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max cd. He sows his barley or rice In a bed.
hoes them by hand. reaps them with q sickle.
and winnows them in the wind. A quarter Of
an acre ia a big farm. What little manure he
has is in the LIQUID form. and when he manures
q bed you can SIN ell 1t Q mile away. He has no
knowledge Of politics. China might have a
big war and he would never hear Of 1t till
troops marched into his rice field.
The tools OF the average Chinese farmer are
q basket. a tea kettle. and a four-tined hoe.
This hoe is very heavy. and is used for spading
as we'll as hoeing. He raises 1t in the air as o
blacksmith raises his sledge. imbeds it in the
earth. and pulls it forward. Tho food OF 4OO.-
OOO.OOO people is cultivated by this one i'm
plement. A thrashing machine or . reaper is
never seen in China. The Chinese put as
much labor on an acre as an American farmer
would on twenty acres. AChtnaman will raise
enough on an acre to support o family Of seven
and pay his dollar and a half in taxes. The
size Of q Chinese farm is from a hundred feet
square to three acres. A quarter Of an acre
will keep q man busy. but he will raise three
crops q year on it. First he raises barley or
wheat in the winter. When the wheat Is
heading. cotton is SOW broadcast. After
reaping the barley and wheat in Juno the lit
tie cotton Is seen coming up Then the barley
roots are pulled up and the cotton CON es on.
It IL in beds and is all hoed by hand. 1t grows
low and has a short stable. Chinese cotton
would not bring three cents q pound In New
Orleans. and the yield is about 200 pounds to
the acre. Men and women draw the crops to
market on two-wheeled carts. Cotton is not
baled but crowded into sacks like wool
Horses are seldom seen IN a farm in China:
men and women do the work Of the horse. A
Chinese farm laborer gets about four or five
cents a day and his rice.
Notwithstanding labor being so cheap in
China the superior skill Of our American cot
ton planters and the good quality OF their
cotton and it's cheap price is destroying the
cotton industry in China China will have to
give up cotton and 60 into rice. barley. and
peanuts. Last year the Chinese raised only
100. 600 bales OF cotton. The raising OF silk
worms here will always thrive. and silk will
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The irriGating canals near pheniy swarm
with German, carp. and many NJ" left on tho
land. Bury them there; bury them. They are
valuable ~ IA fertilizer.
Dany i furnishing l5.OOU inches II water for
The land near Iuma. 1t has nm orchard Of leo
acres, and 81 acres III vineyard and trees and
vines are prospecting.
On June 100 men began tn" work ~ re-
building the grnut Walnut Grove dam. Its re-
construction will be OF the most substantial
character. and there ure no fears that it will
again he carried AVA by q flood.
Constructing work ON the Nolloy Canal Is
pushed as rapidly rs men can 10 {. ani many
settlers arc, securing lands under 1t. ihe
Verde Canal Officials, arc also making good
progress. and business in tho ella Bend is
very active,
An irrigation company has been formed by
the settlers on tho hlgolonrs land grant be-
low luna. II vii take water from the Colorado
River. nni one line will run 30 the boundary
line. while, another Will be- luilt In n south
westerly direction toward the great break in
the Colorado, These canals VIII have a total
length f about thirty miles.
Arizona pcopl" Hro producers of fruit. ynge-
fables, ard grain this year. and instead VI to-
ing consumers oi California products they
nre successful rivals Of thrt state In the mar
kets, II is not pronable THAI their production
viii be a ,arge excess ~ the home demand.
but 1t is showing what the future will he.
The whole ,Giia Valley. ut the present rate OF
putting. In irrigation bitches. will soon be
one vast garden
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with his wife's caution. he did not shout the
news back. He came back slyly aud whis-
pered in his wife's ear very secretly:
Yes. the hoe is stolen"
The Chinese COW on the Yang-tse Is a semi
amphibious animal. You will often see her
grazing with her head entirely under water.
This Is the animal that a well-to-do farmer
uses for ploughing. instead OF his wife and
daughter. He uses the milk and muscle Of the
poor COW. 1t Is pathetic to see this patient old
COW plodding along through the rice fields
knee deep In mud. The plough she is draw
ing is n rude bit OF a log with an iron point. A
digger Indian could make 1t. 1t was used be-
fore Noah went into the ark. and 1t will be used
a thousand years from now The Chinaman
never changes.
As the Chinese keep few animals. manure is
very valuable. Everything Is collected fror
tho big cities and used ms mnnure-hair from
barbershops. street sweepinEs. wator closets.
aud bones. 1t Is put on the growing crops In
liquid form. The Chinaman carries the manure
In pals and pours it from a dipper. The odor
is terrible. but out OF this comes the beautiful
flowers. ELI PERKINS.
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.Jons, oo, nj ,,.
VI. . w. u "na'',. y
"k'o"' - u.ess IRON 'n'"n' ~" y s"'l"
a."Hh N".nose on.pA'i,n," !" '"o"
I"o mo."ooH "'"u'
wv on'ha
"1., . II s'ahus. AWAY .ne "'le
80 Nv pos'al service. Nv mo"er"n'ts
C NJ sno,unee e'eiywhctI. " ".c'aso
M nHn Nuo"H hoth'hs u wv
.I ~ ~. .nte' ne zoos MOI , Q N"o" 'n"'
m.a .nperor ;" fekih IS moi .h,nainan' pu'"
a'.a no Q N know NAV " iar.urs o'e.-
-A EteA, wall III lo4H' anu ~. h~ans ~
I'm mah'hoo lartarl' o" mo '"'nese
'n.ohe' now can they know me news WIN
" newspaper Whie japan ID set'lne SIX
machinery ana putting up COTTON iactofles'
Sniha Is spinning and weaving ny mana. ehe
VIII not change. She does everything wrong
her women wear trousers and the men wear
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the upper one. which a big black tongue

the ppper one. which a big black tongue
.sWaterfF he shouted. 1t was not the voice
would not have bcen a whit more startled.
LET us finish the cursed cantcen," l said.
not ne ,e saS kim sEooiSdp t. a"' h 1Gy' put i 9 Eis nsna wo o"er
mine and drank; The blood seemed to return
to big face. 1 n a few lines cam, int It. red
Now i 6 my turn Tho las! dr9rs were
gone Before US yet were many miles. We
The sun was directly over us. hut under a
projecting rock ran y striu of shade.
lay the glistening sea -whi,e as tho liirs Of a
lily. and. on its bosom sailed stately ships. tho
spires cf noble cathcdrnls lifted themselves
darE, smoke OF soma big steamer revealed
Itself to our startled eyes Tail Palms grew in
that We smelleu the delicious scent OF beau.
There we lay, blinking out across the great
sand llains at the cities and verdurous meads
with the rlcasurea critical audience expert
mirage lifted. and the blank s sea- met neu our gaze s.Me
AS inc rannranin melted q despondenry, such
as never wish TO icei again, possessed me.
me. The girls l,ad known and loved in, tho
before me. Tho lovely blonde who had
married a millionaire. and in whose house.
nau ,nlS once Dceh NJ u grand Junction.. caiiO
and looked Mt me-. Her blue owes which / SO
much admired wcte cold. and the sheer which
she. ike Il. true Southerner. wore when any
thing displeascl her WAS most pronounced.
Here was j. lying on my side. crouching
close tot rock. dying by inches. Would God
let me linEer long? How could | over have
dared to even think of her in tho pleasant fan
tastes OF ~dreamland. and she then md now n
r,eiCning belle! l thought of tho palms that
nlled her drawing room corners; | heard tho
swell OF tho voluptuous music: | cvon felt the
taste 81 the wine trlckling down nv throat.
AM! No. it was not only the blood now-
ing from my cut lips.
looked at Riley. His eyes were fastened
upon me in furious glare. lie Ind drawn his
revolver from his belt. and was pointing it ut
me threateningly.
Il closed my eyes. Indeed. I fclt thankful
that he would end my misory.
Suddenly ] hoard him shout. He had jumped
UP and was pointing ut nothing.
Yes he screamed. Il will come. I will
come. Nothing shall keep me-
would permit.
| heard him shout once or twice and then the
report Of a pistol.
Anew strength seized me. I ran to the spot.
Riley was lying on his facc. foaming at the
mouth, the barrel Of his gun was smoking.
but he was uninjured.
:" Water" he said. aud then tried to raise
himself. AZ he did so he foil. dying with the
nameo OF his sweetheart on his lips.
I was rescued from Salton. We were only
one mile away. The shots had attracted the
attention OF the mill people.
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be rcelsd from the cocoons into skeins BY
cheap i've cents Per day labor. but silk weav-
ing will hnvo to 20 to England and America
where thoy use power looms. Tea Will always
be raised in China. where fve.ccnt labor can
pick the leaves. The tea plant is tho same as
our cnmellia or japonica. Georgia could raise
MS good tea as China II she had as CHEAP LABOR.
but pray that Georgia and Tennessee may
never have labor as low as five cents per day.
II rice is TO be raised after barley and wheat.
the land Is flooded with water. Men ana
knee deep In the wator. pull the har-
rows. Then the rice is set out In the water In
hills a foot apart. 1t is common to see women
working In tho rice fields covered with straw
garments to their knces. After the rice Is mar
vested n full crop Of radishes is put In.
IN order to ~irriCato for rice. water Is pumped
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THE WIRES BETRAYED THEN,
Aud the Two Practical Joking Operators
Came Each In Turn TO Grief.

Aud the Two Practical Joking Operators
Came Each In Turn TO Grief.
When Detective Kemp. who is now attached
to the West Thirtietb street police station.
was a telegraph operator at 500 Broadway.
his friend Tom Smith at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel worked the same wire. They were side
partners. and. Of course. 1t was all right II
Kemp amused himself iwhen business was
dull by listening to Smiths talk with the CEN
trail office. Any one with half an ear for ticks
could have told that Smiths receiver was .
m Her touch was light and nervous
and her replies were pert. She gave Smith as
good as he sent and Kemp kept his key open
and listened. Smith and the young woman
at the Western Union building became good
friends. and one day Kemp heard Smith tick:
Say. Molly. I've been talking with you for a
long time now. and l would like to meet you"
"All right. Tom. Come down to lunch to-
morrow In the building" was the reply. e
Then Tom and Molly arranged q very simple
room in the Western Union Tor ths TELEGRAPH
that at 2 o'clock he would enter the room On
The mems side CARRYING a blank. and he told
and Also to carry a blank. Then when they
had identified each other they could meet after
account after hearing this convsrsation.1 W.
At o'clock the next afternoon Tom Smith.
holding a blank In front 81 him. entered tho
from the woman's side, also carrying q blank:
s ann as hasd pu a bl Snia'nM 'Iii's saw h tSs jo 1asn and d
she dropped her blank and pretended to Ie
very hungry. Smith was bored. and he sud
Western Union building With Hey. Smith.
fEarry,n Who raidnn'tt Object to a nirt q ne or 10y tSs
vine avenger's opportunity came when one
OF the young girls. who WAS employed as u
lis wire. Kemp found It good iu1. and the
sSst w sSs sG sakssiS at t s SssS% ep !" SSaa iHperps5 BIZ
told Kemp that she was lust n years old. and
she admitted that she was pretty, KEMP told
Saa sm n R1pfis stsne ,as IT tie liz Fiith w Aven 1ss 'f ifossii
and waited for. revenge; Kemp finally, asked
The girl to meet MN s Ind n smf rs% r in to ask
swcr tho next day. Kemp was quick In an
swsrinG the rather Lungling call that came los
"W eli What did mamma sayr" ratified
sIiaidn't dare to ask her" came the reply in
"Itfink / will meet you. any way"
Where 7" asked Kemn:
teenth street. between i aud s:so Tonight"
WAS the reply,
II" "H:w NY si'1 Mite kn i"ci sSa trimmed RI with whit.
fur" was the reply.
20 H." ticke cd Kemp.
1t was a cold night. and Kemp paced back
street ior half an hour. to tho great delight OF
u dozen Western Union men, who were witch
ing him from u saloon ON the corner. Tom
smith led ~ gang out at $50 and said; -.
Hello. Kemp. what are you doing here p
."Mhy-why. nothing that is. ! have been at
for q smoke
Have you met the girl with the white
Jacket - asked smith.
keinp stopped short and pulled his hands
out OF rs pockets. He saw a dozen men grin
MINK at him..
You go to-no, they are on me. but I'm not
| carrying q blank"
Smith and Kemp made engagements over
! different wires after that
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orally built Of rice straw and looks like .
straw stack in Illinois with holes eaten into It
by sheep and hogs. 1t would be poor COW
ehed In America.
When not made OF rice straw 1t Is built OF
rough boards or adobe bricks one story high.
has paper for windows and is matched with
rice straw. 1t has no chimney and no stove.
There are no flowers about 1t as with the jap
anese. A pig and a COW may occupy the same
hut. The pig IL . scavenger with big black
ears. The farmer has a few chickens and
ducks. but never eats them himself. He never
sees q newspaper. He has no carpet. no mu-
steal instrument. no books. and seldom a clock.
The floor OF his house is tho hard ground. His
bed Is STRAW. He has no windows in his house
or hut. In winter he covers himself with rags
to keep warm. and in summer he Is almost
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CHINESE COW PLouoHINa.

on to the land by hand. though sometimes a
revolving belt covered with buckets Is pro-
PEELED by = buffalo COW which walks round
and round like thrashinR horses In America.
Rice In China Ia worth about q dollar .
busheL A Chinaman can live on four bushels
OF rice n year. This. with peanut oil. tea. and
a little sugar. costs about S. a year.
You think five dollars a yenr In Am erica"
said Mr.. Leonard. our Consul General. is
cheap living. but II a man In Chicago should
live on boiled wheat with a little cotton seed
oil. tea. and sugar. he could live as cheap as
the Chinese. 1t lie meat which makes living
expensive In England or America. 1t takes
eight pounds Of cereals to make a pound OF
beefsteak. and where you get q pound OF beef
steak it is only worth about a third as much
As a pound OF wheat or corn. Americans re-
duce the nutritious quality Of their food thirty
fold. by feeding It first to the animal and then
eating the animal.
"China." continued Mr.. Leonard. supports
4OO,O 100000 beings, but they eat the cereals
America could support four billion people II
they would cat corn and wheat like the
Chinese. But instead OF that. Americans feed
eight pounds Of corn to q sheep or steer and
then eat the steer"
Writing OF the Chinese farmer reminds me
Of the first CLEAN OF Chinese humor I have en-
countered.
A Chinese wife came to the field to call her
husband to dinner.
Come homo to dinner. All Sing - she
shouted.
"Yes. as soon Us 1 hide my hoe!" he shouted
back.
At dinner the wife said: Husband. you
should not have shouted back SO loudly about
hiding your hoe. I presume some one has
stolen 1t now. How stupid"
Whom All Sing got back to the field. sure
enough the hoe was stolen. But. impressed
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Twilight had come again on both banks Of
the Arkansaw. 1t hadn't cost o cent. and the
%husbandman lighted his pipe and sat down Ia
mentally declare that he'd be dodgoned to cat
fish II he hadn't struck a soft snap.
The Widow White stands in her front door
looking out into the gloaming-gloaming 10
also cheaper than cornmeal on the Arkansaw.
Now and then she lifts her plump hand to
swat q mosquito nesting On her chin: now
and then she rubs her back against the door
post to agitate tho spot where q Raliinippsr
tried to bite her In two at one mighty effort.
As she rubs she
"Durn yo'r pesky hide. but II / had 20 In my
hand I'd frizzle yo' to death in yam skillet"
The cleaning grows deeper. and that also
without extra charge. Widow White had Just
raised one OF her marble feet to kick q yellow
pup when her heart gives q sudden jump and
She grabs up tho splint broom and begins
"A ho-ho-he! middls-aged man Of swampy
aspect and ague demeanor stands in tho door.
.Whyah. Mistah ierkins. but what a fright
in and tnSe a cheer. .sIeetors around m asns
powerful this saVenin'. How's con a-gtttin'
Cons pore. Missus white-very pore. Bin
still, nf sLIiiin t " days ago. thank 20. Be 20
ssa s aHs'5 / Fsi ifsx.''il'1li .o @s'Is "a Tie t GSsA III Il ;o ~:
"0t sg & !. dean. III sot w!th yo'. Better
Taylor cum along we're this mawnin. and. hs'un
E;;;sT, ! ns shIs /. this Ssr. SS'an h'ains SSiaa
Thank yo', no. not as | consider to remem.
Der: snriSs doom poster me. Reckon Izs too
shop! Yo'un hain't mean"
Reckon Pze too hum6iy."
"Shoo! Yo'un haiu't humbly."
Ills heart went funk! funk! funk! It WAS
still tunking when she brought her fine
Italian hand down on his knee with q smash
boring for meat. She did not remove Il.
He,un,s paw stole softly down and clAspsd it
and they squole. During the next three
minutes not n word was uttered. Both were
busy with their thoughts. He was the first to
break tho silence; In a voice modulated 70
harmoniHe with the song Of the whippoorwiIl
in he adiacen! swamp he inaliy said ~
tell yO'un sunthin."
"Sloo"
"Fo' long and weary Vars. All thai time
Ize lMred yo'. but ! dasnt speak cause l WAS
And now yo'un is richT" she qucried. as he
,,Be,i y my widest dreams, Yesterday I
got "A ION at ngit'in' ont hooppoleS by which
] shall rlar oyah sixty dollars this summer
OVAL sixty dollars in cash, l.cororc. and this
eavenin ! have called TO to"
Lionel. my heart tells me- what yo'un would
And yn'un will marry me-"
~ will.'
Then dodrot my pesky hide II | hain't the
happiest man in all this world!"
And he'un WAS happy and she'un was GLAD
and they whooped it up. n VuAh
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Ell PERKINS BACK FROM JAPAN.
He Teils OF the Strange and Interesting
TASaxs He Has Observed.


Eli Perkins. who has been racing through
China and Japan for the last four months. hns
returned over the Canadian Pacific to his resi-.
dence. 2Os West End avenue. When asked
what was the most curious thing he raw In
Japan. he said:
why. It's the funny revolution going on
there. 1t is a sort Of a topsy-turvy revolution,
Usually the people start q revolution. but in
Japan The Mikado has revoluted himself.
Twenty years ago he was looked upon as
greater than u king. The people believed him
to DO the inspired vlce-rsgent Of God. He was
shut up in the castle Mt Kiota. and gave his
orders to the Shotgun from behind q veil. What
a change! The other day In Kiota l sat on the
Mikado's old seat. and a party OF Americans
talked to me through this Same veil"
How did the change come about2"
THE Mikado revolutionized himself. He
discharged the Shotgun. resolved himself into
an Emperor. and gave the people a constitu-
tional government like the British Parliament.
Then he commenced social reforms in dress.
religion. cooking. sleeping. and everything
else. He whirled the old feudal government
topside down. He discharged the 800 Daimios
with their two swords and the thousands OF
ons.sworded Samurai. knocked feudalism
into a cooked hat, and told the people they
we're democrats -one as good as the other
What changes have been made since 2"
CHRISTIANITY HAS BEEN LICENSED AND Bud
DHisM QUESTIONED.
From an Asiatic nation Japan has become
EuropeanIzed. The Chinese queue which
they used TO wear has been abolished. Sword
wearing has ceased. When the Mikado rode
out OF Kioto he wore q suit OF English clothes
and jumped into an English brougham with
his wife dressed In II French costume by his
side. The whole imperial court now wears
European clothes and q wife 10 made tho equal
OF her husband. Colleges and seminar!es have
been established. and the best postal system
In the world. Japan has a superb lighthouse
system, q national currency. and u splendid
army and navy. with officers In European uni
forms. Railroads are all over tho empire. sub
marine cables sran her seas, and rihed cannon
and electricity for light and power are in all
the cities. A japanese lady on gentleman
might walk down Filth avenue to. day and at
tract no attention. and tho Emperor rides
through Toxic dressed as simply as President
Harrison"
THE fact is," continued Mr. Perkins.
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xxoNs CHINESE FARxx.s.

Cotton ana Rice nsSsisr o. The Ysag-tse
River-Taree Crops Year-nsriey. Nice,
R~adishes-Csw P~ioWahirg In the Water
lhi.ese nEes-A Chinese Fnrmhouse.
HASxow. Aug. I. 1892. Mr.. Georges land
theory prevails In China. The State owns all
land In fee simple. Farmers rent the land
from the Government paying about S1.50 an
acre per annum. When they cease to pay rent
the land reverts to the State and is rented to
another tenant. =
Thu Chinese farmer la in abiect poverty. I
rode up the Yang-tse Kiang River as far as
Hankow. 800 miles. The YanR-tse lie another
Mississippi River. The whole bottom is ridged
with broken levees and dotted with graves as
thick as haycocks on n New ENGLAND meadow.
Tho armer's house is always a hut. 1t Is gen.
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A Road Agent who Got Left.

There were seven of us in tho stage out OF
Austin. New. and after we got started We
counted up our cash and found We had exactly
seventy cents in the crowd. We were a dead
broke gang. and bound for Eureka. Not .
man had q bundle or a gun even. Everything
We could rake and scrape had been put up -
Austin to buy our passage In the stage. The
seventy cents was tossed into q common purse
and redivided. SO that each one had . capital
often cents to start on in the other wi The
driver had just replied that It was 2 O'Clock In
the afternoon. and most OF us were asleep. when
a fellow jumped into the road . few yards
ahead OF the leaders aud ordered the stage to
halt. As he had a double-barrelled shotgun
and seemed to be full OF business the driver
pulled up. Then the stranger. who was q lit
tie man OF great energy. came along to the
right-hand door and called out in . brisk and
Nov. then. twenty minutes, for. refresh.
ments. and every man throw up his hands -
We climbed down. every man with q grin On
his face "a an a. as > we We t TSn fasd Up VII IN mn ii9e; NM na tao
cents into the purse and drawn out ten. began
What in blazes ails this crowd ?, d%snsnSsd
way. o then. step ,,one pace to the front
and ID deposit your Gu Tssr. want even q o.r.
sn ~6S Ye sSs Iitsis m to say zT THs s esss man nn sts p
out and deposit his DOODLE"
We began on the left. and each stepped out
and laid down ten cents. The man stood there
with his shotgun at a ready" and his finger
pation struck the old chap 80 iorGibly that hs
His mirth was Infectious. and the other eix
laughed into tho muzzles Of the gun. while the
dF 1Do yos mean a't 70 SAY an tho Chat n els is your piler r
finally demanded the agent.
"Yes-oh. yes !" shouted the old mar as he
wiped the tears from his eyes. That's every
blamed cent the seven Of us kin raise. and
you-yOu-'
I'm fooled. ehi" finished the agent. He
searched every man in rotation. made an In
s%pection Of the coach. and then leaned up
against n wheel Of the vehicle with reproach.
full expression on his face and said:
Boys. it's a burned mean trick to play on Q
fatherlcss boy who's got an old mother to sup
this hull crowd. I've walked eighteen miies
and laid out all night to stop this coach. and
you offer me ten cents apiece! Say. don't look
at mel! Don't SPEAK, to me! Don't even walk
In my tracks! cut the gang OF you deud cold
forever!'
And he shouldered his gun and walked of
into the bushes and wouldn't look buck when
We called to him that he'd dropped something.