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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-08
NAMES HIS OFFICE FORCE.
state Auditor-Elcct Atkinson Sc.
iert- his Chief Deputy and
Assistants.

John =. Atkinson. state aedifor-eiect.
OLYMPIA aH follows.
Shef Deputy \. Fish, 81 Methow.
oknAoEen county.
NnekkEeuef, Nren5 Lindsay. 81 Werat-
chee Cheian county
Stepographcr Miss Hessie Wilton. ~
Seattle
Air Fish, who has beon recently en-
gagged In mining business. ia a man of
experience b 81 80 ork AMI d act cal
business Anairs Mo LINDSAY 81 aHla tn
tv bright young man WNil qu ltn a
for the position ~ he4kkce ~. and Miss
Wilton ~ an eNseFieucrt stenngrapr tr.
who has BEEN employed f1r several yctrs
lp ne law onice e 2. 3 tniaer. ot tnla
city
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-08

TAKE the fast Dolphin for Alaska: Sat
urday. p. m.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-08

A large deal In local real estate was
closed up this week, involving the sale
of the three-story brick building at the
northeast corner of Second avenue south
and Jackson street. by John r. Kinnear
and wife TO w. p. Gaffney, OF Boulder,
Mont. The price paid is said to have
been s64 600
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-08

Men desiring highest grade suits and
overcoats at Sc, 81. 50 and $40 will get
double their moneys worth at the spe-
cial sale today at the Manufacturers Out
let Co. corner Occidental Avenue and
Washington street. sss
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-08
New Maps Of China.

The Post-Intelligencer has secured the
exclusive right for Washington to Rand.
Mentally a Co.'S latest folder map 81
China and Asia. These may be secured
at Post-Inteligencer business Offices at
10 cents each.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-08

Laxative Rramo Guiaina Tablets.
New uap- az china
The Fast+IntciiiEeucr has secured tns
exclusive right To- Washington TO Rand
MCNalsF a Cos latest folder map VI
China an8 Asia Thaxa anAy De secured
q Pest-lntslsiseneer business oElees az
"a cents each
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-02

Kiang 700 miles into the interior Of
China. They stop at the city of Han
kow, which is the greatest tea market
in the world. Here they load as quick
ly as possible and steam back home
as fast as they can. These tea ships
run race every year, and the steamer
which gets in first receives the highest
price for it's tea. Should the Yang-tse
river be closed by war in late summer
it will result in a great loss to the tea
merchants.
The price of Japanese tea will GER
tainly be increased, and it's export will
probably be greater than ever. The
Japanese tea is by no means so good
as that of China, so it is said. 1t is
nerve-exciting, and if it stands it be-
comes bitter. The majority of people
of this country do not know what good
tea is.
They like green tea, and they mix the
green and black together in a most
barbarous way. They think they are
paying high price when they give 81
for a pound of tea. and it will be sur
prising to many of them to know that
there is tea in China which is worth
$25 a pound, and tea which costs more
than 500 pound
The Chinese tea which we get for
dollar a pound brings about twenty
hve cents pound in China, and what
the Chinese call good tea is worth at
least a dollar a pound Wholesale in
China, and it would bring in the Unit
ed States 81 a pound. Tea which costs
$lO pound is by no means uncommon
among rich Cinnamon, and there are
some Chinese nabobs who serve up $50
tea to their guests. The man who
knows nothing of tea, but thinks he
knows good deal, wants the liquor
to be dark colored and considers this
sign of strength. The best Chinese
tea IS often as clear as crystal, and the
color of good tea should be a very light
yellow. hardly as dark as light am
Der.
THE FIRST CROP.
The first leaves of the tea plant are
the tenderest, and the first picking of
course, brings the most money We
use every year about 1000 900 worth
of Chinese tea, and we are fast becom-
ing big consumers of Ceylon and In
dia tea. The Chinese do not think
that milk or sugar should be used with
tea Boiling water should be poured
over the tea, but the tea should by no
means be boiled
The Yang tse-kiang is the river
which runs right through the center of
the Chinese Empire, cutting the coun-
try almost in half They say that the
best teas were raised south of this
river, and that no good tea could be
raised above it. The great central tea
market is at Hankow. Here there are
vast tea factories and tea warehouses,
and the very air is filled with tea.
1t costs about two cents a pound to
pack the tea, and there are a number
of local taxes, which will now probably
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-02

After the bricks are finished they are
carried by boats up the rivers and ca
nails to Tien-tsin, and from thence go
on camels into Mongolia and on to Rus
STA. There are about sixty bricks in
one package, and they are so arranged
that they can be carried on camels.
This brick tea takes the place of
money in many parts of Asia and in
Mongolia it passes as currency, each
brick being worth from fifteen to
twenty cents. The Mongols divide the
brick into thirty equal parts.
The Chinese tea trade has been de-
clining for years, and this war will be
a terrible blow to it. India is fast
pushing its way into the tea markets
of the world. and you will find good In
dian tea now sold over the United
States. The trade has practically
grown up within the past twenty-five
years, and since 1870 the Chinese mar
kets have been steadily declining In
1870 England imported ten million
pounds of tea from Assam. Ten years
later it was taking more than sixty
million pounds, and there are now more
than a quarter of a million acres OF tea
plantations in India The Indian tea
now brings a higher price in the Eng
land markets than the Chinese tea, ana
not half as much of the Chinese tea
is used as was twenty-five years ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-02
CHINESE FARMERS
OF LONG ISLAND.
Few People Know That Some of the
Finest and Firmest Of Vegetables
Come From John Chinaman's
Garden.

The Gothamite who thinks himself
superior to the Californian because he
does not employ Cinnamon as domestic
servants has little idea that some of
the choicest fruits and vegetables come
from the Chinese farms of Long ISL
and. Nor does the Gothamite alone
eat these fruits and enjoy them and
crunch the succulent vegetable roots
with satisfaction, but the whole of New
England and for that matter goodly
portion of the South eats of the China
mans products.
While Long Island is by no means as
large as the middle West, nor has it
the untenanted country of certain
parts of the South, it is nevertheless
sufficient for the growing of a great
deal that is good to eat; and in the Gull
tivation thereof no one is equal to John
Chinaman.
Where the eastern farmer demands
10 acres and the western farmer thinks
he needs 100, the Chinese worker of the
soil will look over small patch of soil
not more than an acre in it's entirety.
and decide that it is enough. If you
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-02

squatting agent. and from another by
his side received a copper cash" He
was paid on the spot for each load de-
livered, and when the day ended he had
his money in his pocket.
The bulk of the trade of Fusan is in
the hands of the Japanese. but five or
six foreigners manage to pick up some
thing more than mere living there. and
at least three of them have a snug sur
plus to show for their years of chilling
exile and self-denial. Imagine a man
perched on the end OF the North Pole
waiting for somebody to come and dis
cover him. and you have fair concep-
ton of the foreign business man in Flu
san, so far as social life and the things
worth living for are concerned.
AS to Chemulpo, what shall be said
of it? A measly collection of houses,
half japanese, half Chinese and a dash
of Corean, backed by denuded hills, at
the mouth of a muddy river, and a tide
rushing about it equal to that which
makes the Bay of Fundy famous 1t
is the chief port of Corea, and the water
gateway to Seoul, the capital. Just
what the distance is to Seoul am not
quite able to make out. By the little
Japanese steamers. which ascend the
river to a landing some two miles from
the capital, it is sixty miles. Overland
the distance is declared by some people
to be twenty miles, and by others
thirty.
The japanese are rapidly building up
Chemulpo. Signs of Improvement are
seen on every hand The place may be
mildly said to be booming" The Japan
csc have a small garrison here and they
seem to have charge of the police and
the customs. Notwithstanding her
proclaimed Independence Corea is
still in the hands Of the japanese.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-02

Bullocks are employed in transport
ing this barbaric medium of exchange
from one section of the country to the
other A common day laborer must
spend some hours in counting his wage
when paid off. I was amused here to
see the method of paying off the
coolies who freighted the ship. When
a package was tossed upon the back of
a coolie he received from an overseer
a bit of stick, with some characters
marked on it. AS he passed along he
handed his wooden certificate to a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-02
HIS NATIVE HEATH.

Here you may see him in queer
clothes and queer houses, raising queer
products, and with a queer-looking pa
goda-like summer house near by, to
lend a real Celestial air to his surround
ings. 1t seems like a bit of China
dropped into rural New York. 1t is
special feature of the district, and is
pointed out as an inducement to sum-
mer boarders.
If you would learn how to husband
the natural resources of the soil go wit
ness Chinese farmer at work He can
give points to the most thrifty SQUAT
ter that ever worked a Harlem field.
Several fortunes have been made at
Steinway, and their owners are now en-
joying them in China.
The Chinese farming community of
Long Island was started back in the
eighties by Shen 10, who lost his for
tune in his native land and came to re-
make it in America. Now there are
several truck farmers there, and the
profits are divided among them The
same system prevails among the yege-
table gardeners of California. In few
days Lee Wah, one of the colony, will
return to his home in Asia with more
than $4,000 to his credit, all dug out
of that same soil on which the Long ISL
and farmer finds it hard to support his
family.
The Chinese farmer lives in squalor.
A laundry in the slums or a sQuatter's
shanty is nothing to it. The farm
house is a mere hut made of old boards
knocked together and some tar paper
nailed over them. There is an odor of
opium and another of the grass
around the place although decaying
vegeta bleS contribute their share of the
general filthiness. Old boxes and bas-
kets lie around and lumber up the pass
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-02

ask him if it will be plenty he grunts
and smiles to show his satisfaction.
Then he goes to work.
The Chinese are remarkable for the
dizziness with which they handle small
articles. The Chinaman can play cards
with the tiniest strips of paste-board.
and can handle easily little instruments
that you would lose under your thumb
nail. That is the secret of his success
as a farmer. He will work all day at
one patch of ground, scarcely shifting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-02

that the war in China will make tea
scarce and that the herb will be as
hard to obtain as the pure ginger of
India
The tea crop is just ready to be har-
vested The first growth is gathered
Fast steamers are now on their way
from Europe and Russia to China
They go by the Mediterranean and
Suez canal. and they stop at Cey1on
and Singapore They go from hence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-02

be greatly increased on account of the
war.
Great Quantities of tea are exported
to Russia and Mongolia every year in
shape of bricks. These are made OF the
lower grades of tea and of tea dust.
The leaves are ground up and steamed
and cooked until they are soft and
mushy. They are then put into molds
about the size of an ordinary brick and
are pressed into shape. SO that they
become as hard as chocolate cakes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-02
PREPARE FOR THE
FAMINE IN TEA.
The Trouble in China, the Importers
Say, Will Have Disastrous Effect
on the Price and Quality of
the Chinese Herb.

Tea is going to be scarce!
That is what the tea dealers say, and
they ought to know.
In vain there are those who whisper
that the tea of commerce comes from
Cuba and that the real Canton and the
excellent Peking brands have never
been further away than Porto Rico and
the Hawaiis. The importers insist
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-02

his position. and when he has finished.
he will tell you that there is not one
half inch of soil that has not it's seed
sticking in it. It is his way of farm
ing.
Over on Long Island, at a place
known as Steinway. you can find John
Chinaman on his native heath, as it
were.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-02

ageways; old fruit cans and paper
scraps fill in the chinks, as it were. and
a general debris covers the ground.
John generally selects a tree near
running water under which to build his
house. and while the house is pretty
sure to be dirty, the fields are the pink
of neatness in all that pertains to good
farming. Vegetables are his strong
hold, and formerly only the Chinese va
rieties were raised. Johns best cus-
toner in those days was Mott street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-02
HIS FINE CROP.

In the field he wears his native hat,
uses primitive tools and generally does
everything upside down. Even his ex-
plantations are topsy-turvy, but then
every one knows that he writes back
ward He never puts his phosphates
in the ground; he just sprinkles them
along the top of the hill. 1t is queer
stuff. too, which looks like SCOT. He
plants his vegetables upon a hill with
deep gulIies on either side. He builds
trellises and trains his vines upon
them. and then when the fruit is ripe
crawls underneath on his back and
ships it off with pair of shears.
But such fruit! No Jersey or Dela-
ware horticulturist grows more tooth
some products. His squashes, cucun-
bers, tomatoes and pumpkins have a
reputation. His beans sometimes weigh
three to the pound-by the way he sells
everything by the pound. He has sue
ceeded in raising ginger and sugar.
cane and ginseng of a toothsomeness
which makes him the best praised man
in Mott street-when he goes there
The rural Chinaman is a thorough
believer in irrigation The whole sub
soil of his farm is a network of water
pipes. Every plot of ground has a wa
ter-barrel placed on one side and a
pipe and faucet leading thereto. To
show how queerly he works-after
leading the water all under his fields
to his water barrel, he laboriously lifts
it out by the bucketful and throws IL
over the growing plants.
But after all he fills his niche It Is
a profitable niche, of course, but he
would not fill it if it weren't
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-02

matters
arstocatc
K.
Could
$400OOOO00 in perhaps
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-10
HE RESENTED.

Joseph Springer protested on
ly mildly when his wife Rachel
made him do the cooking, and he
submitted when she added to his
duties the family washing and
ironing, but when she beat him
with "A poker for having failed to
properly starch one of her white
skirts before going to his daily
labor one morning he turned and
sued the partner of his joys for a
separation.
His soul, trampled so long in
the domestic dust, was up in
arms. He had blistered nose
and knuckles over the kitchen
range and had chased the family
underwear up and down the
washboard at the gentle Rachel's S
behest, but he shrank from the
indignity of chastisement.
His case was placed in a law
yer's hands and a Deputy Sheriff
was selected for the difficult, not
to say dangerous, task of serving
the papers upon Mrs. Springer.
Springer accompanied the depu-
ty for purposes of Identification.
The papers were served, but as a
result the husband is in bed
nursing II painful laceration of
the scalp, while the Deputy Sher-
iii displays a bumped and dented
visage like Il Boer war map.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-10
JOSH BILLINGS PHILOSOPHY

OF all kreated things, animate
or inanimate, we find no fools ex-
cept amung mankind.
The man who told us 'virtew
IL it's own reward" might have
added that vice waz, too
The man who fully under
stands q subiekt IL allwuss salts
fed to use the simplest terms to
explain it.
The man who tells yu that
there isn't an honest person liv-
ing, haz studdyed hiz own karac-
ter too well.
If ya eXpekt to keep yure
friend, you hav got to see all his
virtcWs with both eyes, and hiz
failings with one.
It would be good trade if we
could Danish about one-haff the
learning out ov the world, and
substitute common sense in the
place ov it.
1t iza CRATE deal eazier to be
sassy than to be sarkastik; but
thare IL menny kriticks who have
not discovered the difference yet,
and probably never will.
The world has allwuss longed
for sensashunS. If a man could
invent II new Punch and Judy, he
would be admired more than the
one who could make one Darrell
ov flour go az far az two.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-10
Barb Wire Drops About Fifty Per
Cent.

The wire trust seemed to have
the trade wholly in it's hands
and it's control Of prices seemed
to be absolute Prices had been
put so high that profits we're
enormOus-Or would have been ii
the public had continued to buy
at the inflated prices fixed by
the trust. But people stopped
buying beyond their immediate
necessities. Farmers, for eX-
ample, quit getting barb wire for
fencing, finding it too expensive.
So of plain wire and wire nails.
The result was over-producing
an accumulation of wire and
nails in the hands Of the trust.
The trust was accordingly oblig-
ed first to close a large number
of it's mills and to refuse to re
ceive further deliveries of steel
due them ON contracts.
At first this action was sup
posed by many to have been talk
en- for stock -jobbing purposes.
But it had Il genuine cause in the
distressed condition OF the trust
The board of directors have
further startled the public by
authorizing heavy reductions Of
prices, the trade being notified
Of reduction Of 81 per keg on
wire nails, 81 per 100 pounds on
barbed wire, and 90 cents per 100
pounds on plain annealed Wire
1t was desired to work off ac-
cummulated stocks by concediug
reasonable prices.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-10
RULES BY WHICH TO RISE.

Find your purpose and fling
your life out to it. Try to be
somebody with all your might.
What is put into the first of life
is put into the whole of it. Start
right.
The first thing to do, if you
hayc not done it, is to fall in love
with your work.
Don't brood over the past nor
dream Of the future; but seize the
instant and get your lesson from
the hour.
Poverty and hardship have ev-
er been the great schoolmasters
Of the race, and have forced into
prominence many q man who
would otherwise have remained
unknown.
Necessity is the priceless spur.
Give u youth resolution and the
alphabet, and who shall place linn
its TO his career;
Don't wait for extraordinary
opportunities; seize common oc-
casion and make them great.
A great opportunity will only
make you ridiculous unless you
are prepared for it.
The lucky man is the man who
sees and grasps his opportunity.
The world always listens to a
man with will in him.
The man with an idea has ever
changed the face of the world.
Find way or make one. Ev-
erything is either pusher on push
ed
There is nothing small in a
world where a mud creek swells
to an Amazon, and the stealing of
penny may end ON the scaffold.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-10
HES SO OBLIGING."

| can't make out how il is
that Jim johnson always gets
such good places" said Harry
Smith, the carpenter's son, to
another boy, as they were return
ing home one afternoon. And
Harry was not the only one who
thought thus, for Jim's luck was
the talk Of the neighborhood
Jim was certainly no pattern OF
clevornesS, OF beauty or strength;
but, for all that, it w&S quite true
he always had good places, good
wages and q good character.
When he left one emIloyer TO
go TO another it was generally
said; "I would not part with him,
if / could help it; he is a good
boy, and so obliging."
This was the secret Of his good
luck-he was $50 obliging." Did
the merchant or the wagner
want an errand boy, or did any
one want a iob done alta moments S
notice, it was only to get a sight
of jim, and it was as good as
done: for Jim would hurry
through his business in order TO
help.
When he was at home, he kept
the wood-boX full of wood, and
his mother never had to ask him
to bring in a bucket of water,
and many other little things did
he do in a cheerful manner so
that he was a great favorite. And
if he saw younger boys in trouble
he would try to help them out;
and he put on his shoes, after
having taken them off one pour
lug rainy night, to walk two
miles to the town for a parcel
containing a new gown the car
rier had neglected to bring to the
kitchen girl who was crying her
eyes out because she could not
have it to wear next morning at
her sisters wedding. But it
was not so much what Jim did as
how he did it that was so agree
able.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-10
SWIFT FALLING BULLETS.

Falling bullets kill many men,
even when they are lying shelter
ed behind trenches. If a bullet
is fired in the air, it falls with as
much force as it goes up. But,
curiously, there is a certain limit
of height beyond which a bullet
gains no more falling force; the
reason being that when the mo-
tion is very rapid the resistance
of the air balances the attraction
of gravity. In the siege of Sc
bastapol-and, in fact, during
every campaign-a great many
men were killed by falling bullets.
And the terrific force with which
they come down is shown by a
case in which the bullets entered
the shoulder of a cavalry man,
passed down through his body
and penetrated several inches in
to his horses back.
A curious instance occurred
not long ago in India. While a
native was cleaning boots in the
open air, he was seen to drop
dead without cry. On examin-
ing him, they found that a bullet
had entered the top of his head.
No shot had been heard, and the
person who fired it must have
been very long way off.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-10

A Family of Long Livers.

The Smell family of which there
is only one surviving member,
Miss Edna A. Smell, were excep-
tionally long livers, those having
passed away, dying at the follow
ing remarkable old age; j. Smell,
father, 93 years, Rebecca, mother,
80, Rebecca, daughter, Sc, Benja-
min, son, 7S, Delilah, daughter,
Sc, a total of 432 years, or an av-
erage life of Sc years. This fam
lily has resided for years on their
farm near Warfordsburg, where
those who are sleeping their last
sleep died and are buried. Han
cock Times.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-10
One Way To- Keep Beautiful.

Beauty me,y be preserved in
women who nave livet half cen
tury or more if they will learn 20
become younger by 10 oking upon
life IN con tented man ner. Some
one has SAID that Sc If respect
should make every W oman pre-
serve her good looks, and this
can only be done by gI Gaming the
best from life and Aelg ing others
to do the same.