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THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. HAYNS, Pre?'t F. O. FORD, Cashier. Capital, $250,000. f j Surplus and ) <h 1 AC AAA Undivided Profits J M> I ? J,Vl/l/ I Facilities of oar magnificent New Yaoltl joontalnlng 410 Safety-Cocfc Boxei. Differ-1 lent Sizes are offered to oar patrons and I I tao pu bile ai 83.00 to 910.00 jer ?rmnTri VOL. LXVIII. Chinese Press i in America, By Charles F. Holder. N roaming through the famous Chinatown of San Francisco, its lanes and alleys, the stroller -will perhaps observe over a narrow I -i . ? lassen?AB*?? Fing Kui Ca Virait nits'UK?tiWfi** VU ' ."IM? . hiiUt^truiaaK?tifiii |8fiBil??giMfl assisi I??n"*???:*lSl??4; . 1 s ?sta H QAKMit Cn i *J ?xas a ss ?mi mkfinL. Tt5(S??15 A SAN FRANCISCO . door a mys.ical sign, and beneath lt the words C?uhg-s??-Yat-Po, the daily newspaper; and if curious be may as cend the narrow stair and reach the editorial and other rooms of one of the several Chinese papers published in this Chinese-American city. Little Can ton, as lt is sometimes called. This pa per was first started as a weekly, but was changed to a daily, and is now an influential organ of what might be termed the Americanized Chinese, or tje New Chinaman, as the editor is a Chinese minister of the Presby terian Church, a man of high cultiva tion from the American standpoint. He is the Rev. Ng Poon Chew, and one of his literary advisers and aids is John Fryer, LL.D., who Gils the chair of Chinese literature at the University of California; but the typesetters, the clerks, in. fact all tho employes, are Chinamen, some of whom are gradu ates of American schools. In the busi ness office and editorial room there is little to attract the attention. Amer ican desks and chairs and telephone are the appliances of *he workers; but when the visitor enters the composing room, a high, cheerless brick-wall-in closed room, he is confronted with the fact that here as well as elsewhere in China things are upside down. In a word, the typesetter is quite as im portant o factor as the editor: at least such is the impression gained by the Tver .who faces the extraordinary " tl?e Chinese compositor?' ?rican typesetter is obliged ten figures and a few signs ana sym-y bois, as periods, dollar marks, etc., but the Chinese compositor must be fa miliar with 11.000 characters of this archaic language, i.bout which Profes sor R. K. Douglas says: "Every root ls a word, every word is a root. It is without inflexion or even agglutination: its substantives are indeclinable, and Its verbs are not to be conjugated; it ls destitute of an alphabet, and finds its expression on paper in thousands of distinct symbols." It is needless to go into a description of this marvelous language to explain the difficulties of the Chinese compos itor; but one illustration is sufficient. Certain sounds often stand for several hundred words, the difference, often vital- to an intelligent presentation of an idea, depending on certain diacrit ical marks accompanyng each word. There are thousands of these symbols which are engraved, each one repre senting a .type, but a well-regulated newspaper will require but 11,000 char acters;, if others are needed they are .made in the office. A font of type In the Chinese language requires 11,000 spaces, and in the large and spacious racks here shown each word instead of each letter, as in English, rhns a place for itself. There is also a pe culiar grouping or classification of symbols into groups to further facili tate the mental labors of the typeset ters. Thus in the immediate vicinity of the symbol for nsn would be found the symbols for scales, net, fins, tail, gills. This simplifies the labor, which in any event must be sb strenuous that it is evident that the compositor's end of the Chinese newspaper should, if perfect "justice ruled, be tho highest paid. The compositor is a staid and dig nified individual, and as he slowlv walks from symbol to symbol, pickii , up those r-hich he requires with pro yoking calmness, the American com pos.ltor might well wonder when th< work would be completed; and to se up the limited type required for ? INTERIOR OF CHINESE COMPC SIZE OF : small four-page daily paper the c( stant labors of eight or nine skill Chinamen are required for twelve thirteen hours, the entire wor': in < ery^departmect being the antipodes ash and whirl ahd marvelc celerity o? the modern American publi cation, i W?en the paper is set up it is printed on an American press, but the type, the symbols, are all made in China. There tire three other newspaper! published lil Sah Francisco besides thc one described-the Chinese World; th? Oriental Mews and the Commercial News. Nearly all have some special object in view. Thus the World is a reform paper, virtually the organ ot the Empire Reform-Association, a clnb'l or society which is very influential in K Ki Site ?ac -..:R.?c?fi* es-cet'n ?tn 3p s Suty Hing u ^ Co. m :- ^. Bl ft I CiL '..ansK^ii.iciiaiii? ?BflttNCVS?flKiS a*? M?wfMftklM? i^S UTl^ivniifti; -rtflt ?'Oil/JI?V j, tlUBl ?71. M- 1 * >.r-?. ca Mr ?JU 1 ?fi* n ut*. ?Sri A -i?/! i rn? f P'ft '..rj'.eTif ru I-A B<if,-r' CHINESE NEWSPAPER. Chinese circles in San Francisco and said to include a fourth of the entire population. The World opposed Mie Boxers, is pro-American in its ideas; its editor is Tong Chong, ti friend of the late missionary. Mr. Masters; a man of high culture and many attainments, who has, by thc aid of the society, of which he is Secretary, attempted to reform the entire Chinese Nation.-Sci. entitic American. TRACES OF A TRAGEDY. Grew?oiue Reminder of SIITRRO Hays "on an EDjrlish Church Door. A ghastly relic of bygone days is to be seen on the church door at Pern- j bridge, England. The handle is faster.ed h.- some elab orate ironwork to the stout oak boards, I and round the edges of this, says the Queen, may still be seen fragments ! y. fi m -li m. il THE TRACE OF A TRAGEDY. that look like coarse yellow parch ment. The casual visitor passes them by unobserved, and 'th little idea that he is on the tra --f a tragedy, for the parchment s- , are not por tions of the uotic of prehistoric church wardens, but the actual frag ments of the skin of some bygone malefactor, caught red-handed in rob bing the church, his hide being nailed to the doors as a perpetual warning lo evildoers. Tradition reports that he """as a Dane, but more Drobably he was ?orne Welsh marauder of the mountains, and at any rate t- this day the ghastly memorial of his crimes Is still visible. TVeddlnc; Superstition*. It is unlucky for the bride to eiiter the church before the ceremony nt one door and leave after tbe ceremony by another door. . The bride should always cut the first piece of her wedding cake. It is said to be unlucky to tie shoes to any part of the carriage in which the bride and bridegroom go away. In leaving the church the bride will j do well to place her right foot fore most if she wishes to be happy, healthy, etc., in the future, and she should always be the first to call her busband by name. After the wedding breakfast and re ception the bride should be careful to throw away and lose all the pins, if there are any about her. The brides maids should not keep the pins them selves, or they will retard their chances of marriage.-New York News. People who are governed by theil good impulses can govern themselves. )SING ROOM, SHOWING ENORMOUS ["HE FONTS. IMnrc'ered ltomnn Emperors. Of ninety-three emperors who ha governed the whole or a large part the Roman empire sixty-two were mi dered or died under suspicious circu stances. - "THE OLD TOIBS PRISON AND ?HE NEU. ??EAt interest centres in the disappearance of the old-time wall aboht the-original struc* lure of the Tombs Prison in , New York City, and the substitution j of the new granite cinelosure. The change attracts daily attention from the little crowds of loungers who hang about the neighborhood' of the Crim inal Court building. The process of change from the old to the new Is so gradual, yet so sure, that the ancient regime will be merged into the new j almost without anybody knowing it. Tho removal ol' the administrative de I pnrtments of the city prison into the j new commodious quarters on the Cen tre street side has already taken place. The change from the semi-darkness and musty, long out-worn conditions to spacious, and modern quarters brings A GENERAL'VIEW OF THE TOMB NEW YOAVK CITY F with it a contrast which for the mo ment makes even a prison seem a very cheerful and pleasant place. When one entered the old prison one was admitted by a lowering gate heav ily barred with iron into u low-coil inged room where many activities seemed to be crowded into small space and where the file of visitors waiting to see the prisoners always tended to overflow into the warden's room and down thc dark corridors leading co the cells. A splendid suite of offices has now been provided for the wardens and clerks, several sizeable rooms where prisoners can be searched an? where they may see their counsel and still others, where their, frieu. -nay be searched before visiting them in their cells. In tlie old Tombs the conven iences were of the slighfpst and loado <ixtf--<- ? , 1 1 =_~f_J showers were-" inadequate. Under the new rules pris oners will be compelled to take two hot baths a week. There are two shower baths at the end of each cor ridor, and besides this are special bath rooms in which new prisoners will be compelled to submit to a good scrub bing with soap and water before being placed in a cell. Another excellent feature that ls a great advance on the CITY PRISON, THE SUCCESSOR old conditions is the roof garden, where the prisoners will take the air instead of dismally filing around thc narrow corridors as they do at present getting their only healthful draughts of ozone through the narrow, heavilj barred corridors. The roof garden ii on the top iloor, directly under thi steep pitched roof. The completion of the city prison hui been delayed far beyond the time sped fied in the contract. The building wa begun five years ago-during the nd ministration nf thc late Mayor Strong Warden Van de Carr is delightei over getting into the new building Sir.ce he resumed his duties severn mou'hs ago the contractors have mad rapid progress toward the completio of the building. It is expected thu the present administration will pn vide a detached house in the priso yard for the use of the Warden. Th Warden's family, now occupies disiu: quarters. The removal of the west wall alon Elm street by the rapid transit contra? tors marks the beginning of the di struction of that portion of the ja yard where the old-time Sheriffs c New York County hanged their coi deinned prisoners. Volcanic Eruptions Near Mexico City. According to the traditions of tl: Indians, there were eruptions of tl volcanoes surrounding this valley ? follows: Ajusco, most violent, in 7G A. ] Also in 1114. Popocatepetl, 1353, terrifying the i habitants of the Asstcc city on who site this capital, is built. Houses we damaged and the people were terrific by Ute falling ashes and stones. Iztaccihuatl was in violent erupt! in 1489, three years before Columb discovered the New World. Nico, near Lake Chalco, burst ii eruption in 1170.-Mexican Herald. From a twenty-year-old mu!hoi tree 218 pounds of leaves have bc picked In a year. . Luck on n Kotri*. Many safety poison phials have bi-.cn devised; but it is doubtful if-any ope is sd sec?r? as the simply locked stopper illustrated heroW'tli. No one In thc dark, or sunlight, no matter LOCK O'S TBK l'OISOX BOTTLE. how preoccupied or deranged by suf fering, could possibly accidentally take a draught of poison from such o flask. As-will be seen by the sketch the lock is 'opened , by a small'key, but it automatically locks itself when -From a Photograph by W. F. Sibley. S BUILDING AS IT STOOD IN OR MANY YEARS. thc cover is closed down. Any de sired method of closing bottles or flasks may be employed in conjunc tion with thc lock. Not a less wide field for the use of such a device is to prevent unauthorized persons as, for instance, servants, from meddling with liquors, perfumes', etc. A Lolly Steamboat Itoute. The loftiest steamboat route in the world is doubtless that just opened be tween Tuno and ChPaya, Peru, on Lake Titicaca. 12.572 feet high or twice the altitude of Ml Wj ?kington. A Peraltar ren, . 'use. In an article which ^oared American Agricu?t 1902, Professor New York of fruit, . Flemish i received : das Co mittcd to xtorcssor Stewart for exam ination, who reports that the difficulty is thc same as that described in his previous article. Very often it is Im possible to determine the variety o? fruit on account of its diseased condi tion. Bi mm : i i. s ? ?. . r. i Kaw >?'-;:VY.'. ^v?fo'-S* ^^^.-.y... y;> : m ty m?mm OF THE HISTORIC "TOMBS.' A specimen of the pear infested witt this disease is shown in the accoin ponying illustration, furnished us bj Professor Stewart. This disease is caused by a fungus and can be pre vented to a large extent by thorough A DI .:ASED PIAR. ly spraying with bordeaux mixtur However, where the fruit on the tree cracks regularly each season, it woul perhaps be liest to graft thc top wit some other variety. Thc Widow's Cap. Tile widow's cap is as old as tho da, of Julius Caesar. An edict of Ti beril commanded all widows to wear thees under penalty of a heavy fine and ii prisonnient England's Yellow Fever Record. Only live outbreaks of yellow fev In English ports are known to have < curred in the last century. The trouble about Uftf^pe0pifJ v, know how everythh$?''ought to bc dc is that they can't^0 them. WOMEN GOLD BEATERS. A FIELD OF WORK ABOUT "WHlvH l\ - LITTLE IS KNOWN. ty: r?cfe ht Regard to tlio Industry - Great Judcinont nnil Skill .IN quired by the Workmen- Successful Opposition ortho ^ Men-Mentors to Women Employment. ! The recent strike among the gold heaters, the Issues at stake being the Increase of wage3 and discharge of women employed in the business, must have caused a good many people to inquire what a woman gold .beater Is. Gold beating is one of the smallest of American industries, as it is, in some respects, one of the most-pecu liar. The conditions under which it exists enable, the workmen to-dicate . terms to their employers, the latter frankly admitting that they have to j cither give in or go" out of business.. There- are only about 500 gold beaters in this country; the work is expert, : ard not every one can learn it. The English and German workmen" are too well paid to think of emigrating; and o? course the contract labor law stands in the way of sending for them from this side. The recent strike was really on ac count of the women. The increase of w^ges would have been granted the m'^n for the asking, hut employers \w>re reluctant to discharge for no caise women who served faithfully foTlow wages, did their work better than the men could do it, and were, in many cases, widows and orphans of /.he strikers* fellow-workmen. They hefd out for seven weeks, hoping that tho men would soften, but tho hope was not realized. The women had to go. It is pleasant to know that ono firm, the largest in New York, kept the,.discharged womens names on the pay-roll, and will continue to send thom their wages until employment can be found for them. . Small as the gold-beating industry i&, and little notice as its troubles at tracted, the results of them might have been very far-reaching. Manu facturers, it is said, actually consid ered whether it would not be as well for them to go out of the business as far as the beating itself was con cerned. If they had done so the price of gold picture frames would have ad vanced at least 25 percent on ac count of that tariff on gold leaf. Art ists would have felt this very serious ly, since their frame-maker's bills are heavy enough as it is. Decorators, painters, sign makers, bookbinders, cabinet makers-a dozen trades wouid have'becn affected. All on account of about 100 women-or rather on ac ct . Af ..ive u; . . ? J. A.^ ....ul'.. . bUVinw - squares and placed between the leaves of a parchment book three inches sqrare. This book is called the cutch, and contains two hundred leaves. . When it has been placed in a heavy parchment --envelope it is giv en to a brawny workman- with arm and shoulder muscles like a gladiat or. ' .He- stands before' a pounding block of solid granite, and, with an iron hammer. weighing 15 pounds, beats the cutch until tho gold within is three inches square instead of one inch. The blow struck is not the crushing blow of a butcher's ax; it must rebound lightly. The effort is expended in the upward swing of the arm and not in thc stroke. Women, of course, have no part in this work. The gold is next cut in quarters and placed in another book called thc shoda, which contains so-'o 850 leaves. This book consists of a pe culiar substance made from the en trails of oxen. It is as fine and smooth and flexible as the lining of an eggshell. It is very costly, the price of a single book being $50. A book will stand 150 beatings, after which it is sold to manufacturers of imitation gold-leaf. Tho shoda is beaten with a lighter hammer and a more expert stroke. The idea is to make the leaf a little thicker on the edges than in the mid dle. This is in order that when he leaf is finally trimmed and sold the manu facturer and not the buyer will get the part. The man who beats the shoda was really the cause of the strike. Up to this time all the work is in the hands of men. The transferring of the leaf from the shoda to the next hook and the final beating has always been the work of women. A light touch and a deft hand are required to do this With out breaking the leaf, which has now been beaten to the thinness of the thinnest tissue-paper. Some of tho men say they wanted to take the work away from the women because they knew they could do it, and they thought they ought to be alloweu more chance to sit down and rest from theil severe labor. Others admit that th'ej "'uiply wanted to earn more money. Ono is interested to observe thal the men are rather awkward in the ac complishment of . their new task. Al seemed to work slowly. ^ . The last book is called the mould and has 1000 leaves. In the gold tis sue is beaten to one-fourth that deli cate thickness, and then ?he men an through With it. In time they ma; come to think they can handle it fm ther, but at present they resign it ii its last stage to women. The girls sit at little, enclosed desk in an almost airless room. The smal est draught of wind must be excluder so light is the substance handled. A it is, quantities fly aboiit, and settle i the girls' hair and clothing. The wall and corners glisten with it In fror of each girl is a fine leather cuskfo? and at her side are piled^?rerlnouldi She turns the leaves^ ami' with,tho ai of two slender wobrJen tool's, one pincers and the oOfer a kind of stile the slnTi?mering gold, drops on the leather cushion, and breathe on it ge/ntly to flatten it. This mu? all be done lightly and quickly to void breaking. With two strokes of wooden stamp called a wagon, som thing like a cooky-cutter,, the gold is, cut into a three and throe-eighths in ches square. The trimmings arc swept hadtJuiQ.asbox?anJ the gold-is again I lilted and droppaTutfwvui.the leaves of a tissue-paper hook, where it "he-* comes the gold leaf of commerce. Twenty of them are sold together in a package. The retail price is $7.50. An "expert workwoman can . make' from CO to 80 books a da*y. The work is delicate, not tiring, and hut. for the closeness of thc room: would be a de cidedly pleasant occupation-New York Post.' ORIENT'S FOREMOST MAN. Some or Ibo Wonderful A rhinromcntt of J?aron -Sliibnsnu-n of Japan. In'the East-as well as in the West lhere are opportunities for a strong man to make his own way. In proof of :his, the life story of Baron Shibusa wa, the Japanese financier,-who was recently so well received' here, is told throughout the Orient as ari illustra tion of what a plain citizen may hen e?me. . Starting without advantages of birth or backing, he attached himself as a youth to the great Tokugawa family. He reorganized <he unsettled finances of the clan, and out vi gratitude its chief made him a government officer. His ability was quickly shown in the minor office he obtained and he rose rapidly. First he was tax. comp-' troller, then assistant vice-minister, next junior vice-minister and, finally vice-minister of finance. ? ' : Then, when the highest places with in the gift of the emperor were with in his reach., ho suddenly gave up state craft and returned to privat? life. As j a plain citizen he planned, he labored, lie organized. < . In.a-few months he was acknowl edged as the leader of an. industrial revolution which was' to make a new Japan. Largely through bis ' influence the empire set aside dreams of mili tary glory and chose the . sober tri umphs of peace. He extended her railways, her ship ping and her industries. A Japanese ad mirer has counted and tabulated the organizations and companies, of which alter thirtjr-fivo years' work,- Shibusa wa is either the head or the guiding spirit. They number more than one hundred and fifty and include every kind of business, every form of'in terest, civil and national, in the devel opment of the country and every form of chanty and philanthropy. . Vircinln'g Ovaler-Ked?. . Several .days ago a veteran oyster^ packer of Norfolk,, Va.,-was heard lo ?! *? "u-* ?* the state of Virginia enforce the laws. The trouble is said to b? that oys termen are'often allowed to disregard the regulation in connection with talc ing the young oysters ?rora the beds. When everything is taken up without discrimiation, the beds have no repro- . ciuctive material and become value less.' This year, oysters from the James and R?ppahann?ck and other river bods, which used lo yield oysters opening a gallen to the bushed, open only half a gallon to the bushel. Virginia- should not suffer her mag nificent, oyster , interests to be de stroyed. She should not permit the goose that lays the golden egg to be killed before her eyes. If a shake-up in the inspection system is needed, there should be no hesitation about performing the duty. The matter is important; look to it. The laws are good ; but the trouble with the law gen erally nowadays is that it is not en forced with sufficient vigor-Norfolk, Va., Land mai k. Glvlns Him "i* Moncy'n Wortli. A lawyer generally suits his fee to his advice, but in a case cited, by the Philadelphia Times one was forced lo reverse -thc order. His success in so doing was good evidence of his fitness for his calling. When this 'particular lawyer was first struggling along in his profes sion he received a call from a well to-do farmer, who was in need of le gal advice ' concerning his rights, which he thought had been ignored by the sec.tion-hauds on a Penr ly va nia railroad. The lawyer looked up the statutes, and told the farmer what, he should do. "How,?mich?" queried the farmer. "Well, let's-call it three dollars," replied the lawyer. The farmer handed o'? er a five-dol lar bill. -Tho- lawyer seemed embar rassed. But after searching through Iiis pockets and the drawers of his desk, he rose to the occasion anti pocketed the bill as he reached foi a diges.t. . "I guess, neighbrr," he remarked as he resumed his seat, "I shall hav( to give you two dollars' worth mon advice." New Monning: of Fluff. A San Francisco rabbi gives a ne\ interpretation of the design of the Am erican flag. To an audience of immi grants largely Russian, .the other daj he said: "Do you know why the Star and Stripes are in the flag? I will te you why. They show that Americ has stars for those who behave them selves and stripes for those who d ^not." .. ,* riocaloriiil Point of View. "Iron may be good.rfb\ same folk: blood," remarke?-^?he wo*m, as "th angler rsn^tho hook, thr?agh^.hin "biifr'? know it will be the death ? me" . . " T-. ' ' . . 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