The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-02-01
KING COTTON IN ASIA
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the Burmese. russian and Sumatra
companies compete.
Within the past year ono of these
oil territory about two hundred miles
north Of Picking. The oil is carried
in cans on WheelbarrOws over n
hundred miles to q canal and thence
foated dow to the capital. The
W~heelbarrow men go in caravans or
fifty barrOWs each. They are paid
something like 4 cents gold q day n
other labor IS prOp~ortionateiy cheap.
Our Tobacco Trust.
Another American Institution which
is doing a big business in china is the
tobacco trust. It has its agents In
all Of the cities, and has established
several big factories. There as n
at Shanghai which employees 1000
girls in making n packing cigar
cites. There is another at Mukden.
and a third at Hankow. indeed the
Americans are changing the Chinese
from pipe smoker to cigarette
smokers. and machine-made cigar
cites are now to be bought as far west
as Tibet. The business is done under
the name of the British-American To-
bacco Company, and 1t has In It's en-
ploy both British n American Off
GERS. The chief Is an
American, who lives here at Shang-
hal. He tells me the Chinese are a
nation of tobacco smokers, and that
they awe been raising and using to-
bacco for over 800 years. The weed
was introduced from Manila less than
fifty years after Columbus discovered
America, and it has been in use ever
since, although many Of the Chinese
emperors have repeatedly tried to
wipe 1t out. Much tobacco is still
smoked In pipes, two kinds Of which
are In use S~rArVTh ere On nF thacc
Is a dry pipe, which may be Of BAN
boo or clay or wood. It's bowl is
small and seldom holds more than
a pinch Of tobacco. The other pine
IS a metal box filled with water,
through which the smoke Is drawn
before 1t enters the mouth. It has a
tube about a foot long, and this bends
over at the mouthpiece. This nine
IS usually made OF copper and silver
or an alloy or copper, zinc, nickel and
ron. II is used by both men and wo-
men. wv"
husks and bamboo leaves, They also
ron tobacco in brown paper. az
iaIe years, however, the rice napor
cigarette has come into vogue ard -
IS used more and more every dav NV
oo'h men, women and children.
Strike of Tobacco Girls.
one OF the Americans employed in
-. IdCloTy at Shanghai talic
me tney had a big strike tha othaa
Jay "A thousanG-odd girls left no
vs,apiIshInen and refused to return
uh'li their grievance was ssttled ~ ~
coffin. D"hie from a
1he girls were in tho a.h;4 =
onaIsing from II department. to.u
tsnel "lthout asking the manaerer go
sney looked 50 much alike ~ aLu
aoielsh oif1clals could not tel, r. ~.
49, IN their right places. Therarnon
d system of badges was Instituted p pUn
nhs 20 each girl a pin labeled wg th
eenaaacteTs indicating the name IF thn
E,par'nent to which she be,on,aa
asery girl had TO have her own 49,
So u wear 1t: The badges were ro',n5
aauare or shaped like a kevstono ~
su,Iu'ng to the rooms in WHEN 49,
9ts worked. 1t was the last h.s
af4a arn caused the trouble, The dav
al.er the order went forth tha LAY
I'm the Keystone pins str,1cL enis
~ next noon the others went a,u
"as a1terWard found that the 81
ieellon lay In a superstition tha+ ~
hesstone badges would brinp had ~
~ .nslr Wearers, because thev wara
shaped like the head of 4 coffn "e1e
was some time before this could ~