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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-14

driving the Chinese teas out of the mar
kets and Japan has to rely almost en-
tirely upon the United States for the
sale of her surplus We drink S6,0OO,-
600 pounds Of tea every year. and of
| this 100000 pounds come from ia
; pan and about 3S,0O0,000 from China
We get only 100000 from East India,
but this amount is increasing from year
, To year. The exports of Indian teas are
| mostly to Europe. They go to Great
Britain and thence to the colonies. Some
are sent to the continent and big ship
ments are made to Australia and Can
ada. The British are the greatest tea
drinkers Of all mankind. Their conS
sumption amounts to six or seven
paundS per head every year, while our
people each drink less than two pounds
! and the Russians less than one. The
Germans and French load themselves
with coffee and wine or beer slipping
japanese drink tea throughout the day.
The Chinese will not drink water I'M
less it is boiled and they flavor the
water with tea The consumption OF
these two nations is probably greater
than that of all the rest of the world
put to gether. but for the lack of sta
tistics no one knows what it is.
How Advertising Pays.
The exports Of Indian tea now amount
to over $50 .000, 900 pounds per year. OF
this more than 0,00O,0 600 pounds are
from Hindustan and about 10000, 900
pounds from the Island of Ceylon; over
the way. The trade has grown up with
in the past 80 years and 1t is largely
based upon good advertising. When I
was here 20 years ago it was in its
infancy and the planters We're discuss
ing how they could get the American
market They concluded to advertise in
the newspapers and they raised a fund
to begin that work in Europe and the
United States At the same time they
organized a sales bureau and they saw
to it that CeylOn and Indian teas could
be had in all the large stores, and that
they were on tap at every state and ma
tional exposition AS a result the de-
mand for these teas steadily grew, and
today their exports are almost twice
those of China and more than five times
those of Japan Within the last few years
the East Indian planters have decided
to enter the green tea markets, and
they are now advertising such varieties
in the same way Ceylon alone has al
ready spent in the neighborhood Of
S1,000,000 on green tea information,
with such a result that the Chinese
and japanese are alarmed. fearing that
they may lose this trade, of which they
still have the monopoly.
The CeyIon planters nave been giving
bounties of from TO cents a pound
upon all green tea exported, and they
have increased their crop within the
past wears, so that it now amounts to
millions of pounds 1 understand that
the Chinese government is alarmed at
the situation and that the Chinese tea
planters recently sent a commission to
India and Ceylon to investigate tea con-
ditions and the tea-curing processes
Tea Raising in China and India.
I have Travelled extensively through
the tea fields of Japan and China and
l know something about them. The
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-14

brick almost as hard as one of burned
clay The bricks are left in the mOlds
two hours TO cool and then taken off
to be dried. They are of different
sizes and shapes and of many grades.
Some bring as high prices as, the cost
Hest teas we have in America They
are made Of the first pickings of the
tea, ground to a dust and steamed and
pressed into shape. Another quality is
made of later pickings, and still an
other of the refuse of the factories,
consisting of coarse leaves, broken tea
and the dust from the tables and floors
of establishments where they put up tea
in chests Both green and black teas
are used, the bricks of the former look
ing for all the world like plugs of to-
baccO. while the latter are a deep chocO-
late brown The bricks are beautifully
stamped, sometimes with the figure of
a dragon and always with the name of
the firm which sells them
Frank q. Carpenter
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-14
VAN HORN YOUNG PEOPLE
WED: WILL LIVE AT

Van Horn, Tex May 14.-Miss Flake
DurriIl, Oldest daughter OF Mr. and Mrs
R. Durrill, and r. Ounce Leatherman.
were married at the Methodist church
by Rev Cramer- The church was tasti-
" decorated and the wedding was at
tended by g large number.
The bridesmaids were Miss VelmS
Garron and Miss Neva Yarbo. The
groom was attended by Harry farrell
and B. Frank Seay- Following the we'd
ding Il reception was rendered the -bri-
dal party at the brides home, after
which Mr.. and Mrs. Leatherman left for
their home at Kent, Texas, where Mr.
Kent is engaged in the cattle business
Among the out OF town guests were
Mr. and Mrs. Tatum and two daught-
ers; Mrs Woods, John Brown, Eaton
Reynolds Harry Gerald, Brown Seey
Wallace Leatherman and Be1 Wallace,
of Kent
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-14

~ ARJEELING, India. May a.
Come take a cup of tea with me
- this bright Sunday morning
while I tell you how this shrub, winch
cheers but does not inebriate, Is grown
or here in the Himalaya mountains
on the opposite of the gIooe: 1he ~
are hundreds Of tea plantations all
around me and millions of pounds OF
their product are annually shipped from
here to other parts of the world
How TO Make Tea.
BEFORE 7 begin let us start the water
boiling. II should be fresh from the
;snrine and should not bubble over 10
minutes before used for brewing. we
will put the tea in q porcelain pot ana
LET Tho hot water remain upon II not
more than eight minutes, and II VIII
then be ready for drinking Tea shouio
never touch metal and 1t should not
stand in the pot after brewing II shouiu
never be boiled in the pot and II
should be drunk clear, for milk makes
If noison. Good tea does not need SUI
car although g slice of lemon will add
to the flavor.
The tea we are using comes from
the mountains nearby. 1t is black
and is favored with flowers Green
tea is not fit to drink This is especially
90 of MANY varieties sold in the stores
Some of that cured IN japan ana Nhila
of which we consume some thirty ood
million dollars worth every year, IS
made green by the addition of colorlng
matters. and it is also rolled and fired
in copper lined kettles. The best tea
is black tea, and you will go Tar be
fore you will get better than that rails
ed here at Darjeellng-s
India Drinks the world.
You remember the temperance land
ladv's remarks 10 her bibulous board
er. Il will sleep you and eat you, but
I be bIest if I drink you" In that sense
India bids fair 70 soon drink the world
Her black teas have practically monopo-
liZed the markets Of Europe and more
of them are consumed than of the teas
exported from all other nations A gen
Grafton or SO ago about the only teas
known to commerce were those OF ia
pan and China. The India teas are now
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-14

~ ARJEELING, India, May a
Come take a cup of tea with me
- this bright Sunday morning
r-i.ilo I tell 1.n,1 hnM this shrub. Mnlcn
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-14
FRANK G. CARPENTERS LETTER.
ALL ABOUT THE PLANTATIONS OF THE HIMA-
LAVA MOUNTAINS, WHICH SUPPLY
DRINKS FOR THE WORLD

Advertising Which Paid-Tea Raising in China and In
dia-Hand Labor Versus Machinery AVisit to the
Plantations Hindoos as Tea Drinkers Some
thing About the Picked Teas Of Burna-The Tea
Soup Of Tibet-A Visit to Russian Tea Factory
Where Millions of Tea Bricks Are Made.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-14
How Brick Tea Is Made.

was shown the whole process of
brick tea making. The tea is first
ground to a dust and then sifted by
half-naked coolies, who STUFF their nos
trils with cotton batting to keep the
dust out of their lungs. These men are
naked TO the waist, and the perspira-
ton stood out on their yellow skins.
The air was like a Russian bath and
the sweat poured. I took up a hand
full of the tea dust and tasted it. 1t
was rather sweet, but there is but little
tea flavor about it. 1t is as thick as
graduated tobacco. The men scoop up
the tea dust with brass shovels. each
of which holds about two pounds, or
enough, for brick. This is poured into
a cloth and steamed over boiling water.
When it has become damp a little, more
dust is added and the whole is emptied
into rough wooden bowl about a foot
square. 1t now goes to the press. and
a great weight packs the tea dust into a
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-14
In a Russian Tea Factory.

During my recent stay IN emma L
went through some of the factories at
Hankow, and there saw how brick tea
is made Hankow is the chief tea mar
ket of China. 1t is 500 miles in the
interior, on the wide Yangtse river.
which IS so deep that the biggest ocean
steamers can carry their cargoes from
there to every part of the world. The
chief tea fields lie south of the Yangtse,
and most of them are some distance
from Hankow. The tea is brought on
the backs of men to the river and is
shipped up the numerous tributaries of
the YangJse. At Hankow it is prepared
in all sorts of ways for the market.
There are exporting firms there who
manufacture for the United States. some
who deal chiefly with England. and
also representatives of the French and
German importing houses The Rus
SLAMS have the largest houses, and they
monopoliZe the brick tea industry, an
nually shipping millions of bricks to
Mongolia, and also over the TRANSIT
berian railroad to Russia. Many of the
bricks are carried part of the way>on
camels, and not a few go overland into
Russian Turkestan.
One of the factories I visited covered
more than an acre of ground 1t en-
pIoyed a thousand Chinese, and it had
on hand 100000 pounds of tea
pressed into bricks and ready for ex-
port. The bricks filled the whole up
per floors of the factory. They were
laid up in piles, much as we stack bricks
for building, with narrow aiSleS run
ming here and there through the room.
They had been taken from the mOlds and
left in the warehouse to cure. Each
kind of tea had its own place, and I
saw some from Ceylon which had been
shipped to Hankow to be made into
bricks before going to Russia.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-14
Tabor's Meta Weather Strips

KEEP OUT SAND, DIRT AND WIND
AT THE DOORS AND WINDOWS.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-02
BACHELORS REPLY TO
MATRIMONIAL QUESTIONS
$2,439 Average Income Deemed
Necessary for Husband

A WomanS magazine recently sent
out a list of questions to about 500
bachelors in various parts of the coun-
try. These questions dealt with mat
rimony.
The first one was: What yearly in
come do you regard as necessary to a
man of your social standing before
entering upon married life?"
The second was: Are the young
women of your set rightly brought up
and trained, do you think for the re-
sponsibilities and self denial of wife
hood and home making?"
About half the young men questioned
expressed the belief that the girls are
not adequately trained for the duties
and responsibilities of wifehood. A
sizable minority, between so and 60,
pronounce the training satisfactory.
In regard to income the estimates re-
ceived vary from $500 year in a Con-
necticut village to $4,000 a year in
Chicago. The average among the 500
men figures out S2,439. A favorite fig
ure is $1,000, but the $4,000 mark and
several estimates of $4,000 bring the
level up.
Those who think it essential that
newly married couples should have the
comforts and luxuries of the parental
home are 40 in number; those who
think this unessential, 116. Those who
believe such comforts and luxuries out
of the question for the young husband
to provide, 1877; those who think such
comforts and luxuries are not greater
than the young husband can provide
If he so desires. 10.
Here are some of the letters which
were received by Good Housekeeping,
the magazine which sent out the let
ters:
1.-TWO people can certainly live in the
middle west on $1,000, but 1t will take
every cent of that amount to live as an
educated man wants to live. / certainly
should not attempt marriage on any
less, and I'd almost be frightened to
try it on that sum" This from Omaha.
Nebraska.
A man from Texas says: "You
couldn't want a better living if you
are home man and live a moderate
life than you could have in Texas on
$1,000 a year That sum would not
only allow you to live well and have
plenty of recreation, but would enable
you to entertain your friends and rela-
tives occasionally
I'D want to be sure of $40 week
to marry" says Chicago bachelor. "a
man can't ask the girl he cares for to
make too many sacrifices
One who describes himself as "a
bachelor of arts" says: Eighteen hun
dred dollars a year is the least degree
of poverty man should ask girl to
share with him.
Health, courage and $780, says a
Massachusetts youth.
"As look at it you need. if you're
living in New York city property, an
income of at least 500 a week to mar
ry on. l wouldn't try it on any less
for my part If you haven't got that,
wait. That's what I'm doing. 1 can
make out now by myself on $50 a week
But don't know a girl in New York
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-02

girl really worth whi1e-that Id ask
to share that with me-. This is a New
York opinion.
A composite opinion from five bach
elors keeping house by themselves in
Kansas City, Mo: "A couple must have
$4,000 a year in the middle west (more
in the easD."
Il do not think the question of self
denial has ever been practiced, if con-
sidered, by the young ladies of my
set writes city man.
On the other side is a Chicago young
man who says tersely: "Yes, it's ques-
tion of common sense, and most of them
have it,
They can make excellent fudge, but
l would not like to try their biscuits, "
writes a man from Washington. "They
play the piano well, but l doubt if they
could buy steak Some of them man
age two or three admirers excellently,
but one servant would be too much for
them to handle"
Spokane, Wash. speaks thus: Few
have any domestic ability and fewer
know how to economize Otherwise
they are very estimable young women .
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-02
ROMAN ALTAR FOUND
NEAR MELR0SE, ENGLAND
Specimen in Remarkably Per.
feet State of Preservation

At the Roman station at Newstead.
near Melrose, a very fine specimen of
a Roman altar has been discovered
bearing the following inscription:
.Deo Appolini L. Maximivs Gaetvlicvs
leg" 1t is in a very perfect state of
preservation, and is of red sandstone.
says the London Globe. In shape it is
typically Roman, and it stands about
feet 10 inches, with heavy pediment
Of scroll and patra design, molding
of three members above the square face
of the inscribed column, and another
heavy base with a single molding be-
tween. heavier and wider base, sep
arate from the stone, with an inset,
was also found, which brings up the
height to 3 feet 10 inches. On the
left return of the stone is the carving
of ''stringed bow" and on the right
another small carving quite defaced.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-02
PHILATELISTS WILL
BE INTERESTED IN THIS
French Government to Demon
etize Stamps Before 1876

In a short time all the silver coin
age anterior TO 1870 will be recalled by
the French government, and postage
stamps before 1876 will be demonetized.
Although the privilege exists of using
the stamps of the republic of 1s48.
people have not availed themselves of
it. for these stamps have greatly ap-
preciated in value, says the London
Globe. There is no doubt however.
that collectors who have in their all
buns a used stamp postmarked on the
day of issue will be tempted to franc
letter on the day of withdrawal. so
as to have the first and last of the
issue side by side after an interval
of 81 years.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-02
UNCLE SAM GETS LABOR
SAVING DEVICES
New Machine Will Replace Help
in Treasury Department

One OF the most ingenious labor saw
ing machines has just been perfected
by the treasury department at Wash
ington to assist in the making of Tn
Gle Sans money. One machine is now
in operation in the bureau of engrav-
ing and printing and is working so
successfully that a contract has just
been let for the installation Of Is more,
says the Newark, n. J., News. The
new device performs five operations
simultaneously with the aid Of only
two employees, whereas the same work
now requires two separate machines
with five employees TO each.
None Of the notes issued by the Unit
ed States is good money until it bears
a serial number and the big seal of the
treasury Of the United States. Twenty
eight printing presses in the basement
Of the treasury department are now
employed TO imprint these final signs
upon the bills. which come in sheets
of four from the bureau Of engraving
and printing. There are now two men
or girls TO each press, but the work is
necessarily slow because every sheet
must be fed with the utmost exactness
so that the seal and numeral will ap-
pear in the right place.
After this operation has been COM
pleted the sheets are taken to another
machine which cuts them so as to
make the four separate bills. Three
employees are necessary to each of
these "separators," as they are called.
one feeds in the sheet, another takes
the separated bills as they fall out and
collects them in piles Of 100. The third
counts them.
All Of these operations viii hereafter
be done on the new machine at one
time. It's mechanism is so simple that
the operator can feed in the sheets as
though printing handbills. After the
printing the sheet is automatically
separated. mechanical fingers gather
four bills together and a register
counts them, and when a hundred have
been finished a bell rings. A second
ernploye then ties each 100 in a bun
die Experiments are being made still
further to improve the machine so that
IT will feed itself and also tie up the
bundles Of 100 as they are delivered.
When all the new machines are in
stalled ii is expected that they viii
save the government many thousands
Of dollars in salaries annually and at
the same time produce more rapid
work.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-02
DICER HERALDS ONWARD
MARCH OF CIVILIZATION
Poorest Mexican Peon Wears
Shiny Plug Hat

Foreign visitors to Mexico next fall,
during the national festival would
probably be more entertained by the
sight OF the genial natives at their
ease in bright serapes, high peaked
sombreros and rawhide moccasins. Only
procession of aldermen or a presiden-
tial reception committee can rise to the
full glory of the shiny silk hat and the
full sklrted black coat of ceremony,
says the New York World. But Poririo
Dlaz has worked wonders before, and
as the crowning act of his long reign
IL is only proper that he should impress
the world that in the regeneration of
his country he has taught the poorest
peon TO wear i'll fitting pantaloons and
cheap dicer.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-02
SLAMS NEW STAMP
ISSUE is HUMOROUS
Collectors Will Hasten to Sc.
cure the Novel Tokens

New stamps for Siam are announced
by Paris contemporary They show
the left profile of the king The circle
bearing his majesty's head is sustained
upon the wings of a grinning monster.
Upon two banderoles appear the name
of the kingdom and the value of the
stamps. The latter is expressed in
''satans." The enigmatic monster and
the "satans" will, we are told, be sure
to appeal to the collectors sense of
humor. The stamps have been en-
graved in London from designs pre-
pared In Bangkok. The work has been
accomplished most SUCCESSFULLY and
adds our contemporary, '1e dessin ct
Poriginal Sc ressemblent CONNIE deux
freres siamois, naturellement.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-02
ROYAL MINT AT OTTAWA
NETS A LARGE PROFIT
No Canadian Gold Cottage Has
as Yet Been Struck

Since the opening of the branch of
the royal mint at Ottawa in January.
1908, the operations have resulted in
a profit to the dominion of Canada of
more than $63,S57, after allowing
s131.1 as interest on the cost of
building, etc, says the London Globe.
The profit or seigniorage upon the coin
age of silver was s172,244, on bronze
$21,565 and miscellaneous $1,14S, Civ
ing a total gross profit of $194,95s. No
Canadian gold coinage has yet been
struck, and the question of the issue
of gold coins of IS and $40 is under
consideration. No profit accrues from
the minting of gold coinage.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-02

Two centuries ago the principle of
the. taxicab was known. An advertise
ment in the London Daily Courant Of
January 13, 1711, announces that at the
eiqn Of the Seven Stars, under the
nlaza Of Covent garden, a chariot was
on view that would travel without
horses and measure the miles as it
Roes"
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-02

Every Londoner, on the average, has
169 rides year, during which period
5S9,745,792 people travel by train and
356,000.000 by local railways.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-02
MEETINGs-Speciaf

BRICK LAYERS. notice-At a special meeting
held Sunday afternoon all members were or
dered notified to attend the funeral of our late
brother, Thomas Mccarthy, from his late resi-
dence, Al Jersey St. at a. m. Monday. Get
of cars at oath and Castro.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-02
MEETINGs-Legal
AGENTS WANTED.

ANNUAL, MEETING
Notice is hereby given that the annual meet
ing of the society and board of trustees of the
Old Peoples Home will be held at the office of
the home southwest corner of Pine and Pierce
streets, San Francisco, on Wednesday, May IL,
1910 at p. M, for the purpose Of electing a
board OF managers and a board of trustees to
serve for the ensuing year and for the transac-
tion of such other business as may come before
the meeting.
MRS J. A. WATT Secretary
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-02
LOST AND FOUND

LoST-A passbook with the Hibernia savings
and loan society OF San Francisco in the name
of JAMES McCAFFERTY, No. 110, 469. The
finder will please return to bank. Unless same
is returned within five days a new book will
be issued to the applicant.
LOST-Sunday morning, 11:10 narrow gauge
train from San Francisco, lady's gold and Law
ender bead purse; bunch of keys valuable to
owner; liberal reward to finder. 1914 Sth av.,
East Oakland tel. Merritt 2710.
L0ST-Feather hat from 337 Webster ST. apt
s. If lady who inquired at apartments next
door will return hat TO above address Monday
she will receive reward.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-02
FEMALE HELP wANTEI


YOUNG women between the ages Of II and %.
Of fair education. neat appearances ana IN
questionable character. wanted to study rele-
phone operating a profession; a liberal sal
airy is paid new operators while IN training az
the operating school OF the Pacific Telepnone
and Telegraph Company, and upon graduation
they are given permanent positions at the
switchboards. with opportunities for promotion
The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
provides light and well ventilated operating
rooms, pleasant rest and lunch rooms and takes
personal interest In the welfare Of the young
women in its employ.
Competent operators furnished to provide
branch exchange subscribers.
For full particulars call, preferably between
$50 a. N. and II m. at operating school.
telephone office. 2015 Steiner 81.
COOK, small family, Berkeley. $50. party
here Monday. IL a. m; assistant cook for in
stitutiOn, $50: irOner, institution, $50; cook
and second girl, small family. Mare island. $50
and $50: cook for small family, Redwood City,
$50; French second girl, So; waitress, hotel.
San MateO. SIS: waitress cafe, IS a week :
chamber maid, institution. S25. fd,; cook. In
family, SO; cook for German family, $50.
cook. Oakland. $40; cooks, mattresses. house
maids. nurses and second girls for town and
country, $50 to $40. MISS PLUNKETT, 1896
Sutter ST. cor. Webster.
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The San Francisco call., 1910-05-02
sALEsMEN AND SOLICITORS w,NT,,

oALESalEN wanted-No experience reauire,f.
hundreds OF positions open paying 500 ~ sSeS S@
monthly; our free book. "A Knight OF ~
1rip, VIII snow you how to get one OF them
Salesmen's Training Assn. l0i9 MetronSISl
BANK Didg san Francisco: branches New Yo-s
-n-eago. nansas CITY. Minneapolis. Atlanta
WANTED-6 good live solicitors for citv vo-,-
Iele.enSes required Apply circulation denart
mens Lne Can. Sd and Market sts SPa'e-
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wANTED-25 experienced jacket and skirt hands
for alteration room Apply superintendent
office from TO IL a. m. HALE BROS, INC.
Market and 9Th Sts., city.