Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1894, Page 19

MOTHERS’ DARLINGS :scts They Will Soon Need to Be Dressed for Warm Weather. SOME APPROPRIATE GOWNS How Children May Be Clothed Comfortably and Stylishly. COSTUMES EASILY MADE Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. HE WARM DAYS a are not very far off, v and busy mothers are &, beginning to make the children’s sum- mer gowns. Ging- Swivel Silk. Swivel silk gingham is the material vsed hams are always the | for the sixth costume. The body is gath- most popular, so we ‘ered at shoulders and waist and then gath- jered into a rosette in the middle of the will give a few de) ¢ront, the extra fullness falling down and @igns appropriate for the little folk. Light Gingham. The Uttle lady in cut No. 1 wears a Pretty, light blue French gingham in the pattern of a fine shepherd's plaid. Skirt, sleeves, revers and waist are made of this, while the cuffs and wide, circular vest are of plain, solid blue. The revers are cut on slightly over at the waist line. The sleeves are draped ones and the skirt is caught slightly up at one side and tacked with a rosette. Several other rosettes are placed on the waist, as shown in the Illustration. The neck ts cut slightly pointed and the whole is fastened in the back. Prettily Trimmed. A pretty way of trimming a skirt is next the serpentin: le, eats on | shown, and as it speaks quite plainly for ha thaeddica. Wate Can aces ae een | Haste Xt needa Hille Goacaition. Ginahanm ef buttons are piaced—tour in each row—| and the cuffs are trimmed in the same trimmed with a contrasting color of the same material are quite as effective and much less expensive than using embroidery manner. The wide leghorn hat is faced oF with turquoise blue silk, and is turned up on the side with bunches of violets and Blue ribbon. All in Red. color of the second costume is red has a yoke of figured red and navy gingham. The yoke is wide, reaching armhole to armhole. The skirt is con- up around the waist tn pleats and the long yoke, being finished off by heading. The sleeves are full and are Pleated about the wrists. The skirt is ‘immed by @ narrow ruffle 2 se With a Full Waist Skirt. ‘The little pink gown next shown is made With a full waist, skirt and a circular yoke formed of alternate rows of the dress ma- terial and lace insertion, having a lace ruf- fe @ border. The sleeves are gathered cuffs made in the same way as the yoke. inted revers are sewed about the waist, being cut high up at the hips and banging 4a points at back and front. A Natty Sailor Costume. A sailor suit is the subject of the next Mustration. It is of dark navy blue ging- ham with skirt front, vest, collar and cuffs ef white linen. The skirt has three pleats on ‘ thered on the hips and in the back. Sev- fal rows of feather-edge braid border the pointed vest. The blouse is made in the usual manner, turned under at the waist and having full sleeves. Buttons irim the Vest and cuffs in the same manner as the ekirt. In Batt. The fifth dress ts buff colored and has a e The body is tight fitting and k ng rows of em- ross the front Full Blouse Waist. The gown pictured next ts made with a full blouse waist fastening in the back. It is gathered on to a yoke of stripad mater- jal and has a narrow heading in front and fluted ruffies over the shoulders. The waist is gathered into a belt which is made to fit over the hips and then cut in squares. This belt and the cuffs and yoke are of the striped goods, ee The last dress is a simple one, designed for morning wear. It can be made from any color gingham or lawn, and has a bedy gathered slightly at neck and waist, aud buttoning in the back. A wide turnover collar finishes off the neck and is, with the cuffs, edged with narrow embroidery put on plain. A long, serpentine ruffle, cut open in back and front, goes around the waist, which also has wide belt, buttoning in front and put on afterward. Belt and ruf- fle are also edged with embroidery. ———.——_. ANCIENT TABLE MANNERS. Hard Eaters and Also Hard Drinkers im the Olden Time, From the Westminster Review. Bread, milk, butter and cheese were the staple articles of food, bread being the chief. “A domestic was termed a man’s ‘hlaf- oetan,’ or loaf-eater.” A lady was a “hiaf- dig,” @ loaf-giver. Bacon was the principal flesh food, and other meats were also salted. Hence boiling was the common form of cooking. They even boiled their geese. The knives of a late period resembled: modern razors. One in the Cambridge Museum was labeled “A Roman razor.” After dinner the cloth was cleared, hands were washed, as before the meal, and ail commenced drinking. When King Edwy left the cup for the society of his newly made queen Dunstan forcibly dragged him back to the guests, because it was gross dis- respect to leave off early after dinner. The cups were often of precious metals, curious. ly engraved and of much value, and were specially left in wills. The abbey of Ram- sey thus received from the Lady Ethelgiva “two silver cups for the use of the breth- ren in the refectory, in order that while drink is served in them to the brethren at their repast my memory may be more firm- | ly imprinted on their hearts.” In pledging they always kissed. Story- telling and singing in the humbler gather- ings were partaken by turns. In this way Caedmon, the Anglo-Saxon Milton, was first made aware of his poetical powers. Danc- ing was expressed by words meaning hop- ping, leaping and tumbling. It appears, therefore, to have been a somewhat violent exercise. The ‘nirth among the men was often coarse to obscenity, and scenes oc- curred in the halls wh’ may not be de- scribed. In some cases lands were granted to vassals on conditions which would de- grade the roughest London costermonger. The ladies modestly retired early from these orgies, which frequently ended in quarrels and bloods:.-d, and in their bower, which was a chamber built separate from the hall, amused themselves undisturbed by the wassailers. The bower was furnished with a round table, stools and generally a bed. Chairs were for the great. The bed was a sack filled with straw and laid on a bench, hence the words bench and straw were commonly used for bed. When the bed was to be made they took the bed sack out of the chest, filled it with fresh straw and lald It | on the bench in a recess of the room, pro- vided with a curtain. Bedsteads were rare and only used by people of rank. ———— FOR INDIGESTION Use Horsford'’s Acid Phosphate. W. |W. Gardner, Springfeld, Mass., says: “T value it as an excellent preventative’ of in- digestion, and a pleasant acidulated drink when Dr. | properly ‘diluted with water, and sweetened.” THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1894 The Minister's Wife Has Here Unex- ampled Freedom. IS STUDYING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE She Receives Women and Men Who Accompany Their Wives. A TRADITION EXPLODED Written for The Evening Star. =<" HE WIFE OF THE new Chinese minister at Washington has been knocking tradi- tion right and left. Very few of the treas- ured ideas about Chi- nese women, which have entertained newspaper _—readers for so many years are left to us. Mrs. Yang Ju is studying the English language. She goes with her husband to official entertainments, where men and women mingle; she receives men who call with their wives at the Chinese le- gation; she accompanies her husband to the theater and goes driving with him; and, finally, when it is necessary to do any walking she has not the slightest difficulty in doing it—for, if Mrs. Yang Ju’s feet are small, it is because nature intended that they should be small. Mrs. Yang Ju has furnished a new diver- sion to Washington society this winter. She was the third woman who has presided over the Chinese legation; but her prede- cessors were kept closely within its walls. They were so little known that their ap- pearance on the street was the signal for a display of interest which must have been a little embarrassing to them. They re- ceived no visitors, as a rule. Once or twice this rule was relaxed in favor of the wives of gentlemen who had business with the legation; and as the minister's wife cannot sit at the table with the attaches of the le- gation they led a very lonely life. When Mr. Yang Ju came to this country last summer it was whispered about that he had more advanced ideas on the social question |than had his predecessors. It is altogether likely that the Chinese government, real- izing the justice of the criticism passed on the Chinese people in this country—that they never became assimilated to the peo- ple of the United States, and that they as- eoclated with them as little as possible— suggested to Mr. Yang Ju the idea of mak- ing the legation more popular, and of prov- ing to the people of Washington how thor- oughly agreeable the Chinese could be. There was an example for Mr. Yang Ju to follow in the Chinese minister at London, whose wife for five years past has made sociai calls and received them. So it was not entirely an innovation, though it was wholly new to Washington, when the Chi- nese minister took his wife to entertain- ments during the past winter and gave her permission to receive visitors like the wo- men who preside over other foreign lega- tions in this city. Very few people in Washington knew of this London preceden and many were astonished at Mr, Yang Ju’ temerity. Some of them almost expected the big dragon which flies at the mast- head above the legation building to come down and swallow Mr. Yang Ju. As noth- ing unpleasant has happened to him, how- ever, it is safe to assume that his conduct meets with the entire approval of his home government. Perhaps the new treaty re- cently negotiated between the minister and Secretary Gresham is the first fruit of Mr. Yang Ju’s policy. Her Life in Washington. Mrs. Yang Ju’s life in Washington is not so very different, in many respects, from her life in China. Although she was not permitted to receive any but intimate friends or relatives there, there was no Prohibition on her receiving men if they came within that classification, There was no rule of Chinese life violated when Mrs. Yang Ju adopted American social customs. She simply departed a little from the ways of her own people. The peopie at the Chi- nese legation say that it is no crime or sin for a Chinese woman to do what Mrs. Yang Ju has done—that she needs no special dis- Pensation—and that the seclusion of Chi- nese women is their own act and is due en- tirely to their modest and retiring disposi- tion. Mrs, Yang Ju still follows the dic- tates of her oriental nature in this, that she rever receives men who are not accompa- nied by their wives. No other Chinese wo- man of distinction in America has ever re- ceived any but women. But when men ac- company their wives to the Chinese lega- tion they have the privilege of seeing Mrs. Yang Ju in company with the minister, and of holding conversation with her through the interpreter. Neither the minister nor his wife speaks English. But before the | jegation gives its first ball—it is promised for the season of 1894-95—Mrs. Yang Ju will probably be able to hold some slight con- versation in our native tongue. She is Studying English now. She has no regular instructor, but a neighbor, Miss Mants, whose father is the proprietor of the lega- | tion building, comes every afternoon to give |the minister's wife a lesson in English. Miss Mants speaks no Chinese, and Mr: Yang Ju knows no language but her own: so the prim:ry lessons were given with the aid of an interpreter. But when Mrs. Yang Ju and her instructor had come to an un- derstanding, the interpreter was dispensed | with and her instruction is now going on by object-lessons. She finds no difficulty in [ chee! English words, and she has learned the names for a great inany Amerl- can things. She knows a few phrases, com- mon to the polite world—not the “Have-you- the-green-umbrella-of-my-uncle-Thom: ‘of French school literature; but the “Good morning” of practical social intercourse. 1t was reported when Mr. Yang Ju started daughters with him; and great was the dis- appointment of curlous Washington to find that the oldest of his children was only five. The little ones are too young to begin the study of English; but if they remain in this country long enough, our language will, ro doubt, be made a part of their education. It has been customary for the younger members of the legation to study English. The older ones have never attempted it, be- cause they have felt that they were too old |to learn. There are six attaches of the le- gation now who are English scholars, and seme of the younger members are busily pursuing the study of our tongue. Mrs. Yang Ju is only thirty years old, and her youth, in part, accounts for her enthusias- tic interest in everything American. She is not too old te learn and she is picking up a great many American ideas. That she will introduce many of them into the social customs of Hong Kong is extremely doubt- ful. The legation people say, with a shake of the head, that the Chinese are slow to adopt new customs. It will probably be long after Mrs. Yang Ju’s day when card calling and afternoon teas are recognized | Social features in the Chinese capital. No Dwarted Feet. It is the common understanding among Americans that the women of China have dwarfed feet. From the time that China was opened to explorers, books of travel, and especially school text books, have been filled with descriptions of the dreadful agony to which Chinese women were sub- jected to make their feet small. According to these stories, and according to the popu- lar belief in America, the feet of Chinese | girl-babies are put in compresses until their growth has been stunted. Travelers in China have described the attempt uf Chi- hese women to walk as something very pain- ful. No one would be shocked at Mrs. Yang | Ju’s pedestrian style. preter of the legation tells me, that in the southern provinces of China women's feet are dwarfed. But it is only in the south. jern provinces that small feet are conside1 ed a mark of aristocracy. Mrs. Yang Ju’s | feet were never put through the dwarfing process. Neither are the feet of her chile dren undergoing that painful operation. ‘The | little tots run about the legation halis free- ly; and on the day, last week, when I was there one of them took a long peep at me through the doorway of the reception room when I was not supposed to be looking in that direction. This little fellow was dress- ed in the gaudy silks which are an invari | able feature of the Chinese costume, Hcw- ever much he may become interested in our | | institutions, and whatever of our customs for America that he would bring two grown | It is true, the Inter- | he may lopt, the Chinaman sticks to his native dress. It is in odd contrast with the surroundings at the new legation. The Chinese no longer occupy the old Stewart mansion, which was for so many years the home of the legation. They are quartered now in a group of three houses at the head of 14th street. It ts a lonely location, for this part of Washington is but sparsely settled. But the legation commands a beau- tiful view of the city, of the Potomac river and of the wooded heights beyond. The building is more modern and more com- fortable than the Stewart building. But the old members of the legation, if they were here, would miss the cheerful little park in the center of Dupont circle, and the group of merry children with whom they spent many a pleasant hour. The members of the present legation do not know many Washington people and they make few calls. The members of the old legation had many friends among the people who lived near Dupont circle, and especially among the young people there. They were fre- quent visitors and welcome guests in many homes The new legation building is furnished tn almost all respects like a modern American house. Anyone who visits it with a view to seeing something typically Chinese will be disappointed. In the broad hallway stands a gigantic American nat-rack. nthe floor of the reception room are velvet car- pet rugs of American make. The furniture is of birch, upholstered in American tap- estry goods. In the center of the room is @ gilded tete-a-tete chair. In ‘he window stands @ small table with a silk-shaded banquet lamp of silver and gilt, mounted on an onyx base. There are two large Chinese vases on the floor and two of smaller size on the mantel. jong panel strips covered with gold embroidery hang from ceiling to floor along the walls of the room. There is nothing else distinctively Chinese. The upholstering of the furniture | is in dainty blues and other light tints, not at all according with the ordinary idea of Chinese gaudiness, Chinese Cooks, But if the members of the legation have an uncharacteristic surrounding they do not lead altogether an uncharacteristic life. There are Chinese cooks in the kitchen cf the legation, and muchéof the food which is eaten by the legation people was brought from China. Of course, no attempt is made to bring fresh food from Hong Kong. Even the rice which is eaten by the legation peo- ple was grown in America. But some dried foods and some preserved confections have been brought from China, and many of the condiments used in preparing dishes for the legation table are distinctively Chinese, The fresh food used in preparing the meals at the legation is very like that which is used for similar meals at American tables, For example, the legation breakfast may con- sist of eggs, chicken, beef or mutton, or possibly all of these things together, for the legation table is lavishly supplied. ‘But the mode of preparing these dishes is so differ- ent from ours that they would hardly be recognized by an American palate. The legation people divide their meals much as do the people of Washington. They eat breakfast at about 9 o'clock, luncheon be- tween 1 and 2 and dinner at 7 in the even- ing. With one exception—Mr. May, the counselor of the legation—no American has been invited to partake of the hospitalities of the legation dining table. Possibly a se- res of Chinese dinners will be given as a feature of social life next season. The min- ister has refrained from giving any formal entertainments at all during the past win- ter. He has planned a ball for next winter. In the meantime he ts extending the social acquaintance of himself and Mrs. Yang Ju by calling and receiving calls, and has shown a disposition to observe our social customs by taking his wife to one of the formal dinners at the White House. The minister and his family have their own dining room in the legation building. The minister's wife may not sit at table with the legation attaches. If the minister is absent from Washington, his wife may invite the other two ladies of the legation to sit at dinner with her, or she may call in one of the four maids to keep her com- pany. But, although the leration people may not sit with her at table, she must show her respect for their position as the representatives of the Chinese government by standing in their presence. The Chinese are very punctilious observers of official eti- quette, Her Chief Entertainments. Mrs. Yang Ju entertains herself chiefly by driving or going tc the theater. She does not ride. Neither do any of the mem- bers of the legation as yet, though some of them are horsemen. Of course, the social duties which she has assumed give Mrs. Yang Ju a certain amount of occupation. But there must be a very limited enterta!n- ment in the conversations which she holds with American women through the good effices of an interpreter. Far more enter- taining is the theater when an opera or a Spectacular show is being given, The Chinese have always been liberal patrons of the Washington theaters. They usually take from two to four boxes. When the minis- ter’s wife is of the party they always sit in boxes. And the minister leaves none of his family at home. It ts all there down to the tinfest Chinese tot carried in the nurse’s arms. Rut when the men of the legation go to the theater by themselves they usually take part of a row of seats, usually extend- ing from one aisle to another, very near the orchestra. Between the acts they wander out for a smoke, and some of them puff away on Havana cigars, a habit acquired since they came to the United States. None of them patronize the saloons. When they have had their smoke, thev troop back into the theater, apparently unconscious of the curious interest which the audience ts taking in the gaudy colors and the flapping skirts of their silken gowns. They are the bright bits of color in the somberness of social Washington. Neither Mrs. Yang Ju_nor the children have yet been photographed, though there have been many inquiries for their portraits among the people whom they have met socially. There is a popular belief that the Chinese are superstitious about being pho- tographed, that they believe that the man who holds their photographs controls their souls. If there is such a superstition the legation people say that they do not know it. Certainly it has not much influence with them, for the minister and all his suite were photographed in San Francisco last sum- mer on their way to Washington. Rut Mrs. Yang Ju has withstood the blandish- ments of the photographer so far, I asked the interpreter if Mrs. Yang Ju had expressed or would express her views of her new life—of America and American institutions, He looked half surprised and half horrified as he replied that a Chinese lady would not wish to give her views about anything. China has not been educated up to the interview yet. —— Dawdling. From Harper's Bazar. Dawdling is reckoned among the minor offenses of human conduct, and is indul- | gently tolerated as a harmless, easy-going | fault. In reality it is a very serious evasion | of life's duties and responsibilities, an off- | shoot of sloth—and sloth is enrolled among | the seven deadly sins. The frail gossamer | threads of pleasant dawdling grow con- | stantly, if imperceptibly, stronger at last, ‘until the frivolous listeners are entangled )in a mesh which cannot be broken, and downright laziness holds them in subjec- | tion. | Dawdlers are naturally dreamers, and are always planning something that shall by- and-by show their good qualities in the most attractive light. Like the hare in the fable, secure in the possession of superior abilities, they allow themselves to be sur- passed by those less blest with natural ad- vantages. That they seldom do themselves justice is therefore a foregone conclusion, the haste with which they must work when | they do bestir themselves leaving its marks of imperfection—the stitches irregular, the long-deferred letter cold and spiritless, and | the toilette lacking the last dainty touches. Having no respect for their own time, | dawadlers are sad wasters of that of othe | They keep the table waiting for their ad-| vent, and lmger unconsciously over “the walnuts and the wine.” They are late at | every social function, and never acquire the difficult art of taking leave gracefully, their | last words beine sometimes protracted to a | length exceeding that of the visit itself. | They seldom see the curtain rise upon the first act of opera or play, and they rustle | tardily into church, annoying their pastor and fellow-worshipers, and in their flurry | missing the true spirit of the service. ———— Hard Times, | From the Detroit Tribune. There were still traces of refinement in the countenance of the woman who came | to the door in response to the third ring. Care, however, was largely in the as- cendancy among the emotions which swept across her features. “Are you the lady of the house?” inquir- he stranger at the gate. She sighed. “Is she in? Will she be in soon? “Indeed.” » He paused an instant ere returning his | Subscription blank to his pocket. “Yes—" Her voice trembled as if with regret. she wouldn't stay for less than $3 a week and we couldn't afford to pay that in | these hard times.” ‘WENTY PAGES ON A LOCOMOTIVE Down the Ice-clad Rockies on a Canadian Pacific Engine. TWO THOUSAND MILES THROUGH SNOW Gold Dust of Fraser River and How Americans Plan to Get It. CANADIAN FARMING TRIALS, ee! Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. VANCOUVER, B. C., March 8, 1894. WO THOUSAND miles through the snow! A ride through vast white piains which glitter under the sun like the ice fields of Lieutenant Peary'’s Greenland tour! Hauled by the fron horse through hundreds of miles of silvery hills and roll- Ing plains! Dragged up and down the rag- ged passes of gor- geous white mountain ranges, the heads of some of which are capped with vast blue glaciers, and the faces of which are rough with a beard of frosty pines! During the past four days I have traveled from Minne- apolis to Vancouver over the new line, known as the Soo-Pacific, the last great arm to reach out from the Mississippi to grasp the riches ef the great northwest. It has now been in operation only a few weeks and it opens up some new and inter- esting country. Leaving Minneapolis, it cuts across Minnesota, ploughs its way through some of the richest of the undevel- oped lands of North Dakota, and enters the Canadian boundary in the prevince of Assiniboia, joining the Canadian Pacific at Portal about 500 miles west of Winnipeg, and thence onward without a change of rs to Vancouver. It runs through a new country, and it will throw open to settle ment, I am told, millions of acres of good overnment land. The biggest town in the ‘nited States on the western part of the road is Minot, which has about 2,000 popu- lation. Tributary to this there are about 2,000,000 acres of government land already surveyed, and in the Moose River valley and the De Lae valley the road runs for 109 miles through some of the richest tarm- ing lands of the country, none of which have as yet been touched by the plough. The British provinces have vast areas of good farming and grazing lands, and there is here in this northwest a great world which awaits the advent of muscle and brains to make it produce enough to feed the nations. Cana Do \- We people of the United States have but little idea of the vast extent of Canada and her provinces. Did she belong to the United States we would have long before this have built an empire upon her territory, and her property would be worth billions where it is now worth thousands. Look at her agricultural area, From north to south for a distance of 1,000 miles the cereals can be cultivated, a distance about us far apart as Rome ts from St. Petersburg. ‘che Province of Ontario is as wide, taking its northernmost and southernmost poinis, as Cleveland, Ohio, is distant from Mobile, Ala., and Canada can grow anything that we can, with the exception of rice, cotton and tobacco. Ontario grows more corn to the acre than any of our states, except Missouri, and the wheat fields of the do- minion are among the best of the world. ‘The Manitoba wheat is noted in the mar- kets of Europe, and it is said good wheat can be grown as far north as the Macken- zie river basin. Along the Canadian Pacitic road I passed a uumber of big farms, and there is one great agricultural stock com- pany which runs its farms on a big scale and has about a dozen farms of ten thou- sand acres each. This company engages in wheat raising, as well as stock and sheep farming, and aims to keep about 4,000 acres under cultivation at each of its ranche: It manages everything on scientific princi- ples and is, 1 am told, doing well. Canadian Farmers, This 1s not the case, however, with many Canadian farmers. There is a disaffected class here, as there is in the United States, and the ery of hard times is often heard. Many young fellows have come out from England to pick the dollars out of the soil with kid gloves, who are now going about bare-handed and red-nosed, with patches on the seats of their pantaloons. Some of them are the good-for-nothing second sons of old families, who came here and bought land, thinking it would farm itself, and others were sent out by their rich fathers to learn farming. A few years ago a number of sharp Canadians made a business of going to Engiand and bringing back young Englishmen for agricultural tuition. They would get from $500 to $1,000 per year for bringing the young men here and having them work on their ranches learning practical farming. The young men when they arcived were allowed to do much they pleased, and between doing a little work at long intervals and smoking and hunting and drinking, they passed the time till they could persuade their fathers to buy ranches for them. A number of such men, and younger sons, are in the dominion today. They are facetiously termed re- mittance men, because they depend on re- mittances from home to keep them going. Numbers of good stories are told here of how they Keep up appearances and of their excuses and arguments which they send home to extract more money. The latest is regarding a British Columbia good-for-nothing, who had bled his father until the old gentleman had written from England positively declining to send any more money. This state continued up until six weeks age, when the boy wrote home an enthusiastic letter about his ranch and his prospects. Ameng other things he told his father that he had now a stock of | seven hundred blooded gophers on his | place, and if he had $500 te keep them in good condition he would come out all right. The name of gopher, ground squirrel, wa: @ new one to the old man and he sent the money. He evidently thinks his boy's stock a fine variety of sheep or cattle. The Sheep Industry. Speaking of sheep, I find that the profits are fast being knocked out of sheep farm- ing. Australian mutton is being frozen and sent by the shiploads to the Lendon markets and several cargoes have been shipped to Vancouver and sold at less than the cost of the handling in order to introduce the meat. In the stores here I see canned Australian mutton for sale at seven pounds for a dollar, and the sheep growers of Montana, North Dakota and Canada are losing money. 1 traveled here with a Manitoba stock man, who told me that he had 3,800 sheep last year, but that he had sold all but 1,100, and he said he intended to sell them in the spring and get out of the business. “There is no money in it now,” he said, ‘I refused $3.50 a head for sheep a year age, which I would now be glad to sell for $1. I have got- ten numerous letters from sheep men in Montana wanting to sell out to me, and there are great numbers of Montana sheep growers who want to come to Canada for work. I got seven such letters in my yes- terday’s mail. Sheep are worth practi- cally nothing in Montana. I know of one firm there who owned two years ago about 15,000 sheep. They feared that they would be crowded out and they wanted to buy some lan They borrowed $40,000 on their shi and bought a large tract of land, giving a mortgage on the sheep and the land. The hard times of last fall came. Their sheep fell in value and they could not see their way out. They went to the bank and offered to give up their sheep and the land if they could be cleared of the debt. The bankers would not accept their offer. They tried to sell out. They could not get a buyer. The result was they left and the sheep brought only $1.35 a head and they still owe more than $20,000.” Grand Scenery. Some of the grandest scenery of this world 1s seen at its best under a covering of snow. The Canadian Pacific railway runs for about a thousand miles through some of the most beautiful parts of the Rocky mountains and the Seikirk range. During the summer the sides of these mountains are covered with a dense growth of green, though their tops are capped with snow and ice, There is no vast desert of cactus and sage brush, such as you find on the other trans-Pacific roads, and the picturesqueness and grandeur of the Rockies are seen at their softest and best. I have seen them, however, under different aspects, and one of the remarkable experiences of my life was a ride which I took this week on one of the engines of the Canadian Pacific rail- road down the wildest and roughest parts of the Rocky mountains. Seated in the cab of the engine near the grimy fireman, who was shoveling bushels of coal into the furnaces, and on the other side of the boil- er from the stern-faced engineer, I rode for miles and miles—it seemed almost an eter- nity to me—through vast snow-walled gcrges, under massive overhanging rocks, in and out of tunnels and snow sheds, no’ harging above a raging river and no’ shooting about curves into other canons equally as grand. The cab of the engine was walled with glass, and I could see as well as though I had been riding on the fron snowplow fastened to its front in place of a cowcatcher. The great iron horse throbbed like a thing of life. It puff- ed out vast quantities of smoke in two spiral columns, and as we neared one of the little mountain stations it cut the cold air with a steam shriek which made me think that all the souls in hades were loose in the Rockies and the pent-up agony of the damned was concentrated in the escaping steam of that engine. After riding a while, however, one’s nervousness goes off. You see the care of the engineer, the parties of watchmen stationed at almost every mile of track, the frequent snow sheds, where the danger is the greatest, and you can then note the wonders of nature about you. The scene changes at every turn of the great wheels of the locomotive. Now the mountains on both sides of the track rise almost straight upward in a snowy wall for hundreds upon hundreds—it seems to me for thousands—of feet, shutting out the sun, and their tops Kissing the pure sky. Now you shoot out into the open, and there is a long vista of ragged hills, which rise one above the other till they fade away into the glacier peaks of the horizon. Here a great river of blue ice runs for miles along the track, and you know you are almost at the head- waters of the Columbia, which goes on its course down through Washington and Ore- gon and empties into the Pacific. Further back you saw the Saskatchewan river flow- Je toward Winnipeg and Hudson bay, and a few miles further you will find the rocky, blue Frazer plowing its way through great gorges and over the golden sands which so excited the gold hunters in the days of early California, and which, by the use of modern dredging machinery, I am told, bid fair to excite them again. On through these waters into scenery which almost takes away your breath. You think of the Texas cowboy who made his pile and awoke one morning amid the finest of the mountains of Switzerland. His life had been spent on the plains, and the grandeur fijled his soul, till he ceuld contain himself n& longer, and he threw up his hat and yelled, not irrever- ently, but honestly, these words, “Hurrah for God!" Placer Mining. Speaking of Frazer river and its gold de- posits, this was, you remember, one of the richest placer rivers of the world along Jate in the fifties, and something like fifty mil- lion dollars’ worth of gold has been washed out of the sands of British Colum- bia. The stream is very rough and rock: however, and much of it has been inacce sible to the placer miners. It is known, however, to contain great quantities of gold, and four different American companies are now at work here trying to get this gold out. They have had dredge-like pumps made, which are to suck up the gold-bear- ing sand and throw it into a sluice box, which will extract the gold. The experiment is a new one, but it was tested only a day or so ago in the shallow water at the edge of the river, and some gold was the resuit. I talked last night with the president of one of these companies—a Mr. Young—who comes, I think, from Minneapolis. Said he “There is no doubt but there are millions upon millions of dollars of gold in these rivers, and I think there is no doubt but Se are going to get out a large part of it. We from the government at so much per mile per year. We now have under lease fifty- seven miles, and we have men prospecting and locating other tracts. Our chines cost us from four to seven thousand dollars apiece, and I expect to see some of them earning a thousand dollars a day. In a month frem now I can tell just what they will do. Each machine ought to wash and reduce one hundred cubic yards of gravel a day, and we cs. get out stuff from the very center of the river, where the most gold is supposed to be. In the old days of placer mining a man did well to wash out three cubic yards a day, and here he had to reiy upon the banks enly. An Expected Boom. “What will be the result if you succeed @s you expect?” “It will make this whole country boom. I don’t think there is a doubt of our suc- cess, and I expect to see a great deal of placer mining done in this way in the future. It is only applying to mining the machinery that has been used for years in dredging. If we succeed it will bring mill- fons of capital to Vancouver, and will make times good again.” “How are the times here now?” “They are hard here and all over the are at all good is in South Africa, and you would be surprised to know what an emi- gration is taking place to that country. Within the past few months at least 100 have sailed from here alone, and others are going. They expect to make fortunes in the new gold mines there. As for me, I would | rather stay here.” Referring to the hard times, I met with a curious evidence of them on my way over the Canadian Pacific. At several of | the stations I noted great piles of buffalo | bones which had been gathered upon th | plains and had been brought t the station for sale. For some time there has been a | great demand for these bones from parts lof the United States. They are exported and are bought at so much per car load, | the usual price being $100 per car of seven tons. Since the panic, however, the Ame ‘cans have had no money to pay for them, | and the skeletons and odd bones Ie bleach- ing in the snow waiting for the financial skies to brighten. Chinamen a Opiam. There are about 3.000 Chinamen in this town of 20,000 people. Victoria, which is ecbout as large as Vancouver, has a like number, and {t is from here that many Chinese are smuggled into the United ; States. There are numerous trails over the border, and many are taken in by sea. We have no good protection of our northern | boundaries, and I am told that quantities of opium as well as numbers of Chinamen are taken in every month. The opium is prepared at Victoria, it is said, and smug- gled in. It takes only a small package to jin escapes a duty of $i2. Ten pounds can easily be hidden, and a hundred or so pounds can be carried in a canoe. The hun- dred pounds would bring a profit of $1.2 80 you see there is money in the business. I doubt not that Uncle Sam loses hundreds of thousands of dollars in this way every year, and the only prevention would seem | to be for him to swallow up Canada or to | establish a more efficient line of customs | detectives along the frontier, As it is the | Canadians protect their border better than | we do. At every station I saw their mount- | ed police, and they have a very fine or- | Sanization to watch over their interests and to keep order along the border. FRANK G. CARPENTER. THEY ALL PITIED HER. Later That Their Sympathy Had Been Wasted. From the Philadelphia Press. She was only a typewriter girl, but she created quite an excitement in a suburban car the other day. When she got on the car the conductor noticed that her left sleeve dangled helplessly by her side, so he helped her on tenderly and said to him- self: “Poor thing!” The passengers also observed the empty sleeve and were visibly sympathetic, one tart-looking woman even moving a trifle to give the one-armed girl a seat. It was a very singwlar thing to see such a well-dressed, bright girl with only one arm, and public curiosity was at high pitch concerning the cause of Pathetic empty sleeve. at F a Finally the affiict ed maiden dropped her purse and the old gentleman who restored it to her said ‘My dear, how did you lose your She turned her innocent violet eyes upon him in evident surprise, and the passen- gers all presented their ears aching to listen. “I haven’t lost any of my arms,” she replied, thrusting a neatly gloved hand in sight. “I just pulled my hand up into my sleeve to get it warm.” Then all the passengers looked huffy, and the conductor murmured: “Gee whiz! with them big sleeves the women can work "most any kind o’ racke: oo A Case It Does Not Apply To. From Life. ‘The Baron—“No. Ven ze Frenchman have his honor outrage he resort not to ze brute feesticuff; he fight ze duel!” She—“That’s all very well; but supposing @ man is really angry and wants to do some damage to the fellow who has in- jJured him?” lease certain strips of the river | world. The only place I know where they | hold a pound, and each pound thus brought | the | RAILROADS. LVANIA RAILROAD. SEM OF 6TH AND B ing and Observation Cincinnati, India Parlor Cat to Ha 205 ALM. ll LINE.—Por Pittsburg, Parler 3:15 PM. GO AXD ST. LOUIS EXPRESS Poliman Buffet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. 8! ing and Diwing Cars, Harrisburg to St. took, 70 Pat" WESTELS EXPRESS aud Harrisburg to Cievelask. 0. 0 PM. SOUTHWESTERN EXPRESS.—Poliman Sleeping Car to St. Louis and Sleeping Cars Harristucg 10:40 P.M. PAaCWric ing Car to Pittsiurg. AM. for Kane, ‘wils daily, except Suuday. for Williamsport and Renovo _cept, Sunday. 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CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY. Schedule in effect November 30, 1893. leave daily from Union station (B. an@ aod B ets. with werv- ndest scenery in America d most complete solid train rs the handsomest ice west from W = and St. Dining car | Mays; reakfast. Arrives Cincinnatl, 7:55 a, . 11:30 am, and Chicago, | 5:45 p.m.; st paw. 11:10 PM. DAILY—The famous “PF. F. V. Lim- A solid vestibuled train with diniag car apd le fr Ci Lexiugton an@ ne m, 6:10 p.m.: 11:20 p.m.; Chicago, m., connecting is Union depok DAILY—Fer Old Point Comfort an@ Oniy rail Mine, DaILY— Express Gordonsville, ws nton and P. Charlottcavitle, ¥ neshoro”, & prince! pal Virginia poluts: daily, except Sunday, for Rich- Pcliman locations an@ tickets at company's ef fSces, S13 and 1421 Penusslvania avenue. W. FULLER, nm Genera! Passenger Agent. ———— MAC RIVER BOATS. for , Tth street, Sunday, <aay at 7 a.m. ‘Landing at oil ss Maddox creek. nd Prideve, 8 pan. class. Freight recels me 1765. and intermediate f every SUNDAY, AY at 7 och . {ne Conl Office, {e16-3m DAYS and SATURDAYS at ‘ a end St my and tn TURSDAY } a Y. RIDLEY, Gen'l Manager. STON STEAMBOAT Go, | DAILY LINE RETWEEN WASHINGTON, D. ©, FORTRESS MUNKOE and KPOLK, Va. ‘The new and powerful Iron Palace Steamers. WASHINGTON AND NORPOLK—SOUTH BOUNI Yashington @aily at 7 p.m. from feot e at Fortress Monroe at NORFOLK AND WASHIN south and soutbwe NORTH BOUND. Yat 6:10 p.m. Leave Fortress . Arvive at Washington at #19, 1851 apd 1421 Penn ad GIS 15th et. now. = via new Une. INO, CALLAHAN, Geu Bupt Tickets on sale at srlvania av Ask