The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 10, 1895, Page 19

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 1895. 19 o = W= GO oA Wi 7, RANK G (ARPENTER. The settlement of the war between China and Japan is likely to result in a decided | change in the geography of Asia. So far | neither England nor Russia has made any | open claims as to what they want of China, but the ports of Asia are full of all sorts of It is well known that the Rus- s are making their surveys of the har- | on the east coast of Korea, with an f making one of them the terminus | of the trans-Sibs n road, and the latest inside news is that the English have | ered the Chinese a large sum of money | exchange for the island of Formosa. China can hardly hope to raise money 2 her own people without a revolution and the consequent establishment of a new Government. The empire, in fact, is totte and the people neither care for | the war nor for the Government. In the | words of a ] man of Shang- e received dur- , they consider the | le with the Japanese the Emperor’s | He has got into | t, they say, now let him get out of it. There is no land in the world where taxes are so low, nor, s s it may seem to say so, where the people have so much and where _the :rnment is to arge extent republican. The Chi- will not be able to pay the indemnity anded by Japan mortgaging some of the; ult is, the outl) will be in the mar! Few people have any idea of the im- mense extent of territory which China has ide of the empire proper. It is larger 1 the whole Il'nitr‘d State nd it is ore than all Europe. Manchuria, which to the northeast of Ch and on the f which_the Japanese troops have i is equal to ten States the or eight the size of New York. t by gi territory ng provinces of China Bidies) BR cyrious ST | from her black fur c | done up in two lon and one end of this has a knob so large that it cannot be pulled through. To the other end of the stick a rope is tied, and this rope is tied to the saddle or pack of the camel in front, and thus a whole | caravan is fastened together, as it were, with clothespins and clotheslines. 1t is | impossible to estimate the number of these | camels that are in use. Thev are con- tinually marching through Peking. At certain times of the year they fill the roads | leading into Mongolia like fences, and you see them everywhere on their low, measured trot, moving across the country. The Mongols are perhaps as dirty as any | other people in the world. Those whom { | , both as to their | Lam told they | saw were greasy and filth clothes and their persons. never wash their bodies, and seldom their faces and hands. The poorer classes dress in rags, but the richer wear costly gar- ments, lined with the finest lambskin. I | have a picture of a Mongolian Princess who was at geking a year or so .. Her head | was framed in silver beads, and she had | long tassels of silver hanging down Her hair was aids, which were | irs and_ hung | ‘hese braids are | pulled around over th down over the breast. over Mongolia, and Thibet js said to be a country of temples. I was within ninety miles of Thibet during my stay in Darjil- ling, in the Himalaya mountains, and the Thibetans whom I saw both here and in Peking were about the same as the Mon- gols. am told that the people of both countries do little but swing prayer wheels, drink whisky and keep themselves dirty. I heard great stories about their monaster- ies and temples. Some of the Thibetan towns are a mere collection of temples, and some of their monasteries have copper roofs plated with gold. Lhassa, the Thib- etan capital, has about 15,000 veople, and the most of these are priests. The Chinese buildoze the Thibetans and the Mongol- ians, and they bluif them into a sort of dependence on them. The Thibetans and Mongolian priests whom I saw in Thibet were dressed in bright yellow gowns. They were, as a rule, broad-shouldered, thick- nosed, high-cheek-boned fellows, with small twinkling black eyes. They shrouded 1n ignorance and supe: and they are intolerant in the extreme. There are a number of Buddhist book- stores in Peking, and the Chinese capital has one street which is devoted to nothing else but bookstores. There are publishing- houses there which are devoted to the put— lishing of Buddhist books. The books are cut out on blocks, and are not set up from type. Some of the editions are costly, and some of the richer priests prefer to have their books written out by hand. The Mongols have but one wife, though the richer of them often have concubines. It is far different in Thibet, as I learned from the famous traveler, Mrs. Isabella Bira Bishop. Mrs. Bishop went out to Asia on the same ship with me last year. She expected to travel a, further to the westward, isabout as the whole United States, and | ense province of Ili is about as | large as one-third of our whole territory. | Thibet practically belongs to China. and it | is about twelve times as big as New York | State. The Japanese got into Manchuria | when they fought at the mouth of the | Yaloo River, and they have been march- | ing through the couatry and pushing their w up to the capital—the city of Moukden. It is by no means an im- possibility ihat the Jupanese may ask or a e of Manchu and if so some wonders in the way of mineral wealth may be expected through its development. 2old mines of Russia undoubtedly run down to the mountains of Manchuria and Mongolia. There was quite a gold exci ment in the Manchurian mountain four years ago, and both gold and ilver have been found. The country is fertile, | and it surprised me to find that opium | could profitably be raised so far north. It | was introduced about thirty years ago, and | the country now produc re than a | million pounds of opium s r. Italso produces good tobacco, and it has vast of fine forests. er left, and the country w e to her. It would actas a k between China and Korea, and the would no longer need to fear that | an has prac of Korea. The inhabitants of both Manchuria and Mongolia care but little for China. They are of a different race, and they would ac- cept the government of the Japanese quite v asthat of Peking. I met many men during m 1 Asia. I e in contact with m in the | a veled with them on | 11, and I saw hun- | through > & marketin | he English lega- - houses surrounding a great | > owned by them, and the ! They from the | t wall into : i all kinds I have seen 500 aravan slowly moving | ile over the country. I| or miles side by side with | king through an interpeter | with the copper-faced men and women who rode them,and I have again and again | been threatened by the fiercer of the lead- ers as I passed them on my way through the country. 1 was surprised at the size of the Tartars. They are big men, many of them six feet ht, and their features are for all the of our American Indians, on is about the same, and eyes are less almond in shape than | of the Chinese. They have fierce which look out at you over high cheekbones and under thick fur caps. They dress in sheepskin, and both women and men wear pantaloons, and the women ide astride. remember one girl who passed me on a camel. Her divided skirt was made of sheepskin with the fur turned inward, and her fur cap was pulled well down over her eyes. I said *‘Good-day’’ to her as we passed, and her old Tartar band whipped up his camel and put h hand on his knife as T came up. I looked him in the eye and said, - How do youdo ?”” He answered by mocking me and gave me to understand that 1 had better keep away. Had I not had a good party of men around me I doubt not that he would have as- saulted me. % There are no camels in the world like these Mongolian beasts. The camels of Africa and India have short hair like that of a fairly well groomed horse. The climate is warm, and they need little pro- tection. These camels of Mongolia are | covered with wool which hangs in great Jocks down from all parts of their bodies. In some places it is from eight to ten | inches long, and it gives thém so warm a | coat that they can stand the rigors of a Siberian winter. For centuries this wool has gone to waste. It was allowed to! drop off the camels during the summer, and it rotted by the wayside. Within the past few years, however, it has become an_article of commerce, and great bales of it are shipped to London. I saw some overcoats in China which were made from it. They looked like chinchilla coats, but they were wonderfully light and very warm. The natural color of the wool is a rich dark brown. Itis now being used by the Chinese in making rugs and beauti- | ful carpets so_soft that you seem to be walking on velvety moss when you pass over them are made from it. The rugs are wonderfully cheap, and I am surprised that they are not shipped to the United States. These camels have, as a rule, two_humps, which are said to be pure fat and are de- licious, if properly cooked. Their feet are soft and spongy, and they become worn out in traveling over the rough roads of North China. In going through the Nan- kow Pass, about 100 miles north of Peking, 1 passed over the road which has formed the leading highway between Manchuria and Mongolia gfox' centuries. Tt is filled with ragged granite rock and is terribly hard on the tender-footed camels. Some of the beasts I saw had their feet worn to shreds, and some of them limped terribly. The Mongols let them go as long as they can, and when their feet become raw, they will Enwh them. They do this by throwing the animal on its side and tying its feet together. They next bind his head back to his hump and then clean out the wound and take a piece of raw cow- hide from a freshly killed beef and sew it | | g | ¢ 9y A MONGOL PRINCESS. [From a photograph.] in Korea, and she had just returned from a trip among the Thibe- tans. I talked with her for some time about the custom of poly- andry. It seems that there is a scarcity of women, and the aver- age female has from four to six husbands. If a man marries, his wife becomes the com- mon property of his brothers, and, though he is the chief husband she is the wife of the whole lot. The woman rales the family. She takes charge of the money, and she is prac- tically the governor of the establishment. It is only a very rich man who is able to have a wife to himself, and fathers sell their daughters to the high- est bidders. The chil- dren are regarded as belonging to thewoman and the fathers can lay no claim to them. Mrs. Bishop said that the women seem to be satisfied with the situ- ation, and that they rather pity their sisters in other parts of the world who can have only one husband. The Mongolians are divided up into tribes, and they are governed from Peking. The Em- peror appoints Govern- ors-General, and all of the tributary provinces of China have military often smeared with glue, which makes the hair shine apd keeps it in place. The girl was very beautiful, and some of the younger girls are by no means bad look- ing. They fade soon, however, and the older women whom I saw made me think of our Indian squaws. They have no night clothes, and they sleep in the same garments which they use during the day. They have no such things as stoves. A fire is built inside their tent, and the smoke gzoes out at the roof. The tents are made ! of skin and sometimes of cloth. They are circular in shape, and the people huddle | up in them and sit and sleep where they can. The chief business of the Tartars is cat- tle-breeding, and they have large flocks of sheep. These sheep have fat tails,and I | saw some tails which weighed, I was told, from thirty to forty pounds. Whena sheep is very fat it is soretimes necessary to tie a little sled under his tail in order that it may not impede him in traveling over the ground. The Mongolian mutton isas good as any you will find in the world, and these {he has quite an imposing pa e Ch governors, and _there are Chinese soldiers to enforce their edicts. As a rule, how- ever, the people are oppressed in every m.usim’e way. The Government is corrupt, and the man who can pay the most can do as he pleases. Manchuria is ruled by military boards. Some parts of Mongolia have their own officials, under the government at Peking. The province of Ili is ruled by a military governor, and in outer Mongolia thereis a greatllama, much like the one at Thibet, who is a sort- -of a living Buddhs, and who rules the country. He is said to be very rich. His capital is known as Urga, and it is the biggest city in Mon- g0l 1t contains about 30,000 people, and these are priests. The big llama or living Buddha is said to have 150,000 slaves, and ace. The people reverence him,and t inese rule this part of the country through him. It is much the same in Thibet, and the gov- ernment is a combination of religious cor- ruption_and Chinese despotism. Inner Mongolia has a different government, and in fact the whole of these tributary prov- A CAMEL TRAIN. [From a photograph.] fat tails are especially delicious. The Mon- ols use the fat in making brick-tea soup, %‘he_v mash up little bricks of tea, and when the water is boiling they put in some of this mutton fat and milk and eat the whole as soup. The bricks in which | the tea is made are about ten inches square, seven inches wide and three inches thick. They look like chocolate and are sometimes made in smaller sizes. In ad- dition to this, they eat buttermilk, curds and_whey. They are very fond of intox- icating liquors, and they have a beer made of mares’ milk upon which they keep them- selves about half drunk. Their mutton is frozen at the beginning of winter, and the weather is so c(fid that it will keep until spring. Itis said in Thibet that mutton can be kept for years. The air-is very dry | and very cold, and after a few days the flesh becomes so dry that it can be pow- dered with the hand and be stored away like flour. The Thibetans use this mutton wi]'.houc cooking, and it is said not to need salt. The Mongols are more religious than the Chinese. They may be called almost a na- tion of Buddhists, though there are a few Mohammedans among them. They have a number of temples inside of Peking and there are about 1500 of these people who live in the Chinese capital. The biggest monastery in Peking is owned by the Mongols and the Thibetans. It has hun- dreds of priests, and they are the most intolerant and superstitious of their kind. Foreigners are by no means safe in goin through it. They are liable to be mobbed, and it is oan_by ribing and fighting that one can-get his way out. There are three living Buddhas in the world. One of these isin ibuan, another is somewhere in Mon- golia and the other is in Peking. I became to the skin of the foot. Whether the skin grows on or not I do not know, but the camel soon recovers and builds up a new foot under the hide. These camels are fastened together in a caravan in a curious way. A stick is run through their noses, indirectly acquainted with the brother of the living Buddha in Peking, and I was told that this Buddha was fond of cigars and liquors, and that he now and then went about incog., like Haroun al Raschid. There are numerous temples scattered inces of China are managed in a way which is practically unknown to the world. The >ttlement of the present trouble will prob- ably lead to their exploration and the orld will, for the first “time in its history, have the whole of Asia open to scientific investigation. Copyright, 1895. The Judge and the Cyclist. The other day.a jocular cyclist, well known in the Copenhagen sporting world, had to answer a summons for riding on the footpath leading to Lyngby church. The judge thundered out the words, “You have been cycling on the Lyngby church footpath?” The cyclist nodded assent. “You will have to pay a fine of four kroner.” The accused took four coins out of his pocket and laid them on the bar. “But tell me, gour worship, have Prince Walde- mar and Princess Marie permission to cycle on the path in question?’’ The judge rubbed his nose. “Um! No, certainly not. Is this your firEtY offense?” 5 a W ‘es, your worshi and m; st,” answered the culprit. ) i 2 “Well, then, I'will let you off with a caution this time.”” _Our cyclist gathered up his money, made bis bow, and walked off. But when he got to the door the judge called out.to him: ‘‘Hulloa, you there; did you actually see Prince Waldemar and Princess Marie rid- in}; on that path 2"’ ‘I? No, your worship,” cyclist, with a twinkle in gone.—New York Herald. ———— Two orders are entitled Lily; Spain, the other in France. replied the is eye, and was one in IN CHleBEoehS REALM The CaLL, believing the babies to be & highly | important portiou of the community, wi vote a department to their interest will be fashions in layettes and descri; new luxuries and comforts invented for the | small folks. | The CALL wishes notification of the event whenever a child is born in the State of Cali- the Health Department of a more hopeful nature than a summary of " leprosy cases and a minute descrip- tion of "the same, the little book was taken back to the Health Office and further information asked regarding our annual birth rate. With a kind but pitying glance the official opened the little volume and showed three pages of statistics of births under the page-headings *‘Mortuary Statistics.”” Here it was ascertained that during the fiscal year ending June, 1804, there were 3894 births recorded; that for five years ending June, 1894, the annual birth rate had averaged 3015 But, taken in connection with the average recorded death rate of something over 6000, these figures are not much more agreeable reading than the list of diseases treated at the Almshouse and hospitals during the same period. The Half-million Club need not despair, however, in spite of appearances. The trouble is not that there are nota sutficient number of births, presumably, but that the law ordering the reporting of births to the authorities is disregarded and neg- lected. The deaths are all reported, of necessity, and the statistics regarding mar- riages are easy to obtain. But as to the births, the officials state that residents, and even physicians, are very remiss and care- less in the matter of reporting them. An ption to this must be made in favor of foreigners, especially natives of countries THE (Erom a p YOUNG MELON-EATER, hotograph.] fornia, and will respond by sending to the mother amarked copy of the paper contaiting the notice. Baby Bell. Have you not heard the poets tell How came the dainty Baby Bell 1nto this world of ours? The gates of heaven were left ajar, With folded hands and dreamy eyes, ‘Wandering out of Paradise, 8he saw this planet, like a star, Hung in the glistening depihs of even— Its bridges running to aud fro, O'er which the white-winged angels go, Bearing the holy dead to heaven. She touched a bridge of flowe those feet, So light they did not bend the bells Of the celestial asphodels. They fell like dew upen the flowers. Then all the air grew strangely sweet! And thus came dainty Buby Bell Into this world of ours. . * . * - * s . At last he came, the messenger, The messenger from unseen lands, And what did dainty Baby Bell? She only crossed her little hands, She only looked more meek and falr! ‘We parted back her silken hair, We wove the roses round her brow— White buds, the summer’s drifted snow— ‘Wrapt her from head to feet in flowers; And thus went dainty Baby Bell Out of this world of onrs! THOMAS BATLEY ALDRICH. The Local Birth Rate. A most lugubrious little volume, called “The Report of the Health Department,” is to be had for the asking out at the City Hall. It contains all the information which the powers that be deem it neces- sary and good for the public to know re- garding the statistics of births and deaths in the city and county of San Francisco. It is evidently thought good for us to know reat deal about the deaths. he introductory chapter of the book is an alphabetical list of the diseases which it is proper to die of in this climate. The list 1s very depressing reading, and one almost despairs of there being people enough to go around among all these terrifying and many-syllabled complaints. All" uneasi- ness on this score can be removed, how- ever, by the perusal of the succeeding chap- | ters of the book. All the diseases have found victims, some of them very many. After the alphabetical list some space is | devoted to "'}‘he Monthly Distribution of where those things are most strictly and stematically managed. The peculiar equence of this state of things is that v too large a proportion of the cer- of birth which are handed in to tificat the Hea! ity of the parents as foreign. The tabulated statements are here seri- | ously at fault again; for, while they give the race, the sex and the nativity of those who have died, they do not give even the sex or color of the people who are born. Plenty of well-grown children there are who have been born in San Francisco and Coming From the Bath. [From a photograph.] 1th Department give the national- | long journey, together formed a group in an end of the car and were holding a per- fect council of war to determine the fate of the offensive individuals, when a matter of real consequence chanced to engage their attention. There were several babies in the car, and they were in sore need of rest and quiet. The jar of the train for so many d: the incessant rumble and roar, had tated the nerves of the little ones, and all save one of them showed signs of great fatigue and even illness. This one, a_sunny-haired, jolly little daughter of Eve, had "endeared herself to all her fellow-passengers, and her smiles were the only chcer things, in sight this last day, when all were eager and impa- tient for the journey’s end. The child was resting in her mother’s arms just now, and she was quiet as ever, while the other children fretted, wailing for rest. All at once the mother looked Kitty and Her Mistress. [From a photograph.] down at her babe, gnd in an instant she sprang up, holding the baby on her out- stretched hands and shrieking, *Look, look, my baby. baby!” The child was black and writhing in dreadful convul- sions. Of course, all the women, worn and tired as they were, began to scream and to crowd around the mother. “It’s dying, it's dying,” they said, “‘and can’t somebody bring a doctor 2" And then, all at once, up arose those ob- jectionable male persons. ‘‘Ladies, stand ack,” said one of them, in that steady tone that commands obedience. And one of the men took the baby in a pair of strong and tender arms, while the other opened windows for a draught. To- gether they stripped off tiny shoes and froublesome garments, together they rubbed that blessed baby with the hot con- tents of 2 liquor-flask. “Stand back, ladies, and keep quiet, Eleaso,“ was_the only word the heroes spoke. Certain it is that moredibly soon the baby lay with a pink cheek pressed against a cool, fresh illow, her brow a little damp, but her DR AT s e pression natural and happy. In Babyland. A pretty fancy that is quite new is to choose a flower for the baby and embroider a single tiny blossom upon each article of the layette. A forget-me-not, a violet, a pink daisy or a buttercup may be em- broidered with wash silks in the natural color of the flower; and the ivory brushes, the powder boxes and other articles that can not be embroidered have the flower in- laid or painted uvon it. Of course every well regulated baby of to-day has a book in which the story of its life is recorded, and which ought to be the source of much pleasure in later years. A book of this sortis a charming present, and it may be plain and strong or as elaborate as may be. One made to order for a favorite babe in this city is of white leather, like a bride’s | book. The corners are of silver and the book is fastened with a silver clasp. Another dainty fashion is to fold a parchment cover on the baby’s book and paint upon it a spray of apple blossoms, or of the baby’s own flower in water color, Inside upon the blank pages must be written the little stovies of the baby’s com- ings and goings, hisilinesses and accidents, his first cunning lispings and all his young achievem Those clever people who succeed with a camera at home will be sure to paste upon the pages of the book at least one new photograph each month. Baby in the bath, baby in the hammoc his first steps, all the story of his develop- ment may be told in pictures and be a joy forever to his mother at the very least. Later Mr. Baby ought to be able to take up the work himself; and if any one of us possessed a library of the scraps of litera- ture we have meant to save, the pictures that have gone astray and all the flotsam and jetsam that should have®een gathered into volumes we should be rich in lore. Safety pins are to be had in gold and sil- ver, and tiny ones for the backs of dresses are fastened together with slender gold chains. Little gold studs are strung to- gether in groups of threein the same fash- ion; and with all these and the pretty bib pins to choose from it is not necessary to give the babies such absurd presents as bracelets and useless finger-rings. A writer in the Bazar hlut the fact is now generally recognized that many children are born with some visual defect which can only be remedied by the use of glasses, and she adds that it is now no un- common sight to see toddlers in Green- away gowns with these useful articles upon their fittle faces. Doubtless by this means some trifling defect is often remedied, and by relieving the strain the eyes are saved from irretrievable injury. Anti-kissing societies grow and multiply in the land, and for this the babes have the greatest reason to be thankful. It is at last a breach of etiquette to offer a babe the unpleasant compliment of a S. In that case you are still permitted to kiss the little unfortunate, but if you are thoughtful and wise you will at least refrain from encroaching upon the child’s comfort and endangering his health by kissing him upon the mouth. kiss, unless you are his very near relative. | NEW TO-DAY. THE OWL DRUG CO., N {128 MARKET STREET. CUT-RATE DRUGGISTN ! 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[From a photograph.} Mortality in San Francisco.” After that there are forty-eight pages under the head of mortuary statistics. The report of the mortuary statistics is followed, quite naturally, by'a list of the master and journeymen plumbers, which. with fine sarcasm, is appended without comment. i Finding nothing in the report of vet speak only foreifin tongues. Partic- ulars regarding the children are carefully chronicled, of course, in_the books where the births are registered, but it would be interesting to know why they are not thought as well wortn tabulating for pub- lication as the same details regarding per- sons who have gone outside the city’s gates to return no more. The babes are the hope of the city and the nation, for they are American citizens every one, and deserve a greeting in this land that shall make it a mother’s pride and well worth her while to send a notice to the recording ang— clerks and out into the world that “‘unto us a son is born.” A Touch of Nature. Up through the greatSan Joaquin Valley a longoverland train thundered one blister- ing summer day. Oneof the Pullman cars was occupied mostly by weary women, who, with quite a little party of children, had traveled from beyond the Rockies. At Tehachapi two young traveling men, “fresh’ in every sense of the word, came into the car and g:mmptly proceeded to make themselves ol A‘ectionuble to such.of the ladies as chanced to be traveling alone. One demure little maid in particular was treated to a perfect fusillade of tender lances. No measure of haug}_nineu. no fon -continued retreatings behind books and papers seemed to convince the invinci- ble “‘mashers” that their acquaintance was not desired by this young New Englander, nor, indeed, by any ladies in the car. Finally the situation became so serious that the ladies, who had come to under- stand each other pretty well during their e(leanest PLueToRACCO ever made. DR. MCNULTY. 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