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Evening star., 1902-02-01

fuel for the steam and the wear and tear OF
the machinery would cost more than that.
These human machines need no repairs. If
man gets sick he is dropped and another
takes his place.
In this same connection many of the
boats on the Pearl river are run by human
weight The paddle wheels at the stern
are moved by men who walk up and down
on the spokes of connecting wheels inside
the boat, thus forcing the great wheel
around and moving the boat through the
water. Many foreigners have house boats
operated in this way. Now and then they
take the men from the wheels and har-
ness them to a long rope which is tied to
the mast of the boat, and, like so many
horses or mules. they pull it along from
the banks.
Fond of Jewelry.
But let us go into one of the jewelry Sec
tions. The Chinese are fond of fine things.
They have luxurious tastes. The richer OF
them delight in silver plate and they wear
jewelry of pure gold. The Chinese swell,
woman or man, will have nothing but
gold % carats fine. The women are decked
with earrings, bracelets and anklets and
the children of the well-to-do wear many
rings Silver drinking cups are common.
Most of the ladies use silver hairpins,
and the gentlemen drink their wine out of
silver cups. You can buy silver toilet ar
ticles everywhere. There are combs and
brushes, toothpicks and picks, tongue
are silver Saucers for cups of fine china and
carved tea sets Of solid silver. Many jew-
els are sold. The Chinese like diamonds
and pearls. They are fond of jade an opa-
lescent stone, which is so popular that
there are whole streets of jade stores They
also like coral, using it in different shapes.
Coral beads are strung and wound into
balls about as big as a walnut, and used
as buttons on the crown of the hat.
The Sweet Smells of China.
Nearly every American traveller talks of
China's bad smells. 1 find that there are
more good smells than bad ones, and there
are many which 1 wish 1 could carry home
with me. Much of Canton is Dutch par
lor compared with parts of New York.
Philadelphia and Boston. and some of it is
comparatively clean. Some sections are
streets which deal in nothing but sweet
smelling woods. Here you find men cutting
the odoriferous logs into pieces for fans,
workboxes and other things.
Some are saving them up into dust to
mix with mud for the incense sticks used in
every Chinese temple and house. Such
sticks serve as cigarette and pipe lighters.
They are burned in front of the stores un-
der little affairs to the God of Fortune hung
up on the wall. Sometimes there are affairs
of this kind outside the stores. In this case
the incense sticks are always lighted to-
ward night, and they look quite weird as
dusk comes on.
Night Business in Canton.
But the night life of Chinese city is
hardly worth mentioning. It is not to be
seen on the streets. No business is done
after dark. The stores are all closed as
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small feet They are among natures aris-
tocrats as far as delicacy OF form is con-
cerned. and the girls who work In the
in beauty The ladies' shoes are SO little
that the smallest would hardly hold Yam
kee girls fist, much less her foot They
are made of the finest OF satin and are
often embroidered in gold.
The mems shoes are not unlike slippers
with heavy soies. The commonest kinds
are of black satin, with soles OF white
full dress the most delicate reds and sky
blues are worn by both men and women.
The shoes have no strings and do not lace
or button.
bargain counter. have never seen Chi
nese lady buy shoes, and l am sure no
Chinese shoe clerk has the delight OF Mt
ting the "tootsie-wootsies" OF the maids OF
Canton In China it would be improper
for man to lay his hand on strange
woman, and a woman's foot Is considered
one Of the most sacred parts of her per-
son.
The Industries of Chinese City.
Every shoe store is also a shoe fac
tory. The most of the goods made in
China are turned out by hand, and there is
a vast amount of home and shop industry.
At the back of the store men are pasting.
sewing and stitching on the shoes soon to
be sold at the front This is SO all over
the city,. each establishment making a
large part of the goods which it sells.
Let us go into one of the rice streets.
At the front of each store are great bas-
kets made Of bamboo, each holding from
ten to twenty bushels OF grain, while In
the rear are the cleaning and hulling mills.
We hear the thud. thud, thud of the pound
ers and go in to see the machinery. 1t is
largely human. The hulling is done by men
who step on and OF a board all day long.
moving the mill by their weight.
1t is SO with everything In Canton. The
whole city is moved by human. muscle. It
is a cannibal town. feeding upon the flesh
found fifty men going up and down like
a. dog In a churn, moving q circular belt
communicating with buzz saw You
would think steam would be cheaper. It is
not. Wages are 50 low that the whole fifty
do not earn more than IS day, and the
Evening star., 1902-02-01
OUR CONSUL.

tight as drum. and the only lights are oil
lamps.
1t would be almost impossible to go
through Canton late at night. In the day
time the city is a checkerboard of densely
packed workshops; at night it is cata-
combs with the passages walled up. Every
narrow street has doors at the end of each
block, and at every street crossing and al
ley there are gates provided with locks
There are also great doors at the holes in
the walls, whether at the entrances of ca
nails into the city or of streets. All such
places are closed at a certain hour in the
evening, so that you could not walk a block
without coming to a gate, and once inside
you could not get out.
There are but few policemen either day
or night. and the order on the streets is ex-
cellent. The police call out the hours as
they go their rounds after dark.
They make the night hideous by clapping
sticks and gongs to show that they are
awake, and possibly to warn thieves of
their approach. The police stations are
immense wooden boxes not unlike coal
storage boxes; they are placed along the
sides of the streets, and in them the DO
licemen lie down to rest, not a few Sleep
Ing on their posts as do our policemen at
home.
Chinese of All Glasses.
In fact. find the Chinese decidedly hu-
man. They have about the same classes
as in the United States, and they are
moved by much the same springs of action
Canton is made UP Of rich and poor, of
workers and loafers, of business men and
idiotic dandies. The crowd through which
I walk Is of all classes, from the sweating
coolie, who, bare to the waist, drips per-
spiration as he trets along with his burden,
to the satin -gowned mandarin. whose long
finger-nailed hands are as soft as the cheek
of your baby. There are big-footed women
who toll for cents day and there are
'golden-lilied' painted, powdered ladies
who each spend q thousand dollars per
year on their clothes. There are Chinese
scholars with spectacles as big around as
silver dollars, politicians who lick their
lips and look wise. story tellers and actors.
solid bankers and brainless fools. and all
the other classes you will find in our cities.
Indeed, there are the same grades of So
ciety. the members of which have as many
petty ambitions a. many fears and hopes.
Evening star., 1902-02-01
The Art of Song.

Written for The Evening Sar by Charles W. sterel
son.
When into music breathing lines
The poet weaves his thought
The feeling of his heart defines
The measure to be wrought.
For happy moods, tinkling rilIs,
Run DER a pebbly way.
And gentle loving laughter fills
A quiet summer day,
The crystal rhymes but check the flow
OF liquid words that blend
Into a song, that, sweet and low,
In praise and peace doth end;
But when his heart is filed with grief.
BY fellow-feeling wrung,
His sympathy has strong relief.
nobler harp is strung,
And then the melodies repeat
The voice OF wind and wave
On life's wild ocean, where, stormbest
Are weary souls TO
Evening star., 1902-02-01

and I might almost say as many loves and
hates This Chinese human. although I'm our
conceit we are prone to think differently, 10
about the same kind of a two-legged ami
NAL without feathers that you and / are.
and our dear Lord gave him quite as good
q body and as good an intellect. feelings
and will. FRANK q. CARPENTER.
Evening star., 1902-02-01

through lines of silversmiths who work
and sell side by side, and go by block after
streets where there are nothing but pipes
and tobacco.
You may have the idea that all the Chi
nese are poor and that most of them go
barefooted. Come with me through one of
the shoe streets of Canton. We shall visit
hundreds of stores which sell nothing else.
There are enough shoes in one Of these
streets to shoe all the girls Of Chicago, but
if the said girls came here to be fitted they
would have to buy mems shoes. and not
women's. This would be the case with
any American girl. old or young, big or
little. The Chinese have naturally very
Evening star., 1902-02-01

of the latter bare to the waist. There are
proprietors dressed in fine silks and pur-
chasers Of all classes embracing the vast
variety of the Chinese world of today.
How Business in Classified.
Notice how business is classified as you
push your way through the city, your
chair-bearers shouting to the people to get
out of the way. Here is an alley walled
with furniture stores. There is one in
which they sell nothing but silks, and on
that side street is section devoted
to Jade stones, earrings bracelets and other
such ornaments. We ride for q mile
Evening star., 1902-02-01
Nothing serious. :.
From Life

Friend-"Was 1t serious accident?,
Chauffeur-.Not at ALL Only two nedes-s
TRANS killed. and the automobile wasn't
even scratched"
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-10-02

Europe and Africa. Here in Forsyth
the eclipse will begin a few minutes
after eight in the evening and will con-
tinue until after 1880 and during
nearly half of that time the moon will
be entirely covered. 1t is seldom that
all the conditions are so favorable for
witnessing tot al eclipse.
M. M. O'Neill, the Hathaway
rancher, was in town Tuesday in at
tendance upon the democratic county
convention. This was Mr.. O'Neill's
first visit to Forsyth for over nine years
and he was naturally surprised to OBJ
serve the metropolitan appearance of
the town and foresees bright future
for Rosebud county's capitol.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-10-02
County Attorney.

FORSYTH, MONT, Oor., 2, 1902.
To the Democratic County Central
Committee of Rosebud county, Mont.
Gentlemen
Having been asked by your commit
tee whether or not it would be neces-
sary for the electors of Rosebud county
to register for the coming election 1
give you my opinion as follows:
None of the electors of this county
have ever registered as residents of
Rosebud county. The electors of this
county, at all previous elections have
registered as residents of Custer
county. There has never been regi-
stration in this county.
The board of county commissioners
has laid out and established election
precincts and registry districts
throughout the county, and these differ
in their boundaries from those in ex-
istence at the time Rosebud county
formed part of Custer county.
It is plain to be seen that the electors
of Rosebud county must register as
residents of this county, and of the
registry districts as they now exist.
It is my opinion that the provisions of
Section 1906 of the Political Code of
Montana, apply only to counties in
existence at the time of the passage of
this act with it's amendments, and that
the electors of all counties created
after the passage of this act must reg
lister anew.
Section 1906 of the Political Code
provides, among other things, that any
person who has been regi stored in any
district in the county within eight
years, and who has been continuous
resident in such district since such
registration shall be entitled to vote, if
otherwise qualified, without further
registration.
When the electors of this county
heretofore registered they were not
residents of Rosebud county nor of any
registry district therein.
I therefore give it as my opinion that
an entirely new registration of the
voters of this county is necessary.
Respectfully,
E. J. DIERKs.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-10-02

or in 1900, and has been continuous
resident of the district in which he is
registered, do not believe that he can
be compelled to register again, not
withstanding the formation of Rose
bud county as a new county.
The old registration books have been
certified by the clerk and recorder of
Custer county as l understand the
matter and such original books being
now in the possession of Rosebud
county they can be used by the regis
try agents of the respective registrar
ton districts of Rosebud county and
new books will not he required if the
old are sufficient.
AS to you third questions: Mr.. Bray
being a candidate for office, cannot
act as registry agent. Political code
1901 as amended in 1897.
Respectfully submitted,
FRED L. GIBSON,
County Attorney.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-10-02
notice.!

Just as the News goes to press Coun.
ty Clerk Charles w. Bailey is in re.
ceipt of the following telegram:
HELENA, Mont, Oct. 2, 1900. w.
Bailey, Forsyth, Mont: Yes; in new
counties new registration has 10 be
made. JAMES DONOVAN,
Attorney General.
The above telegram is in response
to the following telegram sent to At
torney General Donovan by County
Clerk Bailey:
FORSYTH, Mont, Oct. 2, 19O2.-Is
new registration in Rosebud county
required? Election precincts and reg
istry districts created and changed.
Wire answer. c. w. BAILEY,
County Clerk.
This question came up for discus
sion and County Attorney Fred L..
Gibson rendered his written opinion to
County Clerk Bailey upon his request
stating that new registration through
out was not required. Attorney Ed
ward J. Dierks democratic nominee
for county attorney being requested
for his opinion by the Democratic
County Central Committee gave a writ
ten opinion stating that the law was
explicit and that an entirely new re-
gistration was required.
This opinion was shown to County
Clerk Bailey and he thereupon
wired Attorney General Donovan as
stated. The attorney generals reply
first shown, governs and all voters in
this County MUST REGISTER
THIS FALL. Remember this means
you if you want to vote next November.
The opinions of County Attorney
Gibson and Attorney E. J. Dierks are
printed below:
FORSYTH, Mont, Oct. 2, 1902.
Mr.. G. w. Bailey,
County Clerk, City.
Dear Sir-In reply to your request
for an opinion as to whether an entirely
new registration is needed this year in
Rosebud county,
believe the provisions of Sec. 1906
Political Code as amended by session
laws 1897 apply to this county as we'll
as those counties which were in exist
ence at the time the law was passed.
If the voter is registered either in 1898
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-10-02
OF LOCAL INTEREST

Attorney Collins is III town today
from Rosebud.
H. S. Lewis was here Saturday in
attendance upon the republican con-
ton.
On November 1st the Forsyth Meat
Market will do business on strictly
cash basis.
Mrs. Jos. Choisser and Miss Pearl
Kane are the guests Of Birney friends
this week.
Mrs. VERNE Beeman and daughter
and Miss Alice Beeman were visitors
in Billings Tuesday.
r. o. Osgood came down from Ho-
ward Tuesday to represent his pre-
cinct at the Democr attic convention.
p abst beer can be had at the Amer
lean Hotel. BY the case of pints or
quarts. Place an order tod ay.
E. Huntington, one of Rosebud
county's progressive citizens, was in
town Tuesday from Lee and attended
the democratic convent ion.
Positively no credit after Sept. 18th.
All those knowing themselves indebted
please call and settle.
T. ]. Thompson.
Laurin F. Smith, secretary of the
Democratic County Central committee,
returned Sunday from a few weeks
visit to eastern points.
Dave McGillvray and Fletcher Daley,
good citizens and democrats, were IN
town Tuesday from Emmels creek at
tending the convention.
Robt. J. Guy, the Democratic nomi-
nee for sheriff, accompanied by his es-
Unable family, returned to his home
at Rancher Tuesday evening.
DR.. H. J. Ries1and, the celebrated
eye specialist, will be at the American
hotel, Forsyth, from Oct. to and at
the Miles City Hotel annex Oct. Ito u.
Consultation free.
Geo. w. Hubbard, sheriff of Yellow
stone county, was in town Monday and
returned with Sim Roberts, who is
wanted at Billings for DEMONSTRATING.
Capt. Jos. +. Brown, N. J. Humph-
reys, r. Roney, Frank Lacy and Jas.
Haywood, five of Rosebud county's
foremost citizens and good democrats,
were in town Tuesday representing
Birney precinct in the democratic con-
vention. Messrs. Humphreys and
Roney will carry the democratic ban.
ners for commissioner and assessor to
victory on November 4th.
Billings Gazette: The Hysham Cattle
company, whose range is on the Grow
reservation, loaded 100 cars of cattle
at Fort Custer, on the Burlington,
yesterday wednesday, making a total
of five trains, Dhis is the largest
single days shipment that has been
made in eastern Montana for some
time. The cattle were shipped to Chi
cago and Omaha, and some of them
went to ranges on the Pine Ridge.
w. A. Vale of this city had charge of
one of the trains that went to Chicago.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-10-02

grand celebration for their country
cousins Tuesday night. The order of
the evening was grand bonfire on
Main street and the firing of cannon
crackers etc. Fully 400 people wit
messed the event and Capt. JOS. II.
Brown and Chas. z. Pond favored the
gathering with speechmaking which
was received with marked enthusiasm.
On account of the absence for several
months of DR.. Higgins from his dental
Office in Glendive, DR.. Klein will take
charge of his business during the for
mer's absence. DR.. Klein will be at
Rosebud the tenth, eleventh and twelfth;
Forsyth, thirteenth and fourteenth;
G1endive, fifteenth to twenty-sixth;
Forsyth from twenty-seventh to Oct
4th. Other dates will be announced
later.
The first of the new series of United
States postage stamps is to be 49,
center, the first ever issued of this de-
nomination. The face of Benjamin
Harrison will be the center of this
stamp, which braves the hoo-doo of ILL
luck. Its issuance is the outgrowth of
the increased foreign registration SER
vice. 1t will cover the postage and re-
gistration fee upon a letter weighing
one-half ounce anywhere within the
the limits of the postal union.
Professor Chestnut. who is engaged
in Investigating the poison plants of
the Mantana ranges is now particular
ly interested in lupine poisons, and he
is anxious to learn the particulars Of
reported poisoning of sheep in Meagher
county from lupine. He will make an
investigation if he finds that the cir
cumstances as related in the daily pa
pers of the loss of a large number of
sheep in that county are correct. Pro-
fessor Chestnut expects to see another
volume published by the government
next year supplementary to those
already issued of great interest and
practical benefit to them and will give
a warm welcome to a continuation of
the series.
Alder Gulch Times: Geo. Burns,
who has been in Chicago the past six
months taking the X.ray treatment for
cancer of the jaw, arrived at Twin
Bridges on Thursdays train. In con-
versation with Times man, Mr.. Burns
stated that he is entirely recovered.
He states that Miss Flora Davis is at the
same institution in which he took t. eat
ment, and that she is rapidly recover
ing. 1t seems that at last cure for
cancer has been discovered in the X
ray, which burns into the cancer until
it is entirely destroyed. Mr.. Burns
says that large number of patients
is being treated in dozen different in
situations in Chicago. When he went
there six months ago there were but
two institutions of the kind in Chicago.
A lunar eclipse of much more than
ordinary Importance and interest will
occur on the evening of Thursday, Oct.
II. On that the moon will pass through
the shadow of the earth at a point
where the shadow is more than a thou
sand times the diameter of the moon.
The consequence will be that the
eclipse will be total for period of
nearly an hour and half. This
eclipse will occur throughout the
whole of North and South America and
it will also include portion of western
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-10-02

Miss Alice Beeman is here from Gebo
visiting friends and relatives.
E. E. Gould was Billings visitor,
the latter part of last week.
Mrs. Katherine Merrill of the Rose
bud is visiting with Mrs. Levi Guy.
E. Nj. Clifford, son of Agent Clifford,
was greeting friends here the fore part
of the week from Lamedeer.
The loca! lodge of the M. w. A.
gave very enjoyable dance in Alex
ander's hall Saturday evening.
Richmond Mitchell, the Sabra flock
master was here Tuesday in attend
ance upon the Democratic convention.
E. K. Davis and M. M. O'Neill,
good citizens and democr ats, were here
as delegates to Tuesdays convention
from Hathaway.
w. A. Shriver, of the North side,
was here Tuesday as delegate to the
democratic convention and assisted in
Geo. S. Mendenhall, the Rosebud
merchant and enthusiastic democrat,
was among those who attended the
convention Tuesday.
w. A. Shriver was over from the
north side Tuesday and assisted in
the democratic convention in putting
up winning ticket.
Chas. Z. Pond, the democratic can
didate for clerk of the court, returned
to his ranch on the Rosebud yesterday
after spending a few days in town.
Sydney Sanner, the Miles City legal
light, was here Monday as attorney
for the Stockgrowers' association in
the Sim. Roberts horse-stealing case.
The Northern Pacific will make
rate of one fare for the round trip to
those attending the Missoula fair.
Dates of sale, Sept. 80 to Oct. 8; limit
Oct. 4; children half fare.
F. Ramsey, the Kirby stockgrower,
was here Monday and Tuesday and re-
presented his district in the Democra-
tic convention. He reports a good vote
for the entire Democratic ticket at his
precinct in the election.
We call the attention of every voter
of Rosebud county to the telegram of
Attorney General Donovan relative to
the new registration throughout the
county, printed in another column
Don't fail to register. Everybody
must register!
The woo1growers of Montana will be
gratified to learn that the wool market
in Boston is booming, and, according to
the American Wool and Cotton Re.
porter of last week, bigger boom is
expected this week. The wool sales in
Boston alone last week amounted to
1850, 900 pounds, which is nearly
double sales of the week previous. AT
the rate the wool is going it is expect
ed that there will be shortage before
spring, and prices will naturally go
up again.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-10-02

a ticket TO Hunters Hotsprings and
return, including board and baths at
the hotel for one week, for only SO.
Apply n. p. ticket office.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1902-12-17
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