Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-09-20
CEINA OF TO-DAY.
Recent Observations by a Frenchmnn
OFIUN SMOKING FROM TWO POINTS OF vIEw-TRApE
WITH WESTERN NATIONS.

oFIUN SMOKING FROM TWO POINTS OF vIEw-TRApE
WITH WESTERN NATIONS
From III n. Y. Tribune.
LcGer b. Orme, representing the Paris house OF
Ffcaux LEyenaud & Gle. In China, arrived in this
city from San Francisco few days ago. He has
spent The past eighteen months in the Celestial
empire, and having been former attache OF the
editorial staff OF Les Temps, has had journalistic
eye 10 current events there, and returns well in
formed about the country and Its people. To Trt-
t5fae reporter who met him he was interestingly
communicative.
"E6l. you something new about Gilman he ex-
claimed. Everything is new there, is fresh, is
nothing like the life here or In Europe. went
into the Office OF your minister, Mr.. Young, one
Jay. when was In Pekin, and ! said TO the MIN
NO one is making news in China except the tax
o.iiccr5. They have found something that Is
worth my knowIadse,' what is that?' / asked.
'ihey have found that you and live among 225,
0a}tO OF people who pay their pOli-rates promptly
That was news. and boil it down TO mean that
Cinnamon pay their taxes promptly. ard that the
tax c:ficeTs have taken the new census with these
results. They DO things differently here and In
France. and think that counting the entire en-
Pife they did not make out two-t thirds OF the
pofHation- There are 3C0,G00,cc0 OF the yellows,
warrant
what are they up to? Imrrirnis eating opium.
Let lie tell you there is an inside view Of That sub
jcct- I took Investigating interest in opium
eating and Its effects. called on Dr. John G. Kerr,
the old and eminent physician, who for thirty
tti at H0bS Kong, and has had 100000 patients.
he told NE that almost everybody smokes opium or
LIZ 1t is degradation To the Chinese. The doctor is
preparing mo nograph On tie subject Dr. Ayres,
colonial physician at Hong Kong. denied this. He
Sili tnlt no opium smoker uses the drag 10 pro-
cure sleep, bus often takes 1t before gong TO sleep.
That |; Is an expensive habit he doesn't deny. but
refuses To see anything else In iJ than loss OF
time and money. There you have two or the latest
ideas, do not pin To either. but have seen men
smoke their 10 grains a day. Thirty or forty
grains j. average day smoke, and You will find
that like our tobacco habit, it may BE- abused. It
deSradc5 as much as our habit docs Lut no more
HALLWAY, TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE LINES.
"Arc there any new works Of any Importance in
progress?"
s'TEcre is a railroad This is . new thing for
China, ii you please! You remember that. some
SIX years ago, EngIishner org nzpi the kaip-
Ing Railway company, Tor the purpose OF building
road u the k,l ing min SfrOn Ilentsin. IL created
= VAST deal o. talk then ana the reports have been
as fcw as the dividends. But that road + building.
Thousand Chinese are at WORK Under direction OF
e. W. kinleT, who, with tine secretary, K. NJ. Brown,
gave me many courtesiea. They at first got re-
lIciant permission TO build seven miles OF road and
the ground hG tn be laid out five times before land
could be procured and graves in the way removed.
The ground WAS level and happily required little
grading Men came to work as soon as the seven
Su)tr,.ltOu5 niles were completed and the entire
distance Will be covered Within the year, il hing
happens Tie road has three ordinary cars Drought
from England, fifty coal trucks and an elegant
coach, designed for the higher officials There are
three locomotives, one OF them the first built in
China IL was made in kapng. and IS named the
Rocket OF China The other TWO were Imported.
From Lutan to SiIOWkuchOng six round trips are
made daily. Passage Il seven cents. and passenger
travel pays the trains running expenses. The daily
freight averages two hunircd tens, mostly OF coal.
The engineers are Eng!lshmen, but the StokerS,
conductors and brakenen are all Chinese. The
mines support tie road.
'.Ies, there is telegraph line on the road and 1t
Is used in connection with telephones. The wiring
cost s>S mile The constructors. we'll as the
operators, natives, and there is opposition to
the wires their part, any than Lnere Is TO
the cars. Cinnamon patroniZe both car and wire,
l presume, because ii pays them WE'LL
THE OPPOSITION TO PETROLEUM
"But there IS one modern thing that the almond
eyed do not Ike That is petroleum. They oppose
it, urging that it causes many fires The tOrta of
Shanghai was out in an intcrdict not many weeks
ago az dGSt this oil that sometimes smaShe5 lamp
and burns house. O,ner officials tiInidIy did the
SAME Ii Is fear that ignorance inspires, 1t
Is OF vast cen 5auence, indSIluch as your country
gard, petrOle the ilCSt iagJrt AM article n
your commerce with emma; he OPPOSITION is not
so Fierce rs Il Was, and | have ii from Minister
fuungs own lips that IL is eXhaustIng itself lie
saws we strive 10 convince Che CuiuCSc that
have their own s-OUd iii view wien ask them 10
snare the advantages OF Cur more advanced civlli-
Z.tlUn; und NItn proper Instructors uSi..g tne
o.. We VII have il III trade AGAIN.: il French 81
d.ut at Niu5-pO gave he tit OF COiCrtGg lniOTma-
ten. Tie says tnat the root OF thu .Uie matter
lies in an American fault. Some firm In this cOun-
" H!:, cls 4 10, % LAMPS OF cheap ana uH i,Ie
lldNe ana tLey SCENTED 10 burst as frequently us
lat American goods are rot generally Oij-
NO, not 50 much Gs French goods are There is
cotton cloth. lOf Instance. Ire English Cloth is
coarse and heavily sized while tie American is WEI
finished and OF gCJu weight. and naturally the
American Is preferred. But john El!ii is catching
OH, 4il. there Is a strong competition Oh British
goods mat Tt 1Llblc5 yours. anu are PACKED in sim
ilaE eases Inc Dutch are sending dri:iS and CONT
n@nt2i> into China to extent, ana have Il yery
god ,rade in tneIl- Bus these gCo,t5 arc Initiated
t01 by the Lancashire looms, ana ii serves TO dis
IItoS TIE tIatte very badly
IMPORTING OREGON PINES.
"Ah, no foreigners 90 not get rich in China mar
kcts- The natives need little, waste nothing, do
every thing, and having abund mt capital and
skilled labor. are both temperate and frg-al They
expert iinftdt0rs and VIII make from western
patterns. paper, buttons, glassware. ana even
cloth Ii Hung Chang ol Dlt Ell HI emory in Paris
granted the establishment OF q co;tG:-rnilI nj
SHANGHAI while ago, but The scheme EEL through
Tor want OF funds else We mi AJ have Seen your
Manchester goods CouHtCrfeited. DUt there ar. TWO
articles that they do hot try 10 it 3tcOtIr wines
and your lumber. Did you know That China i'm
ports 100000 sect Of Oregon pine lua Der yearly?
Fact Ii Can lie had cheaper than 10 cart il from
COrea AMI hantchuril, where ROW arc almost the
only remaining forests III the empire. Japan and
Russia furnished larger Quantitila, but Portland
pine IS IN high favor"
SOMETHING ABOUT THE CHINESE NAVY.
And the Chinese navy"
"DOesn't even exist on paper, Really China has
no navy II We compare her boat, with the navy OF
France. There are 81 gualCatS in her feet a dozen
transports and two lriSa;S. sizes iTon-clads
bought at Stettin and Ill England But let lie tell
you something ,b ut this fi-.t navy. Onc-third
OF the gunbosttS are the cdSt-Cffs OF American or
English tiOcEy yards. Twelve We're bought OF Arm
strong. and are named after the first twelve letters
OF The Greek alphabet. They Stcel-but. double
screw, small boats and each Carries two 26-tOn 10
inch, brcech-!Oaing guns, Of some power, and IOur
two 9-uOunderS, four GatlngS, and
two German guns. There are also Two double
turreted cOrvettS OF the Arm tron- make which OF
course are formidable. Admiral COrbcL's boats can
wipe them al cut, for moi Only are the boats OF no
but, as well, the sailors are only half
taught. | never saw able yellow seaman, but
you must notice that there are at least twenty
English and American officers on the boats"
GLOW about the army?'
AT comprises $50, 90 raw men, Of whom not more
than oncseyenth are drilled soldiers. They are an
OLD not Il new story, and VIII wager that they are
no. able 10 make war news or play at a new warp
Mr.. ROnncr Talks OF his Horses.
THE OWNER OF A HALF-MULI0N DOLLARS WogTH
OF TRoTTERS REPLIES TO PEEGu
New YORK, September TO-
Mr.. Robert Bonner talked to an interviewer
to-day as follows: ~ do not thnk Mr. Bergh IN
derstandS what he IS talking about when he states
that clipping is cruel and sense.ess practice
the device OF lazy grOomS. There IS not horse
Iii n who does not know directly to the CON-