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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28
Less 10
Bankers posted rates were;

DOMESTIC EXCHANGE. - New-OrIeans--C,on
r:ercial par; bank. 81 premium. San Francisco
Sight TIC; telegraph. Zoe. Boston-10c discount
Charleston Buying. par; selling, I-10c premium
ChicaGo-i5c premium Cincnnati-25c premium,
Savannah-BuynE. soc discount; selling 75c nrs
MUM. st. Louis-55c premium MinneapoIis-S1
premium.
BANK CLEARINGS.-New- York - Exchanges
sis6 10 sol: balances. s13 $4,000. Baltimore-Ex-
changes, $272s4Ol; balances $497.SSS Boston-Ex
changes &S 697 23S balances. SllS7Ol. Philadelphia
Exchanges S17.766012: balances. 3255O2S Chicago
EXCHANGES, S2i.73s Col; balances Sl,STS, go.
FOREIGN MONEY MARKET.-Can money In
London 2Q21z per cent. Open market discount
rate short bills 2G2 lilo per cent? for long bills
l-l6a2is per cent. Berlin discount rate per
cent Berlin exchange London, 20 marks 40ls
pfennies. Paris exchange rate, per cent. Paris
exchange on London % francs 10 confines
FOREIGN SECURITIES.-British consols for
money. 90 3-l6: for the account, 50 3-16 French
reutes. 81 francs 1919 confines.
SILVER MARKET.-Bar silver. 55a4c; Mexican
silver dollars. 44sc Bar silver in London closed
% ll-l6d.
GOLD PREMTUM.-In Madrid, $3.50; Lisbon "a.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28

METALS TIN-The London tin market was IN
advanced - a.. closing Tia l5s % Locally was
COPPER was nrEer in London dosing an advance Of
H - IT, 10 rs % !o- spot ana o. s ~ L2r fut4Its
vas qsleI ana unchanged Lake l5a ~ electro
claei Is % 10 III us "a London. remained
I4 i5i1 81 r, in New IR6N1ITon cI5ss5
koeaiy iron TsH25 qg.e ana T'h 81. e5sy tone
> foundry Northern al sli 25q$l4 .. No foundry
Sl2 -. Is lIoh % %T yi1Ss i al So and
caangei. We quote: New-oreans. centrifugal 1laI3c
far l54i5o good leqslg prime Z2aZ5e' New-orleans
6cFAH FREiGTs demand for steam tonnage
continued light in all departments with rates In many
aimed bur orders for vessels were scarce
Qaoai.ons 70 LlysrEoqi Gsss2w ana Antwerp. nj Ion
Sc,;case nominsI iIantIirg 10 rfEs Bremen FL
pigs Soften 70 yeTPo per 100 n l2 Coo London oats
eam. hence 10 shanghai &c july; Norwegian steamer
Jure. British steamer. 12a7 TONS timber. sepelo 70
United Kingdom or contEenti private terms prompt
LhsTTqol s5s. PROMPT; Danish steamer 7s7 steel
Friush steamer. SOS tons coal philadelphia 70 St John
DuEk 10 Phiiadefha private terms Italian bark si3
ns cat Phaaeip 5 10 ~ JohS y b PIi'Ste terms
larhs u and 49, tons lumber Nova Scotia to Buen,s
same. from Weymouth British schooner. SIS tons.
scialatr az tons hence to United states colombia and
British schooner. 1873
T.. central america and back private terms, British
,eho -" tons. Lumbar, jacksonville 10 Fort de
y Arthur rhiiadelrhia 50 10 schooner. 45e tons
f,l,3 coal. philadelphia 10 SALEM private
tIg lumber BrunswicE 10 NeW-York S. 25 and % 800
fe, switch ties. lcc and extra sevedorng. schooner
schooner 90 tons lur,ser Norf TX 70 New-Yoi 81 10
81! aroncr tons coai PhiladelpEa to Par;sniout6
sle r. n ~ ten s dsys scbo5 5i 'nT S sG9
cal PhadeTh@ 70 GioGeesier $40: British steamer
e2ii tons TIMBER. Calf Holland and coast United
Kingdom 7ss %. July: German bark. $500 cases
cottorseed Oh Was steady with interest centred
in the august option Business was on rather small
prices Refined petro.eum is quiet and unchanged
tiSS va" iiI e Ia irin. Dds. - I5i bulk
eTs Sio ~ Fe ei $40 500 water white
f2 lo gJ.a . az "a5S5 Th,!S Eases NeW-York *l3 So
iii,S' -. tt.Te simmer yeiioN &ose; on sum
@4e out 81 iowa raw. asg4oc Calcutta raw csc LARD
PRovisIoNs-rhe provision market opened nrn and
a.9er ref s ne small receipts together with
aIy buyers took profits the market gradually hardened
understood Of the big packing hSustH b
So SuRng eIess in The market Chicago receipts
We. 56ooo PoRK-steady Quoted: Mess $40 ia
i oao.ee: Ness Sass So: fs1i9 So so5sio TO-
qasted az sa sais o 5fdeSig BEEE
c5 te@ 1so oSaiea; asqn &c; $50 n G.c n
Gi.c picked shoaIdcrs Gu quoted a, p Gee u 10
hems dull quoted 81 9QlOc TALLow1steaa,tr VS Ike,
90 county, l $500 LARI-FITm; quoted at G. Sc
South Aneriea 95e: continsnt Gsc Razii Regl
RIc4;Tb r 0sc; ' y oSS ARA stearae &c.
prime choice s7a4i.e issd l&@ssfS So Pa ai3
'asS tlfgS15e; Rsnsoen ,i in hosa 2'.g2sc
unchanged Thee an be boiiss 1 ~ was firm hut
4 - 9aaIaay and Noaesy tTcos asoea net Ices !
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28

~ 4SN-Io-oay's cotton market. might been
tAccteo was very small affair. The larger operators
ti-t1 content 70 allow their commitments stau5 over
@ hollaays and left the market evening up
give prices any DISTINCT tendency either
~ cables The main item tnerefd the v-atber
rms proved somewhat Disappointing the smaller
eloIts, as the map showed in the East
~ oeIt OF coHseouence ana after opening steady
MODERATE demand 70 net of NG13 points
crop positions leading advance 5i5 not evel,p
any bun support, and little later when the early d..
nland had suosded the market of u about IN
changed 70 points above the prices OF the previous
et on scattering liquidation and reports predictions
lI showers IN the dry sections sunday. In
AFTERNOON there another on tie large ms
winch amounted 10 about 2lO09 for ne 6av an
We're cneIy from New-Orleans b Great Tsrirs
reward the close there hun supu0r It
me room was disposed 10 sell market gft ~
esE al rpont the lowest FOR the Old crop new
range net InchanEe1 10 points higher.
mated e. loOOOO bags The domestic cotton rar-s MN
not reopen Tor business until Tuesday morning Ty4oi
VIII Dc open on Monday. Superiutendsnt ns,s yssr,
movement ngures follows Port receiufg ~ ~,
bales against $500 haes wear. overland "a -rs
So9tefn NH takngs estimated 5000 bales against
oOO pales last year loss Il interior towns II
o<s oalee against 1876 bales
sight tor the week 4oss3 bales 5sl Iale
yea. AoA crop movement; Pot receipts 3S7 90 Ia e.
against aogoOlS bales last
Sansos U.S. lss bales against lO32 bales sst
southern mill taklngs. estimated. 1881 bales sraisi
liSooOJ bales ast wear interior towns IN So
OF september j. l35OS4 bales. against "a s3s ses -,
year: brought into sight thus Tor season -5 4-s
heleh against lOas5 5s5 bales year The total -
movement Is Tor go DAYS this season aearS. 25i ~
IN 1e021O3. -'- 81 Gays
day was follows; " ma h'l To-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28

ne ieea nsrkei for SPOT cotton closed Quiet al l.
points advance on the basis ~ ~ for mid sna
aae IS &c LOT mlaclng Gull sales Jl bales 10 sia
markets were teegraphed as follows sfgt- ~ ~
changed at l2Ec Savannah easy 1.rctstae5 10 In
40 Dalet5 naresi0n and Wilmington uCt.trrl. ~,
IoE seaos, g9enanred a. lac: sales H. bales Eaa4e
noIinal al 1880. 81 Louis Gull nnr hat.,rl -
Galveston quiet. uncnarrsG rt I2z-r. e., g.
unehaheeo AT l2sc, sales, 1850 lal,s Mrfnr6!- tIrt
hLclaneed az u sales bales
- leaClhg points fo- - morrow Az Nr1r cans -, NJ
-tes Sstifst 81 last week and 3T74 Lass ,esr
90 NsStoa 90 20 SEQ bales. last week and
80 last week and 2A3 al .ea- ~ ''7~--''-
heeep6 OF cotton az The ports today AID for the
week as compared with tot.i - -. r rrc,1ns q
cf this week last wear: i-'''N' ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28

syYoii q s5sls s T Essls Pas,.. IsSs5
SsSRa g1,t Esp' I Issss Total no
FLOUR AND McAL-selleTs ~ -four reported very
little enocuragement; bids remaining Inueh under the
stoady Spring patents. IS 2oGs5 90: wnteT sraishts
Sass coz extEe No T,Rts5 s. G1si' extra No winter
sa5l gsa e5ojss s$ 5.s;s % 69R !;
[ 5.fHa 81 4 as q SoSTse 81 6Sasi IL FEEDseady
9uoiei: western spring. s2I .: standard niddng:
81 . aol. 20; 5ssassq 20 buiE ana Sacks m6dng
S-aS24 So dog. So honny chop S2l. bulk; S2 %,
,;fiIX-E, IF:A with much news bea-ish the
a eos @ Tas net Unchanged to sc above previous
lt traders ss Class facing brace Of holidays wanted
o.c2n up accounts. There was no wheat on the
M, ~. mice INDEPENDENTLY Of the news at hand
w at m Sa' was Hnuenced by the larger receipts
Seag2 stTgsslea marc OYER p t 1850 Icstion tbrouE
the day. 1t finally announced thait would re-
aandert Crop news was all OF favorable nature.
being quite satisfactory except that it was
snow. The Modern Miller and Jones OF Minneap0!ls
ana spring wheat outlook Although Minneapolis stocks
larger western receipts mprobablty that Manitoba
po,ats vii sho" any SuSA i so,ly statement on
tuesday me about cosis; down OF Mnneapo,
down referred possible closing from Friday night
3 600 Sash or saeThat less than eEpecei making
Br 5E cable said that rain stu urgently needed
in Hungary Based present prospects the wheat crop
estimated about l2lOOO@O bush OF y Per
years outturn or lolt-OoVvO push
crop five is li5,A4iuo bush no
I'd closed 10 nominal. aioat; no NoTuerh
Duluth. 81 O3as. ahOat- COFN-IheFe We're yus'
in the local corn market al Gay
Owing heavy receipts the price consideraoy lower
i1S4c below the previous night Al ohcso
cars expected saturday and 1000 cars NEXT
Monday. total interior movement OF corn ms Week
about 700 bush larger last. No corn closed
in this G2GG4c elevator and 5S'2c o aA9ati
No white Gee and No yellow. Coo, L aiioat ne
weather was favorable for sections and few
crop complaints heard oATSThe market Tor oats
in Chicago unusually active. with crop news nealsh
hut good demand evidence from shorts; which kePt
tne market steady about all day. Locally the cash
showed little change closing STEADY HAed oats
G48c: natural white 80gS2 10 4N1 "c, ana
cliTped white 2GGso 10 5OG52c. RYEMarket slow; No
Western, zoe spot. BARLEY inactive; teelinG was
Quoted acc c { New-York. and mailing. 3ogtSc' c I
Buffalo. ,- -s,-
four Clearances Tor the week endlng
Nav 81 according 'BradsJreets eSgregate 3[l
bush against 1.25 7G3 bush last week and push
Since 1903. they aggregate lZ0S*Zol
bush against SD bush last Corn exports
fo- the week 28s 695 bush 1881 last week and
I7s year. Since July corn exports aggregate
80 Gas. zoe bush. against eLS7ls5l last season
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28
THE DAYS OPERATIONS IN BONDS.

RAILROAD BONDS-Market irregular. Total
sales amounted in par value to sll26.c)o against
81 C;IC00 on Friday The heaviest dealings were in
the Atchson general As Central Of Georgia IS Cen
trial Pacific IS. Chicago. Burlington ana quincy 4s
Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific collateral trust
o.. McSiran Central Is and FIRST incomes. oregon
short Line s. Reading general Is. s; Louis South
western second incomes and consolidated IS Union
Pacific first AID convertible As and United States
Steel o. were also active.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28

MONEY AND EXCHANGE.

MONEY MAEkET.-Money on call opened al II.
per cent; highest as per cent; lowest Ia per cent:
last loan IA per cent; closed. 1fi per cent ruling
rate. Ia per cent. Time money was quoted az 2I2
pcr cent FER sixty days "a cent for ninety days
Per cent for four months. and 3d3rs per cent for
I'VE and six months. Commercial paper was quoted
at 3f.44i4 per cent for sixty to ninety DAYS 4dp.
FER cent for four to six months, and per cent for
others.
FOREIGN EXCTIANGf.-Market closed strong
ActnaI closing ratcs follow:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28
SECURITIES PRICES WEAK.
oJOTATIONS GO DOWN ON LIGHT DAYS TRADI1
Banks s9OOOO0O Cash Weeks Estimated Increment
Detroit Southern Shares Slump

GOVERNMENT NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. receipts
reported from Washington 1852 O73 internal revenue
receipts 6294s; miscellaneous receipts. Sl4S0oo Re
ceipts for the day. $7635S7 expenditures Si9SOcOo
Receipts for the month to date. S3S,296,'sO; ex-
penditures. $92,I40Oo0; excess Of expenditures
$53 S4S, 2G. Receipts for the fiscal year TO date,
$is9 sos $751; expenditures $5 29359S; excess of ex-
penditures. $51.3S.,637.
SUB-TREASURY.-The Su5-Treasury was debtor
to the Clearing House. SS25.033
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28

fors,sn cones market dull No 4
mens for the United States 1000 bags; shipments
Europe. LOCO bags; stock 6l5oO0 bags SantOsCoffee
market weak Santos $1,000: receipts 600
bags: stock $4,000 bags Ha,nburgCofee market opened
unchanged: 2:30 p net UNCHANGED 10 ! Of
higher sales. $4,000 bags Esvre-Conee opened
barely steady and unchanged; at - unchanged 3
m advanced = frame. at $50 N unchanged total
sales 21,000 bags. stock bags which 656 gl
respectively.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28
BONDS.

7 & = As 1914 T Il Oregon L 4s-... 94as -
h!c & Alt BIS. 7SA 4 Reading gen Is. 9S%4 + y
= r & z Il r L, w I'd inc. q -1l9
Col r 5s....... 50 r II Tn Pac IS. 96s -
'onsol Tob Is. 60 r Is U r Z OF S z As IS y
Mex Cen Is. 64 , Wis gen As. 9O1s Y =
do lSt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28
STOCKS.

Closing prices yesterday of the principal active
securities and net changes from Thursdays quo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28
AMERICAN SECURITIES ABROAD

London. May p. 3 p. m.-The market for Amcri-
low
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28

CONSOLIDATED EXCHANGE SALES.
STOCKS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28
THE FEDERAL TREASURY.

Washington. May 27.-The condition OF the Treas
ury. divisions OF issue and redemption at tn,
beginning Of business to-day was as follows:
RESERVE FUND.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28
BALTIMORE STOCKS.

lls.a4a Total sales for the day 'Unlisted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28

FURNISHED sy Van schalcIs & Co.. No. walls
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dag, Nag "a 1904: = 'l-ee III
Net receipts N an I-r,,.as .,...- Bales.
4''itH s4ufing
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-19
A MOST CUTTING REBUFF,
Very Smart Fellow Fittingly Re.
buked by One Whom He
Sought to Mortify.

Many stories are told of Mcdonald
Clarke, known so years ago in New
York as the mad poet" which show
that he had a vein of great s%hrewdness,
such as is often possessed by people
who are counted insane, says the Sun.
One day he was seated at a table in
a New York hotel quietly eating his
simple dinner when two young men
took their seats at the same table. Nc
Donald Clarke was a well-known figure,
and the young men at once recognized
him, though he did not know them.
They were not gentlemen in the best
sense of the word, and it occurred to
them that they might have some sport
with the poor poet. Consequently one
of them said in an unnecessarily clear
tone:
> Il have seer almost everything and
everybody in New York except McDon-
aid Clarke. I have a great admiration
for his poems, and | would give a great
deal to see the man."
When he passed the mad poet leaned
forward and said with evident gratifi-
cation:
"Sir, | am Mcdonald Clarke, whom
you say you wish to see"
The young man stared at him with
much rudeuess for a moment, and then
drawing a quarter from his pocket, he
laid it on the poets plate, saying:
That's for the sight"
Clarke looked at the coin for an in
slant, and then placing it in his pocket,
he took out a york shilling" 1914
cents. This he handed to the young
man, saying gravely: Children hall
nrice."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-19
The People Who Count.

The prevailing idea that the people
who count most are those possessing
wealth or powerful position or fame is,
all things considered, a mistaken one,
Wealth, positions Of power and fame
count a great deal, it is true; in specific
instances they carry the desired point
of their possessor, and speciticinstances
are vital things. But, taking the sum
total of the results of the efforts of hui
manity, we must look to the great I'M
known, the common people, as the ones
who really count. The millions whose
lots are comparatively humble and whose
worldly goods are few represent the
highest and mightiest race force. They
control the power that makes and I'M
makes nations. They are the dispas-
sionate. the even class. They busy them
selves with the common, everyday occu-
pations; they live quietly and contented-
ly where the measure of their fortunes
is cast. Just plain, ordinary people, one
may think, but they are the people who
determine the destiny of the world. They
are the ones who count.-Baltimore Her
aid
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-19
Arsenic Proof Rats.

For years the French peasant has reg.
ularly laid in large quantities of so-called
rat-killing mixtures, whose chief con-
stituent is usually arsenic. But at it's
last meeting the Academy of Sciences
discussed the question of rat destruc-
ton, and the eminent scientist, M. OAR
sonval, affirmed that, as a result of ex-
periments made by M. Bordas, rats are
able to resist the effects of arsenic for an
extraordinarily long period. They can
absorb a dose seven times greater than
any other animal of the same size, and
in time may ever become accustomed to
doses of arsenic that seem incredible.
M. Bordas declares that he has seen rats
absorb without any apparent i'll eff
fects, and during long periods, a quantity
of arsenic, corresponding to five
grammes. So that while the confiding
French farmer has been pinning his
faith to arsenical rat-killing prepara-
tons he has been wasting his money and
feeding the rodents on something on
which they appear to thrive.-Londor
Globe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-19
AUSTRALIAN TOTEM LORE,
The Spirit of the Ancestor Is Asso-
6 ciated with the Stick He
Carried.

An interesting report of the investi.
cations by Prof. Baldwin Spencer into
the question Of ''totemism" in Australia
is given in a Melbourne paper. Various
myths, it seems, exist as to the origin of
the totem, says the st. James Gazette.
The aborigines believe that in what they
call the dream times there lived beings,
half animal, half plant, which were
transformed into human beings, and
wandered about making the natural
features of the country. Each ancestor
carried a stick, and with that stick the
spirit OF the ancestor is associated. Each
place where an ancestor has wandered is
believed to have a spirit, such, for in
stance as an emu spirit, a kangaroo
spirit, and so forth; and each child born
in that particular place is, say, an emu
child or a kangaroo child, and so on.
Thus it is that each child has its totem.
AS to the ceremonial, If a or
child see it, the eyes are put out or death
inflicted. The professor was initiated
by one group, and was thus permitted
to see the ceremonies. The iniators be-
daubed themselves with ochre. down,
and their own blood, and, after going
through a grotesque dance, related to
the novices the doings CT the ancestor.
The aborigines believe that reincarna-
ton is continually going on, so that
many living people are accepted as rein
carnations of some celebrity. AS to the
religious or magical aspect, every per-
son believes he has influence over the
animal or plant after which he is called,
even to the extent Of causing it to in
crease. AS a rule. the totem is edible,
and in the great majority of cases the
totem is the food supply, wherefore the
power of increasing the totem is of i'm
%portance. The aboriginal rarely eats
his W totem, but he has no objection to
giving it to others to eat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-19
COST OF CANADA'S CANALS.
Enormous Outlay for Waterways That
Are of But Little CONNER
cial Value.

For many years the government of the
dominion OF Canada has devoted much
labor and an enormous amount of money
to the improvement of the water. ways of
the country. While these have undoubt-
eddy had their effect in cheapening the
cost of transportation, it is the opinion
of many that the compensation has
scarcely justified the cost.
According to the minister of railways
and canals the government has already
spent on canals $1O2, 4S4 ,545. an amount
slightly in excess of the outlay author
lied for the improvement of the Erie
canal, by the much larger population of
New York. 1t is the time-honored pol-
icy of Canada to improve its natural
water ways and construct artificial ones.
The result has been, as Commercial
Agent Hamilton at Cornwall points ort,
the development of the ditch seven feet
wide and two and a half feet deep into
the magnificent artificial water way $50
feet wide. with not less than IA feet of
water. Since the confederation of Can
ada in 1867 the canals have been under
operation by the dominion govtrnment.
The total expenditure on canal stat and
maintenance, repairs and renewals for
1902 was 1894, 0S0.
The Cornwall canal, which overcomes
the Lang Sault rapids. is lighted and OPP
Grated throughout its entire length by
electricity. Arc lamps Of 1900 candle
power are placed every 400 feet. making
the line as clear by night as by cay. Ali
gates are operated by ive-horse rowe"
electric motors.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-19
TUBERCULOSIS I'M CHINA.
It Is Common Because of the Miser-
able Way in Which the
People Live.

The great prevalence of tuberculosis
among the Chinese can, it is believed,
be accounted for in a great measure
by the extreme insanitary conditions
under which the poorer classes live,
and the filthy habit of expectorating
anywhere in the houses and on the
streets. Sutum thus deposited indoors
is allowed to have full sway for about
a year, as the majority of the Chinese
assay to clean up only at Chinese
New Year, and there is present at all
times in, the domiciles of the lower
classes every condition demanded for
luxuriant microbic growth-flth, heat,
moisture, darkness, says a report by
Surgeon Ransom, in Shanghai, to Sur
geon General Wyman.
The powers of resistance are with
the Chinese at lowest ebb, due proba-
bly, in a great measure to the fact thai
the average native subsists on a poor
quality Of food, that he is poorly
clothed, and still more poorly housed,
1t is nothing unusual to find five or
more adults with perhaps two or three
children living with all that the term
implies sleeping, cooking and eating)
beneath the deck of a sampan in a
space eight feet long, six feet wide, and
less than three feet deep. They are
literally packed in, and if the weather
happens to be a little damp or cold
every crevice for the access or egress
Of air is carefully closed. These living
quarters are practically entirely below
the water line. On shore the over
crowding is not quite so bad, but it il
only a shade better.
The Chinese eat chiefly rice, a littl+
meat OR fish being added for the sake
Of flavor, when there is sufficient mon
ey on hand to purchase such luXuries
The fish is often far from fresh, ant
the meat is generally that which ha:
been condemned as unfit for the CON
sumption of the foreigners, and is al
lowed, in the foreign settlements, to bt
sold to Chinese.
In the matter of clothing, more at
tention is paid to providing thick Gov
ering for the body, especially abouI
the chest, while the legs are frequent
ly covered, even in the coolest weather
by but one thickness of very thin cot
ton trousers. The coolies are general
ly entirely barefooted.
1t can hardly be wondered at then
that tuberculosis gains such a foot
hold in soil that is thus probably eX
ceedingly we'll prepared, and that Chi
nese as a race succumb to almost an,
disease which attacks them.