AGRICULTURAL CHINA.
ITS VARIETIES OF CRAIN AND FRUIT
WOULD BE VALUABLE HERE,
The Chinene Are Skilful Husbandmen
and the World fan Learn Important
I.**rkoii* of Tliem—Advance in Orange
Culture—Home of Winter Muskinclou,
"China can teach the world some
great lessons in agriculture," said Mr.
T\ V. Coville, chief botanist of the de
partment of agriculture, to a New York
Post correspondent "For example. We
know that there are certain cereals
cultivated 011 the headwaters of the
Yangtse river, at an elevation of 18,-
001) feet above the level of the sea; they
grow wheat tljere in some places at an
altitude of 12,000 feet, whereas in this
country very little can be raised at an
elevation of 8000 feet, and that is in
Arizona, where it is very warm. But
the real test of the ability of the Chi
nese is this direction is afforded by a
comparison of cereal elevations with
the timber line. They raise wheat
within 1 r.OO feet of the timber line on
the plateau of Turkestan, while in Ar
izona our timber line is 4300 feet above
the wheat belt.
"A timber line furnishes a very defi
nite basis of climatic measurement the
world over. Just as the sea docs for
the measurement of altitude. One
thousand feet below the timber line is
Arizona would mean substantially the
same climatic conditions as 1000 feet
below the timber line in New Eng
land, and so when we say that the Chi
nese raise wheat within 1300 feet of
that line, we mean that they have de
veloped a strain which is far more re
sisting of cold and drought than any
thing we have in Europe or North
America. Their civilization is so much
older than ours that the gradual de
velopment of these strains has boon
brought about, and we could to advan
tage bring some of them into use here.
We have now a representative of the
department in the tipper Yangtse,
where he went for the purpose of gath
ering specimens for introduction here.
Nothing has been heard of him for
some time, and not a little anexlety is
felt In his behalf.
"Besides the wheat and other cereals,
China is said to have considerable ad
vantage over us in orange culture. The
Yangtse valley produces u delicious
orange, according to reports we have
received, in districts where the trees
are subjected to a temperature 20 de
grees below the freezing point. That
part of China on the borderland of the
great Turkestan plateau is also the
home of the peach, and it was from
southwestern Asia that the modern
world secured this valuable fruit. They
have varieties thero now quite different
from any that grow in this country—
not necessarily better, for the develop
ment has been nlong different lines In
the two hemispheres. Only a little
while ago a peach was introduced from
China into Florida, known as the
Peeuto, which is shaped like a tomato
—very short from stem to pit It has
a short, stout stone, and its flavor is
delicious. It does not seem to be a
good shipping peach, and for that rea
son seldom gets to the northern market.
Neither is it especially adapted for
canning, where the chief requirement
is a certain firmness. The sugar used
in canning takes the place of many
natural defects in flavor and sweetness
which the fruit may have. So the can
ning factories do not need a peach of
the type of the Peento, and thus far
its use has been confined to the local
markets. There are other varieties
from China, however, which may he
belter adapted to the commercial
needs of this country, and upon that
subject our agent in the Ynngtse was
probably working when the recent dis
turbances broke out.
"It was from this plateau of Asia,
extending through Turkestan, by
which China is bounded on the west,
that we obtained the Turkestan nl
falfa, one of the best of our forage
plants. We found it growing there In
condition of great dryness and great
told, and when the plant was sub
jected to the same conditions In our
lar western states it proved most ac
reptable. Its introduction lias meant
an enormous extent northward and
upward among the mountain slopes of
tho alfalfa culture, and alfalfa is the
great forage crop of the west.
"From tills region, too. has crone
the winter niuskinelon, which is now
growing successfully in the west and
only awaits for its general introduc
tion in tlie cast some improvement in
the method of shipping. This we have
decided to leave to the ingenuity of
tho west. This melon grows ns large
as a watermelon, is edible in the
months of December, January, and
February, and is us sweet and deli
cate in flavor as any musk melon that
can be bought in the Washington
markets today. I gave one last win
ter to a member of CongrcßS who was
getting up a dinner for some of his
associates, and, as lie afterwards
♦old nae, it produced a sensation. He
declared that If those melons oov.ld
la brought into the New York market
in good condition in midwinter people
would pay any price for tbptp. J 141,1
at present the transportation problem
is a little difficult. They grow in the
dtep, hot valley* of Utah to the best
advantage, und when subjected to tho
long Journey seem tojooee their firm
ness. I have no doubt however, lift
that this will be corrected, and that
the musk melon will be one of the reg
ulnr winter fruits of the future."
Convenient for t!e Ant-
Ants can stand extremes of heat and
cold. Forty-eight hours' exposure to
frost will not kill them, and one sort
has been observed to build Its nest In
chinks in a blacksmith's forge.
VICTIM OF SIMIAN JEALOUSY.
Talented Monkey Died Because Shunned
by Bits Envious I-'ellows.
All tliat Boras, the little pink-eyed
monkey, wanted of his fellows in the
Lincoln park zoo was kind treatment,
ai d when they turned their backs on
li'm and ignored the inoffensive crea
ture altogether he got sick and sulked
in the darkest corner of the cage, The
keepers had never witnessed such a
strange manifestation of feeling akin
to human among the animals and did
not worry about Borax. The ostracism
imposed on him by his erstwhile com
panions matte Borax sick, and he re
fused nourishment Sunday morning
the little animal died, and his long
tailed playmates of two weeks ago, un
forgiving even in the face of death,
refused to allow the slightest sign of
sorrow when he was carried away and
buried.
The circumstances of Borax's death
were not known to the thousands who
visited the animal reservation. They
found the monkeys in new cages, and
when something was said about a de
mise in the colony they attributed it
to on accident upon moving. There
was one less simian to be bribed into
a clever acrobatic feat with a handful
of peanuts, but the demaud was not
lessened through the absence of the
dead animal.
Borax was the cleverest performer
of all the monkeys, and his skill led
to his fate. He handicapped his fel
lows by his previous training, for bo
came from n circus where lie got a
bun if he rode a spirited greyhound
around the track without losing his
seat and a whipping if his performance
did not suit the trainer. Borax's life
at the Lincoln park zoo had promise
of happy days. The first Sunday he
performed lie got as many peanuts as
all the rest of the monkeys combined,
but Boriix was not selfish and attempt
ed to divide his spoils. The simian's
generosity was regarded as an attempt
to lord it over the rest and he was not
thanked.
After a month's stay ut Lincoln park
Borax apparently wished he had never
left tlje circus, though tiio buu was
frequently stale and the beating a se
vere one. There he was 011 good terms
with the greyhound and the savage
bull terrier that wouldn't treat any
other member of the outfit with the
least show of civility. Bornxdidhisbest
to furnish amusement to the crowd,
but would not accept the rewards. Af
ter dark his cage companions would
appropriate their despised comrade's
emoluments though they made unkind
remarks about hiiu.
"You can't tell me that the pink-eyed
fellow didn't die of grief," said one
of the keepers yesterday. "It was a
plain case of getting shut out in the
cold. lie wanted to bo the 'good fel
low' with the crowd, but tlioy wouldn't
stand for it It is just like men, any
how. If they see a chap succeeding
they begin talking bad about him. Bo
rax wasn't accustomed to that sort of
tiling, and it broke bim all up. I
could see be could not live through It
He didn't see any chance of getting
back to tile circus or another job, so
lie went back in the cage and starved
himself to death. That monkey was
more sentimental than many a human
being."—Chicago Chronicle.
Strnngn Fanning.
Not all the farming in the world Is
carried 011 in the country. Some branch
es of the farmer's work are pursued
in cities, and even in their crowded
parts. A writer in Cassell's Saturday
Journal Is responsible for the state
ment that the fattening of pigs is not
incompatible with life in a densely
populated quarter, and cites a case in
point.
A man who kept a small grocer's
shop in the heart of a city was for
years very successful as 11 fattener of
pigs. Under His shop was a cellar, the
front door and window of which were
boarded up. Access to it could bo ob
tained only at the back.
This cellar was always occupied by
two pigs, although not always by the
same ones. The owner would smuggle
liis young charges into the cellar by
night, bed tliem down with the straw
from ills egg eases, and feed them on
the bread and potatoes and vegetables
that the youngsters of the neighbor
hood bought him In exchange for a
handful or two of candy.
So little did It cost liim to feed his
charges that he Is said to have grown
rich on his profits. The same butcher
bought one pair after another of these
city-fattened pigs.
A still more unlikely place In which
to look for pigs is a back bedroom,
but even this shelter is not unheard-of
one to the writer. These particular
pigs were well trained. They not only
lived up stairs, but they walked down.
Their owner knew that washing them
helped to put on weight, so he used to
take them into the small baek van]
for a tubbing, and taught them to walk
up-stalfs and down. He would never
have been found out if some of Ills
neighbors bad not complained of him.
Too Many Boos.
The honey-prbduetng Industry of
Dvonsville, Ind., has reached snob
magnitude that the city council Is con
sidering an ordinance declaring the
bees a nuisance and requiring the own
ers of hives to move them outside the
city limits. It is said that 7T> persons
have colonies of bees in the city and
the lieos produce SIO,OOO worth of hon
ey a year.
r-
A woman is never so mad as she is
when she sens a hat that Is terribly
cheap, right after some smooth man
has talked her around to buy an en
cyclopedia.
A DIARY OF STARVATION
KEPT BY WEYHRICH UNTIL TWO
DAYS BEFORE HIS DEATH.
Five Days Later Food Was Obtained bv
His Surviving Companion—A Story of
the Terrible Suffering Gamely Endured
by Goidseekers in the British Northwest
Henry Weyhrich, a motormnn, who
left the service of the Los Angeles
(Cul.) Railroad company in the winter
of ISIIS to seek his fortune in the
Klondike, has starved to death, llis
comrade, A. L. Dominy, who narrowly
escaped the same fate, returned in
safety to his home at Adams and
Hoover streets in Los Angeles, says
the Times, bringing the news of Weyh
rlch's death. Mr. Dominy was with
Weyhrich when he died, and brought
back to u brave little mother and sis
ter, who live out on Ninth street, just
beyond Park View avenue, a 100 lov
ing messages and a diary iii which the
young prospector told of his little
daily adventures and at lust how he
was dying by inches of hunger. It is
a piteous book, that diary; for he
writes heroically, trying to see hope
where there was no hope.
Weyhrich was one of the Sunny
South party which left Los Angeles
for the Klondike two and one-half
years ago. They took the Edmonton
route, which carried them along Peace
river, by Fort Graham and along Syl
vester Post. The other members all
turned back before long, but Weyhrich
and Dominy kept 011 into the interior
of Northwest Territory. They laid
bad luck. They found a little gold,
but it was too tine and not in paying
quantities. They had come so far for
it that they could not bear to turn
about empty-handed, and stayed 011
and on in the threat of the coming
winter.
At last it caught them, and un
able to travel further or go back, they
built a cabin at the lower end of the
McPherson lake on the Ycssezoo river,
about DUO miles from Dawson and 240
miles from Fort Liard, where were
probably the nearest human beings.
They knew they had not provisions
enough to last the winter through, but
rested easy in the hope in getting
plenty of game.
Mr. Weyhrich writes merrily in his
diary of their search for a good place
for the cabin home and later tells
how they built it. Their axes got very
dull and nicked, and it was fearfully
cold, the thermometer sometimes going
down to 40 and even 05 degrees lie
low zero. Still tliey seemed to be
having a not unpleasant experience.
Small game like pine martin and
squirrel appeared to be plenty enough.
But as winter settled down the game
became very scarce and the provisions
began to run low. The men kept liv
ing in the hope of getting a moose.
Sometimes they found tracks; some
times saw the game, but when the
moose came It was too late for poor
Weyhrich. Last New Year's day the
two snow-seiged prospectors had a
pathetic little celebration in their
cabin. They knew by that time that
there was small chance of either one
seeing another New Year's day. Weyh
rich told of it in his diary. He made
this entry:
"Jan, 1, 1000. Camp Winter Quar
ters.
"Cold and clear.
"We had two good meals today.
Dominy baked pancakes, using the
last of our critic acid, lie greased the
spider with a bit of steric acid candle.
1 cooked dried apples, which we ate
with the pancakes and Hour gravv.
For dinner we had vegetables, flour
unisli and a spoonful of peameal our
last—and dried apples for supper.
"1 remained in camp and cut up a
big log of firewood. Mr. Dominy
went moose hunting—Saw fresh signs,
but could not get to them—They were
traveling. He caught one murtin and
one weasel in a trap."
The wood had to be gathered in en
ormous quantities. Sometimes they
burned as much us a cord in a night
to keep from freezing. Weyhrich laid
run out of writing paper and the rec
ord of the doings of that last fate
ful winter was written across the
pages of a little Spanish-English Bible,
which had the sacred words printed
in parallel columns in the two lan
guages. It seemed as though hope
had left them that New Year's day,
for there is not a gleam of anything
but deSpair in the record of the days
thereafter —only a cool, manly resig
nation. On ,1 a nuary (i Weyhrich
writes:
"Too weak to go hunting. Cooked
spoonful of rice, one of flour, one of
vegetable, one leg of squirrel."
"Inn. 7—Very cold. 1 chopped
wood. Mr. Dominy rested so as to
save his strength for moose tomor
row.
"I feel that the Lord has saved our
souls, though our bodies perish by
starvation or freezing. Our situation
Is very desperate. Living 011 two
meals of thin soup.
"Jan. B—Mr. Dominy went moose
hunting three miles up to the left.
Saw moose 011 opposite mountain, but
as It was getting dark and his strength
wus fulling, he could not get at it
"We are eating buds of willow to
stay gnuwing pongs of hunger. Ate
one little white weasel for breakfast
Our soup keeps getting thinner every
day.
"We are getting wenker fast nnil
can't hold out many more days.
"If relief in some shape does not
come soon we must perish.
"Jan. 9—Starving to death.
"One spoonful of evaporated vege
table and one of rice and one of flour
per man per day, and doing hujd
work on that.
"Mr. Dominy goes moose hunting
every day from one to four miles,
breaking new trails with snowslioes
without getting sight of any moose ex
cept one at dusk half way up the
mountain.
"Weather Is cold, about 30 to 40 lie
low zero, and tine snow, with wind
from the north dally, which cuts
through a person.
"We cnn hardly keep warm 011 the
wood I cnn cut during the daytime."
"Jan. 10—Very cold. Snowed dur
ing the night and all day. Fine now.
"Rice all gone. No living thing mov
ing. The spuirrels have crawled into
their holes and the few remaining
pine martins have done the same.
"Mr. Dominy and I both went moose
hunting up to Tarmergon beach, three
miles up the river to the left. Saw no
signs of any living thing.
"We both expect to die if we don't
get outside relief within one week, as
the snow is getting so deep and our
strength is failing fast.
"It all depends 011 our getting a
moose, and they are not to be had.
"We are prepared to meet our Lord
and Saviour in heaven, where care
- 'V si: -a *, i r, - t
and sin and sorrow are no more. I
will meet dear beloved mother and
sister there with relatives and friends.
"Jan. 11—Very cold, snow continu
ing. Almost impossible to move
around camp without snowslioes.
Snow is four feet deep 011 a level.
"Flour all gone. No sign of moose
or any other game. Not even a bird.
We are living on one spoonful of vege
tables and the tips of willows."
For five days following this entry
Weyhrich was too weak to write, evi
dently. Each day he merely entered
the date and the name of the camp,
"Winter Quarters."
The sad record closes Tuesday, Jan.
10. It Bcems as though Weyhrich
knew it was to be the last entry. He
wrote:
"Tuesday, Jan. 10, 1900. Winter
Quarters.
"Henry A. Weyhrich of Los Angeles,
C'al. A. L. Dominy.
"Cold. Very cold. About three inch
es of snow fell last night.
"I am a skeleton."
By one of those weird circumstan
ces which are so often encouraged
By one of those weired circum
stances which are so often en
countered where Bibles play a part
Weyhrich's dying message was written
across the following verses in Acts;
"And now behold I go bound in the
Spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing
the things that shall befall me there.
"Save that the Holy Ghost witness
etli in every city saying that bonds
and affections abide Me.
"But none of these tldngs move me,
neither count 1 my life dear unto my
self, so that 1 might finish my course
with joy and the ministry which I
have received of the Lord Jesus to
testify the Gospel of the grace of
God."
Two days after, Weyhrich went to
his death with the utmost pluck and
cheerfulness. He and Dominy sang
songs all the morning until the end
came.
Dominy buried his friend and lived
four months alone in the camp. Two
days after Weyhrich died he managed
to shoot a squirrel and five days after
Weyhrich's deatli the longed for
moose was slain. This saved Dominy's
life.
When he regained his strength by
food, he made a terrible journey across
the snow to civilization and finally
got safely home, carrying Weyhrich's
diary and papers through all his
hardships.
Weyhrich had many friends in thin
city, lie was n native of Peltin, 111.,
and cume to Los Angeles in 1837.
Education in rhino.
Education of a eertain type is very
general, but still there are vast num
bers of countrymen in China who can
neither read nor write. There is a
special literary class who alone know
the literature of their country, to the
study of which they devote their lives.
There are boarding schools, day
schools, and colleges. Examinations
mainly confined to moral philosophy
and literature are held In the perfecto
rial cities of each province twice in
three years for the lower degree nec
esser.v as a passport to the public ser
vice. and of the six or seven thousand
candidates who have come forward,
not more than GO can lie admitted to
the degree of Literary Chancellor.
For the higher degrees, other examin
ations are necessary. There is a "Col
lege of Foreign Knowledge" at Fekin,
where European languages, mathe
matics, sciences, etc., are taught by
European, Japanese, and American
professors. There are besides many
Christian mission schools, where the
English language and lower brandies
of western sciences are taught. The
government also maintains naval and
military colleges and torpedo schools
at the various arsenals to tench the
young Chinese modern methods of war
fare.
flowtoMka Ktrrift' Newt Soup.
Here is the Chinese recipe fr mak
ing real birds' nest sonp, which may
interest lady readers. Take clean
white bird's nest shreds, or birds'
nests themselves, and soak thoroughly.
Take out all feathers. Boil in sohp or
water until tender and all Is the color
of Jade stone. Place pigeon eggs be
low, and add some shreds of ham on
top. Boil in clean water once more,
add sugar candy, then eat If you're
a Chinaman; if you are not—throw It
out of the window.
During the last three years more
than (100.000 Russian farmers have
settled in Siberia. I
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crops up of practical application of tho
laws. Thus, whereas in French law
the prohibition of "night" shooting cov
ers only the period of darkness, a similar
restriction applied to fishing applies to
the entire period between sunset and
sunrise, a very different matter in the
summer months.
Again, a very proper consideration of
the extent to which intense cold may
deprive birds of their wild instincts and
their powers of flight has prompted a
prohibition in France of shooting in
the snow; but here again, before a pros
ecution can be established, it must be
shown that the snow was thick enough
at the time of the offense to enable any
one to follow the footprints of the beast
or bird.—London Express.
London Has a Dead Man's Curve.
In London, although street accidents
are of much raner occurrence than in
the metropolis of the United States, we
yet have danger spots which annually
claim their appointed tale of victims.
According to a high police official,
London's "dead man's curve" is Chat
ham place, situated to the north of
Blackfriars bridge and at the junction
of the Embankment, Bridge street and
Queen Victoria street. This, notwith
standing opinions to the contrary, is
by far the most dangerous crossing in
London. —London Daily Mail.
Auctions in Japan are quietly con
ducted. The bidding is secret and si-,
lent, each person writing his bid on a
slip of paper and dropping it into a box.
When it appears that all the bids arc in
the box is opened and the highest bid
der is named.
Laborers are so scarce in Switzerland
that they have to be imported not only
from Italy, but Bohemia and Silesia.
Alaskan travelers say that the mos
quitoes there have driven men *o sui
cide.