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cut or in the hands of supposed hostile
interests, as has been the case in Mica
ragua it would be virtually impossible
for the officials at Washington to re-
ceve any dependable communications
from the American representatives In the
trouble zone or to send cabegrams to
these representatives with any certainty
that they would reach their final destina-
ton in ungarbled form.
Now, however, the situation is very diff
ferent, thanks to the distance-annihilat
ing invention. Practically every warship
of any importance in the United States
Navy is equipped with a wireless tele-
graph installation. Such equipment and
qualified operators are found even on the
smaller cruisers and gunboats such as
have perforce. had a monopoly of the re-
cent service in Nicaraguan harbors. ow-
ing to the fact that the water in the
principal harbors of that republic is too
shallow to accommodate our battleships.
The wireless. of course, only half way
solves the difficulty of communication
with an American consular or diplomatic
officer marooned in an interior city but
1t enables the officers of a warship to
promptly report to Washington local con-
ditions in the coast towns and the result
of first-hand Investigations, or the SUBJ
stance of the most reliable current re-
ports as to the situation in the interior.
OF course, the value of the wireless for
this class of work will be greatly in
creased when the Navy Department con-
structs In Washington the lofty steel and
concrete tower that is expected to enable
the transmission of wireless messages
5000 miles,
In view of the reports which have
reached this country from Nicaragua re-
garding the alleged opening of letters ad-
dressed to Americans-not even except
ing the mail Of Uncle Sans representa-
tives-it is interesting to note the precau-
tions which this government takes to
safeguard the contents of its correspond
ence with our officials abroad. The most
important of these confidential missives
are dispatched through the State Depart
ment, the President usually transmitting
any instructions he has to give via this
medium. All correspondence with am
bassadors and ministers goes through the
diplomatic bureau. but when. as in the
present case In Nicaragua. the American
envoy is absent from his post and a
United States consul is the ranking Off
cial the correspondence is. theoretically
at least, carried on through the consular
bureau of which Herbert c. Hengstler is
chief. AS a matter of fact. however,
when things are at an acute stage the
correspondence with the American repre-
sentatives in the turbulent region Is all
prepared under the close personal super
vision of Wilbur j. Carr. chief clerk of
the State Department. and Assistant Sec
rotary Alvey A. Adee, Uncle Sans prin-
cipal oracle on precedent and diplomatic
usage.
It may surprise many readers TO learn
that the State Departments correspond
ence-that is, the mail correspondence
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viceroy and the smokestacks of his ar
senals. These were in the city of Han
Yang, whose houses cover the north
bank of the Yangtse as far as the eye
can reach. 1t was at this point that we
crossed over to the walled city of VIII
chang on the opposite side Of the Yangtse.
Tho city stands high over the river, and
we came to anchor at one Of the granlte
stairWays which lead up to the bund.
The viceroy had fixed the hour of our
coming, and had sent two of his carriages
to bring us to the palace. One would
have sufficed for the consul and myself,
for neither is fat; but it was more cour-
teous to send two, and so two we had.
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Kaiser OF Germany, and his over is
greater than that OF the car BY raising
his hand he can throw man into prison,
and with a wink of his eye can slice OF
a head
The viccroyalty of Hukwang lies about
600 miles inland from the Pacific. 1t -
cut by the Yangtse-Kiang. and it includes
the two provinces of Hupeh and Human.
Hupeh is bigger than Missouri and Its
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up the steps from the river to the streets
which line the bluff.
During this voyage our captain steered
us through shipp ng such as can be
seen nowhere outside of China. There
We're ocean liners which had come
up the Yangtse-kiang for tea; Chinese.
Japanese, British and French river
steamers, and hundreds of great Chinese
junks with smaller craft of all sizes.
AS We passed the Han river. which flows
into the Yangtse between Hankow and
Han Yang. we looked up through long
thicket of masts of such craft at an
Choir enabling US to believe the state
ment that China has more boats than all
the rest OF the world put togather.
On the opposite side of the Han We
could see the immense steel works OIL the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-05

AVE you ever heard
of Chen Kwei-
Lung, the viceroy
of Hukwang. He is
one OF the mighty
men OF this great
Chinese empire. He
rules two provinces
three times as big
as the state OF
New York. His
subjects are more
than those OF the
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ing facing the court. which was walled
on all sides by buildings much lower.
Form is much in China. and the consul.
who has been long in the country knows
well how important it Is to insist that
himself and his country should be paid
the proper respect.
Mr.. Martin and myself each had Chi
nese cards ready for the occasion. These
We're bright red In color. and bore the
Chinese characters representing our
names. They were taken by the officials
into the yamen. and a few moments
dozen retainers. interpreters and depu-
ties. all fine-looking Chinese dressed
in silk gowns. came forth. The viceroy
put his two yellow hands together and
ing low as he did so. We folded our
hands and did him one better by bowling
still lower. His excellency then led us
through room after room until we came
table. set with plates of bananas. oranges
apples and pears, as well as dishes OF as
sorted biscuits, which had been evidently
imported i'm tins.
-
The viceroy directed the American con-
sui to take the chair at his right, and
placed me at his left the seat Of honor
inn China. Cups of delicious tea were
now brought in, a bottle of champagne
was opened, and a glass of the latter
placed before each of us. We did not
touch the tea nor the champagne until
the close of the interview, and then not
before his excellency had raised his own
glass and begged US to drink. Chinese
etiquette provides that a guest must not
drink until after his host. and also that
the caller must never begin drinking I'M
til his host has indicated his pleasure.
My talk with the vieeroy was carried
on through an interpreter, Chinese who
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He Nicaraguan in
cident has again
called into requisi-
ton, i'll a rather
conspicuous man.
ner, the facilities Of
the United States
& o ern m ent for
secret correspond
ence by mail and
wire. In all in
ternational misun-
derstandings such
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involves the melting off Of the wax seals
and their replacement later by others OF
identical hue and shape stamped with
seal that. thanks to the eastern mimicry.
is a perfect duplicate of the original. In
deed. there Is a tradition of the discovery
by an American diplomat on the other
side of the world of an American seal
carved in ivory that was identical with
the brass counterpart in the State De-
partment
Whereas the State Department does
not register much of it's mail destined
for our representatives abroad. it OBJ
tains for it something of the same. or
even better, protection by means of spe-
cial locked mail pouches. In the case of
most foreign countries the special pouch
containing all the diplomatic and consul
lar mail for the country in question IS
sent direct to the American ambassador
or minister, who retains what is addressed
to the embassy or legation and distrib-
utes to the neutrality-suspicious. by spe-
cial messenger-the mail destined for
those establishments. 1t is the duty of
one Of the clerks in the State Depart
ment to keep informed as to the sailings
of all mail steamers for all parts OF the
world. and the department bulletins to its
officials each morning an announcement
Of the ports or countries for which the
mails (via special pouches) will close that
day.
While, as has been explained, the inter-
changes between Uncle Sans home office
and his branches abroad are. if sent by
mail. usually tcouched in plain English,
this open and above board method of do
ing things by no means obtains in the
case of Geographic correspondence. Sell
dom under normal conditions and never
in the face of a situation such as the
Central American crisis are the govern
mental dispatches phrased in such form
that he who runs may read. Instead they
are transformed into cipher with the pur-
pose of completely Disgusting their pur-
port. Just here it may be noted that
there is more or less confusion as to the
meaning of the terms code and '.ci-
pher'' and the two words are often used,
even by some government officials, indis-
criminately and to indicate the same
thing. Strictly speaking, a code is sys-
tenn of shorthand for use in cabling and
telegraphing. There are various standard
commercial codes, the dictionaries of
which may be consulted by any person
who wishes to send a message by wire
or wireless. In all such codes a letter is
likely to stand for word and a word
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population is over $1,000 600. Ii is a rich
country, is famous for it's manufac-
lures and for its cotton and rice fields.
Human is over twice the size of Ohio.
and its population Is 22,OO0.00O. 1t has
tea fields and forests and is SO rich in
coal and iron that it promises to be one
of the great manufacturing regions of
China.
The Hukwang provinces have many
large cities. Hupeh has walled towns at
every few miles. and here at Hankow
there are three municipalities which
have a combined population as great as
that of Berlin. These are Hankow, W.T.
chang and Elan Yang. Wuchang lies
on the opposite bank of the Yangtse
from where am writing. 1t is the off,
cial capital. where the viceroy lives
in a great yamen, or palace, with many
officials.
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It was through letter from Mr.. James
Wilson, our Secretary OF Agriculture.
whose fame has gone all over the world.
that was able to meet this distinguished
Chinese. and to secure from him letter
of good will to the people of the United
States. My audience was arranged By
our consul at Hankow. Air. William II.
Martin. 1t ~as In a steam launch that
we crossed the Yangtse-kiang, and land
ed under the walls OF Wuchang. Our way
for two or three miles was up the mighty
river. past the business houses OF the
foreign settlements of HankoW. We
took ship In the Japanese concession, and
steamed by the German quarter with its
fine banks and the branch offices Of the
North German Lloyd and the Hamburg
American. We next passed the immense
brick tea factory owned by the Russians,
and then went on beyond the great eA
porting houses of the Americans, French
and British. After that we skirted the
native city of Hankow. which is bigger
than Boston. seeing the people looking
like gigantic blue ants as they climbed
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TIE Rules More People
j j Than the Kaiser and
Has More Power Than the
Czar-His Message of Good
Will to Uncle Sam-China
Will Not Boycott Us in the
Future-The New Constitu-
tion-A Visit to a Chinese
kindergarten and the College
of the Two Lakes.
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Copyright. 1909. 10y Frank 6. Carpentero
Special Correspondence of The Star.
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carried on by means of battling code.
invisible ink or any Of the other mys-
FERROUS subterfuges Of which we read in
diplomatic romances. In most instances
the government does not even send these
communications by registered mail. al
though there are some diplomatic es-
Establishments in Washington-for instance,
the japanese embassy-which seldom
transmit any correspondence whatever
save by registered mail. Finally, the
State Department does not employ spe-
cial envelopes that are anything very
unusual-nothing more than the style of
good strong envelope used by many banks
and business houses.
craft write their instructions to distant
subordinates in plain English they. in
great measure, make up for such frank
ness by the precautions they take TO
effectually seal the envelopes that carry
these missives. Not content with firmly
sealing the flap of each envelope the
whole back Is plastered over with wax
seals-that is, daubs of wax which are
put In position when in molten state and
then impressed with the insignia OF the
State Department by means Of brass
seal. However, it should perhaps be ex-
planned that the apparatus which is used
to give tofflciaf significance to the wax
envelope locks is not the carefully guard
precious press is thus employed only wnen
the President of the United States sends
a personal, ceremonial letter to one of
the other rulers Of the world, as is done
in the case of birth or death in a royal
family.
For all that the State Departments
system of sealing letter gives pretty
effectual protection against the intrusions
of the curious, the officials realize that 1t
is by no means infallible. There have
been in the service of certain European
powers from time to time secret agents
who claimed ability to open any envelope,
extract. read and replace the contents,
without any possibility of the ultimate
recipient being able to detect that the
document had ever been tempered with
Some of these diplomatic spies accom-
~lish their ends without either breaking
or removing the original seals-resorting
to an intricate and delicate operation of
rolling letter, and then passing 1t in
and out through the opening between the
two wax seals, the flap of the envelope
having first been steamed open. A meth
Cd said to be the approved one for such
practices in certain parts of the orient
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It may surprise many readers TO learn
that the State Departments correspond
ence-that is, the mail correspondence
with it's representatives abroad-is not
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
A Novelty in Rice Culture.

A variety of rice known there locally as Aus paddy is grown on
the highlands in Bengal, or at least on the lands whereon ordinary
rice would suffer from drought at least part Of the season. The
total area in rice in Bengal is estimated at q, 1924, 900 acres and of
this %one-fourth, or SAC, 500 are planted in this drought resisting
variety. This has attracted the attention Of California Land G.
Improvement Co., which has determined on experimentation on
their mesa dry lands and Consul General VIM. H. Michael of Calcut-
ia reports that he has secured 100 pounds of the seed rice from the
Bengal Agricultural Department. The rice goes forward to Cali
fornia where the land company proposes to give it a fair test on
their land and seem to have great confidence in successfully cult
waiting it.
The data we get is scarcely sufficient for those familiar with
the rice industry in Louisiana to base an opinion upon. Here a
scarcity of irrigation water during the time when the rice is reach
ing maturity generally results in a short crop, unless there be a
copious rainfall during that part Of the season. It may be, how
ever, that in Bengal they have this variety that will live, grow
and mature satisfactorily with a less quantity of water than would
be required for other rices. British India is now the great rice
producing country Of the world and rice is the staple food of u-
told millions OF people in the Orient. We are led to look to them
for hints and suggestions, as their thousands Of years of exper-
fence in rice culture should have taught them in the Far East
much that we have yet to learn,
On the other hand, it is a notable fact that the high hopes
that we were building upon the introduction of the variety of Jap
rice brought in by Prof. Knapp some years back, were
scarcely sustained. The Japanese rice natures a little later and,
hence, ismore liable to damage by storms in the early aatan ana
again, when harvested under entirely favorable conditions is less
popular than long grained rice, such as Honduras. The little, short
plump grains OF japanese rice are thought not to look nearly so
we'll when served as do the long grained rices when served by our
lrtisdc louisiana cooks. who seems to be about the only ones that
Gn6W how to cook rice IS to maintain the complete individuality
the grams without any sickness or mushiress in the rice, as i'll
9 generally served elsewhere in the federal union.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23

and is supposed, uuder the law, to execute such laws as appear
on the statute books. A very limited discretion is given to him out
side of that. He may call the New York Legislature into extra
session, as he has done, but he has gone further and practically
forced the New York legislature, by such combinations as he
could effect, to do some work which nearly every one admits to be
most excellent work, in the way of reform of the insurance and
gambling legislation, but in which he had not the moral right touse
promise of reward nor threats of punishment, both Of which it is
thought by many he used
Now, when we come to President Roosevelt, it is admitted
and n fact asserted by him, that he wants congressional legsa-
ton along certain lines and seemed determined to have it. He has
done all that he could in the way Of rewards and in threats Of pun
ishment to secure such legislation. He has made himself so auto
cratic that our cartoonists are representing the Emperor of Germ
any and the Gar of Russia with bushes on their faces when they
witness the aggressiveness of our American president and contrast
it with their own hepleessness.
1t seems to us that the American people have been hypnotized
as it were' by Theodore Roosevelt and that when he shall have dis
appeared from the scene and gone out to his lion hunts in Africa,
and perhaps have been emboweled by some of the wild beasts that
he seems to love so much, and when we come under the control of
the leveer head of President elect Taft we shall wonder how we
stood for so long a time such a reckless adventurer inrtheu presi~
dental chair as Theodore Roosevelt.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
The Schiller Method of Producing
Pork on the Farm.

Hon. Charles Schiller, State
Commissioner of Agriculture and
immigration has, for many years,
been a successful raiser and feed
er of hogs on his home property in
DeSoto Parish, La; and as his
method of feeding may, no doubt,
be of interest to many, we give
it in his own words:
list. | used pastures contain
ing Bermuda and natural grasses,
also liberal supply Of good water
which can be supplied by eth
er spings, wells or tanks. If your
permits, the successful
of alfalfa, you can fur
nish sows, shotes and pigs an
ideal grazing spot to be used in
connection with your pastures.
In the absence of alfalfa, SOW
broadcast. | break and
pulvarize my land thoroughly
about March 1st, then l SOW the
seed, using from one-half to three
Of a bushel Of seed per
acre. Harrow in, and if your land
IS not too wet, run a light roller
)r drag over it. When the plant
becomes about ten inches high ]
allow my hogs to gain access,
citing them rum in and out as they
please. | have run IS head Of sa,ys
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
Small CannerieS On The Farm.

These long winter nights can
not be utilized to better advan.
tage than planning out our work
for the coming year. In looking
for means Of getting more cash
from products, many farmers
would find it profitable to can
their surplus fruits and vegeta-
bles. Several small canning out
fits are now being advertised at
from $500 up, any of which will
do good work and pay handsome
ly, but homemade outfit with
a much larger capacity can be
made by anyone. For $40 an out
fit can be made which will easily
put up Is, 600 cans in a season.
All that will be needed is a tank
with wooden sides and sheet iron
bottom placed over a rock or
brick fire box for boiling the cans,
several sheet iron baskets to set
the cans in the tank and lift them
out, a gasoline or kerosene oil
blow heaters and soldering irons.
The blow heater and solder irons
will cost about $50, two sheets
Of sheet iron for the tank and
baskets will cost about $500
more. There are a great many
other conveniences that can be
added from time to time as ex-
perience shows the need for them,
but with this simple outfit as
good work can be done as with
the most expensive plant, and
rapidly enough to can all the pro
ducts a small farmer is likely to
have until he has gained suffic-
lent experience for a larger out
fit. Virginia Planter.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
Our New Staple Crop.

The invasion of Louisiana's
cotton fields by the boil weeyiI is
leading to crop Investigation in
the cotton section of the state.
Droughts, floods and storms have
damaged the sugar section of
the state and the rice sections
have also troubles Of their
own.
And now come signs of relief
at last to our parish, for ours is
the muskrat parish, forexcellence
and muskrat skins have risen to
fifteen cents each and theboys of
P~laquemines parish are realizing
thousands of dollars by hunting
and trapping muskrats.
The flat tailed muskrat seems
to be a. miniature beaver. We
don't want to be too positive
about this. Huxley seems to have
been the only one who has writ
ten on the crawfsh in the English
language We have written con-
siderably about the muskrat our
selves a close relative Of the craw
fish from a level point of view,
but we don't set ourselves up as
an authority, as nature fakirs
are taboo in these Rooseveltian
days. At any rate the crawfish
and the muskrat are very much
at home in P~laquemines Parish
and do vast damage to ourlevees
and are the cause of many leaks
and much expense for their sup
preston.
The scarcity of good furs gen
and the better appreciation
of the muskrat skin has led to
an active demand for them and
SKINS that brought but a cent a
piece ten years ago and but five
cents a year or two ago now bring
fifteen cents each, and there are
thousands Of them and we are
glad to get rid Of the rats. or
little beavers, if we may so call
them.
We haven't a monopoly of the
musk rat trade, but it is a source
If revenue. Let US add to the list
our Diamond back terrapins, our
fish, red snapper, oysters,
spanish moss, etc. and we shall
that our resources are
PRACTICALLY Unlimited, and that in
olaquemines parish a good living
AN be got with practically less
Effort than elsewhere.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
Notice.

The public is hereby notified
not to hunt on the Union planta-
tion and on all lands or water IN
the rear thereof.
MRS. BERNARD SAVOlE.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
Notice.

Sealed bids for the publication
of the minutes of the Police jury
of the Parish of P%laquemlnes'
will he received by the under
signed up to IL am. Wednesday
February 10 1909.
J. B. FAsTERLING.
recs.deat Police jury
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
your meat as fine as DOS

Grind your meat as fine as posi-
! Cont. .ga"o it 100 lean. Sea-
SOM with SAT-, ground blac k pe-
per, a good supply of pulverized
soda crackers, not too much sage
and some red pepper tea. We'll
mix and stuff in sausage cases;
Cases can be secured from pack
ing houses.