Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 17, 1889, Page 15

FOR TWELVE DOLLARSA YEAR How the Ohinese Ooolle Works In His Native Land. A COUNTRY OF LABOR UNIONS. The Barbers' Union Can Bring the Government to Terms, and Even the Boggars Have a Gwiia. Liliputian Wages. CaxroN, China, Fobruary 22.—[Special Correspondence of Tie Brr—Cop,righted. | ~1 have come to Canton to see how our Chinamep live and work at home. Ino longer wonder at Chinese immigration to Aumerien, for T have had a taste of Chinese cheap labor in China. Tt is from this district 1hat the bulk of our immigration -comes, and there are coolies here and to spare. This provinee 18 one of the most thickly settled of the provinces of the Chinese empire. Tt is not quite us big as Kansas, but it contains ovethird s many people as the whole United States, Canton itself is bigger than New York City, and a twelve mile radius from its center embraces, I am told, a_popu- lation of three millions. - There are villages outside as big a8 Washington or Cleveland, and many of the small towns of the prov- ince ‘have been living for years upon con- tributions from American Chinese laun- drics, How. tho people swarm. Almond- cd, yellow-faced, men, women and children tramp upon onme another's heels, and the thousand streets of the city are more ed than Broadway in front of Trinity church at the busiest hour of the day. Ever, ono I8 working, from the half naked, bar legeed man, who, with a hat as big as a parasol, carries great loads upon his shoul- ders, to tho woman in pantaloons avd short gkirt, who sculls the boat on the river, and %0 tho keen-oyed merchant, who, in round, Hack cap and gorggous silks, stands sur- gounded by his shelves of fine goods. Every Sranch of busiuess goes on and Canton is one of the great manufacturing cities of the world. With the rudest of tools these long- dngored celestinls turn out the finest of carving in wood and ivory, and with the weuving machines of a thousand years ago they make dresses for modern Rurope. I saw a Canton lumber mill this afternoon. Two men sawed logs into boards with cross cut saws. 'They were naked, save a breech- clout, and they moved up and down all day for 10 cents a picce. Wages here and all over China are at the lowest obb, and this great human bee hive, containg from one- fourth to one-third of all the people in the world, goes on with its labor as quietly as though America did not exist. WOMEN AS DEAY What wonderful workers they are and how they tuz and pull and boil their keen brams from morning until night, all over the em- pire. From Peking to Canton I have found the streets of every city and village filled witha pushmg, hurrying throng. 1 have scen half-naked Jmen sweating in carrying loads thut would be*heavy for a cart horse, and delicate' women doing the work of drays, Humun muscle does even more work in China than in Japan, and the donkey and the mule are replaced by man. Hong Kong is located ut the base of a mountam, away up the sides of which the wealthier residents have summer homes. The angle of the in- cline is one of nearly forty-five degrees, and allthe building, materials. for these houses are carfied tniles up by cooties. Women in Houg Kong carry-two great baskets of stone fustened to poles which they swing over their shoulders, aud of the thirty thousaud peovle who makeup the boat population of the Hong Kong bay, the chief workers are women. They row boats with babies on thew backs and I see them standing ahd sculling with their little ones tied to their shoulders, The citics are bee-hives of work. The streets are made up of cells open at the front and full of manufacturers and traders. Everything is done by hand and the working hours are from daylight until dark. 1 have made inguiries into wages and I find them so low that they would hardly pay for the to- buceo and coffee of our American laborers. Coolies employed in foreign families get as low as #3.50 & month and board- themselves, illed cooxs receive #4 a month and at Foo Clow, one of the wealthicst Chinamen of the city, told me that the wages of masons were 18 cents a day, and the best carpenters received but 20 cents. Women engaged in making grass cloth, a sort of line, are paid from ' TWO TO THREE CENTS A DAY, and an old missionary telis,me he can get ten men to work a whole day for $1 and leave 10 per cent to the man who hires them for him. Here in Canton the chief means of convey+ ce 1s by chair. The chairs are made of wicker and covered with cloth so that they Jook dike n box. This box is swung in the center between two long poles, and one man walks _in front with the two poles resting on hiis shoulders and another walk behind hold- ing up the chair in the same way. The regu lur native wages for such men is $ a month and less, and in the interior the prices are stiil lower. Ordinary fleld hands get from 3 to 4 cents a day with 100d, snd skilled workmen receive from 5 to 6 cents. Doctors who getas high as 20 cents & visit iu the cities come down to 10 cents a visit in the county, and engravers and paint- ors receive from “10 cents to 12 cents a day. Theatre uctors ave paid proportionately low rates, and there are no #5,000 a night Pattis or Henry Irvings in China. ‘The theatres, you kuow, last all day and half the night, nd a troupe of thirty players will play for Torty-eight hours for §0. * Silk weavers and silk reelers ure amoug the kighest paid men, and their work can only be done when the cocoons ure ready for reeling. Durmg this time the men work for weeis day and night, and they receive from &1 to & a day. The grand average of suilled labor runs however about as fol- lows; Master workmen rocewe $ a week or $150 a year. and workmen under these $1.50 a week, or $75 u year. Young sters and fomales get b0 vonts a week and these are considered good living wages. For them the laborer does not growl as to the hours of work, and the labor unions of China rogulute the hours only in the case of men working by the piece and not by the day, LALOK THOROUGLY OKGANIZED. There is no country in the world where lavor is 80 organized a8 in China, and eve branch of employment has its trade orgar ization or guild. There aro 1,700 wheeloar- rows in Shanghai and the guild that these belong to regulates the rate of fare and the hours of work. Weavers have a wuild, the barbers have their trades unions, and even the beggars have their association presided over by a president who assigns to each his beat and wio can punish With his bamboo such as refuse 1o obey him. “These guilds ave very strong and their de- ands are respected by the government. The barbers were for a long time prohibited from the literary examinations, which are the only paseports to oftice, on tho ground of their eing engaged in o menial occupation. Tney combined together in different parts of the empire and the government had to come to terms. One of the great luxuries in which the Chinaman delights is the haying the back of his shoulders and neck kneaded after his head s shaved, The barbers concluded that this was below their dignity and their union forbade it. They also probibited barbers from oar cleaning during tho last six days of the year, as al this Lime thero is 0 much head shavivg t5 do in preparation for the New Year that there isno time for dirty ea ‘hina has, perhaps, more barbers than any other country in the world, and the Chineso head needs more attention than any other lead on the giobe. The Chinese dude has his head shaved dmly and the man is ver: who caunot afford his weekly shave. THE wlace is loft at the crown about as big around ®8 & tin onp and the hair which grows on this forms the cue. The chinaman has his face shaved even to the forehead and about the eyes, and you find the barbers on the streots, in sl e in the country and in fact everywhere, Inerant barbers carry two small red stools made of boxes in the shape of a pyramid in which they have drawers containing thelr razors and basins, They shave without soap and they use a two- pronged piece of iron with which they make @ noise like that of o mammoth tuning fork as the sign of their trade mark, You hear this noise everywhere throughout China, and one of the commonest sights of the streets and country ronds is one of these barbers at work upon & patient. THE CHINESE RAZOR is in the shape of an isosceles triangle. Tt is made of rude steel, and many of them are pounded up from worn out horse shoes which are imported from Furope by the thousands of barrels, and which are used in making all kinds of Chinese implements. The rates of shaving are very low, rangin from a fow tenths of & cont {0 ten conts an: more, according to the class to the barber belongs and to the standing of the customer. The barbers' unions fix the rate of shaving for their members and they have fines and penalties. These inbor unions regulates the laws as 10 apprenticeship, They fix the number of apprentices that one master may have, and the silk woavers union forbids the teaching or employment of swomen, Apprentices re- ceive no ‘wages., work from three to five yenrs and get only tood and lodging. No man cun employ an apprentice who has not served out his full time, and some trades provide that only the sons and relatives of the workmen may be taught them. The usual penalty for acting contrary to the rules of the guild is for the guilty member to pay afine to the guild, or to turnish asupper or « theatr| performance. These are, how- ever, for minor faults only. In serious cases there i8 no punishment too severe, and an employer who violated one of tho rules in regard to spprenticeships was not long ago BITTEN TO DEATH in S00 Chow, a city not far from Shanghai. “This employer was a gold beater, and thero was a great demand for gold leaf for the em- peror. This man took more apprentices than the rules of the union prescribed, and in ing & punishment for him the workmen concluded that death was a necessity. They thought that if a number of them engaged in the killing it would not be possible to punish them all and biting in China is not a capital offence. Thore wore 125 men in this guila and these rushed at the employer, each taking a bite, One man, the leader of the afTair, stood over the rest, and in order that all might be implicated, no one was allowed to quit the pluce without his gums and lips were bloody. The murderer who took the fivst bite was discovered and beheaded, but the others went free. Colonel Denby has sent u report of this affair to the state de- partment ut Washington. ‘The Chinese trades unions are against the introduction of machinery. sewing ma chine for the making of Chinese shoes was destroyed at Canton not long ago, and a strike was caused here by the importation of sheet brass for the making of cooking utensils, as this would injure the business of tho brass hammerers, Asa rule, however, strikes are not very common. Tho organiza- tions of both employers and laborers are such that it pays to settle matters by arbi- tration. The officials of the cities ave, as a rule, on the side of tho workmen in cases of trouble, as the employers arc the capitalists, and by having a cause against them they are avle to squeeze money out of them for the ment. For this reason the cuploy 10 have as few labo: Speaking of employer’s union, all classes of the Chinese busin men have their guilds and_these a as old as the country, Onc of the finest club houses of China"is that of the Canton merchants of ¥oo Choo. It is made up of a great number of finely finished rooms elegantly. furnished in Chinese fashion and located in the bost part of the city. Ilere the merchunts come to drink tea and to chat. T have a temple and a theater connected with it and the club cansists of 500 members. 1 visited at Shanghaisome of the finest specinen: Chinese_architocture 1 have secn, They were guild halls belonging to_tea and rice wmerchants and they had wonderful gardens of caves and rocks built up n the bus part of the city. These guilds regula commerce of China. They fix the rate of in- terest, the time on which goods may be sold, the weights and the standards of goods. wember using different scales thun th prescribed js fined, and & man acting c trary to the guild can, in many instances not £0 on with his business. One of the dr gist's guilds has just adopted some new rules which iie before me. These pre- scribe that accounts shall be settled thre times overy year, and that a discount of per cent may be allowed on cash transa tions. No member in the guild shall be per mitted to trade with the otners while he is in debt to a member of the guoild, and any meun.cer who violates tucse laws’ shall pay for two theater plays for the guild and for the drinks and a feast for twenty members, Some of these guilds pre- scribe that promissory notes shall be dated y 11 of them fix the rules of giving credit. ankers’ guild fix ull matters relating to interest, aud these different organizations make the dealings of forcigners with the Chinese more safe than such dealings would be in other countries. “Tlie Chinaman respeets his contract and if he does not his guild makes him, As to the nours of work m China carpen- ters work eleven hours in summer and nine in winter, and masons work half an hour longer, There is NO SUNDAY HERE and your Chinuman works week in and week out.” At the lnst of the year he gets about ten days off and altogether he has less than a score of holidays. Oun the Chiuese farm every one of the family works, and childven of six and seven h their daily labors. Farm laborers get from 10 to 15 cents a day and meals or from 70 cents to §1.05 a weck. By the mouth tney are paid from $1.50 to § and board and $12 a year with board and lodgng is big pay. If a Chinese farm hand working from daylight to dark the year through can save $3, he does well. And us it costs him only about #4 a year for his clothing, he s sometimes able w do this, At the end of perhaps twenty years he has saved enough to buy himself a farm, and the average Chinese farm in many of the provinces is not more than two acres, In some cases the holdings arc as low as one- sixth of an acre and tenant farmers rent out a number of these tracts for half the crops. The stock of a small Chinese farmer consists of a coupln of pigs, a few fowis and a water buffalo, a sort of 4 cow which is used hore for ploughing and working. A man wife and two children can -live well off two acres. “Chicr diet is rice, vegetables and tea, and at festive times they have a bit of pork, a fowl OF 50M0 CRYE. "Dlie living of the laborer in the cities is even worse than this, und the mud hut of the farmer is better than the home of o city workman. The average laborer of the city has three meals a day, and these consist of salt fisu, vegetables and rice. He eats meat only three or four times a year, and the hous in which he rents from %2 a year and upwards. Many families own their own houses which huve grown through gonera- tions and which include the whole clun within their walls. Some such houses have from fifteen to twenty littlo roows and 100 occupants is nol uucommon. A Chinese house with three rooms has o Kitchen, dining room and bedroom. a rude table, o kang or ting upon which the and beneath which o and a range of brick with cooking. In the southern provin boards ure used instead of kangs. A pieco of matting is thrown over this und the sleepers lio with wadded comforters wrappea around them. Sueh accommodations make them fairly bappy, and there are millions in Ching who are satisfied with them. As un instance of the poverty of the hoat people in Ching, in coming from Hong IKong 1o Canton we auchored in th® midst of u city of boats. It is estimated that one-third of & willion people are born, live and die UPON THE WATERS OF THE BIVER, at Canton, They live from what they can and pick up upon the river and they carry on & regular business, employing their assistauts. ‘The avirage wages of boatwen is from 810 to #12 a year and food, and during our voyage two rats which were killed on the stup were thrown out o one of these boat fymilies. They were grabbed at with avidity and the thanks our capain received were un bounded, Loung before you have read this letter they will have d their part in mak- ing wuscle for the boatman who ate them, and dog aud cat meat are smong the other foods which sustain the lives of these men. 1 huve pursued wy studies of labor in Can- without with veople fire benches backs, ledge covered mat- sleep birns, ening for s beds of Its furniture consists of OMAHA DAILY BEE: ton largoly in company with Consul Sey- mour, and | went yesterday to the the flour- ing mills which here competo wich our Min- neapolis millers. They consisted of a series of mill stones, one lying ahove another and two constituting a mill; the motive power was a wator buffalo, the ugliest species of cow that God ever made, and the driver was ahaif-naked coolie, A dozen of these buf- falos and coolies and two dozen stones made up the big establishment we visited, and it is in_ this way that a greater part of Canton's flour is ground. The rudest of machinery only is permitted in China. The people will not allow ‘steam- boats to go on the rivers in. the interior ex copt in those places laid down in the treaties, and the smallcargo boats which do the trade of the canals have paddic wheels which are tarned by gangs of men, and the other boats are moved by ores and sails. Auyone in traveling through China can_peroeive the ig- norance of the peoplo as to labor-saving ap- pliances, and the learned Doctor Macgowan, who has lived in China for nearly half a cen- tury, and to whom | am indebted for many of the figures and facts of this letter, tolls me that a free press would do moro than any- thing else to bring the country to an nccopt- ance of the best things in our western eivili- zation. FraNK G, CARPENTER, - - A March Wave. New York World, Tho' from the skies were flowing Both icy sleet and rain, And bitter winds were blowing With all their might and main, Storm beaten! undefended ! Two arms so wau and white Were pleadingly oxtended Out in the chilly night! Alas! in all the oit Tho' winds blew starp and keen, No hand appear'd in pity To rescue from that scene The waif so bruis'd ‘atd shatterd, So morcilessly hurt, Out on a clothes-line’ batter'd— Mulrooney’s Sunday shirt! ck-Knacks. New York World: Painter’s over- cont—varnish, Fishes (s)pawn their offsprings. Done with the pen—a dead pig. Can the caves of old oceans be called salt rheums? When a man hasn’tu red cent he gets blue. Can o dealer in dentist? Capital exerc over mone Can eloping be called body snatching? If a hennery is a pen for hens, is chic- ory a pen for chickens. Postage stamps know their places when they have been licked once. Ave book-worms good for bait? Pigeons on toast is worth fwo in the bush. Does cough-y agree with consumpt- extracts be called a ise at the bank—tnrning iv School girls ave always looking for rain-beaux. “How long cana man live without brains?” asked a professor of a rustic. “1 don’t know,” replied the latter. “‘How old are you yourself ol IS THE BABY INCUBATUR. How Little Florence Ryallis Nursed in a Box. Miss Vieth, who is the head nurse 1n the maternity department of the Women’s Hospital, at 2200 North Col- lege avenue, says the Philadelphia [ was leaning very tenderly over very small Florence Ryalls, yesterday afterncon, when she told the interest- ing story of how the unusually diminu- tive Florence is being cared for, Miss Florence is in a box, which she oveupies with o thermowmeter, a baby’s night slip, two sponges and four hot water bottles, and she is very well con- sideving all umstances, according to Nurse Vieth, who has her in constant charge She is gaining flesh daily, and cries and kicks and sleeps, which is all that cun be asked in the way of entertain- ment, life and trouble from a miss so young and so small, and who is under Zoing an experiment such as has never before been experienced on this side of the water. Miss Florence Ryalls was born in the ernity ward of the Women’s Hos- yital nine days ago. Her birth was pre- ature by orie month, and she was not pected to live from the moment her black eyes lirst opened on daylight, but since she was put within the four walls of the r ngular box which she now occupies her improvement has been so great that Nurse Vieth says positively now that she will in a month or so de- velop into a fine and blooming hab; The box or machine, or whatever it may be called, in which Miss Florence does her crying., kicking and sleeping, came from Paris about a month ago. It was one of the four which were brought to this country for the first time, and this is the primary opportunity that bas occurred for its use in baby raising. The idea of its practical use is to care for prematurely barn and. exceptionally wealkly infants wha without it would undoubtedly die, Nurse Vieth says that Miss Florence Ryals, would uuquestionably, have died had it not been for this means ot preserving her life. When she was born she weighed just 1590 gramme: and now, with a stendy daily increase, she has reached the gratifying weight of 1720 grammes, with every prospect of a further increase. She is weighed reg- ularly everyday on a pair of scales con- taining such a tin scoop as grocers use to dole out sugar, and the daily record of her avoirdupois is kept on'a slate, Every hour she is fed by ber mother, who is improving comfortably in the maternity ward, und she takes at each meul one teaspoonful and a half of nourishment, and secms to show an ex- cellent appetite. a The box in which Miss Florence at present mukes her howié is a trifle ovor a yard long and about two feet wide. It is'made of walnut wood, and the top isa dlate of glass. The extremely young ady lies on a soft blaiiket wrapped in her nightslip. The air is udmitted from the lower section of the upper end of the box und pssses over four botiles iled with hot water before “it reaches occupant. At the foot of the baby are two_sSponges strung on 4 cross -bar over. which the air also passes, thus keeping the atmosphere moist, The impure air escapes through a small fun- nel directly over the baby's head. Sur- mounting the funnel is a glass tube in which is fixed a steel regulator, in the shupe of a windmill fan, which is kept constantly turning by the escaping air, The minute the regulator ceases revolv- ing the nurse knows there is something wrong ide the box. The tempe turc is kept coustantly at 80 helt by the hot-water bottles. two of which ave filled alternately with water ata heat of 110° The temperature is thus never permitted to vary more than a half of u degree, and very seldom that much. The apparatus is the invention of M. Muthieu, & French pnysician, and has been used with great success in saving the lives of prematurely-born children. Fovmerly the ouly method pursued in such casos was to keep the baby wrapped iu cotton, and it was not eflective in muny cases, An Absolute Cuve* The ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINTMENT i ouly put up in large two ounce tin boxes, | comradoesg aud is an absolute cure for old sores, burus, wounds, chapped haunds, and all skin erup- tions. Will itively cure all kinds of piles. Ask for the ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINT- MENT. Soid by Goodman Drug Co., at 25 | ents per box—by wiald 0, cents. VTS T S e R MRS T BRI PSS Vol M S sl gl ver i Rk e P ¥ A 4 v SUNBAY MARCH 17. 1880.—SIXTEEN PAGES. SURVESORS IN THE ROCKIES, todn Exolting Morlnoos in the Looa- tion,gf ho . Union Pacifio. tions ANDREm“:fi‘OSEWATER"S STORY. gid Midwinter Struggles With the Eles montk 'ahd the Indians—Tens dergfigat Escape Down the [ Platte 1in a Skiff. 20 Stbkes of Adventure. Mr. Andrew Rosewater, ex-engineer of the city of Omaha, has not. always been ensconced in the comfortable quar- Jers he now ocupies inthe Paxton build- ing, but has “‘roughed it” ou the fron- tier in former years. It occurred to THe BEE man that the gentleman could a tale unfold that would prove highly interesting to those who yearn for truthful stories of adventure on the plains. Therefore Mr. Rosewater was asked for a brief narrative of his expe- riences in locating the line of the trans- continental railways over the Rockies. “Twenty-two years ago,” said he, I started with thirteen others on the Union Pacific train from Omaha to ex- plore and determine definitely the route of the Union Pa- citic over the Black Hills range and westward to Utah. At that time the railway was completed and in op- eration as far west as North Platte st tion. The weather was very similar to that we are now enjoying, and to a cer- tain extent the entire winter had boen of the same open nature s has ch acterized this one. But.we had searcely reached North Platte when a terrible snow storm set in all over the valley and extreme cold weather followed. Within a weck of our departure {while we were in camp the temperatuve foll to 28% below zero, and we had to force .our way through snow averaging nearly a foot in depth from 200 to 300 miles. On the banks of Crow creck we were temporarily delayed by the snow, and improved the time involved in lay- ing off the town site of Cheyenne. There weré no habitations to speak of within sixty miles of the place, but wa accepted the 160 acres that were given to cach of us in the gene apportion- ment of the tract surrounding the new town site. “From Crow creek we turned towards the Cache La Poudre valley, then sparsely settked by a few scattering far- mers near wliat was then known as Fort Collins. “The intensity of the cold and the depth of the snow heightened the hardships, of the journey, and caused nearly eviry one in the party to become snow blind.” The sufferings of tie sur- veyors from'this malady wefe severe, and they Tasted in each case between & week and, ten, days, but fortunately we were mot.Aall stricken at the same time. We also had to contend with a scarcity of wood, and it was dif- ficult to séedfe fuel for cooking in the morning and evening and absolutely woue was toiie had for heating purposes, but we made the best -effort. to retain the ‘matural heat of our bodies by banking up. the tents with snow. Atone rinch that puta period to & wearisome day’s tramp through the deep snow, failing to secure wood for our supper from the rancher's limited supply of fuel, in the face of an offer of $100 a cord, we were compelled to take the roof fromoune of his stables, despito his threat that the military would be enlled to punish us. Upon our arrival at the foot of the mountuing we camped in this valley nearly two weeks, owing to our inability to cross the range inthe and began our surveys early in from Fort Saunders, on the west- ern side of the Black Hills range, an- other party being detailed to conduct experimental surveys on the Black Hills range to determine the best crossing there, whilg we were instructed toselect the routeé across the main body of the Rocky mountains. “*We made excellent progress for the first ten days after leaving Fort Saunders, and then met new diflicult 1 the shape of Indian raids. An In dian war had broken out all over the country, and everywhere could be seen evidences .of the movements of large bands of Indians, the burning of ranches and the destruction of everything within reach of the marauders. Near Rock Springs u detachmeut of our party was surrounded by Indians and Stephen Clark, a nephew of Horace F.iClark, then vice-president of the Union Pacific railway, was rid- dled with arrows and scalped. Aunother man in the detachment named Muelle: a brother of the music dealer at Coun- cil Bluffs, was in the midst of the hos tile Indiaus, and buv for the timely charge of some of our men he would have shared the fate of Clark, Every- thing upon the field, instruments and all, was immediately abandoned, and for eral days we w compelled to remain behind rifle pits within our amp until reinforcements could be had om Fort Saunders. To secure these, two of our’ ¥jen volunteered to charge through thé Indian camp at night, by keeping jon the dividesand communi- cate diregt with the commander of that post. - In;Anil they were succosaful, and three days dater an escort of fifty men was furnished us so that we were eu- abled to continue our work, *While:thuse events were happening on the westdlope of the Rockies sim- ilar party piaking surveys on the enst slope wa$ attacked and Mr. Hill, a brother-in-faw of Byron Reed, of this city, and the engineer in charge, was killed, having been mddled with ar- rows in & desperate attempt to escape through hie Indi lines towards his This occurred near what wp as Hillsdale station which & lasting wonument to the is now ku serves a im. 'he exaggerated reports of these outrages and other depredations that were being committed on all sides at this time, induced several of our party 10 abandon the trip, and three persous escaped in askiff down the Platte river, trnveliu.iut night and hiding in the day, finally veaching Fort Kearney and the railroad that conveyed them cust, But our party was recruited from ranch- men in the vicinity who had been com velled to leave their claims on account of the Indian war. One of* these served us guide for us aud wnother hunted and cooked fresh meut. The party with its strength thus supple- mented again resumed its hazardous work ana made slow but steady head- way until the main crossing of the Rocky mountains was determined upon at a depression 500 feet lower thau was D TIPS originallycontemplated,, This crossing effected we were confronted by the great task of pushing surveys over a country that was almost an absolute desert and comparatively unknown with no roads or crossings of “streams devel- oped and affording insufficient pastur- age for our horses. Our iabors were not lightened by a limited knowledge of the location of springs and other sources of water supply. This whole country was formerly known as the Red desert, “To facilitate the work of our party in crossing this strotch of country, Percy T. Brown and four others started out on horseback to reconnoiter the proposed route. Its barrenness was so strikingly manifest that all thought of Indians had long ago been dismissed. In fact, we beheld searcely a living thing after the consummation of the crossing. Still on this reconnoitering trip Brown and his men were unex- pectedly surrounded and ambuscaded y several hundred Indians, who had hidden themselves and ponies in the dry, circuitous bed of a deep raviae, whose banks were covered with high wage brush. In the the struggle that ensued, and while our’ men were trying 1o make their way to a neighboring summit, Mr. Brown was shot in the ab- domen. His men abandoned their horses, picked up the wounded man and charged up the hill, determined to save his scalp. In this they were suc- cessful, The Indians serambled over the booty in tho shape of horses and accoutrements left by the white men and allowed them to make the summit nearest at hand. There the party re- mained until under cover of the dark- ness of the night they o od M. Brown on the stocks of their guns distance of fifteen miles to the stage road, where soon afterward died and was temporavily buried. “We were agnin delayed by this fatality, and went into camp to con- sider matters. I think it will be better to finish my for this week right here and to relate the rest of my experience in next Sunday’s issue of your paper. commend the use of Angostura Bitters to our friends who suffer with despepsia, but only the genuine, manu- factured by Dr. Siegert’ & Sons. At druggists. L 1 TINY GIRLS IN POLITICS. The Youngest Harrison Olub in the United States, Polities for women is not an unusual thing nowadays, but politics—real,hard, every-day politics—forlittle girls is per- haps something new. Probably St. Louis, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is the first city in the United tes to form a ‘‘Little Girls’ Harrison club,” but such is the soher fac! This promis- ing organization, which is now a fixture is comnosed of littie girle, with republi- can procli es,whoattend the Stoddard and the Divoll schools, and who live in the west end. The ages of the little ones range from three to twelve years, and there is some genuine enthusiasm among the members of the club. The club was formed in September last, and found its suggestion in debates on the merits of the two candidates for the presiden The most prominent ou the Ha on side of the question met at the residence of Mabel Ross, 2501 ( ble street, and the formal organiz of the club was undertaken. i oy o ureka. The motto of California means,T have found 1t. On n that land of sunshiue, where the orange, lemon, olive, fig and grape_ bloom and ripen, and attain their highest perfection in mid-winter, are the herbs and gum found, that are used in that pleasant remedy for ail throat and lung troubles, SANTA ABIE the ruler of coughs, asthma and consumption. 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