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The National tribune., 1889-03-21

ment map as big as the top dining table, on
which the line marking the division Of the ter
ritory was drawn. The Chinese officers threw
up their hands, and emphatically said, g No,
gentlemen; you ask too much. We are willing
to eoncede to you q fair amount of our terri
tory aud sea-coast, but We cannot give you
that"
AN right" said the Russians; ave will
modify our terms"
They then had new map drawn on about
one-tenth the scale of the large one, but the
lines and boundary were identically the same.
The Chinese commissioners looked at it, and did
not perceive the fraud
Ah," said they. that is something like it.
We will concede that rather than have trou-
ble."
And they signed the treaty, and so Russia
out-tricked the almoud-eyed Celestial, and got
Vladiyostock aud thousands of square miles of
good territory. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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70 truth in the abstract, or in trifes, he was
rigidly and unpleasantly punctilious; but IN
affairs of moment, or when it conflicted with
his interest or ambition or tended to detTact
from his fame he dodged it, under the plea OF
necessity lsee Ceattgy Magazine for October
1856; and to him may be applied what Sancho
Panza says Of the bachelors of Salamanca, that
they never misrepresent, except when 1t suits
their purpose. He was slow in acquiring
knowledge and was by no means widely read.
His piety degenerated into fanaticism. lie was
known TO refuse using gunpoUder that had
been carried on Sunday, and IL times OF peace,
al least, would not mail a letter that he thought
would be carried on that day. The most
trivial acts of life he accompanied with a
prayer, even to the sealing, mailing or receipt
Of an ordinary letter, the raising to his lips of
q glass of water, and it is said was often seen
with his hands uplifted in silent prayer on the
march and the battlefield. He watched his
mental nature as recluse or a Bunyan, and
his physical as a vaetudinarian. Was as sensl-
tive as girl to pain. Spent hours, uncon-
scious Of his surroundings, in self-examlnatlon,
and in Sending his thoughts heavenWard. lie
prayed without ccasiDg. When absent from
his command he was accustomed to leave in
charge Presbyterian minister, Of his staff, IN
whom alone, in this campaign. he reposed his
confidence, and who, as il were, acted as
guide, philosopher and friend, TO the exclusion
and displeasure Of his highest and ablest OH
GERS. Later Gen. Lee thought it necessary to
write to him: By advising with your Di-
vision Commanders they can act more intel
ligeatly."
II is difficult to conceive how an able and
practical military leader could be developed out
Of such discordant and eccentric material, un-
less, indeed, he were a miraculous creation, or
under the immediate direction of Providence,
" inspired" as many thought him. OF course
the sceptic and the ungodly, and perhaps Others,
may consider him eharlatan, a mountcbank.
Nevertheless, lie made q great noise in the
world, and III period of less than two years.
Tg,, j., -ovFf,,,c[71
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The Rnles Dida't werk.
TNeln Yarh IErellnl

Mrs. Youngwife-Oh, deari I'll never believe
word these horrid newspapers say again.
Mother-Why, what's the matter?
Yesterday l read an article about how to
keep husband just as devoted as he was when
q lover. 1t said you must keep your temper,
attend conscientiously to the kitchen aud pam
try, see that his clothing is in good order, have
plenty of sunlight in the house and in the
heart don't bother him about going to places
OF amusement when he is tired, keep the hair
becomingly fixed and never let him see it in
curl-papers. avoid friends who would only bore
hiil, and dress we'll"
:. Very good advice"
Good? Why, as quick as he got home I
told him I wanted lot of new dresses, and he
got mad right of"
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A Serious Affair.
Nan T-nrI. HILL, /

ClaTa-0h, mother. we had such fun at the
parry! Young Smith proposed that he and l
should 20 through mock marriage ceremony
just in fun, you know; aud it was too funny
fer anything. Afterward, some Of the older
people who heard Of it said we were really
married; but we're not, are we?
DOti8g Mother-0f course not. Besides
young Smith couldn't support wife il he had
one.
"0h, it wasn't that Smith. It was the other
Smith, from Gold City, the one vino owns
bonanza mine, you know"
E" Eh? That Smith My dear, a marriage
like that before witnesses is bfndingn
The National tribune., 1889-03-21

Easterner-I understand the great land boom
at Dugout City has collapsed.
Westerner-Yes; no use keepin' it goin' any
longer. All the land is now owned by out
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Had it Down Fine.

lHarpeTs Bazdr.l
Say, Charlie" asked one newsboy of an
other. what is a payin telIer?"
Hes de man what pays out de money"
An what's a receiYin' teller?"
He's de man what takes in de money"
An what's de cashier?"
@ He's de feller what gifts away wid d.
money!
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A Desirable Change.
TNfin YnrI. IEecLInl

Murderer-Yer honor, if yez don't moind
wud yez plaze change the day fer me execu-
ton? Sure it goes agin me conscience to be
hung on Friday-a fasht day.
Accommodating Judge-With pleasure. ]
will appoint the Monday before.
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CHINESE NOTES.
The Art Works Of Canton and What
They COSt---Fine EmbrOiderieS
and Rare POrcelainS.

The Fowls of China-H0W the CeIestiaIs Hatch,
Raise and Fatten Ducks-The Wonderful Woman
Bird, and the Ape that Likes Pretty Girls
Talks on China With Two Old Missonarles-Dr.
MacGoWan on Chinese Immigration-Dr. Happier
on the Stability OF the Chinese Hati0n-0Hr
Correspondent Discusses the Chinaman as a Citi.
zen-The Inside History Of the Chinese Russian
Treaty-How the Russian Bear Cheated the Chi
nese Dragon.
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She Was Urgent.

Hostess-Do take some more of the pudding,
Mr.. Snibbins.
snibbins-My dear Mrs Bunderby, couldn t
eat another moathful. I've eaten so much
already that I can hardly speak.
Hostess-Do try little more-iust little
more, if only to please me, Mr. snibbins
The National tribune., 1889-03-21

Civil Service Reform, notwithstanding,
many viii lose their positions now this need
cause no anxiety, as the Am. Mfg. House can
use and literally pay all willing workers. APP
ply at once dock box 1910. n. Y
The National tribune., 1889-03-21

SPENT this morning
among the Chinese en-
hroidery shops. The
finest embroideries in
the world come from
Canton, and the dresses
which are so m Il c h
priced by the bellies of
Paris, London and New
York are made here.
The embroidering is
done by men, and it
takes about two months
to embroider a single
dress. a dress pattern
consists of 16 yards of
silk Grape and four
yards of Grape, covered
with embroidery, and
-. -
The National tribune., 1889-03-21

Jinks-Hello, Blinks Hear you had a great
time getting married-eloped with the girl
father and mother furious-gaYe chase; but
they didn't catch you, did they?
Blinks sadlyl-No-o.
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"But, Doctor, do you think the Chinese
would make good addition to our body poll
tic?"
81 do not" replied Dr. MacGowan. "The
cheap labor of the Chinese might be an ad-
vantage to the capitalists or to the rich people
of the United States, aud the admitting them
might be in accordance with the spirit of our
institutions; but l believe that miscegonation
is a social and political evil, and l don't think
that it is desirable for our welfare as Nation
to introduce an additional race l think it
would cause a deterioration of our race power,
and this is based on long observation of the
Chinese people The reasons for this can give
better to a medical journal than to your news
paper think, however, that this whole sub
ject Of the Chinese coming into the United
States can easily be amicably arranged by the
two Governments. If our country would re-
spect the national pride of China and permit,
for instance, only so many Cinnamon in America
as there are Americans in China, the Chinese,
who pride themselves on being a reasonable
nation, would not object. and there would be
no further trouble"
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about $2S for dress pattern. When more work
or greater art is required the prices are higher,
and the regular price for embroidery is 50
yard. This embroidery is wonderfully like ma
ture, and the Chinese make screens represent
ing peacock-tdiiS, i'll which the feathers. made
OF silk, are as gorgeous and as neatly put to-
gether as those worn by the birds. Such screens
cost from IS upwards, and they are very beau
tilul. Grape shawls are very cheap, but some
are made of fine silk, heavily embroidered,
which cost from $40 to 500. ! was shown one
to-day as large as a bed-quilt, and covered with
one mass Of solid embroidery of white roses and
vines Its price was S75. 1t would be cheap
at 5000 in America. Richly embroidered Win
dow-curtains OF silk and silk lined sell for from
$50 to $50 pair. The favorite patterns for
dresses are the bamboo and wistaria, and an
Austrian princess who is now in China haslnst
ordered dress Of white Grape embroidered IN
bamboo stalks and leaves of different shades OF
green. The Chinese greens are the brightest
known, and the people delight III the most
delicate shades of color. The tea cosys Of Can
ton arc very fine, and chair-cushions and wall
screens are exported from here by the thou
sand. The best place to buy old embroideries
in China is at Peking but few travellers can
afford the expense and time of going to such an
out-of- the-Way place. The result is that those
Who do go have large variety TO select from,
aud often get elegant pieces for a song. The
finest of the embroideries Of China are made
for the royal palace, and they are sent there
by the thousands Of yards. The eunuchs
and under-oiicials get hold OF these and they
find their way from them into the hands of the
dealers. During our stay at the Legation IN
Peking We had every morning visits from ped
diers OF fine embroideries, who asked three
times what they expected to get. and who sold
for about half the prices we had to pay in
Japan.
The National tribune., 1889-03-21

The Chinese have their mermaids and mer-
men, and one of their fishes, SO these Chinese
classics state, drops tears which become pearls
as they fall. They have square snake, which
looks like hair trunk and which squirts a
poisonous inky fluid at people, which kills
them at once. They have the wonderful split
ter snake, which divides itself into u pieces,
which again come together when it wills. If
any one picks up one of these pieces, the piece
at once generates head and tail and bites him
to death. This snake is Ia feet long, and is as
big around rs a red cent. The human-faco
snake OF Burmah and Cochin China has in its
female species the face of pretty girl, with
two feet growing under the neck, and each one
of these feet has five fingers Cut lit in half and
it becomes pretty girl, and cannot be distin-
guished from the human species.
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE WASHINGTON c. THURSDAY MARCH

streets are indecent in the extreme. Brothels
abound everywhere, on boats and on the land.
Girls are abducted and stolen, and common
offense is that of kidnapping Rich men are
seized by robbers and held for ransom, and
Houqua, the rich merchant met at Canton
fears to go out at night alone. As to Govern
ment corruption, all the officials, from Prime
Minister to Constable, are bribe-takers Off
GERS are expected by the Government to take
bribes, and it is generally estimated that they
will get at least 10 times their salary out of
their roffices. The Governor General of Prov
inee receives salary of $500 year, and he is
expected to make S25, 900 and upwards. The
views of lying are the same in the Government
as in private life. The Mitkiewicz banking
scheme, by which the Chinese Government
gave the American syndicate charter for o
bank of $50000o00, was an honest bargain
through Ii Hung Chang, the Premier. The
Government went back on its promise and
withdrew the concession. Ii Hung Chang pre-
tended to Gen. Wilson, the American officer
and engineer who came out here a year or so
ago, that he wanted his advice as to the repairs
of the Yellow River and the building of rail
roads The understanding was that Wilson
was to be employed in the work if adopted.
The honorable Ii got the advice, pretended to
think 1T of no moment, and, after Wilson had
gone back to the United States am told he
adopted it.
The only persuaders that will do China any
good are tho bullet and the bayonet. Itis these
that have opened the trade of China to the
world, and it is these only that make the for
eigners' lives now safe in China. 1t was the
prospect of war with Russia that gave China
the telegraph. and the next war will make the
country construct railroads. With the whole
world moving on China cannot hope to stand
still. She has too much good country and too
much waste muscle for the world to let her lie
idle. Already Russia has taken good slice off
of her northern boundary, and England is now
moving ON Thibet / heard at Peking the in
side story of the Russian concession, and it is
too good not to tell. Russia demanded big
slice of the Pacific sea-coast to guard her Siberia
possessions. She sent to the Chinese Govern
The National tribune., 1889-03-21

I do not find the porcelain OF China as fine
Japan, and the most beautifully decorated ware
Of Asia Is painted by the japanese. The Chi
nese of this Province lay on their paint so thick
that it stands out upon the dishes, and makes
them rough and unpleasant to eat from. The
porcelain is cheaper, but it is by no means so
elegant as the japanese ware. 1t is stronger
and better as to lasting qualities; but We know
very little of it. Our chief importatiens Of
fine china are from Japan, and We are Japan S
best customers for nearly every class of goods
she makes. The Chinese carvings made at
Canton are wonders in ivory and wood.
The artists have no idea of the beautiful
in the human anatomy, and no Chinaman has
yet produced an Apollo Belvidere or q Venus
di Medici. They attempt the difficult and deal
more with surprises of artistic construction.
They will spend months cutting out one ball of
ivory inside of another, and another inside OF
that, aud so ON until they have worked piece
OF ivory the size of a baseball into dozen or
more hollow globes; the work is wondr0us in
that ii was made at all, but after all it is only
curio. They will carve pieces of ivory or
silver no bigger around than the large-siZed
knitting-needlc, into miniature figures of men
and women, and they are the kind of artists
who can put the Lords Prayer or book of
Ccnfacius on a I0-cent piece. Very queer it
looks but it amounts to nothing after all.
There are one or two men in Canton, however,
who are attempting European painting, and
bought very fine oil painting of scene on the
Canton River yesterday for -. The Chinese
make good copyists, but this mans work was
original, and his paintings are greodily snatched
uD by travellers
The National tribune., 1889-03-21

/ met here at Canton DR.. MaeGowan, who is
now connected with the customs service of
China and who has spent moro than 40 years
living among and studying the Chinese people.
He is man of broad reading and great culture,
and he has made q considerable study OF
Chinese immigration. He believes that such
immigration is bad for China as well as for
America, and he says that the Chinese who 60
to America and return are discon tented with
Chinese institutions and with Chinese rule.
They form an element which is a perpetual
menace TO law and order and through their
secret societies plot against the Government
and the institutions of the Empire The only
exceptions to this rule are those Chinese who
become Christians.
asked DR.. MacGowan as to the over-popu-
lati0n of China. He replied:
China is by no means so over-peoped as is
generally supposed. There are great tracts of
/ land here which have been wasted by pestilenco
and famine which need but littie to be re-
claimed, and there are fertile regions in Mon
golia and Manchuria capable of supporting
scores of millions of people which are only
sparsely settled, and which are still untitled.
| There is only one Province of the 18 constitut-
lug China proper which has population of
over $50 to the square mile, and only six
have 400 to tho square mile. Belgium has $40
people to the square mile, and this is more
than any Province in China except one. Chi
Ii, in which Peking and Tientsin are located,
has 17900,000 of a population. 1t contains
56,900 square miles, and its average is only 304
people to the square mile. This is less than
the average population of Great Britain, aud
| England and Wales have each more people to
the square mile than any Province in China
except one. The total average of population
| in the Chinese Provinces, not including the
waste lands, is 23f per square mile, or nearly
! 100 less than Great Britain. The population of
| Thibet, which is about one-ffth the size of tie
| United States, is only one-tenth of our popula-
| tion, and Mongolia, which is onethird as large
as the whole of our country, contains only
| 100000 people. The Chinese understand
| how to get the most out of little land, and
you may see by this that they have plenty of
room and to spare"
The National tribune., 1889-03-21

met DR.. Happer, the head of the Missionary
College at this place, yesterday. He has been
in China Al years, and though his hair is white
and his beard like snow, he is as bright intel
lectually to-day as he was when he came here
during the Presidency of John Tyler. ] asked
him what in his opinion, held the Chinese EN-
pire so closely together, and what prevented
Western civilization fr0n making rapid in
roads upon It, lie replied: THE chief cause
is in the literary culture of the Chinese and the
organization of their Government on the basis
of literary examinations. As it is, the poorest
cody and the man of the most common origin
has as good chance to attain to high official
position as the child Of the rich. The exami-
nations are open to ALL aud the tests are usually
fair ones. The man who succeeds gets office F;
Office brings position, and it is this hope of at
tanning position and the perpetually grinding
into the minds of the people, by the means of
the memorization of their classics, these princi-
pies of Government that makes the Chinese
civilization almost impregnable During the
TAPPING rebellion, which lasted for years and
which bid fair to oyer'turn the Government.
the official class could not be persuaded to en-
gage in it, and it is in their education and this
method of ofice-holding that gives the Emperor
his power to-day"
The National tribune., 1889-03-21

My two months in the country has given me
some opportunity to judge of the solidity of
the Chinese and of his non -adaptabiIity to our
civilization. He belongs to lower race morally
than we do, and his vices are ten to the Ameri-
cans one / have yet the first man to sec who
knows a grateful Chinaman. He will take all
the fayors he can get and give none in return.
He will sell his friends, and he will squeeze
the master who trusts him. He knows moth
ing dishonorable in falsehood, exhibits no
shame in being detected in lying, has no appre-
citation of the sanctity of family life, aud is as
sensual as a Turk.
Bad pictures and songs are sold on the streets
Of China, and the conversation and cries of the
The National tribune., 1889-03-21

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4 All new Rubber Undergarneut. ior ladies' only.
-tiO Proof Free. Mrs H. Z. LIFrLE, Chlc2so. III
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The National tribune., 1889-03-21

/ cannot get enough of the Chinese markets
/ go to them again and again and see something
new every day. I have spent hours watching
the way the market men sell their chickens,
ducks and geese, and the Chinese probably un-
derstand the raising of fowls better than any
other nation. They have duck villages and
chicken farms, and there is a goose market
here at which thousands of geese are sold daily.
The geese are brought IN boats, hundreds of them
on single goose-boat, and they are sometimes
driven from the boats to the market-place The
duck boats sometimes have as many as thou
sand birds upon them. And it is upon these
boats that they are fattened for market. The
boats are anchored near the banks of the river,
and at low tide they step of upon the shore and
get their living from the crabs, snails and in
sects. They are SO trained that they mind
their masters and come back upon the boat at
his whistle, and when he has them fat enough
for sale he takes his boat from place to place
and peddles them out. Ducks and geese are
saltcd and pressed for Chinese food, and you
sec them hanging up in every market shop in
China. The ducks are dried in the sum- and
no part of them is allowed to go to waste.
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Special Correspondence NATIONAL TRIBUNE.

tcorrRIGHTrD By FRANK G. CARPENTER. 1881
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The beasts believed in are also Munchausen-
like in their description Let me give you q
few of them. :" In the Szechuen Province of
China there is a beast like an ape called the
mahwa, which is very fond of pretty women.
When nice girl goes by his haunts he seizes
her, carries her off and makes wife of her.
He treats her well, steals jewelry for her, and"
say the Chinese, makes her so fond of him
that she does not want to leave him." Another
ape is the red-headed gobbon, which eats mon
keys, and which, when it wants q meal, calls
lot of monkeys to it, They knecl down before
it, and it pinches them to find out the fattest.
1t marks its favOrite with stone, which it
places on its head, and the monkey chosen
thereupon goes TO a stream of water, washes
itself, pulls out its own hair, and comes back to
be slaughtered. / doubt whether Sinbad the
Sailor ever saw stranger beast, and Munchau-
sen in his wonderful travels never told of
more wonderful animal than the Chinese OK,
which is found in the Kansu Province, and
which, according to this paper, can have five
pounds of its flesh cut off to-day, and by two
days later it will have all grown Oh again.
The National tribune., 1889-03-21

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