The farmer and mechanic., 1907-04-23

''@i' Ha~sfh@ concentrated ten mar FsSFs
| Ten cents nn ounce ar over. 80 the
13"or IL IL hot winter with : few tea
; i"itN"s dipped 4u aud - hr very poor
: IL ~ simply hot water. bBt every family
| iiaS its teapot Kept over = ftrt All day
| Tor use and they 10 not use cold water.
| Everything Vas served In round
| h""fS without bandiss ana supposed
70 De eaten with chop sticks. For the
soup peculiar short handled china
spoon was used We had thesiae-
some dishes which / couldn't labeD
sour kraut. eggs. shredded meat lecks.
SAT- turnlp, bean sauce. leak sauce. egg
soup, flat cakes about half dough and
hodge podge which is dough with
meat balls enclosed. Fearing that
might offend their susceptibil5ticS BY
diSr"sing too hastily II an old friend.
such as the family cat or dog touch
cd this last sparingly Rice was also
served which was half gfey-not be-
ing mi!ied ana each grain coated with
paraifin az IS the case with all rice
served IN America. II took us n
good while - learn 20 hanlle the chop
SUCKS ana ! am not an expert vet.
Rice, however. is easy as II is etiquette
70 put the bowl 10 the mouth and
shovel the rice ia like shov-lling coal
INTO furnace After the meal we
We're offered sam-chow which is the
chine national strong drink cOrre-
spending to the Japanese sake and the
Russian vodka.
While we were dining the sleepers
alb woke uD and came in To see the
animals feed ana to welcome the
visitors i'm their kindly Chinese way
by asl, ing questions. TO ask personal
questions is the Chinese way Of show
ing interest in visitors. and they would
be surprised if it was resented.
FARMER therefore answered them full
Is and clahorately explained that we
| cach had three wives which was the
reason that We were travelling 50 far
from home; that he was 40 and I -
which accounted for our having
mustaches: that we were both Greek
officers, etc. They secured n
good many wonderful details and
believed it implicitly. They fingered
until we had rolled ourselves in our
blankets and gone to sleep, when they
regretfuly withdrew.
. interviewed some thirty Chinese
merchants and bankers next dav ana
left for Kyan-ching-tze IT 8 p m that
night
AT Taeling, place with q large
Chinese population. and held by two
regiments of Japanese soldiers, with
not a single white man in it, | was
surprised TO see arranged in a circle
over the main city gate large posters
advertising Pin Head Cigarettes
made of "Old North Carolina Leaf"
The British American Tobacco Com
p@ny and the Japanese Tobacco Co
AhoIopoiS ttIe III SiCllFc ofHDclllloH IL
Manchuria and both advertise extern
sively, out the British American To-
bacco Company, which is the only
American, or rather semi american
company Git operates under a British
charter, but is mainly owned by
AmerlcanS) that goes after this trade
in the right way, has advertised so eX
tensively that it is driving its cOmpe--
ltor from the field The PIN Head
Cigarette" is one Of their best selling
tAr..al n W. IL N:,a.,x
the English words, but he recognizes
the trademark or chop. This COM
p1ny also puts advertisements in the
Chinese language. They have spent
thousands in advertising in Manchu-
ria, and it pays them to do so. If 9TH
er American concerns were to initiate
the enterprise of this company they
could also secure results For instance
1T would pay some of our mill men to
advertise the chops made by them.
At present the Chinese buy these en-
tirely on the "chop' but in some |
places our cloth is being largely dis |
placed by the cheaper but inferior |
Japanese. Posters headed with the |
mill chop and written in Chinese, call |
ing attention to the superior quality, |
finish and strength of our goods |
would stop part of this. The China |
man is naturally curious, as of ali |
men he has the most time to read ad-
and posters. | have |
SCtIl a CloNu SltiiI loI 11dlL dlI IL )Nti
around Japansese patent medicine
poster. While those who could read
read it to those in the crowd who
could not.
on the way to the station at failing,
which is q mile from the town, we
had q funny experience. We had sent |
our grips on by a Chinese cart and
We're walking behind, when we ran
across a Japanese private who had
been celebrating the Mikado's birth
day pretty freely. He wanted to fight
us for Russians, but knew little
Japanese, and finding that we were
English and American, he enthusiast
ticallv declared that we were all allies
and dragged us into shop for q bot
tie of beer AS it WAS either fight Or
drink, and we had plenty of time,
we pretended to drink with him. He
drank first, after the Japanese style,
to show that the drink was safe, aid
then passed us the glass He then
hilariously insisted on seeing us sac
to the station. This he did by strut
ting ahead of us in the darkness and
shouting in Japanese "Disperse,'
"DisDerse' to every one he mn1,
while we followed chuckling behind I1
him Most of the coolies we met
hastily dispersed but if they We're not
quick enough he promptly kicked :
them into the ditch and sWagGered on.
he ran into four big TartaTs
Il mandarin IN q. Sedan cf1alI. |
They seemed DISPOSED to stand their
ground, but he was plucky little
devil and lit into them head fore
most AS it was none of our fight, we
went on, but looking back in the
darkness, saw Cinnamon fleeing right
and left. I reminded Farmer of the Is
agreement but he
thought there was not left more than
one opposing the Jap, and that he
was under the Jap so we went on
and bought our tickets and were trv-
ing to find seats when our NlVaclous
soldier friend dishevelled but trl-
burst in on us again, and
Seizing q hand of each, forcibly insist
ed that we go home with him and I
make a night of it, We We're both
bigge men than he, however and
dragged him into the car with us, and
finally persuaded him that we had to
go north on business. He thereupon If
said that he would give US good seats,
hustled a fat old glass buttoned man
DARN and his two wives into a corner,
kicked a couple of Chinese out. ana {
threw their bundles on their heads /
after them, and then with q grandilo-
quent wave of his hand invited us to
De seated. The car started just then +,