The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 24, 1895, Page 13

/THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SU Il the war in China affect the tea trade Thi amatter which is agitating the ants and will soon be of interest to tea drinkers all over the United States. The tea buds have already sprouted and by the first of May the new crops will be- to come into the markets. Fast steam- now on their way from Europe and 210 China. They go by the Medite: and Suez canal, and they stop at lon and Singapore. They go from hence to Shanghai and up the Yang-tse- Kiang 700 miles into the interior of Chin They stop at the city of Hankow, which is the greatest tea market in the world. Here ey load as quickly Kk home as fast g 0 as possible and steam they can. These tea S run a race every year and. the steamer which gets in receives the hest price for its tea. st of the tea crop is considered the best, and should the Yang-tse River be closed by war in May it will result in a great loss to the tea merchants. will certainl caddy made had been hol- autiful box. nds of tea in the of the > casket taini a which was worth of center a very [he tea outside of this L the $150 tea was a drink President Harrison showed a to his friends, and now and then } drawing made for those closest to him. One day a Western Senator who knew as about tea as a cow does aramels spent an evening the hite House. During his stay President Harrison spoke of this wonderful tea and said he would give him 2 bit of it, & posing, of course, the man would under- stand that he wounld and they would si and then sa 1 , indeed, Mr. President, and I will home to the madam.” He there- the box in his pc 3 ial f: ne, to upon the present at_the t dent, and I asked him as to what the Pres ident did. could he ¢ a which we get fora dollar 1ts a pound in ould bring in the T hich costs ns uncommon there are some nows nothing , but thinks he knos wants the liquor to be dark colored, an is a sign of strength. The Chinese tea is often as clear as crys- nd the cc od tea s izht 3 . hardly as dark nber. s of the teaplant are the tenderest, and the first picking, of course, brings the most money. We use ar about $11,000,000 worth of Chi- d we are fast becoming big con- mers of Ceylon and Indian_tea. I have 1 through yws on the border of Thibet. o be the natural home of the claimed that the tea > to China and there h now have vast tea and these are in- The Chinese do not or sugar should be used tea. but the tea snhould by no means I was treated to_a cup of tea during a yisit I made to How Qua, the famous millionaire of Canton. This man is said to be worth $50,000,000, and the tea which the servants brought in was about the color of Georgia ine. 2 The Yang-tse-Kiang i the river which runs right through the center of the Chinese Empire, cutting the country almost in half. I was toid that the best teas were raised south of this river, and that no good tea could be grown above it. The great cen- tral tea market is, as I have said, at Han- with be boiled. kow. Here there are vast tea factories and tea warehouses, and the very air is filied with tea. I visited many of the factories during my stay, and tbe methods of pre- paring the tea for market are by no means of an appetizing nature. Just outside one of the largest establishments I saw a hauf- | naked coolie, who had pulied off his gown and with his pantaloons puiled up to his knees, standing in a box of tea which was about to be shipped to England, and tread- | ing the leaves within it in order to pack them closely to ship them. A dozen other coolies, also in their bare feet, were en- waged in the same work. The weather was Wwarm, and the perspiration was rolling down their yellow skins, and was, I judge, readily absorbed by the tea in the boxes. In another part of the establishment I saw a lot of Chinese girls, who had feet no ‘bl%ger than your fists, picking over tea. Their ee:{ wh were bandaged, were half-coveres with the leaves nF the second-grade tea, which they had thrown down into the baskets below them, as they were rapidly handling the leaves, sorting over each and every one of the thousands of tiny bits of green beiore them. At Amoy I was told that a vast amount of tea was spoiled about a year or so ago. It wasso rained by dampness or something that the Chi- nese would not use it. The factors then spread it out on the dirty wharves, where it was mixed with all kinds of foul stuff, and dried for shipment to America and England. I bave heard it stated that the tea grounds of some Chinese restaurants are taken out and redried, and in some cases shipped to America. 1 doupt_tms very much, but it 1s true that the Chinese use their tea grounds over and over again, selling them to the poorer classes. The preparation of the tea for the market is almost altogether by hand, The tea dis- 8 perhaps the costliest ! who were | »out choe- | a1l good tea | pound whole- | up §50 tea to | a good . deal | 5l the tea district of the | ra Mountains, and have tasted the | | tricts are generally hilly, and they are laid out in beautiful terraces. About Foochow thiere are 40,000 men and women who do nothing but act as pack animals for the carrying of tea. . They have it packed in baskets, which they carry on poles across thair shoulders up and down the mountain | passes. They get about 25 cent: y. It | costs about 2 cents a pound to pick the tea, | and there are a number of local taxes which will now probably be greatly i creased on account of the war. Great quantities of tea are Russia and Mongolia every 3 hese are made of the lower and of tea dust. The leaves ground up ana steamed and cooked un- til they are soft and mushy. They age then | put into molds about the e of an ordi- nary brick and are pressed into shape, so that they become hard as chocolate cakes. The finer va dre molded into small cakes; in fact, of just about the size of the small cakes of sweet chocolate which you buy ‘in the candy-stores. I visited several of the factories in Hankow which e this kind of t en less appeti: cribed as to the ordinary tea. The factories, in the first place, are very warm The steaming tea is handled by dirty coolies, and it issweetened by perspiration, After < ntsin, Mongoli they are car- up the rivers and canals to 1 thence go on canals into and on to Russia. There are bricks in one package, and anged that they can be car- This brick tea takes the in many parts of Asia, and as currency, each 5 to 20 cents, The is divide a_brick into thirty equal the bricks are finished v boat: parts. They boil it with milk, butter, sheep fat and “salt, using camel dung for fuel. I ted one of the largest of the brick tea factories in Hankow, and I met Russians there who were making fortunes out of shipping brick tea to Russia. Some the factories employ more th#n a thou- sand hands and the business is almost as great as that of shipping tea to Europe. The Chinese tea trade Las been declining for years, and this war will be a terrible blow to it. fast pushing its way Packing Tea for Shipping. to the tea markets of the world, and you find good Indian tea now sold all over the United States. The trade has practically up within the past twenty-five and since 1870 the Chinese markets been steadily declining imported 10,000,000 pounds of te: om Assam. Ten vears later 1t was tak- ing more than 60,000,000 poungs, and there are now more than a quarter of a million of tea plantgtions in India. The Chinese have been adulterating their tea, and they have been steadily losing ground, while the Japanese and Indian merchants have been ning. The Indian tea now brings a higher price in the English mar- kets than the Chinese tea, and not half as much of the Chinese tea is used as twenty-five years ago. Ihad a chance to see something of the tea plantations of India during a_journey \\'hic}l I made six yearsago to Darjiling, in the Himalaya Mountains. The ¢ more than a mile above the sea, and you ride for a long dis- tance through well-kept tea-gardens, the bushes of which are very much like those of our currants. These gardens tur: out more than 300 pounds of tea per acre, and there are five pickings, beginning in March and ending | 'n November. The most of the tea plants | are raised from the seed. The tea seeds | are of about the size of a hazelnut. They | are sown in nurseries in December and January, and by April the sprouts are | ready to be transplanted. The best soil is virgin forest land, and the richer the bet- | ter. The plants begin to bear in their third | year, and they reach their best yield in their ninth year, after which the bush be- gins todecline. The Indian tea is generally grown in large plantations. The Chinese tea comes from litile patches scattered over the country, and the holdings are generally small. In China the tea plant is in full leaf during the latter, part of May, at | which time is the second picking. A good tea ‘tree will yield from ten ‘to twenty ounces of leaf, and the best pickers average about tifteen pounds a day. The wages for such persons is from 6 to 8 cents per day. grown ! s and women and children do the work, The most of the Japanese tea is now fired in copper or iron pans, which are set into | bake ovens and kept hot by fires under | them. A great deal of the Chinese tea is | dried over charcoal in a sieve, being rubbed | with the hand until the contents are per- | fectly dry and the leaves become dark, i Itissupposed by many in this country | that green tea is caused by the copper | basins in which the tea is fired. This is so | to a certain extent, but there is a natural i green tea, that is, a green tea produced { without the use of coloring matter. Any | kind of tea may be made green or black, | according to the length of time of firing. | 1f the tea‘is picked when not yet ripe and | fired quickly it will have a green color. This green. however, is often prodnced by putting indigo and soapstone into the dry- ing pans, and 1 met a tea merchant in { Japan who told me that most,of the green | tea was colored in this way 4nd not with ‘ copperas. The natural color of the tea leaf i cen, and the purest of tea, which is n as the sun-dried tea, is of a green We are now using a great deal of the Formosa tea, which ranks as one of the best teas of the world. Some varieties of this tea cost $25 and upward a pound, and quite a lot of Indian and Japan tea has | been put upon the market as Formosa tea. | It will surprise many people to know what ! an immense number of tea-drinkers there are in the world. Great Britain is said to | drink 100,000,000 cups of tea per day, and every man, woman or child in “Great | Britain consumes five pounds of tea every | year.. The Australians are the greatest tea-drinkers in the world, and they average over seven pounds per year. l;rhey take a reat deal of Chinese and Indian teas. 'he greatest consumers of the Japanese teas are the United States and Canada, and we take the buik of the Japanese teas. Tea drinking is increasing in America, and the English drink more tea and less coffee | every year. The Japanese and Chinese are Edriniing tea all the time,and a visitor is | served with a cup whenever he calls. Itis | estimated there are 500,000,000 tea-drinkers | in_China and India. Iam told that the falling off of the tea crop of China is more than made up by the increase in the opium product. Opium is grown now all over China, and there are lantations of it in the north beyond the ghinese wall. I was greeted with' the sick- ening smell of opium wherever [ went, and in the city of Foochow, which is about as | big as St. Louis, there are 1000 registered opium dens. Shanghai is ed with opium joints, and the bisgest opium den in the world is to be found there. Itisan | lmmense three-story building covering what would be about half of an American city block, and itis furnished as gorgeously as were. the caves of Monte Cristo. The cushions of the beds are of the finest vel- vet, and the frames of the conches are in- laid with mother of pearl. There are hun- dreds of rooms, uné when 1 visited this den the air was blue with opium smoke. JUpon some of the beds men and women laa' together and smoked side by side. There were haggard old men and fresh young boys smoking together, and there were mandarins in silks and coolies in rags in the different rooms. The entrance was llim,ed with the electric light and the whole of the interior was made up of the finest carvings of costly teak wood. The different rooms were graded, and you could get a smoke here for a few cents, or paying nearly as high as a dollar for some of the pipes and the most gorgeously fitted-up rooms. A great deafof the smoking is done in the private houses, and it is as com- mon in China for y ost to offer you a I"}‘e of opium as it is in America to be offered a cup of tea or a glass of wine. There is considerable discussion among the foreigners in China as to the effect of opium upon those who use 1t. It is claimed by many that -the habit is no worse than that of drinking, and a re. port from the hospital in Canton sho that the moderate opium-smoker gains flesh rather than loses it. The effect of smoking opium is said to be less_injurious than that of eating it, and the Chinese use the drug differently from us. We take it to make us sleep. The Chinaman uses it as we do wine, to stimulate conversation, and two Chinese gentlemen will" lie and smoke for hours while they chatter to one another. The habit is very costly, and the poorest of the Chinese cannot afford.to smoke a great deal. There are thousands of moderate opium-smokers in China, just as there are thousands of moderate drink- ers in the United States, and the number of smokers is said to be increffsing. At the present time I was told that about one- tenth of the people smoke opium, and I heard many instances of people having ruined themselves by the habit. All of the hospitals which are kept up by the missionaries have many patients who wish to be cured of opium smoking, and some of the wealthy Chinamen buy certain kinds of food with a hope of strengthening them- selves against it. ~ I saw a number of opium sots in China. They are called by the people opium devils, and not a few of them smoke themselves into their graves. Now and then one of the mandarins will try to stop the traffic in his district, and the taxes on opium are always high. The great Chang Clhi Tung, the Viceroy of Hankowy made such an attempt during my stay in China; but it was a failure, and the opium saloons are as wide open as ever. Y Copyright, 1895. | QUEER SNAKES IN TEXAS, Fun That the Yellow Racer and the Hoopsnake Have Together. ‘“There is a speciesof whipsnake in the Lone Star State, the male of which is jet black and the female pea green,” said a former resident of Texas. “They arelong, slim reptiles, and they climb trees and rob birds’ nests with remarkable celerity. “The yellow racer of Texas is another interesting snake. When he crawls his movements are from side to side, but when he races he undulates, with, his head sev- eral inches in the air, and he can get over the ground almost as fast as a jack rabbit. You will often see a yellow racer chasing a red-bellied hoopsnake, and vice versa. Sometimes you will see them racing side by side, neither sceming to try to outspeed the other, and both getting over the ground for the fun of the thing. The most amus- | ing snake race I ever saw out there was be- tween a hoovsnake and a racer. There was a big bulge in the hoopsnake’s body, evi- | dently caused by a large'toad in his stom- ach, and he wabbled so that every little while he would lose his balance and tum- ble sideways. The racer also had a large lump in his body, but it didn’t bether him much in traveling, and _he stopped and waited_whenever the Boopsnake tipped over. The hoopsnake would look up and start in again, and he and the racer cov- ered more than two miles in that way go- ing ahead of the horse I was riding. ““While trying to net pigeons one season I saw a yellow racer crawling toward the stool-pigeon. For the moment I was more concerned about a hawk that had been circling overhead for some time, and I didn’t pay much attention to the snake. At length the hawk dived at the stool- pigeon and knocked the breath out of it. ‘Without waiting for the hawk to snatch the stool-pigeon the racer wound himself around the hawk’s neck and breast. Sud- denly a hoopsnake rolled past me at to speed and brought up near the stool- pigeon, as if he was going to help the racer strangle the hawk. The hawk arose be- fore the hoopsnake got a chance to tackle it. It hadn’t ascended more than 200 feet when the racer tied its wings tight to its body, and the hawk dropped like & wad of mud, thirty feet or so from the stool-pigeon.” The hoopsnake had been glaring at the hawk as if he was disappointed, but the instant it landed he rolled right at it and commenced to thump it on the head with his horn. The ha\v{( screamed and struggled violently, and the racer tightened his coils_around its wings and preyented it from rising. It couldn’t fight with its claws, and the hoopsnake continued to hammer it on the head, and the racer to squeeze it, as if it had been a nut-ufi job between the sniakes beforehand to tackle the hawk in that way. The hoop- %k | snake pounded until he had battered its head all out of shape with his sharp horn. Inalittle while the hawk ceased to stir, and the racer unwound himself, and the hoopsnake stopped hammering. Both reptiles gazed at the dead bird for a mo- ment, and then the hoopsnake hooked his tail into his lip, ana the two went away to- gether. “@he opossum snake of Texas feigns | death if you tap it on the back with a switch and sometimes when you makea quick strike at it and don’t touch it. The natives assert that a badly scared opossum snake will remain quiescent until sunset, no matter how early in the day you scare it, and then it will glide off at gréat speed. I once frightened an opossum snake by switching the ground nearit. The snake made believe it was- lifeless and I hid in a clump of bushes and watched it. It could not possibly have seen me and for an hour and forty minutes it remained perfectly motionless. It lacked two hours and twenty minutes of sundown, but I had concluded to stay there and see whether the snake would clear out. I lost the chance, however, for within a few minutes a pair of turkey buzzards lit on the snake together. It began to squirm and flop and beat the grass, but it had waited a little too long, for the buzzards pulled it in two ?pn‘zfdily. each sailing away with a writhing half. g ““At another time I watehed an opossum snake for hours and was paid for it a little after sunset by eing a monster owl pounce upon it, tie it into knots and sail off with it.”—New York Sun. ——— A Japanese Paper Uniform. As we write we are clad in a suit of paper as sugplied to the Japanese soldier on sery- ice. Itis thoroughly light, easy under the arms and over the chest. The trousers, it is true, are knickerbockers, and lead to the impression that the Japanese soldier invari- ably wegrs his left leg shorter than hiss rigzt; but this, we believe, is the result of art rather than nature. It is said that this paper never tears, is very warm, and sel- dom wears out. We should recommend the poor to wear the P. M. G. under their coats this cold'weather. A man might make a handsome living by having adver- tisements printed on himself, after the manner of the prayin, machine. These clothes would aiso make usetul pajamas, being_elegantly fitted with tapcs and but- tons, just like real. Lo Ben likes them. DAY, MARCH 24, 18%5 13 POLO AS PLAYED OVER ALL THE EARTH. IT HAD ITS BIRTH IN PERSIA SOME HUNDREDS. OF YEARS B. C, HAS BEEN PLAYED BY KINGS. THE TARTARS, ARABS AND ALL| * HoRsE COUNTRIES CrLamM IT * as THEIR OwN. A sudden fever of interest and impetus is given in and to the great game of polo by the match that is on between the army poloists from Walla Walla, Wash., and the local players at Berkeley, to be played at the latter’s grounds ongApril 2, Polo is rapidly growing in popularity in | this country, and is generally looked upon | was pussionatelf‘ a; | plait has a silken tassel hanging to it. when it is reported the Emperor Akbar fond of the game ana was the best yer of his time and pro- ficient in er?ormin[z some inimitable feats of skill. He often-played polo at night, which puzzled many of the experts of his time. (}‘n such occasions the balls were set on fire and were made of palas wood, which is light and burns for some time. From motives of kindness and to | avoid any imperative orders the Emperor always chose his partners by the cast of the die. The number of players was limited to ten, but many more kept them- selves in readiness. After the lapse of each game—two-fifths of an hour—two players took a rest and two others sup- | plied their places ‘“The game was so popular at the time of Akbar that royal ladies also took part in it. | It soon became their favorite pastime.” Referring to the original of an illust: a- | tion, of which an outline drawing is 1 presented, the author says: “The ladies | are shown to be richly dressed in a kind of | polo uniform. They appear experienced and firm riders and are playing with per- fect composure and without a sign of nery- | ousness. One of them, the one on the side of the Princess, who is wearing a plume in her coronet, is-leading her fiery steed sim- ply by his golden collar, The horses are adorned with glittering ornaments and the saddles and saddle ornaments are made of brocade and other rich materials. Their long manes are carefully plaited and each “Here is a noble precedent for ladies of to-day to take up the game bravely and 7 gl ROSE-IN-WOOD AT HER LATTICE ING POLO, AND FALLS IN LOVE WITH HIM. [From an ancient painting reproduced in the Pall Mall Gazette.] gt S/~ Cr o IR T AVEN WATCHES UNS-AL-WUJUD PLAY- and spoken of asa new game. To those of its enthusiasts who think it so it will be interesting to learn that it is one of the oldest games on earth, perhaps the oldest outdoor game that hasesurvived, and that it is played now almost exactly as it was played in Persia several hundred years be- fore Christ. The Maharajah of Patiala is even now threatening to go to England and give the folks there who have been claiming polo as their own*peculiar accomplishment some points about the great game. This | proposition has_set the literati of polo to | “’0&. and a flood of polo literature is the result. Mr. Astor’s Pall Mall Magazine has an interesting article headed with the uery, “Who Were the First Players of | 0lo?” by K. Deblair. | Anent a aration that the game orig- inated in Persia he cites the poet Nizami | with this incident that took place at the | time of DariusIII (about 333 B. C.), which | has reference to the game: ‘“When Alex- | ander the Great refused to pay the tribute | demanded by Darius and tnreatened to | wage war against him Darius sent a ball | a stick asa ;l)resev_lt to Alexander, ask- ing him to practice with it as a youth, and not to think of waging war. Young Alex- ander returned the insult, saying, ‘Since | | twa or three minutes’ play a lady cried out prove that they, too, have qualities which can enable them to bear off the palm of victory ovét the sterner sex, who now boast of the exclusive right to proficiency in the game,” continues the author. = “Moray Brown tells us in a footnote that the game was played by ladies in Ireland in 1890. Cap- tain Younghusband gives a very humorous account of the game as played in India by English ladies. He rather cynicaily re- marks that the two men, one on each side, who were appointed to guard the interests and look after the safety of the ladies, had a hard time of it. Married ladies were playing against unmarried ones. After that she could not see the ball through her veil. Instantly there was a halt, the veil was removed and the game wenton. A few minutes after another damsel shouted out that she could not play with hergloves on. Again the game was stopped and the Floves were removed, A third intrusted her handkerchief to her male partner, ness of judgment, suppleness of muscle and unflinching nerve.” It claims supeti- ority, for it has always been played by the proud hands of martial races, and et us nope it will ever continue so to be.” MISREPRESENTED STATESMEN. They Succeeded in Convincing the Con- stituent That the Reports Were False. A TUnited States Senator from Some- place and a Congressman from Another- place, both in the same State, were going one day in September last to a town where they were billed to make a speech apiece. They had to take an accommodation train for it, and at a small station a native came aboard and, after looking round for a good seat, took the one in front of the two statesmen. For five minutes he gazed ;around the car, and finally turned to his | fell v-travellers. n’ to Smithville, I reckon?” he said in the inquiring way of the inquisitive un- cultured. *“Yes,” replied the Congressman. “Goin’ to the speakin’ thar to-day?” “Is there to be a speaking?” asked the Congressman with a chuckle. *‘Oh, yes. A United States Senator and a Congressman. Big bugs, theyair. Any- how, the Senator is. Congressmen ain’t so skeerce.” The Senator nudged the member. ‘“Are you going to the show?” asked the member. ‘“Well, T ain’t goin m goin’ to see about sellin’ a mule. 1s] ness is slow in mules, I reckon I'll drap in on the speakin’ fer a change.” “Don’t you like speaking?’’ “Not more’n the law allows.” “Why not?” “Well, 1'm kinder losin’ confidence in these yer statesmen after they git to Wash- ington.” “What makes you do that?” “Iread the newspapers some and they tell a good many things I ain’tin favor uy.” “But newspapers them.” “Mebbe they do and mebbe they don’t,” said the native, shaking his head in doubt- ful fashion. “But I know they do. I happen to know a number of Senators and members, and I can assure you that they are fréquently misrepresented in the papers.” “I'm mighty glad to hear you say that,” exciaimed the native. I wuz_ jis’ readin’ in the paper I got last night that most uv the Senators wuz plumb teetotallers, nine- tenths uv the Congressmen wouldn’t play poker, and as fer bettin’ on a hoss rac they’d sooner cut off a thumb than do it. Ef you say them’s lies an’ kin prove it,” concluded the native, “I'd ruther lose the dern mule than miss the speakin’.” ‘What happened between that time and the time of the speaking is not generally known, but the native was not only at the meeting, but had a place on the platform.— Detroit Free Pre ——————— Man of Leisure’s Hygienic Rules. Never eat anything before breakfast. To avoid the averpowering temptation to do this always leave your breakfast befare you have 2 chance to eat anything. Never work between breakfast and dinner. . To avoid the ovor}:)owcring temptation to do this have your breakfast and dinner €0 near together that you will not have the misrepresent time to yield to temptation. Conscientiously economize every moment of time for digestion. Never let the precious moments run to waste. In orderto gain this time never work between dinner and supper. Never be satisfied with what you have accomplished. Presseveronward innever- ending activity. In order that this rule may be strictly observed, as soon as you have digested your dinner eat your supper that not a moment may be lost and the work of diges- tion may go on without interruption. Hundreds of years of precious time have been lost by careless men inadvertently per- mitting their digestive organs to run out of work. Never work after supper. In order to avoid the overpowering temptation to do this, never get through supper until it is too late to work. upper, neyertheless, should not be al- lowed to continue until it is time for break- fast. If it does, however, breakfast should be postponed until the supper is over. If there ever happens to be an interval between meals, do not bg embarrassed by the awkward pause. A properly trained man will keep right on eating through the interval. —New York World. who, having no pockets in his tight trou- sers, found it di!gcull to care for.” Ina pamphlet on the polo season last year at Poona, a fashionable summer re- sort near Bombay, one Munshi Moizuddin of Ahmedabad praises the Maharajah of Jaudpoor for his Highness’ interest in the game. Certainly great credif will be ‘We got into them without tearing them, but we are not quite sure whether we shall ever get out again. —Pall Mall Gazette. Later—We got out of ! heart was utterly lost to her.’” them, but they are very difficult to fold up. l THE BbYAL LADIES OF EMPEROR AKBAR’'S [From an ancient painting reproduced in the Pall Mall Gazette.] COURT PLAY POLO. the King has given to us the ball of the | earth I will by this ball take the ball from him,’ and so gne did. i “With the wide spread of Mohammeda conquest, the game was soon carried into different parts of the world,” runs the story. “We find it once in Greece, prob- ably also in Egypt, Arabia, Afghanistan, India, Japan, and, in fact, subsequently throughout the East. “It is a strange fact that, indeed, the Arabs—a greater race of horse-breeders than the Persians—never seemed to have layed the game before the time of Caliph aroon-al-Rashid. ~ Though camel and horse races were not infrequent among the Arabs, yet-the real game of polo was adopted only in the eighth century by Caliph Haroon-al-Rashid. It is said that at about the age of 15 Haroon-al-Rashid was so small that when on horseback he cgu]}:l hardly reach the ball with his stick. . . “There is an interesting allusion to polo in the ‘Arabian Nights.' It is in the story of Rose-in-wood #nd Uns-al-Wujud. While the bandsome Uns-al-Wujud was playing changan with the King and his courtiers Rose-in-wood, the Wazir’s daugh- ter, who was sitting at her lattice looking on, was struck with his appearance. She therefore dropped an a%}gle on his head as he passed by to attract his attention. Uns- | al-Wujud raised, his head and behel@ her, and was so dazzled with her beauty that | he could not withdraw his eyes ‘till his The game reached its zenith of u- larity in India in the sixteenth cexftou‘x"y. due to the Maharajah of Patiala if he brings his polo team to England, as it is rumored he intends doing. No greater impetus could be given to polo. “The period of the second introduc- tion of polo into India nearly coitcides with that of its first appearance in Eng- land, though the English had heard of such a game in the seventeenth century through the ‘Adventures of the Three Sherleys.’ Sir Anthony Sherley, when he first met Shah Abbas IT of Persia, witnessed 2 game of polo. The Shah himself was one of the Sh\yera, and asked 8ir Anthony how he liked the game, “Polo was first played in England at Aldershot in 1869, by soldiers of the Tenth Hussars. The first recognized match was layed between the Tenth Hussars and Ninth Lancers at Hounslow Heath. THE DR. LIEBIG Private Dispensary - 400 GEARY S'I‘REET, SAN FRANCISCO 18 it not a areat point to have gained a reputa- tion for thoroush reliability, skill, and never failing success in treating all Chronic, Private and Complicated DISEASES where other doctors fail? 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Many Pprominent MERCHANTS, BUSINESS MEN, PROFESSIONAL MEN, MECHANICS, RAILROAD MEN, FARMERS, MINERS, SAILORS, AND THOUSANDS OF WORKINGMEN can well testify to their skill. :‘”" you be wrllln man :‘w lfllhkwnmn them and save yourself years of s It Rothing fora iation, The'\ ! 1t e Sportsmen got wind of it and clubs rapidly came into existence and now number more than twenty. 1 rejoice to say that at present, wher- ever the British flag waves or Britain’s in- fluence reaches, there the goals of polo are pitched. Such is the history of the ancient and royal game of polo up to ate. “Monarchs have succeeded monarchs, nations have conquered nations, the world has seen innumerable changes, but the ever green game of polo has survived the destructive forces of time. It thrives and promises to be co-extensive in existence with the loye of sport among men. It claims superiority over other games, inas- much as it inculcates ‘good Uengr. pres- ence of mind, perfect horsemanship, cool- DR. 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Silk Waists, in New Silks, | China, Check Taffetas, Striped Taffetas, ‘Surlh,lrfm.l $33§ A $5fl)up CANCER AN B CURE | MRS.FARNHAMo0fTul Farnum of this city), aged father’s aunt and also hers Dr. Cook September, 1880. are City (aunt ot Dr.C. E. 50, no children (iather, cancer), came L0 treated for cancer several years before by Dr.Sutton of Michigan. Upon its return saw Dr. Chiagles F. Lene lare, who gave her 1o hope. Cafié to San 1cisco, w DR. COOK, she said she did not think she ything for her. “Went to Dr. L. C. Lane Farnum; they decided it a tumor of y gnant character, and that she could not survive an operation. Returned to DR. COOK and begged her to do something for me. She com- menced treatment and in less than two months she d continued the treat- K’S directions. In 16ss than c cured and has been well . Tumor was in the left side,and also . COOK AND HRS. DR COOX, nder DR. DR. A. §. GOOK Cancer, Tumor, Eczema and Female Diseases Specialties. OFFICE, 231 POST ST., SAN FRANCISCO. Residence, 1139 Geary THE ESTATE OF THE LATE MRS, KATE JOHNSON. ADVANCE BIDS WANTED —_— First-Class Realty NOW IN PROBATE. APITALISTS, CORPORATIONS, TRUSTEES agents and all other persons seeking bargains in well located inside San_Francisco real estate and two outside blocks are requested to make an offer at once upon the following described property, 10 wit: FIRST—The 50-vara lot situate on the northwest corner of Golden Gate avenue and Leavenworth street. SECOND—The 50-vara lot situate on the south- west corner of Leavenworth and O'Farrell streets, including the magnificent mansion bulilt thereon. THIRD—AII of outside block No. 799, 240x600 feet, oounded by Thirty-first and Thirty-second avenues and K and L streets, only four blocks south from Golden Gate Fark, comprising 50 city lots. FOURTH—The east half of block No. 925, being 120x600 feet, bounded by Thirty-second avenue, N and O streets, containing 24 city lots. The above described property was appraised elght months ago by John Hinkie. Michael Flood and Edward Bosqui as follows: First piece, $120,- 000: second piece, $82,500; third plece, $7500: fourth piece, $2750. A petition is now pending be- fore the Hon. J. V. Coifey of Department 9 (pro- bate) of the Superior Court of this eity and county for the confirmation of the sale ‘of the 50-vara ot on the corner of Golden Gate avenue and Leaven- worth street at $81,400, and for the confirmation of the sale of the 50-vara lot on the corner of Leavenworth and O’Farrell streets at $49,500, and for the confirmation of the sale of outside block No. 799, $5225, and for the confirmation of the sale of half of outside block No. 925 for $1650. Advance bids are desired and may be submitted to the undersigned or tendered in open court on MONDAY, March 25, 1895, at 2 P. . (Department 9, probate). 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