Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-04
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS

last night. Mr.. Trenwaite spent q number
of years in China and left the country just
previous to the declaration Of war. They
are experts in preventing waste and max
ing a little go a great way. The national
diet consists of rice. beans, vegetables and
millet They eat quantities of fish, but only
enjoy meat on festival occasions. Two
cents a day can secure good, wholesome
food In abundance for a laborer, and many
families don't expend more than that for
their daily necessities. This is made posi-
BILE by the perfection to which the Chinese
have brought the science of cooking. Abso-
lutely nothing is wasted. Only the smallest
portions of meals are left and the dogs and
cats of Cinnamon show what starvation ra-
tons they get. They are not particular re-
garding their palates. Cattle which die of
disease are cut up and sold just the same
as these which are slaughtered. The cook
ing utersils are all made with exceedingly
thin bottoms in order that the contents may
be cooked with the least expenditure Of
fuel. There is always a fuel famine In
China. 1t consists mostly Of stalks and
roots of crops and the children gather
leaf.
I'm the fall and winter boys climb the
trees and beat on the leaves. which are
gathered up for fuel, and manure is used
cop!ously, professional manure gatherers
going all over the country. When you give
Chfnaman your old clothes. their useful
ness fairly begins and Chinese woman
will exercise economy in her dress that
would make a Mennonite stare Soap is an
unknown quantity among the poor China
men, and water is too valuable to waste for
washing the skin, consequently. the Chinese
lower classes are the dirtiest intelligent
people on the face of the earth Where
there are two rooms. both are lighted by the
same lamp placed In a hole in the dividing
wall between the apartments. To do some
thing with nothing is the ultima thule of a
Chinaman's desire, and he comes pretty
near accomplishing it. can tell you"
"A society has recently been organized
in Massachusetts that will, 1 believe, have
considerable effect on our future policy In
dealing with immigration" said Robert
Dickinson of Holyoke at the Arlington yes
terday. 1T is known as the Immigration
Restriction League, and its membership
comprises such men as Francis A. Walker.
Professor Richmond Mayo Smith, Leverett
Saltonstall, Henry Parkman, Professor n
s. Shaler, William Z. Barrett and others
representing all classes of advanced New
England thought. 1t is not the object Of
the association to advocate the exclusion of
laborers or other immigrants who are ut to
become good citizens, but to create, by pub
lie meetings and the establishment Of
branch societies all over the country, q ma
tional demand for the exclusion of elements
undesirable for citizenship or injurious to
cur national character and Institutions.
There will be no suggestions made as to q
change in the immigration laws, and there
will be no advocacy Of any one theory or hob
by, but there will be a constant and vigor-
Gus effort to keep the public informed Of all
facts relating to immigration and Of all
methods by which II Is hoped q reform In
the system Of immigration may be reached.
1t Is probable that a headquarters of the
league will be established here In Washing
ton early in 1895 That is the present In
tertion. at any rate"
mo one can conceive the fortunes Of a
man who suffers from real thirst" said 8.
X. Jacoby Of Ouray, Colo, at the st. James
yesterday. II underwent the awful expe-
rience once, but can hardly convey a hint
OF what / suffered, although II is vividly
impressed on my mind. There are no words
in English or Spanish to tell the story,
and know no other languages. 1t was in
Wyoming, in 1883. With two companions,
I was doing a little prospecting, and we
had bad luck. One morning / made up my
mind to try range of hills about thirty
miles away. across what seemed to be a
weil-verdured valley, and my chums refus-
ing to go further on what had proven to be
wild goose chase, said goodbye and
started back for Cheyenne. started OF,
ana hadn't gone more than five miles when
/ came to desert land. There was not a
stalk of vegetation in sight. The ground
was covered with lava and scoria that had
rotted under the suns Of a thousand cen
turtles. never imagined that the desert
was more than a few miles across, and q,
there was haze. hanging over Ii / went
straight ehead. I only had a small can
teen. nich held brandy instead OF water
1t was yefore noon when began my Jour-
horse had fallen, and / was suffering pangs
OF agony. / had no brandy left, and every
where was desolation as dry as chalk.
killed my horse and drank some of his
Then Il threw M
slept. No opium eater craving for his drug
ever had such horrible dreams. They awoke
me, and / got up and staggered on in the
darkness. All the demons of pain in the
universe seemed to have settled themselves
right between my shoulder blades and
were holding a carnival Ten thousand
million red-hot needles, with rusted sides.
were playing In and out through my tongue
and the top of my head felt as IL some
giant had hold of 1t and was trying to pull
1t of. / couldn't cry out, because my
tongue was numb and useless from the
pain. When morning came / just beheld
the outlines OF a wagon In the distance
with a superhuman effort / gave a shrek
and then / knew no more. When / re-
gained consciousness 1 was in a bunch of
hay near fire. and two or three men were
looking at me. / learned later on that my
scream had been heard by a party Of pros
pectors, who were skirting the desert In
order to make a short cut to the Montana
cattle trail, and that at first they thought
1t was some wild animal, but one of the
party insisted on a search, as he had heard
a man make just such a noise before he
died OF thirst in the Mojave desert. 1t was
months before 1 recovered completely, and
l haven't been more than a mile away from
water, and plenty Of II, since"
"A notorious character named Annie
Gould was arrested in New Orleans the
other day and fined for keeping a disorderly
house." said Frank Hamilton of Shreve-
port at Wormley's yesterday. 'She was a
voodoo woman, and the developments con-
nected with her arrest showed to what a
great degree the lower classes Of the south
are governed by superstition. The woman
was a mulatto and had a cabin on Monroe
street near Royal The orgies conducted in
this place annoyed the respectable neigh
bors, and upon their complaint the place was
raided The policemen found q regular
abode Of voodoo worship. II It can be call
ed such, and seized all the horrible OBJ
jects used in the rites. A human skull
covered with tinfoil. was on an altar in one
corner and 1t was surrounded with human
bones. snakes, toads and other reptiles and
several dogs skulls. There were numerous
candles on the altar. All these things had
some particular part In the ceremony the
woman performed when she was en- plovad