of the South Harry do Wlndt, the great traveler and brave Jim Watta gladly, gallantly risks - Woman' African republic In London, to Secrehis life. I myself heard him offer it. Ingenuity.' Siberian explorer. He will be accomThe wives of the policemen of Phila- tary of State Reltx dated Aug. 4, 1899, 'Some one must go to Taka,' said the panied by an engineer and upon their commanding officer. It may mean the delphia devised a plan for keeping and two letters from Henry Labour report will depend the future action of livea of women and children it may their husbands cool during the hot ehere to Mr. White, dated respectively the adventurous capitalists. The jourmean death to the rider. Who will weather the other day. It, at least. Aug. 3, 1899, and Aug. 4, 1899, which ney is likely to have good results, even Illustrates how the Mr. White appear to have incloeed to hough the railroad scheme should not go?' 'I know the roads, every inch of of them; let me go, said a voice. Then of a Secretary Reltx, and s letter of Joseph be found feasible, for Mr. De Wlndt ingenuity woman Jim Watts stepped forward. I shall may Chamberlain, the secretary of state will endeavor to ascertain If a paying make light of of- for the colonies, inviting Mr. Labogo; It Is right I am the older brother. trade between Siberia and Alaska ficial rules, even urers to offer explanations or observaWe saw him mount his horse, w lould not be established across Bering be tions, thereon, and Mr. Labouchere's heard the thuds of the hoofs beat more though they Itrait If a good seaport were located those of a munici- reply. ' Mr. Laboucheres letters art on tbe Siberian coast. faintly and die. Hope took no new lease of life from thin Before pal police depar- brief sad amount to advice to the tment Transvaal to gain time by the accept could reach us It would b Wa a Great Sculptor. One of the stricttoo late, granting that brave Jim Watts the sculptor of Carl est regulations of ever readier Taku., And .whaf more died at Copenhagen last Washington, h t Philadelunlikely than that?" week of Brights disease, ' phia department was born In, DenMr. Rohl-Smiis officers all that "June 23. Through the glasses I saw came to America in tbe and mark .on duty must wear the troops coming nearer and nearer. early 80's. A notable piece of art coat and vest, and Are they for tbs Boxunder tae direction of the executed must have the top ers or us? Closer they come, and yet sculptor stands In a city park at Des coat button the of we cannot distinguish them. Moines. Ia. Eyes buttoned. No Instrain through glasses nor catch a h had also been To Carl fractions of this clew to their Identity. Another lialf allowed rules are hour. Sudeuly something flutters to even nnder condl-Hothe wind. The stars and stripes, thank Philadelphia tions which make God! thank God! They are coming Policemen Keeping bronxs statue to us and we shall not die. How good CodL of WUlara Penn heaven la, how sweet Is life! The stars alt ifl Its" shirt sleeve. Philadeland stripes, and we wept and HOPEH) all strictly phia . policemen ar the first time since that day long ago the rule, and yet they are observing when we eame to Gordon hall. God keeping cool. The wife of bless Jim Watts! Other flags are now each of reasonably them has taken an old vest visible It Is 10:30 In the morning. and cut away the back and The troops reached aa before sides, entirely thickness leaving. only a 1 oclock. The rest of the day haa of blue cloth In frontsingle without HENRY' LABOUCHER1. lining. been very quiet. The Chinees are eviThis remnant has been sewsd Into the ance of the proposed commlaslo t dently puxxled what move to make coat, which Is also entirely robbed of settle the franchise questions, etc., tonext How straoge not to hear the its lining, so that while the appear- gether with an expression of oplnioa shelling! There are other discordant ance remains the substancs Is almost from Sir Henry Campbell-Bannermasounds, though the moo of the hungry lacking. the liberal leader In be bouse of comcows, the bray of the donkeys and from mons, and the liberals generally that ths other starved animals comes a cry ' Chine Code the British cabinet proposed the apof Etiquette. for something to eat Poor creatures; Ths standard book ofetlquette In pointment of the commission with the yet It is impossible to spar food for China was written CARL ROHL-SMITby Lady Cho 1,700 view of giving Mr. Chamberlain a them." years sgo. Lady Cho was ths widow chance to "climb down, and that ths given the honor and distinction of of a distinguished literary man of cabinet was determined to have m erecting the granite and bronse statue of General William Tecumseh SherChe fame America." north China and after his dsath was Ricardo Palma of Lima, ths director faithful to hlg memory Her husband's man. now In coursp of construction t the south front of the treasury. of the National Library of Peru, haa brother was historian of that dynasty, Madame Richter, Meyerbeer's da ugh published a book reviving and review- but when bis work was half completed ter, has presented to the museum bet ing the old controversy as to ths ke lost his sight. The Emperor sent s father's piano, s Core of Rabie tn Franee. Xnurd, origin of ths name America." He messenger to him asking him who and another donor haa added aa eightIt la not generally known that tn contends that this hemisphere waa not could finish his hook and ths reply eenth century piano ol France It is a penal offense to give any named after Alberlco Vespucci, but was returned that only his brothers great beauty. This collection form of solid food to babies nnder a royal that the. Florentine merchants name wlf waa capable of doing It Ti also includes the oldest upright oblique year old unless It be prescribed In writwaa changed by n French painter to Emperor sent for Lady Cho and she: la existence. It was made is ing by a properly qualified medical piano Americus In honor of his travels In was conducted In the greatest of stats Paris by tbs Inventor, Henri Pats, is man. Nunes are also forbidden to use ths new world; then a German profes- to ths Emperors palace. There she 1834. . for tbelr charge any sort of feeding sor, either Ignorantly or wilfully, car- completed her brother-in-lawork bottle having a rubber tube. These ried on tb compliment, and from a so satisfactorily that it Is Impossible Orer la Lina county, Missouri, a aaaa and other equally stringent laws have nickname gave two continents their to tall where ths man left eff the wished to marry a widow who had recently been enacted by the French gad present title. Jules Marco n, la ths woman began. even children. - With s view of avoidgovernment, for In despair of increasbulletin of tbs' Paris Geographical soing all future trouble, be obtained the ing tbe birth rat of their country they ciety for January, 1839, conjectured ToMagea Carden of the Soudan consent of all ths children and of the are now doing their ntmoet to save the this orlgta of America." Mr. Palmas Capitalists of London, according to Intended brides father before retting lives of the comparatively small numreview of the facts and srtdsbaa reports which emanate from lasorUrs a lloense. - ber of tobies who re born. va. m 'Russians SanJed Women and Children We occasionally hear adverse reports oPthe conduct of the Russian soldiers lu the field. As a matter of fact, such reports generally emanate from unThe fact ia that, wers it not for the protecting arm of the czar's soldiers in China, kerribl bloodshed would have resulted at many points. - Some days before ths capture of Telntsln a company of Russian Of their soldiers entered the city. heroic efforts In behalf of the foreigners Mrs. Charles Denby, Jr., wife of ths to Chin,- writes on of the in the i from Tientsin f ' "Enormous firesBoxers ..mestve dty wers started and the began their attack on the settlement; so we were all aroused at 4 oclock, and every one who lived in the extra concession went either to friends on the Victoria road or to the town hall. As It happened, Mrs. von Hannekln had asked us to come to her In case of alarm, so we escaped to the town halt. There were perhaps 100 people who remained in their homes. All the rest were huddled together in Gordon hall for ten days. "The Chinese troops were everywhere. Two days before the alarm 1,700 Russian troops arrived. They saved our lives. Had it not been for them all of us would have been slaughtered. On that Monday they fought truthful sources. - -- cud. d h, th Rohl-Smit- w In Native Costume. troops for At one Urns they twelve hours. thought they could not hold them at hay, but in the evening the Russians still maintained their position. How Ruslans fought and suffered! I cannot describe their courage. For three, days they lay in the open, exposed to a terrible fire, without being able to fight hack. The Chinese were behind trenches, so the Russians could not afford to waste ammunition. "All these days we were waiting and Ws could waiting for not believe the admirals would bom-har- d ths forts at Taku, plunge us Into war and then leavs ns with only a few hundred troops. 8uch, however, was the caaa No one knows where the (knit ley. There were three dreadful days of fighting. But when ths second additional troops wers dispatched from Taku, after the arrival of Jim Watta, the brave Rnsslsn rider, they wers Shi with such a to work their way through. Thus they all arrived on Sunday morning and ws wers saved." Miss Till Is Fahr iff San Francisco, who wsa also n refugee at Gordon hall. well-drill- ed -- Fortune. - Fran-:o-Ameri- Kohl-Smit- 8:M4 Chinese To Recoup When Miss- Dorothy Studebaker, granddaughter of the South Bend (Ind.) married Bcott wagon manufacturer, McKeown, several years ago, be was worth a million dollars, which ha had Inherited from hie father, a Pennsylvania oil magnate. Now, through the husband's prodigality, his patrimony n, well-preserv- ed lyre-shap- MRS. SCOTT McKEOWN. has disappeared. Hie wife will attempt to recoup her fortunes by going os the stage. Mr. MaybricK I Hopeful. For the first time since her life sen- tence was Imposed eleven years ago Mrs. Florence Maybrlck had a private Interview with her counsel. Dr. Clark Bell of New York, prison In England other the day. Mrs. Maybrlck Is Indignant at the attacks made by the Liverpool Post on the late chief Justice of England, Russell of former Klllowen, for the counsel prisoner. The only person up to the present who ever saw me alone," she said, waa the chief justice. Wbon the assises came here last February Lord Russell came to the prison and asked to see me. When he was starting to go be aald: 'Mr a Maybrlck, I am doing all In my power for your release. Whatever happens, remember this that If there is one man In England who believes to yoor Innocence, J am that man. It wai only by accident that I heard of Lord Russells death, for I have not seen n newspaper for a decade, but 1 eould not help but feel that la his death I had lost my best friend." For the last few days Mrs. Maybrlck has been In a hospital ward, owing to a slight Illness, but she says ber health Is generally good. The recent faulted States memorial la still In the hands of the home secretary, Sir Matthew White Ridley,-- and Mrs. Maybrlck friends are hopeful that when tha answer come It will be a pardon. Vatnetic Virginian. ed Captain Joseph E. Willard, who resides in Virginia, but la a large propis erty owner to Washington, and who talked of for the nomination for lien-- , tenant governor of Virginia, Is one at tha patriotic young men of the nation who have Inherited great fortune Ha raised a company at hla own expense and went to Cub as Its captain to the Spanish war. Hla father, tha owner of tha famous Willards hotel to Washto O ington, served aa a captain -i army during tha civil war. TT- |
