Show bUR FLOUR IN CHINA the great corres rarD enter tn now touring the orient pon 1 l eyes wide open tor the re s wit interesting and his and the words of news aly attuned to SS t beefs for sects of an enlarged mar 1 f 0 S flour la china add formation to the millers of the therefore to the wheat raised t and pacific coast and ot the 1 I region la most encouraging he H his opinion thai china will ves it a r sally be one of the biggest mar the american cereals te for our v flour he states Is tar superior to that de by the chinese the chinese 1 l flour has a dark yellow color and for this reason the people do not like it in f k cakes mr carpenter tells what a r flour Is to the chinese today luxury fc se the most of our flour r velch comes to china costs too much consumption it is being tor common eaten however by the well to do and thousands of sacks of it are consumed as a coating for sweet cakes we shipped fully twice as much last year as we did in 1896 and in 1898 the total amount was pounds we are increasing our shipments now to the h garrisons of foreign troops stationed Y in german english and russian achl vs and the soldiers now at tien tsan L peking and in shantung and man churla will require tens thousands of T of additional sacks from the import ing houses here I 1 have learned how hv the flour Is brought across the pacific y it Is put cloth sacks of fifty t pounds each and thus retailed over the rt country the wheat is ground in the mills of california and oregon the flour Is carried over the ocean to vp shanghai for a freight of 4 per ton f when it reaches here a wholesale price L of 4 cents and upwards silver is put on it and this is materially increased J by the freight to the interior this A t makes it a luxury to most people in deed the cakes which were formerly made ol 01 wheat flour are now made ot h rice flour and only varnished over with va wheat flour such cakes are tor sale on almost every wheat corner they i are ol 01 the eize and shape of an apple L dumpling and look not unlike one they are boiled and it is as boiled food s that most of our flour which comes A to china Is eaten the chinese do 4 not know what bread is there is i but little pastry or cakes biscuits j are not seen and such things as coffee v and rolls are never eaten outside the houses of the foreigners the miserable condition of the aco pie of benighted china as related by as 1 carpenter almost beyond belief f the great body of the inhabitants are p in best of ames but slightly removed from starvation and in a period of 1 crop failure as at present as they will they must face famine and thousands starve to death poverty in america would be an aban S dance ln china the wretchedness of lite is plainly depicted in this account y 1 the conditions now prevailing the L part of the empire is on the t be of a famine some of the pro st es e had short crops for several jonta rs the farms of shantung raised nothing in 1899 and the wants T 1 I the people chave had much to do luli tom enUng the doxer uprising Is in a bad way the valley has been devastated the landa A about ing are laid waste hundreds of villages have been destroyed and hundreds of thousands of people have left their fields to serve in or follow army their destitution exists ra a arso portion of north it Is only in w abe have kb laid up for f tha winter and when the cold weather tae suffering will be intense chanese aly oa tood and themselves warm buen an extravagance as fuel to in ease ones bodily heat is unknown li are not warmed and the I 1 cold of nature will be doubled by abe lack ot tood lo 10 resist it ra ita arylne y people f mos beauze reauze 0 anor hey n ot tood lt taked to VT there aro about fa loST cha ng trot otra y these yellow bk tilday or meala 4 home is Z t general at are appt aulet 0 T ls a mastake ta I 1 sa 1 ta eo and alc much ely confine 1 biens th rice 4 ot south muth re and central china |