Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 28, 1900, Page 20

8 ONE AND ONE-HALF MILLIONS THE ILLUSTRATED il of Foo Chow about manufactured in this way American Cottons in Chinn, I have had a chat with Consul General Goodnow about the increase in the con sumption of American cotton. He tells me it was very great up to the breaking out of the war and he predicts that the bulk of the foreign trade will eventually to us. As It Is now the Americans never tried to push their trade in the Yang valley and south China, where, at a rough venture, I should say at least three At s weve | vARICOCELE and NERVOUS DISEASES the north, being consumed in great quan tities in Chihll. Shan Tung and other north- ern including Manchuria and Mon- This region demands a heavy cotton protect the people from the cold In want to write or talk to every man \m‘h't'l'w-h- or any of the Nervous Diseases are the reflex effects S of pelvic ailments. DO NOT WEAR A SUSPENSORY October 28, BEE. 1000000 pleces are o USE For Family and Medicinal Purposes GREEN RIVER Family Trade Supplied by Chicago Liquor House, 402 N. I6th St. M. WOLLSTEIN & CO., DISTRIBUTORS. First Class Bars and Hotels Carpenter's Letter (Continued from Seventh Page.) taels annually, and told me that it was doing well. Just before the Chinese-Japa | nese war It was making, so Mr. Danforth sald, as much as 30 per cent a year. It Is not doing this now, and, indeed, some of the other factories have been running at a loss. Is a Very Large Sum of Money to Pour Into the Vaults of the Great Wealthy East com have FOR LIFE INSURANCE PREMIUMS The warehouses or go-dowus of this fac- tory are of vast extent They are back of the factory proper on the banks of the Whampoa river, so that the goods can be shipped from them to most parts of China by water. In some of the rooms I found thousands of bales of plece goods and cot- ton yarn. It seemed to me that there were acres of them, and I was told that they represented hundreds of thousands of dol lars in actual value. A gang of workmen was busy packing up the goods and label- Ing them for shipment, and tse all Y states I wish the people of Nebraska could get time to study the life insurance statistics of this state,” sald B, H. Robison, the energetic president of the Bankers' Reserve Life asgociation of Omaha, Nebras successful, vigorous and promising young life company that golia to most parts of China little fuel Is used except for cooking As winter comes on the Chinese adds coat after coat until other gangs he at last assumes almost the shape of a who has most which insurance I am determined shall be a living example of the of maintaining our large financial institutions at home, It has therefore been dedicated to that great principl: that self-help is the safest help “A million and a half in gold goes east every year to swell the bursting vaults of the large castern life insurance companies This represents a very large preentage of the entire annual savings of our people It drawn directly and permanently from our channels of trade It is unnatural, wasteful and destructive of our own com mercinl prosperity “If the people of Nebraska will pay one half of this great sum to Nebraska life in the Bankers Re If you will describe erve your case carefully | will give you a pro- fessional opinion and my book explaining the natu e of your disease. I cure Varicocele in five days at my “"Home." Delmer D. Richardson, M. D., 128674 Mich, Av. vilue economic “A BRIGHT HOME MAKES A MERRY HEART.” JOY TRAVELS ALONG WITH surance companies we can maintain in this geveral strong companies and we can protect Nebraska from panics and perpetu ate the financial prosperity of the state “One million and more goes to these allen companies annually never to return to our banks and our business activities It I8 a dead loss to Nebraska, except as the contributors to the fund borrow it back on mortgages or municipal bonds. In ten years, Interest added, this state pours into the money drawers of allen financial cor porations a sum equal to the entire re sources of the national banks of Nebraska “Stop It Buy Jjust as liberal, safe and profitable policies for just the same money from the Bankers Reserve Life assoclation; keep your money at home and help by this means to arrest the most destructive ele- ment of our system of financing. This state cannot safely charge off a net loss of £1.,000,000 a year without suffering seri- ously. This is so patent a proposition that argument s unnecessary. Action s de- manded.” Write to B. H. Robison, Omaha, and begin at once to correct an evil which the merest tyro in social economy must see clearly Purity, Age, Strength is the motto of the Omaha Brewing Association. This beer recelved the highest award r Draught and Bottled Beer at the Transmississippl Exposition ate | thickly Hurriedly made beer I8 unhealthful Our beer |8 thoroughly fermented which requires a process for months We use none but r own artesian well water in our brews. A trial order will satisfy yvou that our beer I8 pure and healthful, Telephone 171, The $eal of $atisfaction WHEN we deliver an order of printing we render full for our char faction.'”” T thrown in, a were, just to g d retain your patronag one way of doin is why every customer gets ‘‘satisfaction.”’'s # A. I. Root, Printer 414.416 South 12th, Omaha FHEE by return mail, full deseriptive circulars of Moody's 1« proved Tailor 8 "i""" nnd EVISED TO principal of SN TN JATE, early and pro lnnyhd of ordinary 1 quick any gar I’ meas dren, n Boyn, rments anteed to hit perfectly with " A knowledge of the Moody System is worth a fortune to any lady. ‘Thousands of expert dre: owe their exs to the Moody Systel s wanted. MOODY & € P.0.Box 2100, Ofncinnat} for terms | | they | tion and WEAVING COT were carrylng them in and out of the go downs. In other places they were unload ing cotton from the boats, and as I came to the mill I saw men wheeling great bales through the streets on wheelbarrows. The bales were strapped on each side of the barrow, rising up so high as to almost hide the man who was pushing it. Flelds of China, ‘ 1 was surprised to find that most of the cotton used here is grown In China. It is | cultivated in patches at different places along the Yangtse and in the scuth. I am |(nh| it can be raised all along the Yangtse | Klang and even as far north as Tien Tsin. The chief cotton flelds of the present are | south of Shanghal, spotting the country | for about 100 miles back of the seacoast. ;Thv plantations range from a fourth of an lacre to five acres in size. The is sown broadcast plants come up far more thickly do with us. They are thinned out and care- fully weeded, being hoed with a long slender hoe. The cotton is planted too It is almost as thick as small grain, |80 thick that the stalks rarely grow to a height of more than three feet. The bolls (are so small that it takes forty to fifty of them to make a pound of seed cotton, and do not average more than six to a stalk. It is believed with better cultiva- more careful planting that China might produce a better cotton and a greater quantity Picking cotton is largely done by women and girls, who go from place to place work- ing for their neighbors. In some parts of China the poor people claim the right to pick any cotton that is ripe after the first frost. At this time most of the crop has been gathered, but there are some bolls | which have not yet opened. There is a regular day fixed by the village or district | on which this picking may begin, and after ‘,llmt the poor turn out and go for all the | cotton in sight, Some of the women walk miles to reach a region where the picking is | good, sleeping at night in the fields or in the outhouses until they can gather is left, The bulk of the cottons now used in China are manufactured at home, We are ship ping more every year and England, India and Germany are drumming the trade. All | the imports, however, do not begin to touch the enormous market. The Chinese are clad in cottons. Only the rich can afford to wear silk, and of the 400,000,000 at 360,000,000 can afford nothing else I have | seen it estimated that the Chinaman on th average uses at least twenty yards of cot ton a year Now, there are 400,000,000 Chinese, and according to this the empire demands at least 8,000,000,000 yards of this material annually. Eight billion yards is | 24,000,000,000 feet. It is enough at 05,000 feet to the mile to make a strip 4,000,000 miles long, enough to reach 160 times around the world, and as each strip would be three feet wide it would carpet a road- way three times as wide as Pennsylvania avenue around the globe Of this amount fifteen-sixteenths is woven in little houses by Chinese women. Much of it I1s made by the people who railse the cotton, the ginning, spinning and weaving being done with hand machines. The cloth {8 very coarse, but closely woven, Much of it is made only thirteen inches wide, In pleces about seven yards long. In the oity he Cotton seed and the than they what least TON AT HOME ball wadded ns to Keep out Said Consul factors want to export the goods that| consume the most cotton and it may| be for this reason that we have catered to the northern trade At any rate we have almost monopolized it. Ninety-one per cent of all our cotton that came to Shang- | hoi last year was shipped to Tien Tsin, Che Foo and New Chwang, 3 per cent went up the Yangtse valley to be sold in the northern or colder provinces, 3 per cent went into Che Kiang and 3 per cent r('-‘ mained here in Kiangsu. “The provinces lower down on the Yang- tse and south of Shanghai require a lighter weight, a better bleached and a finer made | cotton. This is so on account of the warmer | climate. You can’t sell linen dusters for | winter wear in North Dakota or buffalo overcoate in July in Florida. Our people have evidently supposed all parts of China had the same climate and it was only last year that they began to cater to this middle and south China trade.” “But who gets the trade, I asked. "It goes to the English,” was the reply. “They buy our raw cotton and make all the profit of manufacture, rriage and han- dling. Our factors should exploit this reglon It is the most populous part of China and the richest. It is the chief manufacturing district and its trade is of enormous value, The north has its richest lands in the valley of the Yellow river, which is always being flooded, and, as a result, the people im- poverished, rom middle and south China the tea, silk and rice and the most «f the factories which furnish China’s other exports.'” General Goodnow “Our Mr. Goodnow?" come A t to Good Luck, ‘‘How should we increase our trade with China 2" ““There is one thing need to do right away the market, cotton factors | . They should study | They make a mistake in think- the ing anything will do for the Chinese. In fact, there are few markets which are so particular in little things as this. The (‘hinese are naturally conservative. They are full of fancies and superstitions and you must understand these to deal with them. You cannot force them, nor can you offend their sense of propriety \\hhnu" loss."" | Take yvear a little incident that One of our happened last American mills shipped to Shanghai a big consignment of hand- kerchiefs for the use of the natives with | the Chinese character for good luck stamped on one corner. To his surprise the shipment was a total loss. 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