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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01
LIKELIHOOD FOR Ms ii.
What Rosi Schmidt Would Give
to See Her Father.
STORY or FILIaL DEVOTION.

= NiEawE
row q Poor German Girl Me- with
Success and Adyersity In the New
WorId-Her Heroic Oaer to . San
Franeisco Physician.
A San Francisco correspondent tells q
strange story OF the devotion of a daughter
to her father. R6si Schmidt, a little wo-
man who would do anything honorable to
secure money with which to go to her dy-
ing father in Germany, offers TO sell her
blood. She is willing to have her veins
and arteries drained Of every drop OF her
life find except barely enough to keep her
soul and body together. She is willing to
endure the pain Of the operation and the
weakness consequent upon it all for the pal
try sum Of a little over $500, just enough
to take her to q certain little village in
Germany in the plainest and poorest way
known to modern travel.
Twenty-Five years age, in a little farm
ing village of Germany, a daughter was
born to Heinrich Schmidt. A. daughter
was not much OF a novelty in this particu-
lar Schmidt family, for of the nine chill
dren with which Providence had previous
" blessed Heinrich and his good wife Elsa
four had been girls. But this daughter
was accounted o special and particular
blessing. since she was the child Of her
parents old age. The youngest child was
a ~stratpipg lad of Is when little Rcsi
made her late but welcome appearance,
and from the moment that her first weak,
wailing cry sounded in his ears Heinrich
Schmidt, sturdy 60-year-old farmer that
he was. simply worshiped her.
Determined she was to stay in the home
nest, but fate wil1ed differently. A slight
illness led to d long and tedious GONZALES
cence. Instead Of recovering her bloom
and strength after a brief attack Of fever
Rosi began to pine and fade. Her pretty
hands grew almost transparent in their
blue yeined thinness, her fair face grew
pale and wan and her bright eyes pathetic
in their languor. She ''needed change"
the doctors said. Travel would do won
ders for her, a sea voyage especially, and
then the brothers and sisters across the
ocean stretched out kindly insistent hands
to her, and the father, who loved her
enough to .criace himself to her best
good, crushe~ down his heart and bade her
mother and sister prepare for the journey.
"We must save her life, +" he said, "even
though we die of loneliness" But from
the day that be looked his last on Rosi's
tear wet face and pressed. his last kiss on
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01
when Most Girls Marry.

For the comfort of the American wom-
en- of m~arriageable age it may be stated
that their prospects are much better than
those of women i'll the older countries.
According to an authoritative statistician,
there are in the United States as a whole
965 women to every 1000 men, while in
all Europe there are 1,019 women to every
1000 men. The proportion in the differ
emit European states is, however, variable.
A woman's prospect of marriage is dis
tinctly affected by age. The statistics OF
all countries show that the great majority
of women marry between the ages of 30
and 80. Before reaching 20 a woman has,
of course, a chance of matrimony, but the
objections raised by parents or friends to
marriage at a tender age frequently out
weigh the desire of the young woman to
acquire a husband and lead her to defer
the wedding day. All the statistics that
have been gathered in the United States
bear out the statement that a woman's
best chance to marry is at the age of 25,
that over six-tenths of the marriages take
place between 30 and 80, and consequent
" that a woman,s chance increases up to
25 and steadily decreases after that age
until it reaches the vanishing point some-
where about 6O.-Professor ID. r. Nc
Anally in Ladies' Home journal
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01
THE FILIPINO CANOE.
CLUMSY. PRIMITIVE PADDLE Boats
WHICH SWARM ON THE PASid.

How the Native Dugout of the Phil
the Samoan Craft-1he Pattern Wns
Made Ages Ago.
Being essentially a water loving folk
the Philippine Islanders are expert ca
noeists. Like their other river craft,
their canoes are decidedly picturesque
affairs. In the Pasig river thousands Of
these dugouts can be seen, and the fact
that the Filipinos use so commonly
such a primitive boat shows how little
they have progressed. Why, only the
most stupid of the American Indian
tribes used the dugout. The red mar
substituted for the log canoe the birch
bark, which remains today the peer of
river craft. Nothing that we IA been
able to produce with all our art and
improved tools can equal for lightness,
durability and beauty the cedar lined
birch bark canoe which the Indians
have used for hundreds of years.
But the Filipino waterman still hews
down a tree, hollows out the trunk
with infinite labor and makes a heavy
paddle boat that is both clumsy and
awkward. True, the natives know how
20 manage these caIoes Will WoAuSllui
skill, but they acquire their deftness
with the paddle only by long years of
practice.
The Filipinos, like all other Pacific
Islanders, probably took their first les
sons in canoe building from the wan
dering Samoans, who, ethnoiogists tell
us, were the original ISLAND race Of the
Pacific. All the south sea legends agree
with his theory. Another fact which
seems to prove that the Samoans were
the first naval constructors is that all
through the Pacific o will find craft
which seem TO be merely variations of
the primeval type.
The Filipino canoes are perhaps the
most crude of any in use. They
are made with blunt ends, the log being
merely scooped out and smeothed off
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01

sugar requires big capital. Formerly
every Cuban sugar plantation had its
sugar factory, in which, by crude and
~antiuuated methods, the juice of the
sugar cane was changed into. brown
sugar. Today a different system pre-
walls. The small factories have been
succeeded by big ones. The owners OF
small plantations do not try to grind
their OWN cane, but sell it to the big
factories.
In each of the three principal districts
of Cuba there are a number of sugar
factories known as stcentrals." In the
whole island there are 1857 of these. In
some Of them the machinery and build
ings represent an outlay of $1,000, GOO.
Many of them lave plants which cost
$500, 900. They are connected with the
principal lines of railroads. They have
spur tracks running to various planta-
lions in the vicinity. The plants are
electrically lighted and may be run
night and day when necessary.
By the old methods the raw sugar
was transported for many miles in ok
carts. The crude machinery used in
the small factories wasted much of the
~saccharine riches of the cane The en-
RllS6T anu tlH 1nNGulOI
into use many economies. Here is n
example: AS coal is too expensive for
fuel the engine fires are run with the
crushed cane, or bagasse- Formerly
it was necessary to dry this waste for
weeks in the sun before it could be
burned. Great quantities of wood were
also used, for in the old furnaces there
was not perfect combustion.
In the modern factories the bagasse is
carried directly to the furnace and by
an, improved process a be used as
fuel without being first dried. As the
heal is also economical the bagasse
furnishes sufficient fuel, and wood is
not required.
Moreover, the cane, instead OF being
crushed only once, now passes through
several machines and almost every par
ticle of sweet laden sap is extracted.
The old crushers were fed by hand,
many women and children being en-
ployed. The new machines are fed au-
tomatically, the a being dumped di-
rectly from the ears on to carriers,
which convey it swiftly to the huge
rollers and sharp teeth
Only the cutting is still ONE in the
old way. There seems to be no I'M
proved manner of harvesting. The
sta1wart Cuban, with his flashing ma
chete, hacks a path through the cane
fields, where the stalks wave many feet
over his head. Behind him comes his
binder, generally a woman, who gathers
the fallen stalks into bundles.
Then come the creaking. OK drawn
wains, which are filed with the long
| sheaves and driven to the long line of
ears waiting on the plantations spur
track. Tle cane cutters begin work at
6 o'clock in the morning and work until
dusk. They keep this up for about four
months, and the rest of the year they
PASS in luxurious idleness.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01

Procure a piece of thin board of soft
wood, say pine. 1t should be q DOT and Il
half in length and q couple of inches wide.
Place it upon an ordinary kitchen table,
allowing the end to protrude almost half
it's length beyond the edge of the table
Now place d newspaper upon the table,
covering the board to the edge, and smooth
it out carefully, being sure that the paper
is in perfect contact with the board as
we'll as with the table.
With no other fastening upon the board
than the sheet of paper you may strike the
end of the board hard enough to break it
or at least to tilt the table.
It will appear impossible. Strike it a
smart, sharp blow with the hand or an
instrument, and it will either break or re-
main fast to the table, just as if it had
been nailed.
The explanation is simple.
When the blow is struck, there is a tend
ency to tilt the end of the board upon
the table, but the air having been pressed
out from under the paper q seinivacuum
has been created. end the compression of
afr upon the outer side Of the paper holds
the board fast
Didnst speak fror a Day.
Hell can't get away from my business.
I'm welded to it.
She-I always thought the things that
men were wcdded to were the very things
they seemed to get away from the most.
yonkurs Statcsiu;til.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01

for more than half of that time he has
given no personal attention to that line
of business. He has been for many
years engaged in real estate, numbering
and banking. fIe is now interested in
banks at Hudson and Madison, Wis. He
controls the Wisconsin State Journal,
the official paper of the state, and is
also largely interested in the manufac-
ture of telephones and telephone appa-
ratus.
Mr.. Taylor has held numerous politi-
cal positions. He was, first appointed
a timber agent to protect the public
lands in Wisconsin and for six years
held that position. He was appointed
by President Garfield as United States
consul at Marseilles, France, which po-
sition ne held for three years, resigning
before his term of Office expired in or
der to return to look after his private
business. In 1889 he was elected to the
state senate in Wisconsin,, and after
two years service resigned that posi-
ton to accept al appointment under
President Harrison as United States
commissioner of railroads. In 1889 Mr.
Taylor was a candidate for governor of
Wisconsin, but was defeated by a few
votes by w. D. Hoard.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01

sempt to cross the snow that had poured
across the trail. From where we stood
TO the bottom of the gulch was about
1000 feet, and we could see that the
movement of the snow had stopped about
80 feet below the trail on which we were
standing. thought that by going around
the snow carefully we could escape and
save ourselves long trip. / began clam
bering down the rocks on the edge OF the
slide. When I reached a point near the
end of the slide, / looked back to where
my friend stood at a safe distance and
called to him that it was all right. A big
dead tree had been brought down by the
slide and rested on about three feet of
snow, packed quite solid. The top of the
tree projected about 20 feet beyond the end
of the slide. Instead of going around the
tree / sprang upon the trunk, intending
to leap from it to the ground or the other
side.
THE moment l touched the log I knew
/ was gone. Whether the slide started OF
its own weight or whether my weight
started it / will never know, but in an in
slant Lwas flying down the mountain.
As the log began to move / dropped and
fell astride it, grasping o limb in front of
me with both hands. l heard the scream
of my friend as | began to move q then
heard nothing more except the terrible
roar of the avalanche behind me. There
were no trees in the way, and the log
went as straight as a die down the noun
tain side, fortunately for me keeping its
position On top of the snow
II don't know what 1 thought. There
was no time to do much thinking, and all
my energies were devoted to the mainte-
nance of my position. We passed sorne
dead bushes, the broken twigs from which
were dashed into my face, cutting the
skin, and the wind almost stopped my
breath. At the bottom of the narrow
gulch the tree stopped for an instant, but
before l could get off the pressure of the
snow behind started it again, and it shot
! up the side of the opposite hill with scarce
ly any diminution of force.
tsGradually the avalanche spent its en-
! ergy, and when the log came to a stand
| still / was sitting on the log holding the
limb tightly, more than 300 feet up the
! mountain side, while behind me the snow,
timbers and rocks filled the gulch to the
level of my position, forming a ridge
across the gully fully $50 feet high.
1.-The whole thing was over in half a
minute, and, except for the scratches on
my face, I was unhurt. AS l shook the
snow off and looked around / saw my
friend tearing down the mountain on the
| other side of the gulch with the expecta-
tion that he would find my mangled body
under the debris. Needless to say, he was
astounded when he heard of my remark
able ride on the back of death"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01
A word with Lovers.

In an article on 1.-THE Period of Be-
trothal'' in Woman's Home Companion
Carrie e. Garrett gives lovers
this timely word of caution:
Zone ridiculous Enough perhaps natural
custom of engaged couples is their habit
of isolation from their family and friends
in order that they may make love I'M
disturbed. In some cases | have observed
that when John called on Mary it seemed
to be perfectly we'll understood that all
the rest OF ia family should decamp and
leave the field clear for the lovers. At any
suddeE interruption (of what was appar.
emily a dead ~silence) everybody concerned
would feel q certain a~wkwardness and
~constraint, as though there had been q
very unexpected intrusion. Now, all of
this is very silly, and Mary's tactics are
poor and weak in the extreme. John
would admire her a Thousand times more
f he saw her in the ordinary relations OF
life, among her family and friends, spirit
ed and talkative and merry. Far more
precious to him would be those rare stolen
moments which he or chance, not she, had
conspired to bring about. AL these are
cheapened and robbed Of their sweetness
by continual iteration.
'sIt is not in the nature of man to rap
turously prize a tame bird which lies mo-
tionless in his hand. No. His eye fol-
lows eagerly that wild, free one IN the
wing which seems to be ever just out Of
his range Whenever I see a girl pouring
out her love lavishly, wastefully, at the
feet of her lover / SEEM 60 see a little way
off in the future a stated, restless man and
a hungering woman grieying over a pre-
eious thing she has lost and ignorant of
how she lost it,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01

CR-&A
her feverish lips Heinrich Schmidt was a
changed man. She would come back
soon, she said, when they parted at the
little German station, where kindly stran-
gers took charge of the nesting who had
never learned to use her wings, and she
meant it when she spoke. But esoon"
means different things to those who go out
into the world and those who are left be-
hind.
Health came back to Rosi, and the new
world in which she found herself after she
passed through Castle Garden was a very
gay and pleasant one. Shelf fell in love and
married, but with domestic happiness did
not come worldly prosperity.
1t was a letter which was Rosi's undo
ing-a letter from the unmarried stay at
home sister, who, face to face with the
tragedy of years and no longer held in
check by the loving heart that had shield
ed Rosi even from a hint of unkindness in
his own thoughts, wrote as she would
FEATHER is dying" she said, land he cries
for you constantly. He has eaten his heart
out for want of you, and he cannot die
content unless youcome. If you ever low
ed him, IL you ever were grateful for what
he has done for you, grant his dying
wishlp
When that letter came, Rosi had less
than $b in the house and knew of no way
to raise more. She went to the Free IL
brary and read all the Female Help
Wanted advertisements in the newspa-
pers. but there was nothing she could do
but housework, and even for the heaviest
of that the pay was but $25 a month. 1t
would take nine long months at least be-
fore she could earn enough for the fare,
and long before that time that yearning
cry beyond the seas would be hushed for
ever, and her soul would be burdened with
q never ending remerse.
One day however, she saw a story of q
man whose life was saved through the OPP
GRAFTON Of blood TRANSMISSION, and a sudden
glow of hope n courage came to her and
dried her tears. If blood had really a
market value, here was in truth q God
sent way u of her misery.
So it was that she presented herself at
the Office Of DIR. Frederick w. d'Evelyn, of
whose researches as to the composition
and integrity of the blood she had been
told, and she related her story and told
him Of her wish.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01
CUBA'S SUGAR CROP.
THIS SEASONS WILL Be THE SMALL
EST FOR MANY YEARS PAST.

The Cane Harvest Now at Its Height.
How the Industry Has Developed
In the Last Dozen Years-Work For
Idle Machetcs.
The Cuban sugar cane harvest Is now
In full swing. A year ago this fact
would have little interest for us, but
now it is different. 1t has as much inn
portance for use as the wheat crop or
the cotton yield.
Cuba's sugar industry this year
reaches the lowest ebb that has been
known for. decades. The effects of long
years of war, during which sugar plan
tations were destroyed by both the
Spaniards and the patriots, are now be-
ing felt in full. The accumulated force
of the blows which the revolution dealt
all kinds of agriculture in the island
now falls.
In 1894 Cuba produced 1,054, PA tons OF
sugar. This year it is estimated thai
but 200, 900 tons Will constitute the en-
tire output, but this is more than the
estimate of a few months ago.. In 1893
the crop was 800, 015 tons.
Now that peace has. come, however.
the revival will follow swiftly. By an
other season the owners of the aban-
doned plantations, some of whom are
now almost penniless, will have secured
capital and set about the work of re-
storing the wasted canefields.
When this is done, there will be work
for the great mass of idle laborers. The
machetes which are now fourished
vainly at the Americanos will once
more be put to the peaceful job of cut
ting cane, and tranquility will settle
over the Pearl of the Antilles.
Few Americans realize the extent OF
the Cuban sugar industry. 1t is true
that in many ways Eba is still a cen-
fury or so behind the times, but when
it comes to sugar and tobacco she is
almost up to date. Within the last doz-
en- years the business of making sugar
has developed wonderfully in Cuba. In
many cases English capital has been
responsible. Improved machinery and
scientific methods have been introduced,
and the Spanish or native plantation
holders nave been obliged to follow suit
or fall behind in the race.
A man with a few hundred dollars
may go to Cuba and raise sugar cans
but he will find that the making of
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01


on the outside. There is no provision
for sailing them. Evidently the natives
are not daring enough for that. They
are sometimes propelled with paddles,
but more often by poles, for they are
used mostly in shallow waters.
The Samoans brought the canoe to
the highest development. Nc craft of
its size ever made such long voyages as
has their sailing canoe. The vikings
were mere longshoremen when compar-
ed to the ancient Samoans, who trav-
ersed the immense stretches of the
Pacific on their rovings.
The essentials of the Samoan pad
ding canoe are a hull followed out OF
the trunk of a tree in a single piece dnd
an outrigger on the port side, which is
attached to the hull by a double set OF
braces, vertical and horizontal. They
are commonly from Is to 80 feet long
and seldom vary in the other dimell-
sions with any attempt to preserve a
ratio to the length. The beam is ap-
proximately IS inches-that is to say,
just wide enough for h hips OF The
paddler, who sits on the outrlgger
braces where they cross the hull.
The builder, a select and much re-
spected factor in Samoan social cond1-
tions, selects from his store of dried
logs a trunk that measures he right
number of fathoms for the canoe ne IS
about to Construct. In the present days.
when he can buy civilized utensils OF
carpentry, his tools are seldom other
than a gouge and a plane iron mounted
as an adj. Similarly in his work.
shop, before the white man introduced
metals, he used but the stone ADJ and
the shell gouge, using now, as then, the
coral stems for finishing off rough cuts.
Each canoe is as like each other as
though the same builder had construct
ed them IN exactly the same lines. Inc
bow is sharp and horned. The keel,
while approximately flat, is yet slightly
On the rocker type. For some space
abaft the bows the hull is left in a sol1d
block, which bears the characterization
of several small cubes carved in line
along the central line of the canoe.
These ornaments are frequently deco
rated with sun bleached cowrie shells. :
Th.. builder of the canoe. undertakes
to turn out a hull that will float in stlli
water. ana it is only by repeated exper-
iments of its 1otation that he is able to
complete his work to his own satlsfac-
ton. But no hnlls are designed to pre-
serve their equilibrium when carrying
/ weight. That balance is obtained by
means of the outrigger. This consists
in the Samoan type of three essential
features. 1he first is the outrigger
beam, the second the horizontal braces,
the third tho system by which the beam
is attached to the braces.
But the Samoans have about aban-
doned the dugout. None has been
made i the island for more than a
dozen years, and the primitive craft
which has been used for ages now
promises to become obsolete very soon.
Probably the Filipinos will soon be
taught new tricks at shipbuilding too.
So the day Of the dugout seems to be at
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