The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-03-03

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MUKDEN BY MAIL-Well all /
know is just what read in the
papers. And say Brother its so
cold out here in this Manchuria
that you cant read, even if you
had something to read which you
haven't. Sitting here in Mukden,
that's the town that all the Jap
anses and Chinese War news
comes from you know its been on
the front pages of every paper for
months and month. It used to be
the old Capitol of Manchuria when
Manchuria was really Kingdom.
They have had Emperors and
Rulers here for 2 or 3 thousand
years. It's kinder in the range of
that old Repcallion Ganghis Khan,
he ranged up and down these
parts, he captured everything
from Japan clear on right to the
very gates of what is now Europe.
He got clear to Vienna, and did it
all horseback.
Well this is right up his alley
this place. It's got an old walled
City here, where they close the
Gates at night. Went down there
yesterday with some Newspaper
men to buy some Curios, that is
Rare Jade.
They had some wonderful old
Curios in these old shops. Course
they might have been like ours
made the week before someplace
but they looked pretty ancient to
me.
They live in the back end of
these places. The way they work
the heat or the stove is they have
a little bit of thing like fire
place. It's generally right under
their bed, and their bed is built
down solid to the ground. It's not a
bed, its just high platform built
against the back of the wall. Well
they have little openings, no pipes.
but just little long troughs. or al
leyways running through the mas
onary that makes the foundation
of the bed, and this little heat
from this dinky little stove, it runs
on through these little passages,
and that is what heats the bed.
The Japanese they sleep on a
mattress on the floor, but the Chi
nese get up on this shelf. We also
went into a Fur store as they
wanted to get kind of a lap robe
o use in Ricksha.
Well you ought to have seen
these Furs, if they didn't have some
of the queerest looking old Pelts in
there, and what do you think they
were, well they were every kind Of
fur in the world, but they were all
dog fur. That's what they really
were. OF course there was Fox and
Beaver and Kolinsky and Mink,
but all made from practically the
same Dog. You see those old Dogs
I'D there are kinder semi wild, and
they roam the country and they
are raised in the Villages, then
when the family get broke why old
F'ido is executed, and his hide
brings in some rice, and his meat
brings in all the neighbors, and
they have a feed, "Come tonight
we are eating the Flee Hound.
There is no two Of the Nuts col
ored alike. They look like every
thing that ever wore hair, and on
these Chinese streets, they don't
sell hardly anything in the stores
they move it all out on the streets.
OF all he junk they are cooking
right there before you on a little
Charcoal fire. ALI Kinds Of fish,
and queer do dads.
Did I tell you how they traded?
Well they wear great long Kimo-
mas, with sleeves about six inches
longer than the hand, in cold
weather they run each hand up
each sleeves, like a Muff. Well IL
two of them are trading, one each
runs his hand up the others sleeve,
and by feeling each others fingers
they telephaph how much is offer
ed and the other how much he will
take. Well If they are a couple of
good quick Traders they can get
the price of Pair of sox agreed
on along about the middle Of the
afternoon.
Course the time means nothing
to EN-, NEITHER one is going any
where, they are everybody says
the sharpest Traders that there is
in the World. There used to be a
Jewish Settlement many years
ago, and these just finally wore
them out and gobbled EN- up, they
couldent start with the Chinese.
No Pigeon English UP north China
where we are. That is down South
at Canton, there is where all the
American Chinaman come from Is
Canton. I sure am going down
there. want to see the home
Town of some of these. They are a
great people they don't care who
has got Manchuria, all they want
to do is just to get you in a trade
Of some kind and they are fixed.
They are not what we call sharp
ers" they are just good legitimate
Traders. You got to be good to live
among 400 million others.
Highway Work Should
Proceed Mt Present Pace