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Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

w. d. Armstrong, under whom Miss Jordan
was serving her eighth year as deputy, re-
signed to take up other work. A demo-
cratic board of county commissioners APP
pointed E. B. Quible, a democrat, to fill
the u~neXpired term, he being a receptive
aspirant for the democratic nomination.
Miss Jordan was retained as deputy until
the time of the party primaries last
August, when her nomination by the re-
publican party as it's candidate for the
office forced her to resign. Quible became
the democratic nominee. As the campaign
waXed warm, Miss Jordan discovered that
her long term of service in the county court
house and her acquaintance with almost
every voter in Cherry county served her
well in the race. Her personal campaign
was honetheless thorough, as she attended
every Cherry county gathering, from picnic
TO auction, sale, it being her plan to be
wherever numbers OF people could be seen
and talked with. Her most energetic cam
paign was made in remote parts of the
county, and to do this she travelled more
than 600 miles on horseback and in a
buggy during September and october, be-
sides half as much more by rail,
The result of the campaign conducted by
Miss Jordan was shown at the polls in
November and in the form of a majority
of PAP votes.
Having furnished Cherry county with a
proper and sufficient bond, and, having
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10
Romance in Fisher Lives

had nearly filled his basket with this stuff
he Stacked the graphing iron and David
hauled him on board; and the carcass
dropped astern, and the captain sung out
for rum and drank a small tumbler neat.
and would have tainted away. in spite Of
his precautions, but for the rum; and how
a heavenly perfume was now on deck
fighting with that horrid odor; and how.
the crew smelled II and crept up timldly.
one By one, and how the Gloucester cheese
is "a great favorite OF yours, young ladies :
it was the king OF perfumes, amber-gas:
there Is some Of IT In all OF your richest
scents; and the knowing skipper had made
100 gulneas in the turn OF a hand. "
II Is a matter OF record that not far from
the Windward Islands a Yankee skipper in
one Of the best old whaling years did cut
out Of a whale 1870 pounds OF ambergris,
which was sold for $500. The price quoted
for many years was So an ounce. Ambergrs
is often found floating on the sea, %particu-
larry off the coast OF Brazil aud Of MAZDA
gascar. The Bahamas send more than any
other source To market The stuff Is a
secretion OF the sperm whale which dies OF
the disease producing the perfume matter.
Chemists find Il hard 10 account for the
fact that the smell OF the dead whale
Is so horrible when the substance taken
out Is valuable only as a source Of sweet
Enthusiastically Eagle.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

TIT British government appreciates how
much the prosperity of the country depends
upon rice, and it is doing wonders in in
creasing the crop. 1t has AN agricultural
department whose efforts in this regard
correspond with those Of our department
at home. 1t is studying seed selection, in
creasing the irrigated territories and maxi
Ing forecasts showing the possible yield.
1t has its agents in every part Of the coun-
try, and their reports upon rice are more
accurately made than our reports upon
cotton. During the last five years, in
which a total of 100000 tons was raised
for export, the government forecasts were
only 5000 tons out of the way. The esti-
mates came largely from the local officials.
Burma is a land OF villages. Most of the
people live in little settlements Of matched
huts raised upon poles, and they go out
side to work. Every village has It's head
man, who reports to the government the
number OF acres his people will plant. His
figures are sent to the county officials, and
they send their estimate for their district
on to officials Of the province, the last
calculations being made at Rangoon.
L do not know what Uncle Sam is doing
in this line in the Philippines, but 1 venture
he could learn much from the British in
Burma.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

The invasion is not confined to the lab
oring classes. There are many Indian
merchants and entities, or Indian bankers.
The latter do about all the loaning to
the individual farmers. They lend at from
% to 40 per cent a year to the Burmese,
taking mortgages on their crops. The
laws here are such that the Hindoos
cannot own land; but the crops can be
mortgaged. and the Chitty puts his agent
on the farms to see that he gets his loan
cut out of the sales.
These entities are the queerest bankers
imaginable. Our ideal Of that profession
is a fat, sleek, well-dressed man who looks
prosperous and has the finest house in the
town. The ordinary dress of the Hindoo
banker would not cost an American dollar,
and he lives in a hovel. His black skin
is bare, with the exception of a rag Of
thin cotton around the loins, and a calico
jacket which ends at the waist. His
shaved black head is often free Of turban
or cap, although he may nave ashes
smeared over it to show his caste or re-
ligion. The entities come from near Mad
ras. Their only idea is to make money
breed, and they save every cent. Some of
them are quite wealthy, all are said to be
ASAN1Nt cNNN NANA Wv 10 ~ nv
banks for large sums. Some start in Ran
COON as clerks at $12 a month. They will
live on one-third of that amount and loan
the rest out at interest. When they nave
accumulated 10000 rupees or so they go
back home and live economically on the
interest of their holdings thereafter.
Outside the Hindoos the most Of the
banking is done by the British, who have
four large banks in Rangoon. These are
the Hongkong and Shanghai bank, the
charted bank of India, Australia and
China, the National Bank of India and
the Bank of the Netherlands. All these
do a general banking and exchange bust
ness, their interest rates varying ac-
cording to the season of the year. They
get from 10 to II per cent, receiving the
most at the planting and harvesting of
the crops.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

The British government is doing much to
educate the Burmese. 1t is establishing
schools Of all kinds from kindergartens to
colleges, and it has now more than 5000
public schools, with about $4,000 pupils on
the rolls. In addition, there are almost as
many pupils in other schools, over 1000
of the schools being carried on outside the
government.
The public schools nave about the same
studies as our schools at home and their
hours are somewhat similar. The students
are interested in athletics and the boys
drill and play foot ball and cricket.
In addition there are thousands Of classes
taught by the monks. Every village has
it's monastic school and such boys as do not
go to the other schools attend it. The
girls dare not come near the monasteries,
for the priest who would touch or talk with
a woman would be defiled. 1t is a part Of
the duty of the monks to teach and they
charge no tuition. The boys are taught TO
read and write, and they learn elementary
arithmetic. They study out loud and COM
init to memory the prayers and hymns of
Lord Buddha. They are supposed to pray
night and morning, one of their morning
prayers reading as follows:
How great a favor has the Lord Bed
dha bestowed upon Nme in showing me his
Jaw, by the keeping of which I may escape
he'll and secure my salvation"
At the close of their schooling many Of
the boys go into the monasteries for Il
time, and some stay there all their lives.
Others remain for a while and then come
out and go into business, They all learn
to read and write in the schools, and Bur
ma, for this reason, in the point Of the 1T
eracy of the men, is far in advance Of any
country Of Asia.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

and civilization than have those Of any
other country. About the first Christian
work done was that Of the American Bap-
fists. who sent the Rev. AdonirGm Iudsun
here i'm 1873. Rev. Judson made the
first Burmese dictionary and grammar
and he translated the Bible into the ycr-
nacular. He remained here when all other
foreigners fled at the time Of the first
troubles with England, and later, during
the British Burmese war, vas thrown into
prison and almost starved. The story or
his sufferings is one of the most affect
ing in missionary history. He kept at the
work, however, and did much after the
British took possession OF lower Burma
dying in 1850, while on Il sea voyage homo
for his health.
Since then the Baptist mission here has
steadily increased. That branch of Amer
lean Professionalism seems to have chosen
Burma as it's special field, and it is now
spending almost a quarter of a million dol
lars per annum upon it. 1t has a large
number Of missionaries, over 500 native
churches and about 60, 1000 communicate
1t is carrying on a number of girls and
boys schools, and the Baptist college at
Rangoon, which has more than 1900 stu
dents, is about the most advanced educa-
tional institution in the country. 1t is rec
ognized by the British government and Is
affiliated with the University Of Calcutta,
Nearly all of the students are native Bur
mese and many are Christians. The insti-
triton is largely self-supporting. The stu
dents pay for their board and tuition, and
not a few work their way through. Re-
Gently a manual training school has been
added, and the course is such that the
graduates are given the degree of b. A.
The American Methodists ave a mission
here, which was established about thirty
years ago. They are doing considerable
work in Lower Burma and have numer-
Gus schools. The American Baptist Mission
Press is one of the largest and most flour
fishing Of it's kind. 1t publishes Bibles,
religious newspapers and many edu-
cational works.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10
Burma,s big Rice MIL.

But come with me and go through this
rice mill at Poozoondoung. The grain Is
harvested as paddy. In the field it looks
not unlike wheat or oats, but every kerr
mel has a husk on it and this sticks to it
as though ii were glued, When the grain
is ready for shipment to the mills 1t looks
much like our wheat grains unthrashed,
save that the rice husks nave neither
heads nor boards and they stick tight to
the kernels. 1t takes quite as much work
TO get them off as to grind the
thrashed wheat into flour. This is the
work of these rice mills.
The Poozoondoung mill covers as much
ground as any of our large flour-grindinE
establishments. 1t has buildings of five
stories, with single rooms as big as a
good-sized garden patch. ! entered one
on the o floor which was packed 10
the ceiling with rice paddy in bags. 1t
held more than 100000 pounds, and other
rooms OF equal size adjoining II were
filled with the cleaned rice awaiting ship
ment.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

Seems to be too much work for you"
the managing partner said. Probably you
need help"
The collector believed another man would
be a valuable addition to the force. HIN,
thought So" the manager said. and then.
read from a slip: March 3-Left store
$50; went to home at SS476 East steenth
street; returned to store at I1!25; 2;15 went
TO Orpheum, ETC."
Tie turned on the now amaEed collector.
Hard work, wasn't itT' he snapped.
Now, do you desire 70 work. help pay the
expense Of the detective who trailed you
and make good, or viii you quit nowP"
Il believe I'd like TO work It out" the
trembling collector replied.
Well, get a move on you. then" was
the parting admonitioh OF the manager.
And the collector got It on.
Cheap graft" the manager resumed.
often wonder how some men can stoop
to such meanness. Not long ago 1 observed
that a certain young man had long been
ordering furnishings, neoktiss, and such
things by letter and paying for them in
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words the passage costs them about one
twelfth cent a mile, at which rate one
could go from New York to Washington
for less than a quarter and from the Allan
tic to the Mississippi for about a dollar.
The Burman does not like to work. He
despises money; and when he gets a little
ahead he acquires merit by giving it out
in charity, establishing a drinking foun-
tain or putting a plate of gold on some
Buddhist shrine. The Hindoos, who work
for almost nothing at home, can earn
as much as s. a month here, and the
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10
Unloading the Paddy.

Rice paddy Is brought here from all
over Burma. 1t is floated down the
streams to the lrrawaddy river and toward
TO Rangoon by steamers in flatboats and
barges. The unloading is done by East
Indian coolies, many Of whom are quite
pretty young girls. They are black. lustv
and buNom. bare armed and bare necked.
and often with legs bare to the knees.
Not a few OF them wear gold buttons in
their noses and rings in their ears. They
have armlets and anklets, and / saw three
with rings on their toes.
These girls carry the rice from the
boats to the mills In baskets OF fifty
pounds each. They lift the stain 10
their heads or shoulders, and carry il nm
and down the banks OF the river over
a plank roadway. Their hours are from
daylight To dark, and their average nav
is less h ? cents IN hour. / am told
they are quite as strong as the men, and
that they do better work, although their
wages are lower.
And still they ave money at cents
an hour and most OF them make savings
banks OF their persons. Nearly every
one 1 saw had more or less jewelry upon
her. l remember a glrl of Is with silver
bracelets covering her arm from wrist to
elbow, and heavy anklets Of silver on each
OF her legs, The lObes and rims OF her
ears were pierced with gold rivets and the
sold ring in her nose was as big around
as a saucer and as thick as a knitting
needle. This ring hung down around her
mouth, and when she ate lunch she stuffed
In the rico trough the ring. She was a
Killing from southern India, and her hus-
band a straight black man in "A white
cotton waist cloth. worked with her.
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Harvard Athletes Va. HlndOO Coolies.
Ia another room 1 saw the men handling
Ne finished product The white rice
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10
Burma,s ForeiEn Trade.

The trade here is almost altogether in
the hands OF Great Britain. The officials
protect the British merchants and favor
them where possible, although the Ger
mans, japanese, Belgians and French try
to compete.
AS to our trade, it is small, usually
amounting to less than 81, 900. 600 a year,
and consisting mostly Of machines, canned
goods and kerosene oil. Within the last
year or so we have established a consul
late at Rangoon, and the man in charge,
Mr.. e. A. Wakefield, is doing much to
push American trade, He thinks we should
have a direct steamship line from here
to New York and also better banking con-
nections, as well as a Wholesale depot,
which should keep our leading exports in
stock. The total imports Of the country
now amount to something like SIG, OOO,O 900 per
annum, of which Great Britain supplies
more than 55 per cent.
Among the American goods sold are
tools, pipe fittings, axes, typewriters and
sewing machines. The Burmese of the bet
ter classes wear some American shoes, and
they are beginning to eat canned goodl
and condensed milk. They are fond Of
milk, but their own cows are used chiefly
as draft animals. They are importing but
ter, and not a few spread the condensed
milk on bread in its place,
Our American Missionaries
America should have a good trade in
Burma. Our missionaries have done more
for the people in the way Of education
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10
TIE RicEFoRT OF RANcooT SLOWING TIE BxTKscN
600 600 on o O o0o 600 &C

around at the rate of 500 revolutions a
minute, and when the rice flows out from
it it is as clean and white as the first
tooth Of your baby.
1t now falls through a chute into bags
and is sewn up by Indian girls, when it
is ready for shipment aboard. Much Of
the expert is to England, France, Ger
and Holland. but a great deal goes
to India, China and other ports of the
far east. The Burmese rice is much bet
ter than that of Hindustan, and it brings
such high prices that the natives ship
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10
HindOO Invasion.

Speaking of the coolies in this mill brings
me to the Hindo invasion of Burma. The
East Indian coolies are being brought
here by the shipload. They are carried
across the Bay of Bengal, a distance Of
1000 miles or more, for less than 81, and by
the mail teamers they can come here from
Calcutta for about "a cents. In other
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

only about 1900, this vast domain gives
plenty Of room for people to live, grow,
prosper and progress. Women have been
elected to the office of county superintend-
ent Of schools. Cherry county has taken
the initiative and is said to be the first
county in any state of the United States
to select a woman to guard the county
funds and handle the affairs of the office
of county treasurer. The woman so Sc
lected and whose title to the office has
been confirmed by the supreme court of
Nebraska is Miss Gertrude Jordan of
Valentine, who will assume the duties of
the position as soon as the balances can
be struck and the county commissioners
can settle with her predecessor, a man,
which viii be within the next ten days.
AS treasurer she will handle between $s5,OOO
and 100000 per annum, this sum being the
tax collections of Cherry county.
Miss Jordan is a republican, about 80
years OF age and has resided in, Nebraska
ten years. She has served as deputy county
treasurer of Cherry nearly eight years, this
time being almost the entire terms Of two
treasurers
Before the end Of his term, Treasurer
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10
Polished Like silver spoons.

1t seems strange to think of polishing
rice like your best silver spoons. But
that Is what l saw them doing as ] went
through this mill. The machinery is the
finest known to the trade. The paddy or
rice in the husks is first winnowed and
then carried to the top story, where it is
passed through grinding stones so care
fully set that they pare off the husk
without breaking the rice. The stones
are of a composition harder than iron.
and they have to be roughened every
week by skilled Hindoos who understand
how to fix them. After this process the
rice is again winnowed. 1t goes through
countless fans and shaking sleeves, being
again carried to the top OF the mill and
descending by gravity from floor to floor,
shaken, grated and cleaned at every turn.
After the husk is off, the kernels are
polished. This is done with channels
skin, the grains being thrown back and
forth against a roller covered with this
material. The chamois cylinder goes
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

solid, fatty stuff is ambergris and
is worth $4,000, recalls the nearest thing to
romance that ever entered into the lives of
Glouster and New Bedford whalers, in the
old lays when American whalers dared
every sea. 1t was like a lottery. Once in
a lifetime you might chance on the decay
ing body Of a whale, giving off an awful
smell, and inside that whale would be a
fortune, enough so that you would never
have TO go TO sea again. Charles Reade, 50
far as we remember, is the only writer to
Introduce ambergrls into fiction. In Love
Me Little, Love Me Long" David tells
Miss Fountain how the skipper stuffed
their noses and ears with cotton stepped in
aromatic vinegar, and they lighted short
pipes and preached the brig upon the
putrescent monster and grappled 90 f.; and
the skipper jumped on IL and drove his
spade (sharp steeD in behind the whales
side fins" He goes on 70 relate;
How the skipper dug a hole In the
whale as big as a well and four feet deep,
and after a long search gave a shout OF
triumph and picked out some stuff that
looked like Glouster cheese; and when he
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

stealing, cheap graft-it's
not all in Pittsburg."
The head of the firm was
angry.
Send for that collector" ne
said. The collector came.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

their own product abroad and eat the
cheaper imported rice which is sold in
the markets.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

Is bagged up in sacks of 226 pounds.
These are carried by East Indian coolies
into the warehouses and are piled up in
stacks. Each lifts one OF these bags to
his shoulders and runs up an inclined
roadway. 1t looks easy, and three Harvard
university athletes, who visited the mill
the other day, rather sneered at the
strength of the Hindoos, saying that any
good man could carry such a load up a
plank. Thereupon the manager asked one
of them to try 1t. lie did so, getting the
bag on his back without very much
trouble. He was able to make his way
across the room, but when he tried to go
up the incline the weight pulled him over
and he fell with the rice to the floor.
This same college crowd tried to pick
out the broken rice grains in competition
with the Hindoo girls, thinking they
could work quite as fast, but had to give
up in despair. The rice is Of various
grades, according to the broken grains
in it, and every shipment has to be tested
by counting the number of whole grains
in a fixed quantity. 1t takes keen eyes to
distinguished the imperfect kernels, and the
Harvard boys failed in the test.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

land seems an lei Dorado to them. AS II
is now more than half Of the population
of Rangoon is East Indian, and there are
thousands of Hindoos in every large town.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

Ut in the northwest orner OF
Nebraska. lies the county OF
Cherry, one of the largest in
the United States, comprising
the generous area of 5000 square
miles. With a population of
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

VI i'anBOoh. IL belongs to the Bullock
brothers, who own other large mills and
export thousands Of tons OF rice every
year. Burma is about the bsst rice patch
on the bosom of old Mother Earth. The
lower part of 1t is a garden devoted to the
cultivation of the crop, and upper Burma
Is more than half rice. The country has
altogether rice areas equal to the state of
Ohio, and it's annual exports of this grain
are more than 1000, 1000 pounds. This Is
enough to give every human being on earth
all the rice he could eat in one day and
sim leave enough over to make a pudding
for every man, woman and child, as we'll
as sprinkle all the brides and grooms Of
ono year. Rice is the money crop OF
Burma. II takes the place of wheat, corn
and cotton with us. The exports sell for
millions. and the people are. rich or poor
as the rice grows we'll or i'll.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

HE story Of how a Manchester
IN. H. painter found in the
st, Lawrence river a lump of
grayish substance Weighing
thirty-eight pounds, and how
he has discovered that the
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

, 1910, by Frank c. Carpenter.)
)OZOONDOUNG, 1910. co. Especial
Correspondence Of The Bee)-
/ have just visited the greatest
rice mill of the world. 1t lies
here at Poozoondoung. on the
Irrawaddy river, below the port
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

Harvard Athletes Va. HindOO Coolies.
Ia another room 1 saw the men handling
lie finished product The white rice
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-02-18

New State Soldiers
Home Dedicated

Senator Blair, chairman of the leg
islative committee which selected the
site for the new soldiers home at
Port Orchard, return ID Monday morn
ing from the home. where he attend
ed the dedlcatory exercises last Satur-
day afternoon and evening. Senator
Blair speaks in the highest terms of
the home and of the manner in which
the state appropriation for grounds
and buildings has been expended by
the state board OF control. The main
building. which is quite handsome
structure. and also the fine dining
hall, kitchen and store room erected
at cost of SIS. 900, and two of the
eleven detached cottages which tbs
plans contemplate have been complet-
ed and are ready for the occupancy
of those of the old veterans now at
Orting fortunate enough to be trans
ferred. The new home occupies a
lovely site of 25 acres on Port Or
chard bay. one mile and a quarter
from the town of Port Orchard and
eight minutes ride by launch from
Bremerton.