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in front of it, and it is the liveliest city
of these almond-eyed Celestials. Its people
are the brightest and brainiest of the business
men of China. They are the most turbulent,
and it is here that the chief mobs against for
eigners have been gotten up in the past. 1t is
a hard-wOrking city, and the majority of its
100000 of men, women and children toll
from daylight until after dark. 1t is one of the
richest cities in the Chinese Empire. It has
milliOnaires and to spare, and it was here that
Hou Qua, the Rothschild of China, during the
last generation, lived and did business. This
man left a fortune of S50O00000-an immense
sum in this country of small capitalists There
are few monopolies in China, and the money
is very evenly divided. There is one man in
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as snow, and in this Province where I write
there are thousands of lepCrs. In the silk dis
tricts they are especially numerous, and it is a
curious thing that the disease is transmitted
from father to son, for these lepers sometimes
contract marriage among themselves. Leprosy
is worse than the smallpox, and the laws of
China forbid the lepers from sssociating with
healthy people. Smallpox is to the Chinaman
a no more serious matter than the measles is to
US, and children who have the smallpox are
allowed to be on the street In Shanghai they
have to wear red caps on their heads while suf-
fering from the disease, and the Chinese doctors
still innoculate with the smallpox. They do
this at the nose, and in the vaccination, which
is now coming into China, the vaccine is
usually introduced at the nose and not on the
arm, as with us.
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What He Was Fitted For.

81 confess I am sometimes sorely perplexed,' .
said the father, with heavy sigh, when
think of the future of my boys. 1t is a great
responsibility to have the choosing of a calling
in life for them" Through the open window
came the voices of two of the lads at play.
Look herei' loudly exclaimed Johnny,
that isn't fair! You've divided these mar
bles so as to get all the best ones in your own
bag"
Didn't have the trouble of dividing 'em :?
reiterated Willie hotly. Think Pm going to
spend my time at such jobs for nothing?"
SO far as Willie is concerned" resumed the
father after a pause, the task of choosing a
vocation is not so difficult. 1 shall make g
lawyer of him"
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE WASHINGTON o. THURSDAY,

raise the bale and carry it off. This is the
method for all heavy burdens, and Chinese
cheap labor has crowded the four footed beasts
out of existence. These men are very strong,
and they carry two heavy bundles fastened to
pole across their shoulder everywhere. They
work hard. and they do not care as to the hours
as long as they get their pay. This pay is about
10 cents a day, and they board themselves
Think of bringing up family on 10 cents a
day and paying house rent.
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see hero in Canton daily sights which make
my heart sick, and ut Shanghai l saw begsar
halfnaked and wrapped around the Ioins with
piece of cofee-sacking, sitting fat on the
stones, with his two raw stumps of legs stretch
ed out before him, and the feet, which he had
cut of to excite pity, lying by his side Chinese
beggars are the dirtiest and most horrible of
their class They mutilate themselves in order
TO ferce aims, and Deacon Gray tells of seeing
a beggar who went about Canton with a leper
on his back and forced the people to give to get
rid of him. This man would start with his
burden into shop; the ears and hands and
feet of the lePer were apparently just ready
to drop to pieces, and it was a brave man who
would remain in his presence. Some beggars
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the calf and there cut off short. write this
letter in January. when North China is freez-
ing in wadded clothes Of quilted cotton, and
here half the people are barefooted. Many OF
the workmen wear only breechclouts, and the
people are as naked as Japan is in Midsummer
The method of carrying burdens is entirely by
man power. These streets are too narrow for
donkeys or carts, and / have not yet seen a
horse in Canton. The ships are unloirled
freight is moved from one part Of the city to
another, building material is dragged through
the streets, aud il is all done by coolies. i saw
two men carrying a bale Of cotton yesterday
There was q rope tied around the bale and
fixed with small loop at the knot. Through
this stick as big around as yOnr wrist ard
five feet long was placed. and by resting this
on the shoulders Of TWO men they were able tC
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ANTON is the biggest
city in China, and
with itssuburbs ranks,
perhaps, next to Lon
don among the cities
of the world. 1t is
about ], 600 miles from
Peking, and is seven
hours ride by steamer
from Hong K on G,
which, you know. is
an island lying off the
south coast of China.
II has d population as
great as that of Gin
cinnati which lives
in house boats upon
fbn 1y-afpr-of tho river
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HUMOR.
Who'd n Bin.

A lady living in Ohio is the mother of six
boys. One day friend calling on her said:
"What pity that one of your boys had not
been girl"
One of the boys about eight years of age
overheard this remark, aud promptly inter
posed: I'D like to know who'd "a bin 'er; l
wouldn't "a bin 'er; Ed wouldn't a bin er; Joe
wouldn't a bin 'er, and I'd like to know who'd
a bin err
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One sees some curious contradictions in this
Chinese civilization. They do everything in
just the opposite way from us. They push the
saw differently, write up and down the page,
and read from the back to the front of book.
When they go into mourning they wear white
instead of black, and when in half f-mourning
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DAIRY HoRsE OF NonrH CHINA.

son is not expected to shave his head nor his
face, and he does not cut his finger-nails If
he has an official position he ought to resign it,
and Ii Hung Chang when his mother died a
year or so ago, prosposed to leave his Office for
three years, as is the custom. The Empress
D0wager, however objected, as ii Hung Chang
is the Secretary of State, and one of the most
important men in the Government, and he was
told that he could have only three months. in
stead OF three years, to weep. 1t is against the
law TO marry during the period set aside for
mourning, and people so doing are punished.
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sCIENTIFisc CHAT.

C G. Barrett n Chicago engineer is about to
nsk authority from the New York Legislature to
be allowed to turn Niagara into generator of elec
trcity for the benefit of the surrounding country in
general and himself in particular His plan is q
tunnel AZ feet wide, built from shore to shore
Five-foot pipes are to be constructed, containing
turbine wheels, which will operate 100 dynamos
so that the electric fluid can be made available al
points far distant.
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An Awful Experience.

Blobson-Say, Dumsey, did you know that
your ghost stories aud horrible anecdotes came
near frightening Popinjay to death the other
night2
Dumpsey-Why no! He seemed to be al
right when he left.
BLOSSOM know it; but. you see, he kept
thinking those horrible things over all the
way home, and when he got to the door and
put his hand in his pocket and pulled ont 8
skeleton -key-why, man, it came near being
the death of him
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Our Rnarding House.

New Boarder (who is dressing)-I say, neigh
Dor, what is that wailing, shrieking. cursing
and sobbing hear going on down stairs?
Old Boarder dressing and beginning to yelD
-Heavensl those are the other boarders gone
down before us.
New Boarder-Well what docs il meanf
Old Boarder-It means ham and eggs again.
Attempts to hang himself from the chande-
lier with his cravat.
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The Chinese run their funerals by luck, and
they have to choose lucky day for burial.
They would keep corpse for months rather
than put it into the ground on a bad day, and
their graves are so located that they are sup
posed 10 be of easy access to the spirits. The
building of house near a grave, or the run
ming of railroad by it, is liable to make angry
the spirits of the dead ancestors reposing in it.,
and it is in this superstition that lies one of
the great obstacles to Chinese railroad build
ing. The running of a railroad through a
cemetery would rouse a mob in less than no
time, and graves in China dot the whole face
of the country. You see great fields of round
mounds, under which what were once China
men lie, and these are out in the open country,
and everywhere, without regard to roads, fer
tility of soil or natural desrabilty These
mounds are covered with grass. They have no
monuments over them, as rule. and the
Chinese family has only its memories To dis
tinguish its grave mound from that of the
thousand Others surrounding it. had expect
ed to have found grand tombs in China /
supposed people who worshiped at the tombs
of their ancestors would at least put up board
to mark the spot. They do not. however. and
it is only in the cases of the wealthy and the
that in some parts of southern China many
persons remove the bodies from the graves
after they have lain there one year They
then open these big cOttins. scrape clean and
brush the bones, and put them back again. 1t
is horrible TO think OF. but China is country
of horrors.
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A Modern Rsmeo.

Amelia-Swear not by the moon, the incon-
stant moon.
Augustus-Then what shall I swear by?
Amelia-Swear by that which you hold in
vaiuable something that is dearer to you than
ali things else; something that you cannot
live without.
Angustus-Then, Amelia, I love you!
swear it by my salary.
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Mrs Malapropos-How is your papa getting
along. my dear?
Miss Precise-Oh, he's convalescent.
Mrs Malapropos My, oh my How unforfu.
nate be is, 10 be sure! First lie had newmoncy.
then plumbsgn and now conpalescent.
Miss Precise-HOW do You feel, Mrs. Mala-
PROPOSE
Ms maapropos-The doctor says I've got
two buckles on my lungs, and I'm going down
q the druggists now 20 get some Browns
bronlcai Brooches for my henheBendwavs.
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Address Wan{ed

If the writer of the article The Sergeant"
which appeared in the " Fighting Them Over"
columns in the issue Of Jan. 3, and was signed
23d KY" will send his address to this office,
we will mail him letter which has been for
TRIBUNE,
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Pure. Blood


Is absolutely necessary In order to have perfect health
Hoods sarsapalilia IS the great blood purifier quickly
conquering scroiila salt eum and all other insdious
enemies which attack the blood, and undermine the
health II also builds up the whole system cures dys-
pepsia and sick headache and overcomes that tired feel
lag.
IL have been troubled by scrofulous affection all my
life IL is OF the marked Fecollections Of my boy
days. several years has rendered me unable
TO labor much. / think Hoods Sarsaparilla which
have been using at intervals for ten years. is the best
thing have ever taken. am ROW co. and my general
health better than ever" II. D. ABBOTT Warren
N II.
81 have taken two bottles of Hoods sarsaparila for
salt rheum and dyspepsia, with which troubled
very much. After taking this medicine feeling as
well ever In my lfe." g. w. ROSE, PottsviIle Pa.
n. B. II you want good medicine. get
Hoods SarsaparilIa
Sold by ali druggists 81 six for s5 Prepared only by
c. l. HOOD & CO, Apothecarles Lowell. Mass
100 Doses One Dollar
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The English Illustrated Magdzins. Published
by Macmillan & Co.. LIP Fourth avenue New
York. Price 15 cents. This, though exceed
ingly cheap, is one of the finest illustrated
magazines published anywhere.
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I saw Chinese doctor to-day whose Chinese
name means Mr.. Long Nails, and he had finger
nails fully foot long. This is not an exaggera-
ton. He has the longest nails, it is said, of
any man in Canton. These nails were not
white. They were more the color of a cows horn,
and they curved inward so that by putting
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CBNTONS MILLIONS.
How Our SIant-Eyed Coolies Look,
Live and Work Upon Their Own
Soil.
Sol.

Street Scenes Of the Busiest City in the Chinese
Empire-Beggars and Fanerals-CofIlns at $4,000
Apiece-The Iepers and Their Yillage-The
Longest FingernaiIed Man in China-The Stores
The Merchants and the Coolies.
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As to lepers, I have seen q few in south China,
but have as yet met with no horrible cases.
There is leper village here outside of the city,
and l asked my guide to-day if he could not
take me to it. He was Mortified at the
thought, and said the lepers would rush at US
nddemand money, There is also leper asylum
in Canton, and there are boats on the river in
habited by lepers. am told that they go to
funerals and demand aims of the mourners,
and they sometimes leap into the graves and
viii not 60 away until they have been paid. l
saw leper at Feochow whose face was as white
The National tribune., 1889-02-14
A CANToNEsE FAMuY.

China who is said to be worth $20,000,0O0, but
the average Chinese factory is worked with
capitals of from $4,000 TO $4,000, and these
usually have several partners.
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loorrEIeHTED Br FRANK 6. CARPENTER, 1851

Special Correspondence NATIONAL TRIBUNE
CANTON, CHINA, January, 1889.
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The whole ceremony of death and burial is
curious one here. The bodies Of the dying are
washed with warm water in preparation for
their coffin, and / doubt not this bath often
makes a corpse. Stray bits of hair and the
inger-nails are sometimes put in the coffin.
The corpse is always as well-dressed as the
condition of the family will permit. and he is
supplied with fund of money for the next
world in the shape of silver paper You see
shops for the sale of this paper all over China
and at these shops is sold imitation money,
which is used for the same purpose. Mourn
ing is almost compulsory in China, and for a
hundred days after the death of a parent the
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knock their heads against the ground until
they bleed, and it is the horror of Chinese
merchant to have one apparently ready to die
TO lie down in front of his shop and say that
he viii die thereif he is not paid to go away.
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Our NEW DEPARTURE

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the right track able sell the
prices We viii trust yOu and JOu the seeds
seed gardens and need for what wish to
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About delays. Did send order Eeed houIe
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hedi ReIn ember We mall the box IN the New York
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that plant In gardens and supply TO our rehbors
who gardeners aud truckers make
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package seeds this collection and eect Thousands
have procured their seeds in this WIKI perfect
This advertisement will appear again in th paper hence
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subject The seeds viii then be hand when wanted Address
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Flrst-Fnat these selected speomens
aud therefore SnoS their superiority Seeond-Thst
them packages and boxes at dull directly
thus expensive detail ThIrd-That fair
oHornbIe system delivering without asking
men in advance, enables enormous business win
very little clerical help advertising expense without gilt
catalogue filled With expensive exaggerated
tons without expensive city EourthWe
experience
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DIYORCE-A GOODRICH. ATTORNEY law
I34 Dearborn ST. Chicln ILL., Advice Free "a vearS
experience. Business quietly aad legally transacted
Mention The National TribunA
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they come out in the gaudiest of sky-blue.
The full mourning dress is altogether white,
and the mourner is expected to braid white
thread into his cue and to sole his black
shoes with white. 1t is thus that grief
turns the Chinaman's hair white in
single night. They wear also poor clothes
in mourning and one of the richest men of
South China apologized the other day for re-
ceiYipg me in clothes of cotton instead of silk;
and i noted that his cue was braided with
white a Chinese funeral is noisier than
Chinese wedding, and have seen a number Of
them in every city | have visited. The Chinese
hearse is painted red, and it is sort of frame
work of heavy red lacquered logs, with box
like cage on the top Of it, in@hich the coffin
rests. 1t takes from eight TO score of men to
carry this coffin, and the procession is large or
small, according to the wealth of the family.
There are many professional mourners. There
is q band of music and a lot of coolies, who
carry red boards upon which are Chinese char
acters giving the wonderful deeds of the de-
ceased and his ancestors. A white cock is
often carried in the procession, and q man goes
along who scatters burning jess paper which
is intended for hungry ghosts. The coffin itself
is a very costly affair, and some Chinese cotfins
cost as high as 81 Zoo. They are supposed to be
made in the shape of the trunk of tree, and the
wood is from four to seven inches thick.
coffin is bought as soon as a death occurs, but
the family is often too poor to carry out the
ceremony of interment until months and some
times years later. A tutor employed at the
American Legation at Peking has had the coffin
containing the body of his father in his house
for the last two years and he has not yet been
able to raise enough money to bury him. These
cOffins are sometimes hermetically sealed, and
1t is not uncommon for men to buy their collins
and keep them on hand until death. Sara Bern
hardt, if she travelled in China, would find no
trouble in getting extra coffin in which to rest
over night; for you know it is said that she has
her coffin in her residence in Paris and that she
gets into it now and then to see if it fits. All
Cinnamon over so years of age are supposed to
have their coffins ready, and not uncommon
gift is the present of coffin to ones father,
grandfather or uncle upon his 6Ist birthday.
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No. 80 Dey Street, Neyv York City.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-01-29
@THEPROGRESSIVE FARMER JANUARY 20, 1889.
LEMON

Take large, firm lemons, not quite ripe,
and cut into slices o~ne-quarter of an inch
thick, take out the seeds, soak in brine a
week. Then soak in clear water for sew
eral days till quite free of salt and bitter
taste, weigh lemons and boil till soft
enough to pierce with a straw, make a
thin syrup, allowing a pound of sugar to
one of fruit, put lemons in, let simmer
two hours. Pour out in a bowl, and if
the syrup get thin in several days put on
fire and boil till they jelly. Putup when
cool in glass jar with a screw top. The
same recipe may be used for oranges.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-01-29

He who looks upon his labor as an
irksome road which he. must tread in
order to gain money, or ease, or self
indulgence, or fame, will never be
more than a third-clas worker. On
the other hand, the toiler in any sphere
who commands our ~profoundest hon.
age, is he who recognizing the dignity
and Importance of his labor, puts his
whole soul into it. and strives to make
it as excellent and as worthy as pos
sible-he who does not work that he
may rest, but rests that he may work,
and does not concern himself so much
with what he is going to have as with
what he is going to do.-Oncea Week.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-01-29
THE ARM
The Backbone Of The Country =!

1t is a conceded fact in the minds Of every bust
ness man that the commercial status of every com
munity is greatly dependent on the farmers Of our
country in fact, so much so that should i'll fortune
visit the fields of our never ceasing toilers, then the
merchants of our city would be forced to retreat.
Z the fsrme = . w6om T csnSi9ar t6a RoeEhnua n of
every community, from every impeachment that is
likely to retard their progress.
Mr.: W. G; Bagwell, having removed his stock Of
the Undertaking line, to the corner of East Martin
and South Blount Sts., is fully prepared to accom-
mOdate everybody, both in the city and elsewhere,
with the necessary equipments to give entire salts
faction. The most careful attention given to all
orders at day or night.
We heartily Mr.. Bagwell as a young
man of untiring energy, and should you need any
thing in the Undertaker's line, visit his place of
business, corner of E. Martin and South Blount SITS,
and full satisfaction viii be extended in a most
gentlemanly manner.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-01-29
-9dEtry. 10
THE MAIDEN.

There's a poem in the lily
With it's lowly bending head;
There's a poem in the sunset
With it's brilliant tinSe of red
There's q poem in the forest,
In the lofty mountain wall
But the poem OF the maiden
Is the sweetest of them all.
She is tall or she is slender
With the lily's face of white
She is lovely as the painting
- Made by sunsets rosy light;
She is noble as the forest,
As the lofty mountain wall
All, the maiden, of all nature,
Is the sweetest gem of all
Let the cynic rant on fashion
And its catalogue of whims
Let him tell OF the hirtations
At the church between the hymns
Let him point at cOquettes' costumes
In the operate stall,
Yet, the maiden, Notwithstanding,
Is the sweetest gem of all.
Nm. Hosea BQNOn, IN The Journalist.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-01-29
~BUTTERMILK CAKE.

One cup of b~uttermilk, one large cup of
sugar, two-thirds cup of shortening, two
eggs and n t~easpoonful of soda. Flavor
to taste. By putting in mixed spices it
makes a good spice cake.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-01-29
LAND FOR SALE!

1 offer for sale my farm, containing about $50
acres, located twelve miles north of Charlotte and
three miles from the town Of Huntersville, on the
McDowelI's Creek. Will sell the whole in one
tract, or will divide into small farms to suit pur-
chasers. Terms easy. Price moderate. For
further information, address the undersigned.
..1. JOHN W. MOORE,
se43m Huntersville, n. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-01-29

UUkN BREAD.
One and one-half cups sour milk, one,
cup Indian meal, two cups of -four, one
egg, one-half cup of sugar, one teaspoon
full of soda, a little salt and two table
~SnoonfulS of butter.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-01-29

Chemists say that it takes more than
twice as much sugar to sweeten pre-
serves, sauces, etc, if put in when they
begin to cook as it does to sweeten
after the fruit is cooked.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-01-29

Glass articles can be so annealed by
being boiled in water mixed with common
salt that they will not easily break from
sudden changes of temperature. They
should be put into cold water, and, after
being we'll boiled, the water should be
allowed to cool slowly before taking them
out. Crockery, porcelain and stone-ware
can be made more durable by the same
process