Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-22

tons, wonderful Industrial development
has manifested itself In the district OF
Ghilkiang, the chief city OF which is Tung
Chow. There has been established cot
ton mill OF over 5000 spiudles for nne
yarn. with English machinery, employing
2,5Oe hands, and capable OF turning out
30 900 bales annually.
In the other mills there Is machinery
on German. American. japanese, and some
Of Chinese make. There IL a mill for ex-
tracing oil from cottonseed, the waste
product Of which also hnds a good market
as a fertilizer; a hour mill, with a eapac-
ity Of 100000 pounds annually; a dyeing
factory for cotton and silk fabrics; a can
ming factory for meat, FISH etc; factory
for spinning and weaving silk. and what
win eventually be a dockyard for build
ing steam launches end their machinery,
but has at present only the plant for boil
erriakdns.
Outside the south gate of Tung Chow
there is a printing establishment for books
and maps and a soap factory. On the ISL
and Of Tsung- ming, on the Yangtse, there
IL cotton mill and large brick factory.
the latter employed in supplying bricks for
the numerous buildings still in course of
erection. In addition to these eleven es-
Adjustments nineteen more are projected
or in course OF erection; among them
cotton weaving factory is already sufici-
emily advanced to admit OF the instruction
OF mill hands who will later carry on the
work. All these factories are well built,
work by steam power, and are lighted by
electricity.
Sir Herbert Maxwell. chairman OF the
British Royal Commission on tuberculosis,
renews the old and generally neglected
warning against the white -four, which
most persons persist in regarding as the
best He writes: "Steel rollers have re-
placed the old milstones. and the modern
product consists of starch. which is
heat-giver, but not fesh-former, in the
proportion OF about seven and one-half
parts to every one part OF heterogeneous
matter producing muscle and bone. Those
who know what they are about, and can
AFFORD to have their bread baked at home,
are careful to purchase seconds -four.
which contains the skin Of the hulled
grain as we'll as the kernel, only the llgne-
GUS husk having been removed. Bakers.
as a rule, cannot afford to use seconds
-four, not because IL is dearer than the
ovef-re1hed stunf-in fact 1t is considerably
cheaper-but because the bread 1t produces
is not dead-white. but cream colored, and
the bulk OF customers pronounce 1t to be OF
inferior quality. They won't look at III
and cooks dislike It, because it will not
rise so readily as the other, nor make
such elegant pastry, Much capital was
made by free-food orators during the cleo
tions out OF the black bread eaten by the
laboring classes on many parts of the con-
tinent, and country electors we're warned
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formers were allowed to have their way.
The name Is repugnant to those accus-
toned to what they consider the finest OF
the wheat; nevertheless, black bread con-
tains all the flesh formers In an inferior
Kind OF grain, and therefore is real food;
whereas most Of the iesh formers have
been expelled from modern bakers white
bread which is in no sense real food,
but only supplement to diet. There is no
question Of introducing black bread In this
country; only one OF restoring the pristine
virtue to white bread"
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Speaking OF the transfer Of the control
o. the Chinese imperial maritime customs
from the hands of Sir Robert Hart to
those of Chinese authorities, a Shanghai
correspondent writes to a London journal:
Apart from guaranteeing the service and
redemption OF the loans (Which have nearly
forty years still to rum and the regular
collection of the revehue-which no Chi
nese administration could be trusted to do
1T Is well to remember that there are
few OF the forms of progressive activity
shown by the Chinese government in re-
cent years which the customs has not
either originated or guided Education.
statistical work, the postal service. for
eign relations. naval reorganzation--in
these and many other matters the Chinese
have followed the genius of Sir Robert
Hart and have profted by the loyal work
OF the foreign collectorate. But the light
house system. in particular, affords strik
ing example Of good work eficiently and
economically done with those revenues
which the Chinese now desire to devote
to other and less landable purposes-work,
be It observed. essential 10 the navigator
and trader in the far east, and work
which the celestial, left 10 himself would
neither originate nor maintain
The report that Prince George of Greece
Is soon 10 retire from the position of high
commissioner OF crete and to he succeeded
by n Greek statesman seems to have caused
much excitement and Indignation in Crete.
adopted the other day by eighty of the 100
members OF the Cretan assembly, and for
warded TO King George of Greece: I'VE,
members of the Cretsn assembly. repre-
sentIng the great majority OF the Cretan
people are disturbed by the persistent ru-
mors that Prince George is to be super
seded. We. the said deputies. holding that
Prince Georges remaining in Crete is the
sole guarantee OF speedy union and secur-
ity for public order, both at present and
in the future, and that his retirement
would create a condition at once abnormal
and dangerous do submit an earnest petit
ton to your majesty TO avert the proposed
scheme, which would involve fatal conse-
ouences. We furtheA cherish the convic-
ton that the protecting bowers will not
allow a scheme so ruinous tn the island.
that Prince George will continue in his
post, that your majesty will duly weigh the
DANGERS that would FOLLOW were national
sentiment aroused among the great ma
jority Of the Cretan people. and that your
ma jhsty will succeed In averting these dan
gefA by securing Prince Georges continued
presence in the island" An English cor
respondent at Canea writes that interfer-
encs with Prince George would be likely
to provoke revolution