Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 15, 1910, Page 18

(Copyright, 1910, by Frank ARJEELING, 1910.—Come t cup of 'tea with me this bright Sunday ‘morning witlle I tell you how this' shrub, whigh- cheers but does 1ot dnebriate, s grown out here [n the Himalaya moun- 1ains, on the opposite of the globe. There are hundreds of tea plantations all around me and millions of pounds of their product are annually shipped from here to other parts of the world. S How to Mak: Before T begin let us start the water to bolling. 1t should be fresh from the spring and snould not bubble over ten minutes before used for brewing. We will put the tea ima porcelain pot and let the hot water remain upon it not more than eight min- utes, and it will then be ready for drinking. Tea should never touch metal and it should mever stand In the pot after brewing. It should never be hoiled in the pot and it should be drunk clear, for milk makes it poison. Good tea does not need sugar, al- though a slice of will add to the flaver. The tea we are using comes from the mountains nearby. It is black and is fla- vored with flowers. Green tea is not fit to drink. This is especially so -of many va- rieties sold In th Some of that cured in Japan and China, of which consume thirty-odd millin dollars' worth every year, Is made green by the add of coloring matters, and it is rolled and fired In copper-lined kettles. The best tea Is black tea and you will go far you will get better than that &t Darjeellng. G. Carpenter.) ke & ea. lemon stores we India Drinks the W You remember the temperance landlady’s remark to her bibulous boarder: “I will sleep you and eat you, but 1 be blesg If drink you.” In that sense India blds falr to soon drink the world. IHer black teas have practically monopolized the markets of Eyrope and more of them are consumed than of the teas exported from all other nations. A generation or g0 ago about the only teas known of Japan and to commerce China. The India teas now driving the Chinese teas out of the markets d Japan has to rely almost en- tirely upon the United States for of her surplus. We drink 86,000,000 pounds of tea every year, and of this 31,000,000 pounds come from Japan and about 38,000,000 from China. We get only 8000000 pounds from East India, but this amount is in- creasing from year to year. The exports of Indlan teas are mostly to Europe. They ¥0 to Great Britain and thence to the colon les. are to the big shipments are made to and Canada. The British the greatest tea Arinkers of all Their tlon amounts seven héad every drink le slans less French wera those are Some sent continent and Australia are mankind. six while s than two pounds and the than o The load themselves wine or beer, PPINg tea The Chinese and Japanes throughout the day. The drink water is flavor the water tlon ot greater than that f all the rest world put together, hut fe the statistics no one knows \what it s to or pounds people per year, our each Rus- German with coffe now and drink Chinese bolled The and and then tea not they wi unless it and with tea consump. these two nations is probat How Adv The exports of In to over 250,000.000 pounds per or more than 200,000,000 pounds from Hindustan and about 150,000.000 pounds from the Tsland of Ceylol the trade has the years and it based advertising wa years ago it planters wer Kot the American market. They concluded to. advertise in the and th rTalsed & fund to hegin that work in Burope and the United States. At the they organized a sales b maw to It that Ceylon and India teas could be had iIn all the large and that they, were on tap at every state and na- tional exposition. As a result the demand for these teas steadily grew, and today thelr exports are almost twice those of China and than five times those of Japan. Within the last few years the East Tndian planters have decided to enter the green tew markets, and they are now ad- vertising such varieties In the same way Ceylon alone has wlready spent In the nelghborhood of $1,000000 on green tea in formation, with such a result that the Chi- nese and Japanese are alarmed, that they lose this trade they still have the monopoly The Ceylon planters have been riling ¥ dian tea n vear over way last thirty pon good ore twenty and the grown up within is largely When 1 was in Its infaney discussing how they could newspapers same time reau and they stores, more fearing may which of giving The THREE LITTLE TEA PICKERS ° bounties o all green creased their vears, so that it pounds. 1 from 3 tea ¢ to 7 cents a pound upon xported, and they have in- within the last few now amounts to millions understand that the Chinese government is alarmed at the situation and that the Chinese tea ptanters recently sent a commission to India and Ceylon to in- vestigate tea conditions and the tea-curing Dprocesses erop Ten Raising 4n China and India. I have traveled extensively through the tea flelds of Japan and China and § know something about them. The methods of cultivation and curing are different there than they ase on these big plantations of Hindustan. 1In the former countries the tea Is raised in small patches. The ordi- nary tea garden of Japan is not much bigger than a city lot and that of China would not be larger than the ordinary American garden. The tea is raised by multitude of small farmers, each of whou works after his own rule and in his own way. When the leaves are picked there are traders who go about through the tea districts and buy up the crops. They sell traders and one crop may go half dozen different hands be- fore it is shipped Hankow, where it gets one of the big steamers for Europe. Hege in India the plantations are large. Some of them are hundreds of acres and thousands of men &nd women as laborers. They handled after busipess methods. The is studied and carefully cultivated. At present there is more than $100,000,00 invested in the business and in the neighborhood of 60000 people are em. ployed upon the plantations. The area under cultivation is steadily increasing and it 1s sald that the crop may be ralsed all along the southern slopes of the Himalayas at an altitude of about 3,000 feet above the a. The plantations here are 6,000 0 feet up and there are some tea fields which are a full half mile above sea level. The most of the land used is flat or rolling and the best soll Is a reddish sandy loam with a free subsoll. The tea o first planted in beds. After they sprouted and reached the age of a year, they set out In rows a few feet apart. They are carcfully cultivated and rimmed, in order to make them grow to othej through a to employ are soll is or seeds a have are THE OMAHA SUNDAY BE WEIGHING TEA AT HANKOW bushy. The soil is often top dressed with wood loam, and artificial manures are fre- quently used. As to the droppings of cat- tle, none are to be had in India, for the people pick them up and use them for fuel After the plants are three years old they are ready for plucking. The leaves are carefully pulled, a certain number being left to keep the plants growing. It takes five or six years for a shrub to mature and at that time it should produce a pound or of tea every year. Some of trees about are forty years old there are some in China whose age is s more the here ands fields 15, 1910. great that no one knows they were planted when Plant how Looks look fow a let me tell In the plar plants range in he But in the you tea about from one's ations ght waist to Choice Samples from the Story Teller's Pack A Costly Fare, CLE JOE" CANNON cent political argument That excuse is not enough. It Danville bartender This bartender Dahville bar, and the began af the end of the to the newcomer )k the till? *'Oh ndecd Now taking money Well, of der, I take Oh, you in a re said good of a reminds me came to work as soon he a to ai The week, sald seriously In a rived as recelpts ninish boss here, do you take money out of no, sir, said bartender the sald the boss I know it." you must be course out my do, eh you live Philadelphia Bulletin, sald the fare every night the And Francisco? "— barten- car sald San boss, the Argument, Burgess used to an his claim that were always ignorant. A waggering fellow begin, “declared in & barber belfeve in hereafter and that's the end of ye. * ‘Why, you must be 3 Unitarian, the barber said Huh fond o Clinching late Neil anecdote The with clinch, atheists rse he would shop: ‘I don't no You live and die George, not me,’ was the reply that.' " I'm t meat for -Kansa: Fighters in the Majority. Representative Harry Maynard of Vir- ginia tells the story of how a religious old negro in his district put a stop to the exercise of Christian charity in the congre- gatlon of which he was & member. It seems that it was & practice in the church to excommunicale for one year any mem- ber who had been guilty of a “blood fight." ~that is, any ian who had attacked an- other with a pistol or & rasor At the end of the year, if the offender wished relnstatement, he could go (o the bench,” rise and declare his re- pentance, and be forgiven by the congrega- tion. This went for many years. At last & young darky whe had been in a par- ticularly objectionable broll appeared for mourners reinstatement quent appeal The pastor made an e to the congregation and everybody began to shout and say “Amen It was this point that the old negro arose and said hotly: Look hyah, pahson; eber membuh of dis congergashur nothin' but fightin doing all de fuhgiv at since 1 dar aln fuhgivin I'se been a been an, I of an been it! That broke up th azine meeting.—~Popular Mag. Mysterious Kuowledge. years ago an expedition from University of Pennsylvania was sent to of southern for the pur- of obesrving a eclipse. The day before the event one of the professors sald to an old colored man the nousehold wherein the quartered »m, if you will watch your chi morrow morning youw'll find that 80 to roost at 11 o'clock 3 of course, skeptical appointed hour the heuvens wei and the retired the amazement showed and he sought out the scientist “Professor ong you know dem chickens would go to roost About a the smilingly Well, ef dat man’s comment dem chickens w Home Journal Som the one our states pose solar belonging to sclentist was kens to they'll om was, but at the » darkened At this bounds, chickens to roost man's no sald he W ago did year ago,” said professor, don't’ beat all Professor, & V't even hatched was the year ago Ladies’ The Cold Young Lawyer, Mrs. Sol Smith, the veteran actress whose S0th birthday was celebrated by & dinner of the Professional Women's league in New York, sald of the modern spirit at this dinner The modern spirit is ore mercenary than the spirit of the 80s. 1 know a very beautiful girl—in my day she'd have been married off at 1é—but, though she is now 2%, her matrimonial prospects are dark and gloomy “At & tea 1 pointed the beautiful creature out to & young lawyer and said “‘There's nothing sweeter and lovalier than that girl in try for her hand? What has lawyer coldly Democrat America. Why don't you she got in it? answered.—St. the Louis young Globe Where Looks [ Apropos of a titled forcigner's rec marriage to a rich and rather ugly Amer fcan girl, Paul A. Sorg said at a dinner in New York The count has The ethics of such a marriage as but the ethics of the matrimonial agency *'T am interbsted’, he said, ‘In the young lady has $250,000 her own right Could you let me see her photograph?' No; that the custom,’ the agent replied $100,000 the pho- tograph for.! "—New York Times. n't Matte no cause to complain his are who in 1s not In any case asked ove 1s never Finished the Doctor. A gaunt and kilted Scotchman made appearance in a country village, and endeavoring to charm the locals to charity with selections his bagpipe. A hair:d man opehed the front house and beckoned to the minstrel wee bit It just here, in an accent which told that he was from the land of the haggis. “My auld mither's In a creetical condeetion oppstaor The doctor's wi' and says the pipes may save her Iif Up and down in hed the braw music that might have been inci dental to a cat and dog fight. Presently the shaggy haired man came out again Gie us the ‘Dead March’ he sald “Is the puir auld Jady gone? questionéd the piper. “Na. na, mon; ye've saved mither the reply; “but ye've killed the tor."—Boston Transcript " was on shaggy door of a “Gle us a sald her the noo, front « Hielander the house ma discoursing noo, ' came puir doc- ow Uncle Joe Is Like Deacon. Apropos of Speaker Cannon and his aiffi culties in the house, Jerome S. McWade, at & dinner, sald: “Speaker Cannon Is crafiy. He way. He reminds me of a deacon wy native Duluth gets his own “The noto long-winded meeting or sure to keep the the conflict new wing made that discussion s minutes. “At the day deacon was If he revival floor deacon’s account half when a er the us rose « buliding of a the church, that a rule was o no speaker at the final ould take longer than five held in the Sun final discussion half views, ad down school, a dozen their and when a tap of the was up, and speakers | had bell announced deacon ex pressed sat promptly that time 1 fam| had on droned on in the subject bell rang he not The bell when got to his tinkle caused Am I to understand,’ he five minutes have expired? ‘Yes, aid the audience tly “Then will throw form of way, and sharp frown him to and aid, ‘that my deacon and the titt brethren,” said rest of my remarks intq the Philadelphla Bulletin pastor red the deacon, ‘I the a prayer & Disc ey, magines that life | A Dissppe Any one who in amenities among big city listen asionall talk. When these age of newspapers und lacking boys in the to thelr the new should two—each with his pack r his arm—met, one ntied ed somewhat glum and d the &r ently essa appeared whereupon other ol to cheer him up. Bill, yo lost ouse wid? Bill, sull of tone Say dat dime 1 tought 1 yesterds goin 1o treat “Sure,” assented growing reproachfulne youse twict already “Well d'youse t'ink 1 feeling round in dis right n dis pocket ally timed pause “Youse found de/ime brightening up. Say, Bill, you tell got t'rough then with “T treated Jim wot 1 wuz an’ 1 found A dramatic pocket here - exclaimed Bill, always in a hurry. I youse dat I found de Youth's Com wus tryin' to hole dat dim panion. his head. diameter Some have trunks six inches in d others mere stems are like those of the willow tree. They smell like tea when you crush them. The ehrub is a species of the camelia. It Is an evergreen not unlike the maple, and tha leaves are beautiful. The plant Is supposed have originally from China, but there is no account of its having been cul- tivated until about 30 A. D. It grows xild this side of the Himalayas and there are certain varieties of it which reach the height of small The planters are crossing the various varieties in thelr at- tempts to make and better teas I passed many of planta- tions up the mountains. The terraces up the sides of the not unlike well trimmed box- wood hedges. Here and there one sees gaily ar women pleking leaves, their black skins and bright colored gowns show- ing out against the while their eiry flashes in the sun. Each woman a basket which will hold about two b on her back, kept rests o the plucked with The leaves to come on trees new through on my ride shrubs rise hill, in looking ssed the green jew has shels band which forehead. The leaves are the hands and thrown into the baskets, which, when full, are carried to the facto: T am told that the planters usually have five pickings a year, and on the best lands they have seven. This is far ahead of China and Japan, where the shrub that will yleld three pickings is good. The tea planters here are chiefly British Many of the estates are owned by com- vanies, The planters live in fine bungalows surrounded by lawns and gardens. Ma of them are the second sons of noble fam- ilies in England there by a by Machinery. making in Making Tea The processes of are different from those of Japan China. In the latter countries nearly everytiing is done by hand and thelr meth- ods to extreme. In China the leaves are sorted by girls and the mofsture them by tregding They are rolled trays with hot men It is the same in Jepan. I visited a large firing establishment at of th puris where they were preparing green tea for the American market. They were our by what is known as pan-firing. Imagine a long of ovens filled with pans each twenty inches wide and inches deep. The tops of the ovens at about the height of a Just high ¢nough able contents about with the at of these pans, over each bent a Japanese woman, s tea India are unsanitary an women and pressed out of with feet is them over and over hand and half-naked, bare on bamboo fired in red perspirin pans work once one ing it row ov copper thirty were mun's walst or one the There were least thirty and her dr pulled down to her waist and the upper part of her body bare as the Medici. Each stirring and and rollipg<ehe drying tea. The hot and am Pearl drops perspiration stood out the backs busts of the it seemed to me as though be brewed by the sweat, It women an hour the as Venus de kneading fires we wa the s rose. of upon and workers, and the tea might took o finish tcas were put up Here India machinery. Ever tories, the rolled those tot and by hand the tea is plant leaves el almost each after that in all rolled has its withered injure blasts result s pure and chest by tion fac where are and carefully the tea between s plates do not by hot the pertectly graded lead-lined graduated that they The drying is volving done fans, and that the tea comes out carefull and clean packed whil for shipment abroad The Hind. Do chief drinkers Himalaya these hill in and highlands mixing the and fats. Down the Hindoos drink almost Mohammedans but little increasing somewhat people, but there Not of mountaing the in Dely of selves Aslatic tea are the 1k them the other make tea milk, butter in Hindustan north oOn other side native tea, Tibet and people with the brew other here The among and the custom 1y the towns millions In India who tea leaf ¢ Over Burma they the leaves of the for sipped a tea have cup in picking ating The le and a way plant and eat chee boiling The and rammed which is ground until when it is of tea them desert, as thrown antil aves into water ther left there soft hand cane, of buried mats by a tube up and bamboo in the pickled leaves are also prepa of ol and afoetida. It but it is stopped the ready ed tea for with a become The mixture wale salt, and with as smells like limberger good for Ai dainty. 1t is Anothe cheese o be gestion used method leaves, and is considered a upon of aftor flavored, lined with press the tea down The Burmese are pounds of pickled I am told that of the Himala tribes churn tea as we churn butte tea {s mixed with soda and put When it is hot added, and wh chuim. ceremonial occ preparing it fx they been into pits plank or sions to throw the have steamed and of m wry or we bamboo, and then to welght making 500,000 tea every year with a heavy now some an The botl milk are quite butter and the put le Into a tea Aflter it has been well shalwn about taken out the dy for drinking and Mongols serve their similar pared with am on ft. when The Tibetans in a somewhat brick tea pre- 18 re tea manner by using tie the Russia Ina During through and there Hankow Is 1t is Ru re wia nt of t =aw the Ten Factory. stay in China I went o factories at Hankow, how brick tea is of my in some made. arket of China chief tea m 600 the Yar which is the biggest ocean steamers can carry there to part of south the that their the of interior, on wide s0 deep cargoes from diftance trom H every fields of them are some The tea is brought to the shipped up the numerous tributarics of Yai At orts ways on the of and is the tse Hankow it is of for exporting firms for United with 11 gland the French and German importing The Hussiam the largest and they the brick t:a annually shipping millions « Viadivostok and Odessa, Pibet the Transsi Many of e the on preparcd market in a the there State There ar who manufacture the some who al chiefly ind also representa tives of housc have houses monopolize Industry bricks to Mo berian o and golia rallroad and also over to Russia carried part and not a few Russian Turkestan of the than an ac ot 80 camels, overland iniy One factories 1 visited ground. It employed and it had on hand 1,600,00 pressed into bricks and ready The bricks filled the whoio of the f. They Wer ’ up in piles, much we stack bricks bullding, with running and there They been 1 lef in tho warchouse to ot tea its covered more 100 Chinese: pounds of tea for upper lald e of export floors ctory as for narrow through the taken irom the u aisles hero room. cure. Kach kind had own place, and I from Ceylon which had been Hanko ) mad o b to Russ| How Brick Ten shown (he w is Made The tea | i nostri I wa bri tea dust and fher » stuff making f E 1 Lo a d by b 10lles thelr dust batting men spiration are 1 tood out v like & | wdful of the The air wa bath and sweat pour tea dust and ta ather sweet but ubout it The bras: men sho holds about This | boil damp a whole | brick amed ¢ becam: pound for a poured into g little emptied abou burn mould taken off to and Some vinigy teas we ha made of man gh prices as the Ameri; costliest pickings of the tea, ground (o a dust Anothe and st and steamed and pressed into shaps refuse picking of the fac broken tea and f put black form another of sisting of the orle course leave from the tabl tablishments Both green bricks of like a deep chocolate autifuly chests. and for all the world latter The bricks plugs of while the are are L the figure FRANK G. CARPENT stamp times with ways with sells them, 3 n A