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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-04-18

Millions marvel az the muiumde ~
Daladies cat or by Or. Kings Gew LIE
Liver and Bowel troubles Dyspepsia.
Loss of Appetite Jaunlics. BHsrsss
Fever. Malaria as fail before tles- Won
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-04-18
PLEASANT SURPRISE Parry
Fifty People Storm Home OF sIr. and
Nr>. Clarence Howard.

About nifty of the friends of Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence Howard. who We're mar
ried Wednesday night. surprised. them a
their home at the corner OF Green street
and Douglas avenue. last night. All the
members of the party took with item
some household utensn rs a present to
the newly married couple. Several Of the
party recited impromptu rhymes ia pre-
snnfino fhair- affts
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-04-18
FRISCO DEPOT ROBBED
Burglars ct Neo6esha Secured Scant
Spoiis on Their Execution.

n telegram was received at the Frisco
Offices in this city Westerly afternoon
that the depot at Neodesha had been
robbed the night previous. The burglars
secured some boxes from the warero0m
ana some small change from the ticket
Office
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-04-18

was badly swoolen a few days ago His
recovery is q surprise TO the physicians
who three weeks ago believed that he
would not survive.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-04-18

treasurer of the Crescent Sash and Door
company who first interested these capt.
talists in Wichita
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-08

Establishment who took me through the fla
ture were talk portly, fine-looking men,
dressed in silk brocades which would have
made tine gowns for any White House re-
ception. They spoke English well, and
We're thoroughly posted on the silk markets
or the world. We first entered the base
ment, where number of English steam
engines were supplying the power and then
mounted to the second floor, and were taken
through number Of large rooms filled
with little white balls covered with a soft
SILKY fuzz. Each ball was about as big as
the largest peanut. These were the cocoons
as they had come in from the country
They had been baked in ovens and the
worms inside them were cooked hard
picked up handful and shook them. They
felt like peanuts, and the little baked
worms ratified like kernels inside the shells
Chinese Factory Girls.
Leaving this department we went into the
factory proper, a great room which was
humming like cotton mill 1t was 800 feet
long and 70 feet wide, and was filed with
machinery. In 1t 700 women and girls were
Keeling silk. They were working at the
machines, which ran in rows from one end
of the room to the other. Some of the
women were sitting at pans of steamiog
hot water in which the silk cocoous bohbed
about as though they We're alive, while
thin threads of fine white silk were pulled
from them by the moving reels above. AS
L looked into the pans l could see thu, CO.
coons dancing about in the steam in blocks
OF five, and that each woman started a new
thread, from time to time by pulling a
cobWeb strand from each one of FIVE diff
Ierent cocoons and twisting them into one
RMS was then fastened to the reel so that
the reel unWound the five cocoons al once.
twisting their threads together into one
before 1t was wound. Different numbers
OF strands are used to make the different
kinds of silk thread Five strands make
the hnest thread. The kind OF thread that
we import for the United States usually
contains six, eight or ten strands
BEFORE the cocoons are unWotnd the
threads are loosened hy soaking the CO.
coons in hot water. This is done in bowls
In front of the Keeling ma chimes. the CO.
coons being stirred about with little
pfushes or bamboo by Chinese girls of
from eight to thirteen years of age When
the threads become loosened thnv can
easily be picked up
Some of these little children work at 3
cents a day, and some IF the women only
get as much as 5 cents of our money rrbe
best of the little ones receive IL cents and
the highest paid woman of the whole fac
tory was getting 20 cents day. This was
Tor thirteen hours and for seven DAVIS Of
the week Va
Notwithstanding these low wages mo-
tlced that the women and children an
peared happy and well dressed. MANY of the
girls wore Jewelry, and some of the pref
test hands that wound the cocoons about
In the water had silver or gold bracelets
on the slender wrists above them
FRANK c. CARP, N-rJsT
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To-. insects. There are silk tree borers much
like our peach tree bOrers worms which
can enter the bark and must be dug out
and there are insects which eat the leaves
and must be killed by fumigating or spray
ing.
Rearing Silk Worms.
I have been interested in learning how
the Chinese rear silk worms. They have
reduced the business to a science, and it IS
still so important that the empress starts
it every year. Indeed, the first silk worms
of China were reared by an empress This
was the wife of Hwang-ti, who lived 900
B. G. and who is known as the goddess
of silk. The present empress sacrifices to
her every April in the palace grounds.
April is the best time for Matching silk
eggs and 1t is at this time that the moths
are started laying. The Chinese can tell
the male moths from the female ones while
they are still in the cocoons They know
lust how TO handle them so they will lay
az the proper time. In some places the
eggs are laid on clean paper, and in others
on white linen or grass cloth.
one moth VIII lay as many as 500 eggs
rms JOB takes her seventy-four hours
after which she lives five or six days with
OUT eating and then dies. 1t is important
to have good eggs, and the strongest CO.
coons are chosen for the purpose. The
eggs are first washed and then sprinkled
with salt They are next covered with
ashes Of burnt mulberry leaves. and so
kept for ten days. after which time they
are ready for Matching.
Curious Chinese Incubator.
In many silk districts the people have
human incubators. The warmth of the
body furnishes the heat, the most approved
variety being lusty woman. who puts the
eggs inside her clothes upon her bare bosom
and keeps them there until she knows by
their tickling that the silk worms are COM
ing out The silk worms are as fine as
thread and black when first hatc1ed. The
Matching usually takes place between 8
O'Clock in the morning and poen. In other
places the eggs are Matched in warm cham
bers and In other ways
Inc nrst SILK eggs taken to Europe were
carried to Constantinople in bamboo tubes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-08

Each worm is now about two inches long
and about as big around as your little I'm
ger, and it is ready for its work of making
silk
How Silk Is Spun.
1t takes no more food and begins to spin
silk from it's mouth first fastening the
thread to a frame on which it is placed 1t
moves its head from one side to the other
and keeps on doing so until it has woven
cocoon about it's body. This requires from
two to five days, and at the end it again
goes to sleep.
In the province of Chinkiang the spinning
is done in what is known as silk worm hills.
These are bundles of straw placed on mats
on platforms about as high as your waist:
The worms crawl UP on the straw and
fasten themselves to it and there spin their
cocoons. About 100 worms are attached to
each bundle, and fires are built around the
tables that they may be kept warm. While
they are spinning the noise is like that OF
q soft shower of rain, and when the noise
stops the people know the cocoons are
completed. After this they are baked or
boiled in order to XIII the worms and are
then ready for Keeling, or for sale.
Selling the Cocoons.
Many Of these Chinese farmers raise the
cocoons for sale They do not pretend to get
the silk out, but market them in bulk. The
cocoons are the money crop of many a
farmer. lie Will Idlse NeSttdpLeS, i4Ce anu
other grains for his food and depend upon
his cocoons to supply money for his cloth
ing, opium and salt. The government en-
courages the people to raise silk worms and
urges them to plant mulberry trees. The
result is that almost every farmer has his
little orchard, and the vast product of silk
produced in China comes from small farm
ers. Many man does not raise more than
twenty pounds of cocoons, for which he
gets perhaps, 81 or s. in silver.
The cocoons must be bought within a
short time after they are offered for sale.
1t used to be that fifteen days were set
aside for selling cocoons, but of late the
farmers in some way or other have short
ened this down to four days. The result is
that the foreign and Chinese Six makers
must have their men on hand at this time
to buy the cocoons.
There are regular market centers to
which the farmers come with their silk
They will go from buyer to buyer and
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and Matched In manure heap. In the
Matching rooms and also in those where
the Matched worms are kept the tempera-
ture is not tested by thermometer, but by
a man who takes off his clothes and goes
in naked in order to tell by the sensations
produced upon his body as to the tempera-
ture and moisture.
The silk worms are watched as carefully
as though they were babies. Flies are kept
from them. No loud talking is permitted
near them, and the people wash themselves
carefully before handling them. Thunder
Is said to alarm them. and only clean hands
must touch the leaves which feed them
The leaves must be cut into fine shreds, and
the worms eat them so rapidly that you can
hear their jaws going. At first they are fed
four times day, and on the fifth day they
go to sleep. As they grow older they are
fed once an hour, and when they have
reached their full growth they eat three or
four meals a day. They keep on feeding
and sleeping until they are three weeks old,
casting their skins at each sleep, and then
go into a long last sleep, where they remain
until a new and large skin is fully matured.
They are full grown at the age of thirty
two days, and are then the color of amber.
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married their husbands after the latter
had reached an advanced age. But no
actual soldier of that war besides Hiram
Crcnk is drawing a pension today, and the
pension bureau officials assert that mas
much as all the known soldiers of that
war have heretofore received pensions
Hiram Cronk is the only such soldier now
remaining.
All the soldiers of the revolution have
been dead these many years, the last one
Daniel F. Bakeman, having died April 8,
1869, aged 100, at Freedom, Cattaraugus
county, n. Y. The apotheosis of the revo-
lutionary soldier occurred shortly before
that date, when the veteran Brakeman was
introduced on the floor of the House of
Representatives at Washington while in
session and accorded the honors due to his
unique distinction. The apotheosis of the
soldier of the war of 1912 is yet to come
but it is near at hand and will come at an
early day, unless Hiram Cronk shuffies off
the mortal coil before it can be attended to-
His Military Service.
Hiram Cronks military service in the
war of 1872 was short and included no ac-
tive fighting on the battlefield, but 1t was
meme the less useful and valuable, like
that of thousands of his comrades G. whom
nobody has heard. Things along the north
ern frontier of New York state were at
skies and sevens in those stressful DAYS
and in the summer of 1914 a draft of militia
was ordered. Hiram Cronk, then an ac-
tive and Weii-grown but beardless lad of
fifteen, spelling to real war and longing
for chance to mix in Ii, lived at Steuben
In Oneida county. In August Of that year
his chance presented itself, and as the
mastering officers were not particular as
to the age of their recruits, he was per-
mitted to enlist at Western, Oneida county,
as a private, under a call issued by Gen.
Oliver Collins, commanding at Sackett's
Harbor, n. Y, and was duly enrolled in
the company of Capt. Ichabod Davis
After four or five weeks knockabout serv-
ice in camp and on the march from one
point to another, he was discharged, along
with a lot of other callow youths of his
acquaintance. On the first night after his
discharge he and his comrades went to
WATERFOWL, and in the night they were
aroused by the sound of cannonading. Next
morning they learned that it had proceeded
from British gunboat. which had fired a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-08
TURQUOISES AND THE FoNGOIs.
The Blue Jewels Worn in Their Rough
State by Tibetans.

The Blue Jewels Worn in Their Rough
State by Tibetans.
From the Cornhil Magazine
Turquoises are the favorite stones of all
the Mongol race, and are generally worn
in their original state, except by the Chi
nese women, who have them roughly cut
and wear them mixed with pearls and
coral. Both the Tibetan men and women
ornament themselves with lump turuuoises.
the men wearing them attached to their
single bold earrings, which are worn In
the right ear only. The women of La
dakh carry their fortunes on their heads
In the shape of a broad strip of red cloth
studded with huge turquoises, which
starting from the forehead, is carried over
the head, and hangs nearly to the waist
Ihese peraks, as they are called, some
times cost as much as 20 pounds. BY the
Ladakhis those turQuoises are preferred
that have little black specks on them
which show their genuineness for even In
the wiids OF central Asia the spotless blue
composition emanating from E1Iropa is
offered for sale. the bazaar at Darjeelina
being flooded with 1t. The Bhutfa wo.nen
in the Darjeeling district wear quaint brass
ornaments covered with chip turquoise
which are cheap; but the Mongolians have
the embossed silver plates which form such
becoming headgear studded with really
fine turquoises, for which the owners have
to give valuable lfurs in exchange.
The RAM of Sikhim who comes from
the mysterious city of Lhassa, wears q
wonderful erection on her head, when er
grande toilet. which stands at least 8
foot above her brow. 1t is composed Of
pearls turquoises, rough rubies and Other
stones threaded on fine wires. which rise
tier upon tier to point in the front, where
1t Is topped by little pinnacle Of large
pearls Though quite a little woman. This
erection becomes the RAM very well. form.
ing pretty frame to her delicate oya]
face. - -
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The Sole Survivor of the War OF
1872
has PASSED THE CENTURY MARX
A Bill Before Congress to Increase
His Allowance.
DESERVED RECoGNITION
Written To- The Evening Star.

Written fo- The Evening Star.
Hiram Cronk of Ava, Oneida county,
N. Y, born In 1899 and aged 103 the last
surviving soldier of the war of 1872. is
about to receive deserved, though belated,
recognition at the hands of Congress. A
special bill recently introducted to that
end by Representative James S. Sherman
Of New York was favorably reported a few
days ago by the committee on pensions to
the House of Representatives and is now
pending on the calendar. 1t increase the
soldiers present pension of $l2 per month
to So, and no doubt it will soon be enacted
by the House and Senate and promptly APP
proved by President Roosevelt. IL the
amount were 500 per month it would with
out question go through just as easily.
The members of the House committee on
pensions, who ordered the bill reported
with a generous heartiness and warmth
of feeling that are unusual, are enthusiast
tic in behalf of the bill, taking the view
that they honor themselves and that Con-
gress will honor itself in doing this tardy
act of Justice to the sole survivor of our
second war with Great Britain. There are
now on the pension roll 1,527 widows of SOL
diers of that war, widows who in each case
were comparatively young girls when they
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The German Army.


From the London United Service Gazette.
From a return lately laid before the
reichstag it appears that last year 1885,
$40 young men became nominally available
for service in the forces OF the German
empire. From this number, however. large
deductions had to be made; 135, 1GS men
he'd emigrated without leave. and 9T.Sl9
were absent without leave from other
causes; 513, 100 were set back for a year,
q, f75 had entered the army, and 209 the
navy as volunteers 81, ZIG were detailed for
Ersatz reserve, others were found med
ically unfit others were disqualified for
other causes. so that finally only Odd .GG7
were drafted into the army and G. 1S4 into
the navy.
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dicker until they get the highest prices and
the buyinE, is therefore exciting Each m or
chant las his own scales, and he buys by
the ounce or pound, paying spot cash This
necessitates a large capitalS as all the CO.
coons used for the year must be bought
when the sales are on. There are silk ia G.
tories In this region which spend annually
S2oo.O0u In gold In purchasing cocoons They
have to fix their price according to the saIi
ing prices of silk in Europe and 1 sudden
fall will make them lose money. On the
other hand rise may give them an enor-
nous profit.
How the Chinese Make Silk.
Much of the silk of China is woven in the
homes of the people. see reeing going on
in many of the farm villages. 1t is done
chiefly by the women, the cocoons being
kept for the time in clean boiling water.
They are stirred around in this water until
the thread ends become loosened, and then
several of these ends are Joined together
and the cocoons reeled off on rude reels
worked by pedals. If one Of the threads
breaks it is Joined together or replaced by
another. 1t requires considerable skill to
do the reeling, for the thread when COM
pleted must be of equal thickness and
brightness. A good reeler can make about
twenty-six ounces of fine silk in a day.
The weaving, as done by the natives out
size the factories, is on machinery of the
rudest description. Everything goes by
naha, from RIBBONS to veivets and fine bro
cades. 1 see women and girls making
ribbons in all the cities of this region
and in some places find them weav.
ing satins and velvets. At Marking 1 went
through the imperial looms which weave
satins and velyets for the empress, the en-
press dowager and the court. They make
about 100000 pieces there every year. or
silks to the value of about s., COO, 600 1t is
impossible to buy the goods except in an
underhand way, for all of it Is supposed to
go to the imperial household. The wages
of the weavers are about 20 cents a day
with rice. The ribbons are usually made on
small looms by women and young girls, who
get about ten cents a day and food There
are in all about 200 looms In the imperial
establishment, from which were woven dur
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-08
Motor Car in England.

FfoId inc IJHuUH OhrDHIcIe.
From Coventry comes the news that the
king is having motor car built, which Is
to be delivered by the Ascot week. The
tidings contain serious suggestions. AT aEp-
som, on the last Derby day, as we noted
at the time, the motor car was discreetly
invisible. And masters Of foxhounds have
protested against its insoient presence at
meets But are we to look forward to the
appearance or motor car In the revived
royal progress up the course at Ascot !? The
KING IS progressive. The date of delivery is
ominous Is this the first step toward an
Ascot gold cup for motor cars?
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England's sententiou. Great Men.

Eng1and's Sententious Great Men.
From the London Chronicle.
The story OF the late bishop Of London's
time-saving greeting to the suppliant clergy
who came to him. GOOD morning, what do
you want2 Nor has it's fellow I'm for
mula the late lord chief justice used to
Junior: stand up, speak up, shut up"
But Lord Russell of Kilowen was not al
ways so brutally frank. He tempered the
wind to the shorn lamb Mr.. Justice Wal
ton, who deviled more than anybody else
for Russell, and has lately been taxing his
memory on the matter. cannot remember
ever to have received from his leader a re-
proach expressed in violent language.
When orce or twice I've think il could not
be oftenerl he was caught mapping by Lord
Russell, the worst he had to hear was,
'Ob, l thought you were taking note"
or 'Oh, l see you have something else TO
do" And that was quite enough.
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ing the year Of the emperor's marriage
S., 000, 900 worth of goods.
China,s Modern SILK Faetorfen.

China's Modern Silk Faetories.
Within the past few years an enormous
amount has been invested here in modern
silk failures devoted to Keeling the cocoons
and making raw silk for export These
establishments have the finest of modern
machinery, imported from Europe, and
their business runs high into the millions of
dollars. There are twenty-five such fla
lures in Shanghai alone, employing, all
told, more than 10000 hands There are
some in Hangchow, Soochow and at other
places in the silk regions.
Most of these failures are owned and
operated by Chinese, although five at
Shanghai have foreign managers. 1t was
through the Introduction of Mr.. Riva, a
French proprietor of one of the Shanghai
esta blishments that 1 was able to go
through the Chinese filature at Soochow.
This filature has a brick building covering
about five acres. 1t employs 800 hands,
and it's capital must be at least a half mil
lion dollars. The Chinese heads Of the es-
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From the Brooklyn Eagle.

Kind Old Lady-"You poor man! You say
you swore you only broke the plate glass
window with a brick to get a loaf of bread
when you were starving, and yet they put
you in states prison for three years."
Punctured Peterson-''Yes'm You see L
was so full / didn't notice dat It was de
window of jewelry store an dat I'd grab
bed a tray of di'mondsr
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-08

When you consider the chances a boy
takes. 1t is a wonder that any Of them livs
to yote.--Atchison Globe
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did see it. 1t gradually grew from an
indistinct sspeck in the blaekness in front
until it became luminous patch the size
|sofsa dollar, and it frightened with the min
utes To make sure of my seyes 1 passed
my hand before them. blotting out the light
entirely, but when I removed my hand
there 1t shone brighter than ever Again
while i was admiring 1t it suddenly dis
appeared apparently of it's own accord.
ssWhy, it has gone" L cried
Prof Hallock laughed. "Yes," he said, 81
have removed the yellow screen. You see
how quickly the Light goes OUT OF course,
the rays are there Just the same, but in
visible to us when not combined with the
barium cyanide. i will replace the screen.
There, you see how quickly they are turned
into visible light. There is in that box only