Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 30, 1910, Page 19

(Copyright, 1910, by HANGHAT, respondence Frank G. Carpenter.) 1900.—(Special ( of The Bee)-Ths growth of Shanghal beats that of the gourd of Janah, which Sprang up in a night. 1t Is now a modern European ity has business blocks which might be dropped down in New York or London ana not be out of place, would be fine in Washington or Parls, Alcng the Bund, the wide road which faces the river, are a dozen or more banks whose capital runs into the tens of milllons ana whose managers are can dip into the pockets of the nations and draw out at pleasure. On the same street are elub houses, some of which have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to build. There are big hotels where you can live as well as at home, and shops, with plate glass windows, contalning European goods of every description. Shanghal fs the Paris of the far east. It is one of the richest cities of Asia, and It takes the best of all that is going. It €0 trusted that they In the Rig Cotton Mil Shanghal 18 preparing to manufacture for the new China. It is putting up fac- torles and foundries and starting all sorts of new Industries. It has silk filatures which are produeing bales of raw eilk for our American weavers, modern flour milly equipped with Milwaul machinery, and a clgarette factory owned by the American Tobacco Trust, which employs more than 1,000 hands. It has elght great cotton milly with several hundred thousand spindles, and some which have §0,000 or 90,000 spin- dles In a singlo establishment. In these mills over 30,000 Chinese men, women and children are employed, and they are spin- ning and weaving cotton quite as well as In any of our Amerlcan factorles. The most of them are managed by Chinese foremen and they glve some fdea of how the Celestials expect to make their own cloth In the future, During my stay here I have visited soma of the biggest of the cotton factories. I went through the establishment of the Soychee Cotton Spinning company today. It lles on the Whampoa river, the branch of the Yangtse which gives Shanghal access to the sea, and it is so situated that the baies can be landed right at the mills and the ®oods shipped thousands of miles into the interlor by means of the rivers, or to Japan or the United States. The suburb connected with it is known as Hongkew. This is a great factory center, and its smokestacks dot the stream, running along its banks to the Yangtse. i Child Labor at 4 Cents Per Day. The bulldings of the Soy Chee company cover several acres. They are of gray brick and are shadowed by a smokestack which rises to the height of a twelve-story flat. Bntering them, I found over 1,000 men, women and children at work. I went through room after room filled with girls who were weaving and spinning, and I saw 200 childter tending the machines, Some of them were little tots not higher than my walst and many did not reach to my shoul- ders, The smaller children were pulling baskets filled with bobbins here and there about the rooms. The larger ones were tending the spinning mules and all were working #o hard that they scarcely looked up as I entered. I asked as to their wages, and found that they were about 4 of our cents per day, and that the pay to the older hands ranged from that to 20 cents. Think of working ten hours for 4 cents, and that in the dust of a spinning mill. I photographed some of the children, frightening the little ones almost to death as I did so. The manager tells me that he has many whole familios employed in his factory—father, mother and children all working. There are no laws against child labor, and the bables aid in keeping the wolf from the door, Speaking of bables, there were several of these in the mill. Some were still at the breast, and thelr mothers had brought them along that they might not lose work 1 remember one girl ofg 18 years spinning away with an almond-eyed Infant at her knges, and another had a baby In a basket beside her. The child was quist. As I chucked it under tha chin two yellow dimples broke out in its cheeks, and it smiled. In another place I saw & 3-months- old baby lying in a pile of white cotton waste on the floor of the mill, g Cotton Yarn for Hand Looms, This factory works day and night, and thera are quite as many children employed in the night shift as in the daytime. One thousand hands are always busy Sunday and week days, all the year through. Its chief product 18 cotton yarn for the do- mestic weavers. This is made up into bun. dles, which are then packed into bales of 40 pounds each, and shipped all over the country. The yarn is woven inte cloth on hand looms, and it supplies a large part of the clothing of the common people. It comes Into competition with the mills of India and Japan, and also with those which are now starting up in the other parts of China. T am told there are something like 200,000 spindles now working upon such yarn at Shanghal, and also & large num- ber at Ningpo and Soochow. There s one big mill at Hangchow, one at Canton, and some at Hongkong, Wuchang and Hankow. The laber s abundant and the people easily learn to handle the modern machinery, New Milling Machinery. \ The Chinese are rapldly introdueing the better class of machines, and thelr mills are already about as well equipped as our own. A great part of thelr machinery |s imported from England, and only eertain speclalties come from the United Statos, In one factory I found an American light plant with 6,000 electric lamps burning, and in another there were modern fire ma- chines, and the employers had a fire drill every day. In nearly every place the wages were as low or lower thgn those I have quoted, the highest prico paid the men being something like 3 cents per day, whils A good average wage was § or 10 cents, 1 found girls at work in all of the factories, and I know of none which does not employ children, At present a considerable portion of the cotton used in China is imported from abroad. We have the bulk of the Man- churian trade, although Japan Is doing its best to compete. The English sell the greater part of the fgoods brought in to the Yangtze valley and south China, and the icrmans are pushing their cloths 3 where. Within the last year or s, how- ever, the Chinese officlals have been star(- Ing small factories In which hand $iro used. 1 saw some In Tlentsin and other parts of Chibli, and I am told that there are more than 15,000 such looms work in that province. st ev looms now at Chin n Supply. China s dolng all it can to Improve its native cotton, The officials are sending out men to study our cotton belt and our mothods of cotton raising, and edicts have been lssued to encourage the growth of the crop in all the provinges. It is claimed that cotton will do well in most parts of na. Much of the country Mes in the latude of our southern states, and from N%unu northward there are rich plains Witich the experts say are fitted for cotton siowing, With unsclentifio methods of and res!dences vmrh) e ey bt e i '@ oultivation the country is now producing something like 70 per cent of the raw ma- terial 1t uses, and if properly farmed, the ©erop could be enormously Increased. The native cotton is of & short staple. It s brought here in boats upon the Yangtze Kiang and its tributaries, and also In seagoing junks from Ningpo and the lands farther sguth. It Is put up in bags of enormous sizd, but so loosely packed that one twice ag large as & feather bed welghs only 200 pounds. It is loaded and unloaded by coolles, Who carry it upon thelr heads from the ships to the factory. Other farmers ship thelr raw cotton in basket-wark bales the size of a hogshead. The bales are opened in the cotton yards and the lint Is sometimes rebaled in pack- ages of 500 pounds for export to the United States and Europe. The nature of the native cotton makes it especially good for underwear, and some of it is sent to the United States for that purposs. sl Nation in Cotton. Our cotton factories should send their agents here to study the market. These people dress in cotton instead of silk, and the most of the cloth used s spun and recled by hand and woven at home. With the new civilization wages will rise and the Chinese will wear more cotton than IN A SHANGHAI Mitb \ ever before. At present it is safe to say that there are at least 400,000,000 of them Who dress In such goods all the year round. They wear only one or two thin garments in the summer, but In winter they have several suits well wadded to keep themselves warm, and in the north- ern provinces they put on sult after sult a8 the weather grows colder. Indeed, some fleshy Chinese in full winter dress have trouble in getting through their own door- ways. But even at one suit of twenty vards to each person per year the amount of cotton used is #0 great that at least 8,000,000 yards are required. This amount is beyond comprehension. It would carpet a pathway sixty feet wide from the earth to the moon, or cover one more than twenty miles wide from New York to Chicago. Our total shipments of cotton goods to other countries {s less than $33,000,00 a year, and all we send to Asla sells for less than $3,000,00. That which goes to Ohina would hardly patch the knees of the celestials, let alone make thelr clothes. G ity How American Ol Lights China. If our cotton interests could handle this market as the Standard Oll does, the ex- ports from our southern states might run into the hundreds of millions & year, The DAY BEE JANUARY 30, 1910 JLIS Standard Oil company has its own agents in all the provinces, and it Is pushing its fbusiness in every city. Twenty years ago the ofl was shipped here in tin cans. It is now brought in tank steamers which carry 10,000 tons at a load. The vessels start from San Francisco and land at half a dozen different ports, where the ofl is pumped out Into great storage tanks. I found such tanks at Hankow, 600 miles up the Yangtse Klang, and saw the steamers unloaded by means of a pump. The tanks there hold tens of thousands of barrels. They have factories connected with them, where the tin plate is made into five-gallon cans. These are filled with oil and are distributed by the Yangtze and its tribu- taries. The stuff is economically handled, belng sold In smaller and smaller pack- ages as It gets farther away from the ports, and In some places almost by the spoonful. The Standard Oil company has tanks at Tientsin and Hongkong. It does by far the biggest oll business in China, although the Burmese, Russian and Su- matra companies compete. Within the last year one of these latter companies has opened up a new oil terri- tory about 200 miles north of Peking. The oil is carried in cans on wheelbarrows over 100 miles to 8 canal and thence floated MATIVE COTTON. CHINA RRISES SEVENTY PLERCENT OF 175 oW €0, down to the capital. The wheelbarrow men go in caravans of fifty barrows each. They are pald something like 4 cents gold @& day and other labor Is proportionately cheap. Our Tobacco Trust. Another Amerlcan institution which 1s doing @ big busingss in China is the To- bacco Trust. It has its agents in all of the citles, and has established several blg fac- tories. There is one at Shanghal which employs 2,000 girls in making and packing clgarettes. Therc is another at Mukden, and a third at Hankow. Indeed, the Amer- icans are changing the Chinese from pipe smokers to clgarette smokers, and ma. chine made cigarettes are now to be bought as far west as Thibet. The busi- ness is done under the name of the Brit- ish-American Tobacco company, and it has in its employ both British and Amerlcan Short and Pointed Tales of Real Life Gathered from Many Sources A Food Faddist's Fix. OHN D. ROCKEFELLER, Jr, was congratulated in his office Tecently on the fact that he, like the poet Maeterlinck and other famous men, has taken to the motoreycle. “And has motorgycling benefited your health?' his congratulator, & journallst ventured to ask. “T think it has," Mr, Rockefeller replied. “T won't ask you, thougl to take note of my clear eye and good color, or I might find myself in the food faddist's fix. “A food faddist was lecturing to a large audlence on the marvelous results to be obtalned from chewing soup, or eating nut butter, or something of that kind. He Was not a very Imposing person physically; but, swelling out his chest, he slapped it thrice with the palm and cried: ** ‘Friends, two years ago 1 was a wa'k- ing skeleton, a haggard, miserable wreck. Now, what do you suppose brought about this great change in me? *He paused to let his words sink in, and & volce usked: “‘What change?' "—St. Democrat. Louls Globe ——i— Helping the Miuister, A Scotch preacher had in his congrega- tion an old woman who was deaf. In or- der to hear the sermon each Sunday, this old lady would seat herself at the foot of the pulpit stairs. One day the sermon was about Jonah, and the preacher became very rhetorical. “And® when the sallors threw Jonah overboard," he sald, “a big fish swallowed him up. Was it a shark that got 'im? Nay, my brethern, it was ne'er a shark. Was it & swordfish that eat him? Nay—" “It was & whale,”” whispered the old lady excitedly. “Hush, Biddie," said the preacher Indig- nanty. “Would ye tak th' wo.d of God out o' yer ane meenlstar s mauth?'—Suc- cess Magagine. Some Ways of Wrongdoers, “There are a few places where the pro- fessional crook operates,” sald Seymour Boutler of New York, for twenty-five years chief of the Pinkerton forces on the New York race courses, at the Willard. “Pickpockets generally work in erowds, or bands, and many clever jobs are done while helping an old man or woman on a car. Of course, these crooks frequent crowds, and, In the case of ‘prop-getters,’ for instance, the thief will use a handker- chief in front of & man's scarf and with the other deftly lift out his pin. 1 remem- ber one Incident when two' of these ‘prop- getters' were working together, One of them spled a beautiful stone In a scarf of & prosperous looking passenger who was standing in a crowd on a street car. He tipped off his partner and signaled that ho was golng after the stone, when the latter held him back, saying, ‘Nix, on that; nothing doing.' ‘Why, what's the matter; phony,' returned the crook. *No, s @il right, but honor among thleves.' “The man who was about to be touched was one of the most notorious pickpockets in New York “On one occasion at the Saratoga race course & blg storm came up and several persons were injured in the grandstand, continued Mr. Beutler. “Beob Pinkerton was one of the first to go to the aid of the injured. He found & woman who had been hurt by a flying chair, and as he stooped to take her aypm he found that another man was assisting her also. He looked at his co-worker, who sald: “Well, Baob, I never thought you and T would work to- gother." t was ‘Red Leary,' the bank burglar.” —~Washiugton Post it isn't s there must be Workiug' ihe Boy. Jerome 8. McWada, the well-known Du- luth connolsseur, sald of the management of children in a recent Sunday school ad- dress: “Diplomacy succeeds best with the little ones. A lad of 9 years came, all puffing and rosy, in out of the cold the other night ‘‘Pa, I'm tired. I've sgwed enough wood for this evening, ain't I? I'm awful tired.’ *‘Tired? cried the father, looking up from his paper with an alr of surprise and disappointment. ‘Why, I bet your mother a quarter you'd have the whole pile done before supper.’ ‘DI you? shouted the boy, taking up his hat and mittens again. ‘Well, you'll win your money If the saw holds out. Nobody ever bet on me and lost!' “And he rushed back to his hard task agaln, his eyes flaming with enthugiasm." — i A Full Stomach Verdiet, ‘Warden McClaughry of the federal peni- tentlary tells a story of the first time that he served on a jury. “It was back in 1864, he sald recently, telling of the Incldent to a friend. “I had Just come home on a furlough from the army and it was the night before Christ- mas, a cold, bitter night. A school teacher out in the country, where the snmow was inches and Inches deep, was to be tried for whipping a boy student. There were six of us Impaneled and all rode out together in a big sleigh to the home of the justice of tha Ppesce where the trial was to be held. After & vigorous lecture from tie honorable jus. tice and a good deal of testimony on both sides, we were asked to adjourn to the kitchen, the room next to where the trial was being held, to deliberaté on our ver- diet. As I sald, it was the night before Christmas, and the kitchen was full of good things that go to make up a real gnod old-fashloned dinner. “We organized at once to do justice to trat fine line of provender. A ‘serving committee’ was appointed and T was made a member of it. We served all right. For threesquarters of an hour we did glorious justice to that food. Finally we had dis- posed of evervthing in sight. “Then we returned to the court room im- mediately and with solemn faces announced that the verdict was that the boy had not been whipped enough.'—Kansas City Journal. AT The Way of Most Folks, Henry Arthur Jones, the noted English playwright, was glying the students of Yale an address on.the drama. “Your American vernacular is pictur- esque,” he said, “and it should help your playwrights to build strong, racy plays; but neither vernacular nor anything else is of moment if perseverance is lacking. “No playwright can succegd who is like a man I know. I sald to the man one New Year's day: *“‘Doyou keep a diary, Philip?" “‘Yes,' he answered. ‘I've kept one for the first two weeks in January for the last seven years.' "—Indlanapolis Star, e g The Supreme Tent. An Indianapolis toy dealer tells un amus- ing story about Booth Tarkington. “Mr. Tarkington,"” he begins, “came Into my shop one day at Christmas time, and sald: ‘I want a Noah's ark, please. Not one of your modern Noah's ark, but a good, ©ld-fashioned one—one wherein Noah Is the same size as the elephant.’ ““I think I've got what you want, sir,’ I answered, ‘up In the attlc.’ “And I soon brought down to him a dusty old Noah's ark of the kind that I had sold when he was a little boy in a bib, “'Mr, Tarkington opened the ld, peered in, and said: *‘Aha, this 1s the tickot. There they all are. There is Noah, the sawc slze us the dove, and the dove s the same sizc as the elephant. But to make sure that this South Dakoia’'s New Capitol Building HILE it will be midsummer be- fore the last of the workmen are out of the new capitol of South Dakota at Plerre, many of the state officlals will be located in thelr new quarters before the final finishing is put upon In- terior work in some parts of the building. In fact the officlals expect to begin mov- ing Into the building by the first of March, and the city, which has purchased the old bullding, has orders to get it off the grounds In April, as it is expected that everything will be moved out by that time. The work yet to be done i§ the com- pletion of the marble finishings, the final closing up of the interior decorations and a small amount of carpenter work. W. G. Andrews, the contractor on the decoration work, says he s fully 75 per cent done with that past of the work and can com-~ WEW SQUTH DAKOTA CAPITOL plete all but the mural work In a little over thirty days. Mr. Andrews has just returned from a trip east, in which he found the mural work, which is being done by B, H. Blashfield and Edward Simmons, both of New York, and Charles Holloway of Chicago, is well along, and he thinks he can have all the paintings in place be- fore the first of June, but thls work will not in the least delay the occupancy of the bullding. The marble work is well along, all the pillars being placed, most of the walnscoting being In place and the placing of balusters and stair treads now being pushed along. On account of the demand for room the commission has added a large amount of space for storage In the basement by hav- ing the whole of the basement floor con-, croted, making large amount of storage room. The work on the grounds is also being pushed, but with the present appropria- tion at the command of the commission about all which can be done in that way 18 in the grading and leveling. The com- mission has begun the preliminary steps toward securing & number of lots along the eastern end of the grounds by con- demnation to glve the required space for the lake to be located on the east end of the grounds. Contractor Olsen has pushed work from the start and will be ready to turn over a completed building to the commission under the contract time regardless of the fact that numerous changes which would extend his time have been asked for in the progress of the work. The people are get- ting a fine bullding absolutely without taxation for thav purpose BUILDING AT PIERRE is a genuine old-fashioned Noah's ark I will apply one last test. I will, sir, with your permission, taste Noah's head.' “And Mr. Tarkington laughed, pretended to taste the biight paint on the head of the patriarch, and, paying his bill, walked out with the old-fashioned Noah's ark under his arm.”—Indlanapolis News. o i Reficcted Glory. Mr. Jones was an excellent man, pros- perous in his business and modest in his ways, but not Gistinguished for anything in particular. His wife, however, Mrs. Smith-Jones, was a woman of rare accom- plishinents. She was an artist of more than ordinary ability, a brilliant planist, and porsessed a volce of remarkable sweet- ness and power. At a large party one evening, at which she and her husband wene present, her singing captivateG a stranger who was one of the guests, und he asked to be intro- duced to her. Fils request was sranted. After & fow njinutes' conversation the hostess came and took him away. “You mustn't monopolize her, Mr. Sim- mons,” she said. “I want you to meet Mr. Jones. “Who is Mr. Jones “He 18 her husband.” “What 1s he noted for?" “Noted for?' echoes the hostess, 'or his wife “Why, Twaln Turne bles, Mark Twain, when he worked in Nevada, on the Virginia City Enterprise, inserted in the news & good many boarding Jokes. In revenge, the humorist's sensitive fel- low boerders in Virginia City decided to put up & game on him. They enlisted the landlady's help, and at the Thanksgiving dinner at the boarding house Mark Twain, by a dextrous plece of sleight-of-hand, was served, apparently direct from the fowl, with a turkey leg of palnted wood. “You've changed your poultry haven't you, ma'am?" “Why, no, Mr. Clemens, you think s¢ “This turke he answered, giving the wooden Grumstick a little whack with his knife; “it's about the tenderest morsel I've struck in this house for some months. Detroit Free Pre house dealer, ‘What makes Suppos A friend of the late Ellicott City, Ind., said: “This fine poet and good man thought that class hatred was due to ignorance— that the rich knew too little of the and vice versa. “He once fllustrated this ignorance with the story of a Methodist bishop's wife who addressed @ mesting of slum housewlves on their home dutles. The address mada the home life seem all very fine and ideal, but one housewife volced the opinion of the rest, perhaps, when she said to her neigh- bors with a sniff *‘She's all right as far as she gocs; but what I'd like to ask her {s this—what does she do when her old bishop comes home on pay night with his envelope empty and a fightin' Jag on? " Father Tabb of poor, The O Richard Watson Gilder had a dry wit of his own. He once recelved a call from a young woman who wished to secure ma- terial for an article of 3,00 words on “Young Women In Literature.” “It was & fetching subject, full of meat explained the young woman afterward, “and I saw not only 8000 words in the st but at least 6,00. But T never got any further than the first question. Mr. Gllder's answer took the very life out of me. I asked him: ‘Now, Mr. Gilder, what would you say was the first, the chief, the all-essential requisite for a young woman tering the literary tleld? “I walted with bated breath, when he snswered; ‘Postage stamps. "—Boston Glove. King Cotton in China and Child Labor in the Big Mills at Shanghai officers. The chief manager Is an Amerls can, who lives here at Shanghal. He tells me the Chinese are a nation of tobacoo mokers, and that they have been ralsing and using tobacco for cver 300 years. The weed was introduced from Manila loss than fifty years after Columbus discovered America, and it has been In nse ever since, although many of the Chinese emperors have repeatedly tried to wipe it out. Much tobacco Is stlll smoked In pipes, two kinds of which are in use everywhere. One of these is & dry pipe, which may be of bam- boo or clay wood. Its bowl is small and seldom holds more than a pinch of tobacco. The other pipe ls a metal box tilled with water, through which the smoke Is drawn before it enters the mouth. It has a tube about a foot long, and this bends over at the mouthplece. This plps is usually made of copper and stiver, or an alloy of copper, zine. nickel and fron. It Is used by both men and women. The natives make eclgarettes husks and bamboo leaves. They also roll tobacca In brown paper. Of late years. however, the rice paper clgarette has come Into vogue, and it Is used more and more every day by both men, women and chil dren. of corn Strike of Tobacco Girls. One of the Americans employed In the tobacco factory at Shanghal tells me they had a blg strike the other day. A thousand- odd girls left the cstablishment and re- fused to return until their grievance was trom a coffin The glrls were in the habit of changing from one department to another without asking the manager and they looked so much alike that the foreign officials could not tell It they were in thelr right places Thereupon a system of badges was Insti- tuted, giving to each girl a pin labeled with characters indicating the nate of the department to which she belonged ery girl had to have her own badge and wear It. The badges were round, square or shaped like a keystone, according to the rooms in which the girls worked. It was the last budge which caused the trouble. The day after the order went forth the girls with the keystone pins stiuck and the nexi noon ihe otheis weit out. It was afterward found that the ob- jection lay in a superstition that the key stone badges would bring bad luck to their ‘wearers, because they were shaped like the head of a coffin. It was some time before this could be remedied and the employes brought into line. sl Boycotting the British, And this brings me to the new boycott which was recently instituted against the British steamers on the Yangtse-Kiang. I am told that some of the companies are losing a thousand dollars a day and that the Chinese are refusing to ship by them because a certaln deck passenger died from a kick given by one of the steamship ticket collectors. The British are much alarmed about the matter and are doing all they can to appease the Chinese. The first great boycott against forelgn- ers was that imposed upon the American: two or three years ago. The merchants of the largest clties then bound themselves not to buy American goods and Imposed a penalty of $40,000 upon any member of thelr organization who did so. After this boy- cott was raised the trouble with the Japa- nese caused by the Importation of arms on the Tatsu Maru was instituted and it was continued untll it cost Japan many mil- llons of dollars. About six months ago & Chinese officlal told me that the dam- ages to Japanese trade had already aggre- gated more than forty millions, and that the gullds of Canton had sworn to make them $160,000,000 before they got through. That boycott was most powerful at Can- ton. The people there would use nothing Japanese. The women had anti-Japan clubs and the merchants refused to ship in Japanese steamers. The loss of trade created financlal distress all over Japan and the government officlals at Toklo wes at u loss as to how to handle the situa- tion. Sald one of them to me: “We cannot fight the Chinese because they will not trade with us. The powers would not stand for a war of that kind, and we are practically helpless. This is so because the United States knuckled down and permitted the first boycott. Had she acted otherwise she might have stopped Chinesa boycotting forever.” “But how could she do that?" “Basy enough then, although mnot at all now with the precedent established. I was in Peking at the time the boycott was started, and I told your minister, Mr, Rockhill, how he could stop it. Said I: “‘What your government should do is to make a firm stand against the boycott, and at the same time send a gunboat er 50 along the coast under pretense of sur- veying the waters. The ships should stop At the lslands, and now and then make an expedition off through the country. The Chinese will become alarmed, but the naval officers can tell them that they are merely surveying for sclence, adding at the end of each reply a significant question as to what China intends to do as to the boycott. The government will fear that the United States s about to retallate and an edict will be sent forth that the boycott must be stopped.’ " “And what did Mr. Rockhill say to that?" I asked. “Oh, replied the Tokio statesman, “he had not enough backbone to try it. He said he had no doubt but fhat the plan would work, but that he did not dare to suggest it. When I asked why not, he significantly sald: ‘I don't dare to do it. I don't dare. Our Teddy would jump at it in & minute.’ *And," concluded this man, * I have no doubt but that President Roosevelt would have jumped at it; and bhad he dane so there would have been no further trouble as to American goods and none as to other forelgn goods In the future. As it Is now the psychological moment has passed, and not you, only, but also we and all others must get on our knees to these boycotting celestials.”” FRANK G. CARPENTER. i Some Duties of Ambassadors. Senator Tillman at a Washington dinner party was talking about the duties of an ambassador. “They are lmportant dutle 4 he. “A really good ambassador should know all about the country he is sent to. Then he wouldn't make the mistake committed by an American in Afghanistan, “This American entertained the shah- zada for three days, giving him a very handsome sulte of rooms In his hou: “The morning of the shahzad the American host visited him in his apart- ment and was amazed to see the royal guest and his entire statf hopping about the floor In the oddest way, They con- versed politely and gravely, but instead ot walking they hopped, taking great leaps of elght or nine feet. ““The host ventured to ask the reason of his hopping. The shahzada politely re- plied: “¥You see, this carpet is green, with white roses here and there. Green s & sacred color with us, so we are obliged to hop from rose to rose. It is good exercise, but rather fatiguing, I confess.’ ""—Philadelphia Record. - v arrival