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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1895-5-24, Page 6NriT5S.CIS 11,00i BVDit'S FRIDAY, MORNING an time for the early wails) at t q11o 40st , oa!6.l tliblsll • House, Tuneenoo v$BeuseniL8, Ora, 'Phare ' aN Soneaaurrro00,--0ne dollar a year, in advalme. ellmedate to wi en every eubseripti0u fsppaid is denoted by the date On the address libel, Anvtana'Ie1t?a BAfr o,—The following ratite will bo ebargod to these who cavernae by the year:— woos - 1 300. 0 mo, 8 mo Ono column 300.00 000.00 920,00 ,Half ,,., ... 00,00 00,00 20.00 Quarter " 20,00 8,00 12,00 idlhtla 12.00 8,00.- r 3,00 pigh0oeutsper lino for ifrst fnger tion , and three cents per lino ler emelt subsequent In - ',cation, A11 advertisements measured as Nonpareil -1e lines t0 tbe inch, Business Cards, eight lines and under, 93 per annum. Advertisements without epmoiito eine. tions, will be ineorted until forbid, and (Merged aeoordingly; tustructloue to change or diseontiuue an advertisement moat bo left at the counting room of TILE POST not later than Tuesday. of oath .week Thls is imperative, VG'- XX. »EE7R'R. Baiter. and. Proprietor, CHINA'S WATERW4YS. I have travelled more than 2,000 miles upon those wonderful rivers of China. The scenes along their banks are like those of no other stream of the world. Irrigation goes .cm everywhere, and the fertilizing material which they contain rejuvenates the Chinese soil as the Nile does that of Egypt. The Great Plain of China, whiob, by the way, is the most thickly populated part of the empire, has been built up from the sea by the Chinese rivers. It runs along the Padi&o coast for about 7000 miles, and itis from 300 to 500 miles wide. It is one of the richest plains of the world, and its soil ie mixed with salts and the evidences of decayed vegetation. It comes from the Loess region in the far interior of China. This region is a vast territory covered with yellow earth about 1,000 feet deep. This soil is very floe, and when a stream fiows into it, 13 seems to split open vertically, and the rivers which run through it pave through gorges of Band 500 feet deep. From time to time the yellow Band splits off in sheets from the sides of these gor- ges, and it is carried down to the sea. During the hot season the winds blow through this Loess region and oarry the dust over China. This aids its fertiliz- ation. The silt carried down by the rivers to the sea is so great that the land every yearlinoreases 100 feet upon the sea, and this has been going on for ages. Near Shanghai there is a little island which hae been built upbythe Yangtse Liao k, and the land north of this is to a rest extent, the product of the Hoang Ho and Peiho, The Yentee River is said to be 3,500 miles. The Hoene Ho rises in Thibet within 100 miles of the mouth of the Yantee, and it is almost of the same length. It flows as far as from New York to Denver before it gets a large branch, and by the time it gels to the sea it hae gone as far as from New York to Sau Francisco. It is only navigable by small boats, and a great part of its coarse ie through the Great Plain. It has vast embankments to keep is in its course, but every year or so a flood comes, and hun- dreds of thousands, sometimesmillions, of people are swallowed up by it. When I first visited China I arrived just after one of these big floods, About' 2,000,000 people were ruined by the river, and mil- lions bays been drowned. During my trip of last year I sailed up the Peiho to Tien Tsin and saw the evidences of the great flood of the year previous. This covered the plains surrounding Tien Tsin. It ruined hundreds of villages, and et one time it seemed it would endanger the great city of Li Hung Chang, which, you know contains a million people. Right below Tien Tele I saw thousands of graves which had been washed out by this flood. The mans wore lying on the ground, and during the flood the dead floated by thousauds to the sea. CHIxA'S VA8T BOAT POPULATION. There are millions upon millions of people who get their living off the Chi- nese rivers. China is said to have more boats than all the rest of the world put together, and its boat population would in all probability be gree,ter than all Europe and America. On the Pearl River in South China, at the city of Canton, there are said to be 300,000 peo- ple who were born, live and die upon the water. This river, which you reach from Hong Kong, is filled with shipping, and as you near Canton you will find it filled with craft of all kinds, from the small eteamer to the great Chinese junk. There are thousands of sampans, or little Chi. nose gondola'', with groat black and white eyes painted on each Bide of their prow. There are Wargo boats, which have bigger eyes, and there are vast chips, the eyes of which are as large around as a dinner plate. The Chinese paint eyes on all their boats, and a sailor would as soon think of trying to travel through a city blindfold- ed as of sailing on a boat which had not a pair of eyes painted on tbe front of ie. I found whole families living on these boat'', and I saw saw some not more than twenty feet in length which contained three generations of Chinese, I remember one women who rowed me to shore at Hong Kong. She was working away with a baby of about 2 years old tied on her back. netted a squall in the rear of the boat, and, looking bank, I saw a raw, red baby frantically waving its rosy arms and Drying out its protests through its toothless game. This woman had no other home but her boat, and on such r boats children are born, grow up and die, r Marriages take place upon them, and all 3 the features of the household life are to o be seen in connection with them. On some of the larger boats at Canton e the obildren fairly swarm, and little ones of 2 and 3 years play about their decks. I saw a number of boye on these boats t who bad little round barrels or drums about a foot long and six inches in dia. meter tied to their backs. I was told that o these were life preservers, and that if the child fell overboard he could float till his mother or father came to hie rescue. I was surprised to sec that many of the n girls pf the boats had no snob protection, and upon asking the reason S was told that It was considered by some of the people a piece of good fortune to lose a girl, as they would in this way save the exp0nee et raising her, I doaht this, ow rt . however. . It 10 a fast, though, that woe girle are Of little aaaount In China, .Chia le eepeoially so among the beatpppulatipn I vielte0 ono place just off the river at Shanghai where there ware perhaps 000 phin000 babies in a foundling asylum, One tllo to1 h On of 1 charge t t d v e in01st told 1a a pi, Yon u] V could buyb Ise I t a al i11 ab the w from a cent o el apiece, and that they Melt the babiee from their mothers upon the payment of 20 aanto.apfeeebyythe mothers. Women are sold regularly by their parents for wives, and I woe told that a full grown maiden of fair beauty was worth from 9925 upwards, There are hundreds of boate at Canton upon whiob dinners and banquets are given, and which have numbers of girls oonneoted with them who are kept for the amuse. mend of the guests. There are boats wbioh are owned by beggars, and I was told by one of our mauls that babies were sometimes' bought and their eyes putout in order that they might be raised as blind begoaro. Each of lbs high officials -who 1190 along the: Chinese rivere hae his 'own boat. This is decorated with flags, and the bigger the man. the more, flags and bunting. Li Hung Chang has a steam launch. when his wife died, not long ago, a gorgeous funeral barge was,made for her. This was decorated with white, which is the Chinese color for mourning, and it looked gorgeous to American eyes. The Chinese have boats which are worked by the feet, and which are shaped just like a slipper. These are ueed as die - patch boats. They are not much bigger than the ordinary canoe, and they owl be made to go very fast. A0 Canton I was shown boats which bad paddle wheels at the sides, And which were worked by man power. The men turned the wheels in- side the boat, which are =enacted with the paddle wheels outside, and half a dozen men were doing the world of an or— diner'y gas engine. I could fill thio col- umn with descriptions of the different Muds of boats used by the Chinese. Each section has its own peouliar make of boats, and a Chinese sailor can tell to what part of the country a ship belange as 00011 as he see it. There is a vast boat traffic in the interior of China. I saw boats at Hankow which had come down almost from the borders of Thibet. They were made so that they could jump tbe rapids and work their wav through the great gorges of Iohang. These gorges are 270 miles above Hankow, and nearly 1,000 miles from the sea. The great Yangtse River herd flows through im- mense canyons, the rooks of which:rise for hundreds of feet straight up above the water. The gorges are in places less than 1,000 feet wide, and the great river rushes through them at the rate of nine miles an hour. It rises and falls ten and twelve feet in a single night, and it boils and seethes as it goes through. Here is an eddy, there is a whirlpool, and there againet the rocks it dashes in a spray al- most like that of the sea. The rocks ere filled with all kinds of ferns ; they are of r ' aorta and alongtheh K edges blue owned g i -tailed workmen o man are quarryinggreat pig-tailed of granite, which are shipped own the Yangtee.Hiang. There are miles of these gorges, and the scenery about them is the most beautiful in China. The boats are tracked through the gorges, and there is quite a population along them whose main support is from such work. The queerest boats I saw during my trip on the Pearl River were those de- voted to the raising of geese and ducks. The Chinese are the best fowl raisers of the world, The raise ducks by artificial incubation, and they know just how to feed and mare for them. For five days after they leave the shell they are not al- lowed to hear any noise, and their food consists of rime water. After this they are given boiled rice. For the first two weeks they are kept in a coop, and then they are put on the boats and made to shift for themselves. The boats are very olumey, and they are somewhat like rafts. One boat will sometimes hold more than 1,000 ducks, which are in charge of one or two keepers. The duok farmer rows or eoulls the boat to the lose land along the banks of the rivers or creeks, and he drives the ducks off from time to time to feast on the worms and snails which are here to be found. He has the ducks so trained that he can call them baclr to the boat at will, and he hurries them up by giving the last duck a blow with a stick. After the duoke are grown he carries them from one market to another on his boat. There are fowl markets in all of the aides, and the goose market of Canton is Riled with thousands of birds every day. Fowl is sold both dead and alive. The ducks and Reese are dried and pressed, and they are chipped in large quantities all over China. Taxes will now be oolleoted on, all such articles of food, and there will 130 nothing which passes through the river which will not have to pay a there of this fond demanded by Japan. 0ALT BOATS. ()nevi the chief resources of the Chi. nese Government is through the sale of salt, and the taxes on salt will be now greatly increased. The salt trade in China is a Government monopoly, and no one earl sell it without a license from the salt commissioner. There are salt boats and salt junks on all the rivers. The Balt is carried in junks through the larger streams, and is taken to the vil- lages through the annals in smaller boats. The country is divided into eircuite, and the salt in each circuit is supposed to be produced here. It ie made from sea water around the coast, and from brine in the interior. jest above the mouth of the Peiho River I passed several salt works. The ground looked much like the marshes near New York, and the salt was produoed by evaporation. There were windmilla for pumping the brine Irene the eoa and there were great moue. talkie of salt which had been piled up lendy for shipment, The Government egoiree that all salt shall be sold at fixed Mee to Government agents. It is dis- ributed through salt merchants, and ver thews there is a epeoial salt com- missioner for oaoll district. The salt ommiesioners pay for their planes, and a gond office of this kind is worth from $10,000 to 312,000. The salt, after bow- ed been landed in a district, is kept in a bonded warehoueo, and the Government fixes the prices. It makes a profit on very sale until the salt reaches the hands of the retail dealer. It has the ight to increase the prices, and there will undoubtedly be a rise in this reepeet ow that the war is over. During late years the Government in. come from salt leas been lees than $10,• 000,000 a year, but I was told that there had been a great deal of stealiog on the part of the commissioners; and that it TEE BRUSS+TJS VOST Ought to bring fully 140100 as lunch as it dose, 19 the taxes ohputd be oclleeted by forelgnere, instead of by Chinsso, es 18 possible in oaoe of te foreign loan, the salt revenue would be doubled. At proses the merino gum etoa ore collect• ed by prowl under an kInglish opeoor•genoral, Sir Robert Hort, All o the ffi al ' f t o o a high e larie n 1 dot g a s, but si mo they tools sparge of the oestoms they have tripled the receipts from them to the Government. The 00,1130 would be the result if they had charge of the other taxes of the oountry. The Government world gat all the honey instead of one- half of it going as etealinge to the Chinese officials who oolleated it, If China, in fast, was under the administration of a foreign government it would soon be 004 05 the riolsost of countries,. p..lven a alight tax upon its many millions of people would net a vast revenue, and revenue tuxes could be put upon many things without the people really knowing that they were taxed. I believe that they would stand being governed by foreigners without mueb trouble, and, though the oflieials and the nobles would objoot, the people might be glad of the ohenge. At preseut China does everything in the most expeneive way. Travelling costa ten times es ninth a8 it does here. There are no railroads through • the thickly settled parts of the oountry, and you have lo take a house beat and a crew if you wield to go from one place to an- other. Ie you travel by laud ib is in a Ohineee cart, with an extra cart to early your baggage, and if you want bedding you must carry it with yon. h took night sailors to firing me from Pekin to Tien Wein, and I had to pay $10 for the use of the boat, in addition to my cook- ing and eating. Pekin is just about 00 miles from Tien Tele, and the trip all told met about 310" by boat and took three days. By Dart it poet me 325. The two towns are no farther apart than New 'York and Philadelpnia. The faro between these cities ona firet.alase paw enger train is, I think, 32, and it:ismade in a little less than three hours. The cart trip to Pekin requires two days or more, and you have to spend one night in a Chinese inn, where you sleep ou the stone floor and eook your own meals. One of the means of raising money wbioh the Government of China will have will be the granting of foreign con. cessions for the building of railroads be. tween points like Tien Wein and Pekin. Such eonoes910ns.wonld undoubtedly pay well, and it may be that Wharton Bark• er, if he will get some abler man than donut lllitkiewicz to represent him, could now put through his sol.eme for establishing a great Chinese national bank and the building of railroads in the Celestial Empire. FHANR G. CARPENTER, Co,ea(tdOft[L Piewee. G.Tileouburg streets are sprinkled with sulphur water. Bread hes gone upe to 10 o nts a loaf in Hamilton owin t0 the se in wheat. r Hamilton g i n livery men want the bicycles taxed, as they injure the livery trade. Brantford 1,as over forty lady bicyclists, and will organize a ladies bicycle club. Guelph's water main burst in the East Ward on Saturday, a11d the city water supply was completely shut off. The by-law submitted to the people of Petrolia, Ont., to raise 316,000 for the erection of a new Control school, was de. feared by a majority of 98. HEART DISEASE RELIEVED IN 30 20118 urEo.—All cases of organic or sympathetic heart disease relieved in 30 minutes and quickly cured, by Dr. Agnew's Ours for the Heart. One dose convinces. Sold by G. A. Deadman. A resolution approving of the stand taken by the Manitoba Government on the school gnestion is being oirculeted and largely signed by tbe residence of Delaware township. When the docu- ment has been thoroughly circulated it will be forwarded to Winnipeg. GATARnAH RELIEVED IN 10 TO 0011INUTE3,— One short puff of the breath through the Blower, supplied with each bottle of Dr. Agnew's Catarrah Powder, diffnees this Powder over the surface of the nasal passages. Painless and delightful to use, it relieves instantly, ani permanent. ly cures Oatmeal), Hay Fever, Oulde, Headaoh e, Sore Throat, Tonsilitis and Deafness 60 oents at G. A. Deadman'e. There stands in Berkeley Springs, W. Va., on Washington at., a stately elm tree, which was planted by Gen. Wash- ington in 1776, when the town was laid out. It is the only one left of three plant- ed 'at the time by the father of his mann. try, and it hae been suggested that an iron fence be placed about it with the in. seription thereon :—Washington Elm. A LONDON DRneorsT.-112r. B. A. Mitch- ell, the well-known London druggist, says of Stark's Powders, the great new cure for Sick and Nervous Headache, Constipation, Biliousness, Costiveness, Neuralgia, the Stomach and Liver : "My customers report that they are em invalu. able remedy for those diseases, B. A. Mitchell, druggist, London." They are nice to take, immediate and permanent. Two preparations in each box. ' Sold at 25c a box by all druggists, 5 boxes 31, Dou'C Siloni 1 It will soon be known I am tast- ing all kinds of Photos, Cray- ons, Pastells and Water- ' Oororo. Pictures taken as natural as lifo of Fathers, Mothers, and Babies, Grandfathers and Groat -Grandfathers, and Gentlemen with their Ladies. Pictures of your houses and stook, Lawns, Groups, Pic-nie Par- ties, in fact all kinds of out and indoor work in the Highest Style of Art. , H. R. BREWER ARTIST; BRUSSELS. NiAr 2:, 1S9 mpor e ly es a e Stallion, AYASIIIRE 5549929, t0'LAUOn01N ft Odtt'1`110, nommen, will travel tats 0000030 D010190100 :^ Tusoday, willlaaveb(eowustable,Bruo. sobaaua proceed North to 4111 line' Grey, then haat to Alex- MoDonala'e for00011 ; twine South to 6611 con., Grey, to ,908. Quorrin'e l;thol for night, Wedneeday,•— Will pr0000d via Honfryn to 7, K. Balror's for noon ; theatre along Otli Con, to his own otahle for night. Thursday,—Will proceed South to 12th Cola, Grey When least 2 miles, than to Blob. Cardifff'%, lot 10, 0011, 14, for noon ; thence west 1 miles, then South 1i miles, then Dust to Bobt. MoGaviu's, 17th, con., Grey, for uigttb. Friday,—will proceed Watt 2a. miles, then North to Albert Carter's for noon, where he will remain until Bator. clay morning, .-1$u;burday,—wilt proceed West to Butbon's school house, thou North to Was, Evans' for noon ; tbonco along the 0611 of Morrie to the Quoen'e.hoteel, Brus- sels, until G O'clock, then to his Own stable whore he will remain until the following Tuesday morning, BOddl FOR SERViOE.—THE Tiuderaignnd win keep for service on Lot 0,. Con. 0, Croy, the imp0rt.d ()baster White boar, Illiuol. °Lief" Pedigree may be seen on ap1111mytion, Terme, 91.00 to be paid at the time of service with 1lrlvibege oireturniog-If-n00ossary, JAkil0S SILT,0OTT, 85.2 tm Proprietor•. TAl17WORTH AND CHESTER WHITE BOARS FOR SERVICE. The undersigned will keep no; service on North Half Lot 20, Oen, 7, Morris, a them'. bred'Tamworth Boar, recently purehaeid from the well known Breeder, Sao. Ball, Am- ber, A100 a Chester White hoar, Terme,' 91,00 to be pat i nt bila of sarvioo with priv- ilege of returning if necessary. 00-tf S. WALIKE1t,Proprietor, 'QOAI.i F011 S]IIIV10E.—THE Undersigned will iroep for service on Lot 20 Con. 6, Morris, the thorn' bred im- proved White Yorkshire Boar "Seleeted," bred from J. hl. ldruthonr's sweepstakes sow at Chicago Fair. 'Perms, 9L00 to he paidat .the00030of sarvioo with privilege of re- turning if necessary. Pedigree may he soon on application, 12001. YUMMY,. BULL FOR SERVICE.—'LITE Dndarsigued 30111 MOP for sarvioo oh N.?f Lot 20 ('on. 7 Morrie, the tboro'-bred Durham Lull, "Lord Melville," No, 20850. Pedigree • may be .seen on. 'application. Terme, 31,"-8 to Mauro. JOHN NOBS, 85.01 Proprietor, ?OAP FOn SERVICE.—TH..B Undersigned will keep for service on: Lot8, C on. 7, dray, tie tlloro -bre rl improved Large White Yorkshire boar, ti obturt n Motel," bred e b t f 111 imported stool` g S Bedtliour, Burford, y c, Out. 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SON, kinizTz-15t1MT. of Toronto, LEI The undersigned will keep on hand a constant supply of White Fresh Lime suit- able for all Building and Plastering purposes, Also North Shore Pine Lath and White Brick for Sale. D. 1. Lowry, BRUSSELS. Established 1871• G Eo :.V.,,4m ,G i s G ,,_, cao pt Eo G i� r' 'ems 0`0 rn.. poi oPi 0'4 CD 0 0 y 0 0 00 0 The Policy Contract issued by this Association, is perfection itself, UNCONDITIONAL, ACCUMULATIVE, AND AUTOMATICALLY NON-FORFE/TABLE, It leaves nothing further to be desired. Bates and full infor- mation furnished on application. W. II. ItERfl, Agent, Brussels.