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The Yakima Herald.
Volume I.
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U. 8. Attorney. I
WHITE A SNIVBLY,
Attorneys at Law.
BWrO «cs with County Treasurer, at the Court
House, North Yakima. Will practice in all the
eourta of the territory. L_
a. r. r atom. 1 l c. rasaiaa,
Sprague. | North Ysklaa.
CATON A PARRISH,
Attorneys at Law.
rgp-wui practice In ell the Courts of the ton*
fcfy. office on First Btreot, opposite the Court
House. North Yakima. W T.
JOHN O. BOYLE.
Attorney at Law.
Wlllnactlr. In «H cm of fO.T.TTfto'T.
OBc, In Dot Xuloiul Mat ■BUdliu. Sort*
Yakima.
J. B. BB.Tlfl. | * HUB I ■«•
REAVIS, HIRES A GRAVES,
Attorneys at Law.
Will practice In all Courts of the Territory.
IpecUl attention riven to iUU. 8. land office
business. Offices at North Ysklma aud KlWnw
hurgh. W. T.
SDWARD WHITSON, I JOSH S. ALI.SS
raso PAasra, Walla Walla.
North Yakima. I
ALLEN, WHITSON A PARKER,
Attorneys at Law.
in Fin* National Bank BaUding
8. O. MORFORD,
Attorney at Law,
Practices in all Courts In the Territory. Es
pecial attention to Collections. t „ ti
*OOce up Etatra in Hill Block, North Yakima.
S. J. sill, m. d. wm. a. cos, m. D.
HILL A COE,
Pfcysleius, Sirgwms ud Aceoncheirs.
- Office Honra—M till IS a. m.,2tHl 4p. m. and
7 till n o’clock p. m.
* 49 OSes over Allen A Chapman’s drug stars.
T. B. GUNN,
Physician & Surgeon.
Office In Pint National Bank, first door np
•tain. Refers to W. A. Cox sad Kshelman Bras ;
also, to sny citlsen of Memphis. Mo. *
ELMER E. HEG, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon.
Office honn from 10 a. m. until 12; 4 until
S p. m., and S. until * p. n.
Office over Allen * Chapman’s drug store. Resi
dence at Mr*. W is well's.
O. M. GRAVES,
DENTIST.
All work In my line flrat-Ham. Local anesthet
ics used to extract teeth without pain. No
charm for examination.
ggp Office orer First National Bank.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Fire Wood ft Draying.
I hare a large quantity of excellent pine and
fir rant wood and fir slab wood for sals cheap.
I also ran two drays, sad sm prepared to do
hsnling st rasaonsbls figures.
•F. M. STOUT,
FORWARDING AND COMMISSION.
ffife»The handling of Yakima Produce for
PngsTSonnd Markets a specialty.
Warehouse west of Railroad Track. No. ft,
Block B. North Yakima. 011-ly
A. P. SWITZER,
Contractor and Builder,
NORTH YAKIMA, W. T.,
Will Contract for ths erection of all elaaaaa of
Buildings, either Brick, Stone. Concrete, or
Wood, and will complete the work honestly
Aid According to Adnenent
RsrxaxNcx: Pint Nst’l Bank of North Yakima.
Offlca, up stain In Opara House. Office hoars,
4 to ft p. m.
mum shop
for a Nice, Good ard Clean Share.
•PPOUTI TUB HOTEL HTBINBB,
FOfX IMPOKTXD AMD DOMESTIC
Cigars and Tobaccos
Of All Kinds Constantly on Hand.
Solomon Ac Ooiild.
FIRST MORAL BAM
of North Yakima.
J. R. Lewis, Wm. Carpenter, A. W.
Engle, Edward Whitson.
asa* ~ = “
t. R, LBVia. Xdwabd Whitson,
PraolTmt Vies President.
W. L. traiwwao, Cashlar.
DOHE A OKNBRAL BANKING BUSINESS.
Bap uri Mk Eitkuge ri KotsmUe Kahn.
PATB INTEREST ON TIBI DEPOSITS.
Vancouver is Properly On.
The emleavor to make it appear that
the boomers of the Rllensburgb statehood
convention deserve the credit for the nd
mission oI this territory into the Union is
about the most gigantic piece of gall yet
displayed. The EllenslNirgh convention
bad no influence whatever in that direc
tion. It was gotten up solely to boom £l
- for the capital, and the occasion
was seised upon by certain politicians who
have a mania for airing themaelvea and
exhibiting their alleged statesmanship.
The EUensburgh convention was not a
representative body. Many sections took
no notice of the call for the capital boom
ing scheme. Vancouver and Clarke
county and other sectiona along the river
sent no delegates to EUensburgh and
authorised no one to act in that capacity.
The Vancouver board of trade passed a
resolution declining to send delegates to
represent this section, wisely believing
that congress would do the proper thing,
which has since transpired.— Clarke
County RegitUr.
Death of Justice Stanley Matthews.
Justice Stanley Matthews died at Wash
ington, March 23. Tbe last change in the
condition of Justice Matthews occurred
Thursday aftsrnoon at 8 o’clock. In tbe
morning he bad been feeling comfortable
and cheerful. At that hour, however, the
intense pain which marked the periods of
decline occurred and never left him until
death brought relief. Dr. Wm. W. John
son was summoned, end finding the pa
tient suffering so intensely, administered
opiates, which toward morning induced n
state of semi-consciousness in which be
remained until the end. Occasionally be
would partially revive and recognise tbe
loved ones near him by a glance or a
pressure of the hand, but a relapse soon
followed. For a number of hours pre
vious to death be was practically uncon
scious. In his last hours the dying justice
was surrounded by members of his fam
ily. Tbe remains will be buried in the
family lot at Spring Grove cemetery, Cin
cinnati.
The engagement of Miss Matthews and
Justice Gray was announced this week,
and the marriage was expected to occur
shortly.
In the United States supreme court im
mediately upon assembling the chief
Justice announced the death of Justice
Matthews and, as n mark of reaped to hie
memory, court adjourned until Thursday.
Contending for the Capital.
Captain Gray, who has large interests
in land at Pasco, is proposing to make a
vigorous pull to secure the location of the
state capital at that place. Pasco is at
the junction of the Colombia and Bnake
rivers, and is at the point on the North
ern where the Yakima branch diverges
from the main line. It is in a dry, des
ert-like spot, but an artesian well is being
bored there at public expense and it is
hoped that water will be more plentiful
in the future. Pasco is the second town
that has arisen to contest with Yakima
the claim of being the best location for
the seat of government, the first being
Ellensburgh, which has sprung up on the
west of Yakima as Pasco Is now springing
up on the east. Ellensburgh was at first
a small postoffice point In the northwest
ern pari of Yakima county, while Yakima
was a good sized town. It was sometimes
jokingly called “Bobbers’ Roost” by the
early inhabitants of the surrounding val
ley, and owing to the strong winds that
nearly always blow there, it was some
times dubbed “Windy Center.” It has
now become a flourishing young city and
the county seat of Kittitas county.
Captain Gray insist*, however, that El
lensburgh is sot a suitable place for the
capital because of the fact that it la so
nearly surrounded by mountains aa to be
inaccessible; while Pasco, with a better
climate, may be reached from any direc
tion. He proposes to offer plenty of land
for public buildings if the capital is lo
cated at his town. Hs is able to show
with a Rond deal ol plausibility that even
after Yakima is connected with the
southern part of the state by the Van
couver A Yakima railroad and with the
northern part of the stats by aa extension
of this line through the Big Bend coun
try to Spokane Falls, as now proposed,
Pasco will still be as accessible as Yakima
and far more so than Elleusburgh can ever
be.—Speke wr Revitte.
VaskßgtoHi In Oowrnr.
Miles C. Moore, Washington's new gov
ornor, waa bora at RlxviUe, Muskingum
county, Ohio, April 17, 1845, where his
father kept a country store. He was the
youngest of four children.
At the age of 12, after receiving a com
mon school education, ha went to Point
Bluff, Win., where be attended the Bron
son Institute, an academy conducted by
Methodists. At 18 he turned bis face
westward, arriving at Walla Walla in the
fall of 1868, a complete stranger and al
most penniless. While standing on the
street, wondering what to do, be was
raked by Alphonse Kyger, of Kyger A
Hera, merchants hare, what be was look
ing for. Yoqng Moore responded work,
and waa atones employed by the firm
aforesaid, remaining with them two years,
making the hast of friends.
He was attracted by the Montana min
eral discoveries, and went thither, remain
ing a year, returning in the fall of 18M. He
engaged in borinara with H. O. Johnson,
then pHTTHtr and bookseller, now
cashier in Baker A Boyer’s national bank.
Having by this time accumulated about
110,000, he went to Washington, New
NORTH YAKIMA, WASHINGTON TERRITORY. THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1889.
York and Chicago, and studied law and
eastern buaineM methods, coming hack
here in 1808.
The following spring, with Frank and
John Paine, he established the general
merchandising house of Paine Bros. A
Moore, succeeding the old-time business
of Baker A Boyer, and greatly enlarging
its scope, continuing with it nine years.
In 1877 be was elected mayor, bis term
being noted for economic reforms that be
instituted.
After withdrawing from Paine Bros, he
became confidential agent and adviser of
the late Dr. D. 8. Baker, whose daughter
be married, and materially assisted in
conducting and building up his great en
terprises, and when the doctor became
prostrated from paralysis bis vast busi
ness was entirely managed by Mr. Moore,
and as a testimonial of his business abil
ity was, by Dr. Baker, made chief execu
tor of his estate. _
lew the (liaeae Eceaeuae.
The Chinese are pre-eminently econom
ical, whether it be in limiting tbe num
ber of wants, in preventing waste, or in
adjusting forces in such a manner as to
make a little represent a great deal. The
universal diet consists of rice, beans,
millet, garden vegetables and fish, with a
little meat on high festivals. Wholesome
food in abundance rosy be supplied at
less than a penny a day (or each adult,
and even in (amine times thousands of
persons have been kept alive for months
on about a half-penny a day each. This
implies the existence of n high degree of
culinary skill in the Chinees. Their modes
of preparing food are thorough and vari
ous. There is no waste; everything is
made to do as much doty as possible.
What is left is the veriest trifle. The
physical condition of tbe Chinese dog or
cat, who has to live on the leavings of the
family, shows this; they are cieerly kept
on starvation allowances. The Chinese
are not extremely fastidious in regard to
food; all is fish that comes to their net,
and most things come there sooner or
later. Certain disturbances of the human
organisation, doe to eating diseased meat,
are well recognised among the people;
but it is considered better to eat the meat,
the cbeepness of which Is certain, and
ran the risk of the consequences, which
are not quite certain, than to boy dear
meat, even with tbe assurance of no evil
molt*. Indeed, the meat of animals
which have died of ordinary ailments is
rather dearer than that of those which
have died in an epidemic such as pleuro
pneumonia. Another example of careful.
calculating economy is the construction of
the cooking pots and boilers, the bottoms
of which are as thin as possible, that the
contents may boil all the sooner, for fuel
is scarce and dear, and consists generally
of nothing but the stalks and roots of the
crops, which make a rapid blase and dis
appear. The business of gathering fuel is
committed to children, for one who can
do nothing else can at least pick op straws
and leaves and weeds. In autumn and
winter a vast army of fuel-gatherers
spread over the land. Boys ascend trees
and beat them with clubs to shake off the
leaves; the very straws get no time to
show which way the wind blows before
they are annexed by some enterprising
collector. Similarly professional manure
collectors swarm over all the roads of the
country. Chinese women carry this mi
nute economy into their dress; nothing
comes amiss to them; if it is not used in
one place it is in another, where it appears
a thing of beauty. Foreign residents who
give their cast-off clothes away to the
Chinese may be assured that the career
of usefulness of Uiese garments is at last
about to commence. Chinese wheelbar-
rows squeak for the want of a few drops
of oil; but to people who have no nerves
the squeak is cheaper than the oil. Sim
ilarly dirt is cheaper than hot water, and
so, as a rule, the people do not wash;
the motto “Cheaper than dirt,” which the
soap-dealer puts in his windows, could
not be made intelligible to the Chinese.
To thim the average foreigners are mere
soap-wasters. Scarcely any tool can be
got ready made; it is so much cheaper
to buy the parts and put them together
for yourself, and aa almost everybody
takes this view, ready-made tools are not
to be got. Two rooms are dimly lighted
with a single lamp deftly placed in a hole
la the dividing wall. Chinese, in fact,
seem to be capable of doing almost any
thing by means of almost nothing. They
will give you an iron foundry on a minute
scale of completeness in a back yard, and
will make in an hour a cooking range, of
strong and perfect draught, out of a pile
of mod bricks, lasting indefinitely, ope
rating perfectly, and costing nothing.
The old woman who, In her last moments,
hobbled as near as possible to the family
graveyard in order to die so as to avoid
the expense of coffin-bearers was Chinese.
—North Chit w Htrmld.
lapriaat Lad Min Id*
The interior department has made an
Important land entry ruling. The exist
ing law provides that an entry of land
made by a minor, under any of the vari
ous laws, is invalid. The department has
decided that a person under 21 years of
age, who has to support a mother, brother,
or other near relativsa, provided he com
plies with the requirements of the law. Is
a person whose age in such cases is not a
barrier to prevent him from making a
land entry. ,
—Five hundred boxes of aoap at Barth
olst Bros, only $1.25 per box. •
Potatoes only BO oenta per sack at
Bartbolet Bros. •
HEADED FOB YAKIMA.
1 Railroad From Umatilla to Tip TUi
Prolific Country.
a
Pert land sad Oemha Capitalists la
teres tea—The, illeaa laslasss—
The Read Will Cast .
It is generally understood that Yakima
commands the key, topographically, to
the railroad situation in the northwest,
and that railroads from the east and
southeast seeking an outlet on Puget
Hound can find an advantageous route
and an economic grade through Yakima.
So fully are the settlers of the greet Yak
ima country conversant with these facta
that the knowletlge that John T. Flynn,
of Portland wee here ns the representa
tive of a company proposing to build a
railroad from Umatilla to North Yakima
created no surprise. Mr. Flynn came
here quietly, and, after interviewing city
officials and well-posted cititens, said that
he was the repreaentive of Portland and
Omaha capital, and that the roed would
be built providing a bonus of 160,000 in
land was given by North Yakima.
In an interview with an Oregonian re
porter, Mr. Flynn said:
"I mean business, and nothing but
business. The parties I represent propose
to give eastern Washington another new
railroad—one that will make a rich and
productive country tributary to Portland.
The plan Is to build a road from Umatilla,
the Junction of the Oregon Short Line and
O. R. A N. systems, thence through the
Horse Heaven country, and enter the
Yakima valley at a point near Prosser.
An application for authority to build a
bridge across the Columbia river at Uma
tilla has already been forwarded to Wash
ington. Thu distance from Umatilla to
the lower end of the Yakima valley ia
about fifty miles, and from thia point to
North Yakima about the same distance.
It is the intention to build into the valley,
but whether the line will be extended to
the city depends entirely on whether the
bonus is raised. It has not yet been de
cided whether to cross the Yakima river
river near the entrance to the valley and
build to what la known as the Hunnyaide
country, or to parallel the Northern Pa
cific through the Yakima Indian reserva
tion to North Yakima. The intention is
to occupy tiie Natchez pass and develop
the vast coal fields at the base of the
Cascades In that vicinity. The distance
from North Yakima to the coal fields,
which are simply a continuation of the
Roslyn mines, is about 40 miles, making
the distance traversed from Umatilla less
than 150 miles. The tillable land made
tributary to the road will exceed 2,000,000
acres, to say nothing of the timber, coal
and other mineral resources of the Cas
cade The completion of this road
will give Portland access to the richest
piece of territory on the line of the North
ern Pacific road. Close connection will
be made at Umatilla with the O. R. A N.
Co. until such time as the Columbia river
is open to that point, and then the trans
fer from car to boat will be made. With
an open river to thia point it will be pos
sible to take grain from the Yakima val
ley to Astoria for less than one-half of the
present charges, and the result will show
that the Columbia river is the place for
foreign shipments. Instead of laboring
under a disadvantage of $1.60 a ton, as at
present, we will have an ad vantage to that
extent over Puget sound competitors.”
“You say you represent Portland and
Omaha capitalists. How are they fixed,
financially?"
“They have plenty of capital. The
road, which is estimated to cost $8,000,-
000, will probably be known as the Uma
tilla Central railroad. The survey was
made several years ago. While at Uma
tilla I purchased 2000 acres of land for
SIO,OOO for the capitalists. Of this land
500 acres are in the original towns!te and
the remaining 1500 are located near by.
That gives ns a water front about two
miles long. C. H. Prescott, formerly
manager of the O. R. 4 N. Co., at Port
land, has also purchased land in the vi
cinity of Umatilla."
“la the O. R. 4 N. Co. behind the pro
posed Umatilla Central railroad?"
“Ldon’t know. Of course 1 know by
whom I was instructed, but I am not at
liberty to mention names."
—lsparsette •lover grow* on dry soil
without irrigation. Fawcett Brae, have
it in stock. 1-lm.
—Who are Solomon 4 Gould? The
Climax Barbers, opposite Hotel Steiner.2l
—When Macbeth ironically asked,
“Canst thout minister to a mind dis
eased?" he little knew that mankind
would one day be blessed with Ayer’s
Sarsaparilla. In purifying the blood,
this powerful alterative givsa tone and
strength to every function and faculty of
the system.
—For the cure of colds, coughs, and all
derangements of the respiratory organs,
no other medicine is so reliable as Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral. It relieves the asthmatic
and consumptive, even in advanced stages
of disease,and has saved innumerable lives.
Highland, Ore., Kerch 80.
I have suffered with a diseaee of the
kidneys for 6 or 7 years, and lor the last
two months have been laid up with a
pain in my back. A friend sent me a
sample of the Oregon Kidney Tea, and
having need it one week I can do a good
day's work. I have derived more beoedl
from H than from all the medicines I have
ever taken. J. Q. Nswanx.
Md by Allen 4 Chapman.
THE HEW CROESUS.
1 Pu Portrait o( Ho Rickast lu li
tko "Floury Undos.”
—el«lv—laaßargsamsMamaiaa»«ra»
reatal Aetherlty la Chlaa—Rllad
■sggawngWallisisswfli
Frank O. Carpenter writes from Can
ton as follows:
I visited this afternoon the Vanderbilt
of China. He ia a relative of the Chinese
minister at Washington and his grand
father died less than a generation ago,
leaving an estate worth fifty million hard
gold dollars. His name is How Qua, and
he bus acres of houses in the busiest
part of Canton. His own residence oc
cupies tbe site of a good-eiaed (arm and
he baa diamonds and pearls by the cup
ful. One of bis diamonds, a ring which
cost $60,000, was sent to England to be
sold not long ago, and it is probably now
in tbe Jewel caskets of one of the mon
archs of Europe. He has plantations of
rice fields and many acres of the choicest
tea gardens. His money ia well invested
and he would approach tbe wealth of Jay
Gould were H not that the officials every
now and then come down upon him for a
gift of SIO,OOO to SIOO,OOO, which he dare
not refuse. The rich man is now 60 years
old, though be does not look over 35. He
is a typical Chinaman of the literary class,
has a high, broad forehead, thin, yellow
cheeks, and eyes that ehine aa brightly
as his choicest diamonds. His hair is
like Jet and hie cue reaches to bis ankles.
He wee dressed In silks and furs when he
received me, end be had a tight, round
black silk skull cap on the top of his
head. He ebook hie own hands before
hie breast in Chinese salutation when our
American consul, Mr. Seymour, intro
duced me to him, and then be reached
out his long-nailed fingers and grasped
my hand a la Amerlcaine.
now qua’s palatial UMINDIcn.
It was in his grand residence on the
banka of the Pearl river, in the heart of
Canton. We walked through a wilder
ness of buildings devoted to the servants
and relatives of the family before we
came to the reception room. How Qua
supports about 400 of his poorer relatives.
When a man makes a fortune in .China
hia whole clan settles down upon him. In
the various courts all kinds of work
seemed to be going on. Here servants
were cleaning fish far the faasily; there
rice was being ground into floor and dried
in great baskets, and Just next to the re
ception room we heard the bussing of
babel. It was How Qna’s children being
taught by their tutor, and, like all Chi
nese children, they studied out loud,
singing their lessons out at the top of
their voices. Now and then the sharp
clapper of the ruler could be heard when
one of the boys made a mistake. The
father told me he intended to have the
boys educated at the Hong Kong foreign
college, and to finish them off in England
and America. He talked English him
self, and he is among the progressive
Chinese. As we sat and chatted, the
choicest of formosa tea was brought In,
the leaves of which ware, 1 Judge, worth
about S2O a pound, and we seated our
selves in black ebony chairs, which were
arranged in couples on the aides of small
tables, and sipped the tea from covered
cups without saucers. There are no easy
chairs in he Chinees gentleman's house,
and this palace in China had uncarpeted
floors of stone, and its walla between the
rooms were of colored glass, framed in
ebony. Borne of the curious shaped pan
els had pictures painted on them by Chi
nese artists and the effect of the whole
was that of n fancy store-room yet unoc
cupied, rather than that of a comfortable
home. Borne of the rooms looked cot
upon a little lake of lotus plants of per
haps an acre in extent, and there wen
glass-covered corridors which ran around
this. The chain sat against the walls,
and their unbending backs wen straight
up and down. Then wen no cosy nooks
such as you find in our American homes,
and the soft tints of our family life wen
not found in the picture. Nearly every
room contained an American dock, and
some wen hung with glass chandeliers.
I went into hia mother’s bedroom, the
best in the bouse, I doubt not, and when
How Qua pointed mbe said "then my
mamma sleeps,” was a platform between
four poets which was covered with straw
matting and upon which was a piece of
porcelain of about the ahape and Bias of a
6-cent loaf of bread, and thiS'was the
pillow of this rich Chinese lady.
HAD TO ASK HIS MAMA.
In no country in the world have
mothers more power than in China, and
in no place is filial affection mon shown.
How Qua, though 48 yean old, obeys his
mother as well as when ten, and he
would not think of going out at night
without asking her permission. Not long
ago be was invited to our consulate
to dinner. He replied: “I would like to
come, but I cannot until I aek my mam
ma.” Still How Qua is nearly 80 and his
mother 68. The Chinese mother selects
the bride for her eon, and How Qua dur
ing this visit seemed much prouder of his
mother than hia wife. He introduced us
to the old lady, who was sitting in a chair
wrapped up in fan and powdered and
painted. Her seat looked out upon a
flower garden, and she had two maids be
side her. Upon her cloth cap was a gnat
button of diamonds as large as the big
gest fall-blown rose and about the same
shape. It was made of numerous atones
and the central one was as large as the
egg of s robbin. Pearls hung in her ears,
and what interested os most were the
“golden lilies” which hong out beneath
her embroidered petticoat. “Golden lil
ies” is the Chinese expression for the
smallest of ladies’ lest, and Madam How
Qua had shots not more then two inches
in diameter. Their soles were round rather
than oblong, and their lope wen em
broidered la silver and silk. They wen
so small that she could not walk alone,
and this old lady, who has lor yean con
trolled a fortune greater than that pos
sessed by Mias Mary Garrett or Mrs. Mark
Hopkins, cannot mors from one room to
to another without the assistance of her
maids.
Tram rear.
Ths small lest of ths Chinese woman Is
cos of ths drat sights In China that aickr
ena the foreigner. In Tientsin and North
China all the Chinese woman compress
their feet, and they hobble about the
streets with canes, resting their heavy
knot on the stamp of ths natural foot.
Then is a woman ban In Canton whose
fool is to small that the part which goes
into the shoe la no larger around than a
trade dollar, and the compressed foot is a
horrible deformity. I bad one photo
graphed, and the sight 11 Usd mo with
disgust. The leg from ths knee to the
foot Is like a pipestem. Ths besot, of
ballet girl's oaU is missing, tad the skin
atoms tote wrapped around tbs shin. It
is crackled tad rough, tad tbs foot itesll
teems to be broken in two fat tbs middle.
The Instep was doubled over under lbs
hetl tad the four small tom wen wrap
ped around under the sole of the foot.
The big toe and a part of them four wan
all that front Into the shoe, and the Chi
mes lodise, in reality, walk on their toee.
They ban the heel set about the middle
of the shoe, like the French heel, and we
got French heels and rouge from China.
The compression of the foot is said to
dale heck to an empress who had a club
toot, and who made the other ladies of
tbs court bind up their fset until it be
came a fashionable thing. Another ex
planation is that k was adopted to keep
Chinese women bom gadding about, and
if so, it It a success. All Chinese women
except the Maacbns or testers now bind
their feet tad it is a very low peasant
who has fast of ths natural shape. The
pressing Is with bondages, which an put
on tbs foot when the child is five years
old. They an wrapped so tightly that
tbs toss art forced into the dash, ths in
step Is forced up so that tbs hetl and tbs
big toe form a complete bow, and so that
the dash often breaks at the instep, and
tbs bones sometimes protrude. This
binding is kept up through Ilk, and
swelling takes place whenever the ban
dages are removed. Ths women must be
in continual pain, and in the winter these
com pressed test are liable to beam. Dr.
Mary Milss, of the hospital here, told me
of the cam of a woman in ths country
near Canton. Her feet became froasn
and aloughad off. She came into Canton
on the stumps, with her test in her hand,
brought them to ths hospital and asked
tbs doctors to sew them on again. A oast
of one of them foot Is now shown at this
hospital, which k larger than any in
America, and which, since its foundation
a half century ago, baa treated
undents.
crown nu or » abb.
Canton is of about the alia of Paris or
Maw York, and it is ooa of the best places
to study Chinese gastronomy. The res
taurants here bare bird’s neat soap at 96
a plate, and I bought a rat which was
salted, pressed and dried, yesterday, for 5
cents. I doubt not the price was fire times
too high, lor the rat was the smallest on
the string which hung in the butcher
shop. It lies before me as I write. It
measures a foot from noaar to tan, and it
looks a little like a piece of dried pork.
Ik has bean skinned even to the tail. Its
legs are cut off and the liter and heart are
pressed of H. It smells like salt
meat and it looks as though it would make
the center of a good sandwich. I propose
to send it to the Gridiron or Clover club
as a sample of Chinese gastronomy. In
this same shop I saw cooked eats, and I
visited, yesterday, a cat and dog meat
restaurant. Carcasses of small dogs which
looked not unlike clean sucking pigs bong
from books about a low dark room, and
these, in most instances had a tuft of hair
left on the tip of the tail. The hair was
black, for black dog’s meat is worth more
than that of the yellow dog and black cat’s
flash costa hers ten cents a plats. Just
below these dogs, and neat to the street,
wen two clay howls filled with burning
charcoal, and upon these was stewing the
flesh of dop and eats. In little oagea on
the floor were a number of live cats ready
to be killed and cooked to order, and I saw
this afternoon a peddler showing a cat to
a woman In one of the narrow streets of
Canton. The woman was examining tbs
cat’s teeth in onkr to know its age, and
she fsHof its body as though it were a
rabbit There ware about a dosen China
men dining in this dog and cat restaurant
and a good dinner oasts on an average 16
cents.
The Chlneee, however, ban u good
nurkda aa yon win find In Um world. I
ban Barer eMo a greater variety of India
and regetetlee anywhere than In Pekin,
Shanghai and Canton. The mutton ol the
north leaner than that of England,and
the game la of the choice*. Flab are ah
wage aold alira, and yoo aae tuba ol living
•eh el every Cantoneee market eM.
The market man takea the eqolmli* Hah
(Mae the water and cleaaa it while It
geefa. Rebolda lla wrlggllag tall and
cate alloea of qulreriag Mi bum Ha
eldee to eeD, and bale tenet here aeeeeey
where. All Unde of dried Mr are'aoid
Number 9.
and among the common articles of food
an dried docks pressed and salted. These
hang op etrarjwben, and 1 sea smoked
sheep’s beads, dried oysters strung on
strings and dried clams. The Chinese
fruits am especially Hue, and they have
oranges, bananas, plums, peam and per
aim moos which would make your mouth
water. Canton tends thousands of dollars
of sweetmeats to America yearly, and
their preserved ginger is sought for by ths
gastronomers of the world. The Chinese
themselves are great esters. Cook shops
for the rich and poor are found evsry-
• where, and a big Chinese dinner some
r times has 100 courses. Mr. Denby, the
American minister at Pekin, when re
ceived by the viceroy of Canton,waa given
1 a dinner of twenty-six courses, and be
smacks his lips when he diacooraea npon
1 the delicacy of ahark’a flna and bird’s
1 neat soup.
> DBOWXWO BABY OBLS.
I took a ride on the river this afternoon.
Canton haa about 300,000 people who live
> on the water, and there ia no hosier city
i In the world than this of boats. Crafts of
t all kinds from the small steamer, the
> peat Chinese junk and the river cargo
■ boats to the sampans and little tuba rowed
1 by spoon like paddles move here and there
> or dart in and out through (meats of
[ masts. Whole families live on boats
1 about twenty feet long and co wider than
■ the average city vestibule. Here children
f are born, grown up and die. Marriage
takes place and the whole business and
' actions of life goes on. little children
■ swarm over them and tots two years old
with cues hanging down their becks play
1 about upon their decks. The boys have
' little round barrels or drums about a foot
> long and six inches in diameter tied by
* strings to their backs, and many girls of
* ths same sise have nothing. If the girl
■ falls overboard It would be good fortune
■ to the poor fellow to get rid of the ex*
* peose of raising her, hot the boy must
f have his life preserved. Poor girls are of
' no account in China, and infanticide is
• still common. You can buy a girl baby
' for from one cent up to a dollar, and at
I the Jesnit children’s asylum near Shsng
> haioneof the sisters told me that they
1 bought hundreds of girls every year for
I leas than a dollar apiece. At Foo Chow
> Mr. Wingate, our consul, told me of a
t poor woman who strangled her own baby
i girl in order that she might adopt the
t baby of a neighbor to raise as e wife for
• bar little eon, and a missionary there told
' me of a man who went around peddling
1 children. There is a foundling asylum
I here, which, upon the payment of 20
1 cents by the mother, will take s girl baby
> to raise, but these girls are sold as soon
as they grow much past the weaning age,
1 and they are bought in large numbers by
' brothel keepers. The selling of girls for
wives and concubines ia common, and full
1 grown maidens bring from $25 upward.
I spent s day sitting beside the Chinese
i Judge in the mixed court is Shanghai end
1 among the cases tried wee that of an old
- woman who wanted to prosecute a man
-1 darin for breaking his contract in the
; buying of her daughter. The girl was
1 sold (or SBO, end the mandarin took her
1 with him to Formosa, but did not pay the
1 mother. Babies are often bought here,
' their eyes are pot out and they are raised
as blind beggars.
AUOKO TUI BBOOASS.
Tbmtn thooaande ol blind beggars
bm In Cautnu, nnd going through the
citjr today I law at tout 300 ol all ages
and sexes. They mot in groups ol six
and sight la single Us, and the leader
oonld ass Just enough to get along. The
others bald on to on. another's clothes,
and all, Irom decrepit old women to little
blind boys, held out little Hat round bask
ets, and turning up their sightless eyes
asked lor elms in piteooa tones. These
blind beggars come Irom the blind asylum
<* Canton. They go out daily to beg
through the city end then stand in Irani
o< tbs shop until Its owner pays them to
go away. They busty get mote than the
tenth cl s cent bom a single man, and In
asmuch aa the asylum furnishes them
but little food they uu pale, thin and pit
ifully ragged. Tbs sackcloth in which
the beggar ol Chinn la usually clad is ol
tbs coarse coffee sacking. He is dirty
tad loathsome to aa axtreme, and I wooH
as soon think ol touching a small-pox pa
tient or a leper as ooa ol these beggars.
UUUuUbn.
Noticing your comment, on mixing
ttraw with mien alfalfa by the layer pro
eta* 1 will ray that I hare barn diapering
d my straw profitably in this way for
many rears, but I find morn satisfactory
remits hum tbs jumbling prunes* which
it about as sadly accomplished aa by
layers. It Is dons by unloading tbs green
alfalfa, newly mown, so near the straw,
either in the burn or tlack, so that while
one it unloading the sHalia, another la
pitching the straw on the new stack os
pile. I haws pot op alfalfa in tUs way
with complete moeeat that was not only
green, bat wet, adding a little men straw
to the mixture. In this way, I also sure
the hkneoms, leaves and aeada, that other
wise mostly era kut ta the fields; and the
straw is such a good factor in curing tha
hay mind in thia way, that I never wait
for good wsathtr, bat cat wiun I am ready.
I never halt my up In this way, for I
suppose it would not cell readily, but for
winter hading and boms ase I prefer It
lethal pa* spin the ordinary way, aa it
etnas soft to thaabmnrf sad retains all its
« »- -- ftlinfi am * - « |_ at a..
viitoaa huh atu iMiiwirucu in inemniWs
1 emttiiw straw djspoaad el la this way
worth mors than hay—lT. B. Meet.
-Oo to Bart hoist Bros, for yotw Yaki
ma dairy butter. e
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