The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-16

ing. Please, please, my customers, give
me your patronage.
japanese sake (brewed from rice) is
a very healthy drink, either in a cool
or hot state.
wv. OTSUKA, the Brewer.
''Sakai, near Osaka, Japan
| Three days by train. through the
Hermit Kingdom" of Korea brings US
to the frontier town of Wi-ju, where
we cross the river to Antung, and for
| the first time set foot upon Chinese
soil. As We cross this boundary the
scene once more changes Now we no
longer have the white trousered Ko-
reans, but a lot of more somberly
dressed Cinnamon, peculiar in the long
pig-tail braid of hair hanging down
their backs, in some cases almost TO
the ground.
Instinctively our thoughts go back to
our childhood days, when China and
| "Chinamen" were household words. We
were told that China lay below our
| land, and we spoke of things reaching
down into the ground to China How
our childish imagination tried to fill
out the picture of how China must be
| located underneath our country.
A temporary narrow gauge railroad
connects Antung on the Korean from
tier with Mukden. We were abundant
/ ly warned that a ride over this road
was next to uncomfortable to white peO-
| pie, but a strong desire to go by land
and TO see the life of the people and
their industries led US to choose this
route in preference to a steamboat
route to the interior of China. We
found that the hardships of this trip
| had not been exaggerated. Small, cold,
comfOrtless cars, over a rough road
| bed at a slow speed, and with long
stops, afforded a strong test TO our
| patience, as ell as our physical en-
durance. The train was almost EQUIV
alent to the Ping Yang street cars On
one steep upgrade the little engine &C
tually stalled, but this was no serious
mishap. They Just backed up. took a
run up the grade and, by the trainmen
getting out and pushing, they readily
| passed over the grade. A little later q
few of the rear cars run off the track
and caused a coupling to break With
| the help of a few of the passengers,
| the trainmen lifted the cars back onto
the track, repaired the coupling and,
in half an hour, were moving on as il
nothing had happened.
The Slow progress of the train and
the long stops at the stations gave us
ample opportunity to observe the agri-
cultural practices. to peek into their
houses and barnyards, to see their live
stock, and even to chase after some of
their odd domestic hogs to get a snap
shot of them to show to the stockmen
at home Much of this portion Of
Manchuria is very mountainous. and
only very limited portion of the area
is actually farmed. The main crop is
corn, though millet and buckwheat are
also extensively produced. Farther
Mnlxdpy1 Dali In, nj
southwest of Pekin, there are extern
sive plains of beautiful farm land
Wheat is here raised in greater guam
titles. Peanuts are also produced as
one of the principal field crops. As we
were passing, we could see natives at
many places, screening the peanuts out
of moulds of soil in which they were
| temporarily buried The fresh roasted
product could be bought so cheap az
cents a pound. that the peanut could
constitute an important element in
even the poor mans diet With our
extraordinary fondness for peanuts, we
found ourselves i'm fine pasture while
travelling I'm this part of China.
Draft animals are extensively used
for farming and transportation. The
odd, two-wheeled cart, which is char
aeteristically Chinese. was to be seen
everywhere. The clumsy wheels are
Oddly constructed Win nedVy feilOeS,
oddly studded with boitsheads. In place
of spokes, a single heavy timber across
the wheel furnishes the hub, and this
timber is held in place by two other
equally clumsy timbers at right angles
to this. To such q two-wheeled cart
we find hitched a team of from four
to seven animals, which may be ponies.
donkeys, mules or cattle, or any COM
| bination of these as might suit the con-
wspience of the operator. The roads.
as a rule, are very poor, SO that this
number of animals of such scrubby
types as these, are actually necessary
to pull load on these heavy carts.
Each faxmstead has, its stacks of
corn fodder. millet. buckwheat and
some other grains, gathered around the