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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1899)
Supplement to COTTAGE GROVE NUGGET, Friday, December 29, 1899. 0PlCS OF TUB TIMES. . r....iiinl1 It U nil Hip crtil. . every mnii who Iiiih n fail ,. it made a Htudy In tho pub- r.2 llfliw" s has 'accomplished mJl'ITtlHl'MUMIl. Of tilt! II 1(1 1 ll - Itfolf HOPP'T I" .......I (Ullltll Utt jjjl nan'"--- .... .,!... Iilu nMfi III nrrli.r her from K'K "way from 1 .f..... .Uiiloim It niUHt lo to bo Hot. like ti""- .. .lit nt T.111I vninltli .1 ml O f i tiio iiiiwiHiiom r taking him in itorn vocation, lie can't mam- ,...n in 11 triulo fomhlnc inllt I' Hini"1 """"""J ... .11 L.il Is li.il'ii ri 1" ..1.. ivtltli ii I''"l' - . . . ..A 1 I,. -rlillllly WOUK1 ''' "nuiKl .1 tggm ""'I' ' '"I"' CMm' AMMMHllHI. was w,lt-'u llu''' U bun in" "" Mhlr, BOJi-B . ..... . , jl.nll!?!! IT!' IflllMW. ihu IKUUU ...p- Lireapt'" "1,K ,r K ijomaii Hi Texas Iiiih taken her life an licr iuihiuiiiu wncnou ui um. t the would have none ir no nan 1 brilllniitl 111 1UH wniHKorH muni ila a mystery ijjlfjInuKlH'il llvi' hours over a Joko lit took two 'locHirn xo permiaui; iiei l,4n KilltniH uh a rule mm; a groin ... ... 1.... nlr of mi' " JOKi'M hoiii iiicin. mu Lj are always afraltl to print mom Ine311."lr' .-migrants who nunc hero : year brought $5.5im.i.ou imo me ntrr. Yet UilH expresses Dili a mioiu tirtlunof what tin- honest ami faithful ntat among them Is worth to me nlrf. 5iiiearltiiuii"il-laiiM have figured out ttlromi atid-rbllt palil about $ iMOOfor UN wife. A high price, lint krearetoiiii' men who will assert tint know of some wlvtn worth more 1 tlijt. pltha wife, a house ami lot. a plane, Inronl, a watch, a pet Hull, a title I a fat wilnry already provliled, ami WiMiotof prize iimiiey III HlKlit, A1 i Itewev Is naturally inetty well tiled with the way the world 1 g him. IlidletliiK Ih now eoiiMldered one tt most Hlh'iK'luiiH aids In inodtnu I-Jlcal nriuihe, (Jeiimin doctoiH are bning how to idiik. TIiIk Ih kooiI l. The time may eome wnen we send for the doilor In ciiho the I girl nfiiHeK to iperate. L Kayatnyama, the Imperial archl- 1 of Japan, hai recently placed an n In Plushm-i for U.OOtl toim of ncttiral Iron to he used In liulldlu wiiiidi, nun iiic Hliicero ninti uniVmi n far better hiiHbaml than the artlllelal one, And tlm wiuiiiiu n-lu. iii.i ' . ' . .Willi Illlh uiiderHlaiid prnpoHal of marriage, ramtuatleal or otlienvlHc, hIioiiIiI be unreiKiiciiiy pltttMl for her (IuIIiu-hh of coniprehciiHlon. i'liere are Homo who believe timt in the mutter of dreHHinakliiL' women urn Htlll In the dark iikch, though their re ceiitly expreKHed tleferenee to the man tailor kIiowh that lliey ant oinerKliiK Into the llKht. Woman now demamlH that her wiivh anil iniiui u uimii i, THE CULTUI1E OF TEA. SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS ARE MADE IN THE SOUTH. (SimleiiH In Hoiilh Carolina Produce a Hupcrlor Article at Twctity-llvc Per Cent. Prollt-A New ami Orowlnu Jn (liiHtry for the Houtliland. Some yen 1-H ao a few fnr-KoeltiK men of the Southern States looked far Miibject to the Hinne HtandardH as IIioku' ahwid to we that cotton would aiiplli'd to man, but on the oiieHtion of i ll0t Iw.vh bo klnt'. and opened to dlH- clothcH Hhe in iiHt Htlll Httffer ii little by! (-'IIKWln the problem of ralHitiK tea. Ai me conipariHon. i r a man does not wmi l""u couon wan kiiik. ami tnere K who retirement and deny hlniHelf to IiIh kind while the tailor Ih at his house. lie does not pore over pattern books. and on the subject of "llndliiKs" he Ih DilKsruiiy ignorant. One can hardly fancy a man jjoIiib about choosing the lining for his coat, the buttons for III- vest and all the Innumerable element that go to cover the human form divine. Of course, women have the object ol beauty as well uh utility In their minds. and In their zeal for the former they will give soul and strength In the search for beconiliigness. This Is well, but It Is encouraging to note that It Is now possible for a woman to be well dressed without devoting her dayH to the task, Iiiformcrilinmlt was almost Impossible to liny women's garments ready made, and It was necesary for a woman eith er to make them herself or employ dressmakers more or less skilled. Hut now she Is no longer under the tyranny of the thimble. She can buy her clothes ready made, and when she dons these Hho Is not to be distinguished from the wearer of the made-to-order gowns, white she feels far superior to her who wears the home-made dresse. pard sold his crop of 1808, about 3.000 pounds, as also about 500 pounds of the crop of the previous year (which had been bought to maintain prices), at a profit of about 25 per cent. The I'lne hurst black tea has u distinctly charac teristic flavor, and, like some of the choicer Oriental teas, Its Honor has more strength than.1" color Indicates. These qualities 17-V ts Introduction slow. Hut It has Q .,ys proved n diffi cult matter to change the taste of tea consumers; notably so In the Introduc tion of Ceylon tea into Great Hrltaln, the mother country of its producers. Nevertheless there has been a steadily Increasing demand for I'lnehurst tea, The servant girl problem has become distracting by the diminution of sup ply ami the exorbitant wages demand ed. Young women who formerly were engaged In domestic service are now largely going Into shops bcause of higher wages, though they do not con sider the olTset of longer hours, In creahed expenses, amV. physical wear and tear. A partial solution of the problem In the Hast Is suggested by the appearance of men chambermaids ami men of all work, who are not only ipilte as handy as chambermaids but do their work even better, quicker, and more reliably, thus Justifying the famous opinion which Hurtle Masscy delivered to Mrs. Poyser as to the rela tive ability of man ami woman. To what extent men can be relied upon to take the places of women In domestic 1 service Is an unknown quantity, but I.. nw.Miititnii tin. I'nlteil Hrltlsli Women h emigration Association mm hit upon a plan for supplying com petent help III housework In the colo nies which hcenis susceptible of wider adoption. It Is the system of "com panion helps." A circular has recently been Issued by the association In which the system Is explained. Companion helps" are educated women who have fitted themselves to undertake situa tions by actual domestic experience In cooking and housework. In Canada the demand for Intelligence on the part of applicants Is still mort extend ed. They must have learned cooking, baking, washing, milking dairy work, bee-keeping, poultry-raising, aim cm was no denying it, so the effort to cre ate an Interest In tea raising proved abortive. In less than fifteen years came a great war In which the South was swept clean as by a hurricane. One result of the war, minor perhaps, besides some of the other results, was that cotton was dethroned. Into the new South was Introduced other forms of agriculture, and not only that, but manufactures which the South hereto fore had despised with pride In Its "splendid Isolation." And now, a generation after the war has closed, after King Cotton has been deposed, Southerners themselves have taken up the culture of tea In earnest, bound to make It contribute to the gen eral prosperity of that section of the country. A leader among these leaders Is Prof. Charles U. Shepard, of Pine hurst. Summervllle, S. C, and In a pub lication of the agricultural department In Washington he tells of the success of his experiment. Since he has made a profit of 25 per cent, on his venture the undertaking Is entitled to be taken out of the class of experiments and put in with the solid accomplishments that will endure. It Is seven years since he first reported on the oitcratlons on the Pinehurst es tate. He says that it seems probable from the facts so far gathered that the TKA NfllSKIlV IJJ JULY. and a great many people will drink no other. Green tea also Is made at Pinehurst, and has attracted keen Interest In the trade. There Is probably a greater de mand In the United States for green than black tea. At present, a large amount of sophisticated green tea is consumed In this country. As It Is chiefly made of Inferior leaf, highly colored with Prussian blue, and faced with powdered soapstone, etc., so as to hide all natural defects. It cannot bo regarded as either nutritious or health ful. Hut the nature of the demand In dicates a decided preference for the taste and qualities of green, I. 0.. not oxidized, teas, and should stimulate us to supply In Its stead a pure, wholesome article of the same type. Unfortunate ly, green teas can as yet bo made by dairies consume the surplus productl-A of fruit and milk. One feature In the cultivation of tea lias only to be stated to appeal to every one who plants, namely, that the t-easou for gathering the leaf lasts in this cli mate for six months. Thus a crop ia not dependent for nt least partial suc cess upon the weather of any one or two months, as Is so apt to bo the case with most of the objects of the hus bandman's labor and solicitude. For the present it will be wiser to limit the production of tea In the South to the better grades, such as retail at from CO cents to 51 per pound. The greater cost of unskilled labor in this country than In the Orient should con stitute a smaller fraction of the totaL expense If the product commands a. higher price. Other things being equal, the quality of any tea depends on the "fineness" of the leaf plucked. If only the tiny, tender, youngest leaf he pick ed, the quantity of the crop must be comparatively small; but its quality will bo decidedly superior to that ob tained by "coarse" plucking, which also embraces the older, larger and neces sarily tougher leaves. Problem of Cheap T.alior. Leaf-plucking demands the careful attention of the tea grower. It Is a. light employment, suitable for women and children, but they must be taught patiently and their work must be scru tinized strictly. At Pinehurst colored, children do the picking, and very satis factorily. A free school is maintained for 'hem; every pupil of sultablo-'age-and size Is required to pick; others are excluded from the gardens. Regular attendauceandbetterd sclplineare thus secured. But. otherwise, there would be no difficulty In securing an ample force, as the wages earned prove In themselves a sufficient attraction. The older children earn from 30 to 50 cents a day; the younger one In proportion. The tea gardens are picked twenty times a season, or once every ten days, and It takes three days for the average force of twenty children to make the lace for the crown prince at Tokyo. ting and making simple dresses. These hough covering n large area, thl Jluir will he only three stories in ?lit, and will be constructed with Itlculnr reference to withstanding ibipiakes. Tills architect has been for some time, studying our build- It methods, and especially their adap- u to Japan's needs. plat we Inherit from Knglnnd Is Hy languane. llie.uture and tcr- Ia lolItical aspliat.oiiH. These are bequests, but they do not. Wlieless, entitle Ungland to he the mother country any more lie possession of French language f literature entitles llnytl to e'.a in Mileage of Kin nee. Thu tiutli Is Pt the Dure AhL'n.Kn von s.rain us Is nearly extinct and haw 1 replaced by a better one. It Is F( for our statesmen to recognize '-on fitting occasion, to proclaim the 'Mil put an end to the after-dinner D which makes out that Ainerl- F" are something else and worse. I "HI the comlne; woman inarrv? She not unless Uie coming mini studies BUI nr. ho tlm t lw imiii tun t.-o the Hired woman understand a proposal warrliiL'o."- iti.v. v.u-i.n nwlirht 'Mnn sermon at Plvmouth church Dr. llllltH 1 mnw ti wnmnn re- lnS tt mail for nn ntlwir rnnMiiu ex- '"bat tlio proposal was contnullc- '10 tllO Hf'ImW.A ii.lilnli Ifmlto lt tllf rClplesoflaniruaeo? Ones Dr. HilllH f 1 Ulan who inmln n nrnnnsnl of rlago reneatlmr word for word tlio "ago that ho luul prepared with Mm I'8 does ho Is In possession of lnfor- i t n wllk'h tho worl(l ln Knoral otj The woman who would reject 11 8 wciuiso ho erred In tho construe- 01 his sentonco In nsklng her to , "eserves to bo nn old mnld nil aai,s of lior life. Tho man who Jdellver a well nronared. nronosal Sa'Crlflco sliienrltv to nrtlllelnll. I' onlesa ho had extraordinary self- .....wiiiiinisj however, an n.v 10 motu who are going out to the colonies. Hut, on the other hnnd, these "eoinpnnion helps" have advantages ami privileges which no domestic servant is allowed to have. The circular asserts that a companion help" Is engaged where no servant Is kept, lind where the mis tress undertakes some part of the work In the same way In which a mar ried woman and her sister might, di vide the household duties. "Com-p-inlon helps" share in the family life, ami uianv women have been only too glad to avail themselves of the oppor tunity to become companions rather than servants and to have a life with the famllw The salaries are not large, varvlng from ?120 to $2-15 a year, but the" privileges are such as no servant can have. Some such system as this .1.,. vn.rm. in New Knglnnd hnlf 11 century ago, when American gli went Into service and became shareis the family llfo. " mny Do Impos ...i.. n.vive It. because American Mils now look down upon domestic Horvlce and prefer the slavery of the shops, but It mlKht be adopted to a . ..vtonr. for there are many ,0 ..potent women who would rejoice t() have a home of this Kin. am. nu 1 e Identified with n family, oven " a helper. There does not seem to as a nupi . ti,M MVS- be nny SUIUCieill mm. - . should bo ccllned to colon es Falling till", however, or some other method of recruiting female servants l e lay of the man 'servant would een. to bo near at hand In boi..o parti of the Kast he is already coin- lug to tho front. Spnam ot Dooonoy in Vnvla. Tho French Society for the Supprcfv sloi of Vice is going to try to prevent hSecent exhibitions among - tho a n,e .1 ,.t Mi, l '111-18 OX lOSIll"", ii uono v ---- - ,i(1.,i qn UL'Cll ttwii- ty.f.',"" V rsil4?ff. -..'ft. 1 fife', fe.raVJa .K77itP' 1 hand on v: IIHK "u'- .wt ental labor. JMv . , ui pick rroui dllim grAdesWfVA .- fiLM JMp? Ulack teas c ?V'! '' ' 1 - ' In almost cvlsAv'C'v J ' ; , '' ' :V- of the leaf InjiOfv . )' , v---'' The cost ofMDsA'.'; v , . '. " country is liHHfe..ti - ,. ' ' - :- 'v met by a grel' , , '' Qfc' ' it''J$i jbktmiJi&milit fnctor'i&t L- . ' ' -.J,.. or mt. "Jblaw. HHBSBetlf of varieties ten 1 r intn vnnrs ch license on bucI, occasions on tho plea thnt they iiiusiram Sad amusements of other couutrle. cultivation of tea can be made profit able In the warmer portions of the United States In two ways. One Is by establishing a plantation on tho scale of the experiment at Suniniervllle with capital sufficient to carry the work to a point where the product can be offered on equal terms with teas holding nn es tablished place In the markets of the United States. The other Is to grow tea for home use In the farm garden. In cither case tea growing can be un-i dertnken safely only where the tem perature rarely goes lower than 25 de grees Fahrenheit, and never below zero, nnd where a liberal supply of water can be depended upon. There Is probably no place In the United States where the rainfall Is sufficient for tho best results with the tea plant, and Irrigation should where possible be provided for In growing tea. Tho experiment nt Suinmervllle. on the growth and manufacture of tea. be gan about ten years ago. At the be ginning It was wisely on a small scale, but has gradually been Increased until now over fifty acres have been planted ln ten. When the plants arrive at full bearing the yield should be nt least 10 000 pounds of high-grade tea; and this should sulllco for the object In view viz.. to determine whether com mercial tea may be prolltably grown under the local conditions of soil, cli mate and labor. One of the most productive or tno Suniniervllle gardens Is that called the Hose garden. The output of green Jea from it 1ms been: urop ui uu I)01UM1h; crop of 1893. 81 pounds; crop of ISO I. 151 pounds; crop of 189., AM pounds; crop of 1800. (100 pounds; crop of 180". 0-18 pounds; crop of 1S0S, neai lv 100 pounds. One thousand two hundred and sixty pounds of green leaf 1 afford 300 pounds of standard Pine urst black tea. Hut the "Hose Garden a not to bo regarded as an exceptional es ,11, or of difficult imitation. Two aiwr gardens, also formerly piney woo is po uls. planted with Darjeellng see llnBS. l.rotnlso successful rivalry within a few years, and yet others up win. . .....i.ninff in n more vigor- pear to uo ii"'o - Vii rrof' shep- KOI.M.NO ANU DltYl.NU LOOM. which, from Inherent chemical causes, cannot be brought from the Orient. FlllliiK Out Gnrilen Comers. There Is a large class of people whp might prolltably add the cultivation ot tea to that of flowers and vegetables, lilllug out the corners of their gardy'ns and home fluids with tea bushes. as they do In China, or suo.suiuuuk.'uou ful as well as ornamental evergreen hedges of that plant for the pi'esent unsightly and costly nnd frequently un reliable feuces. Cultivated in this way. the outlay of time, labor and money could hardly prove burdensome; and, ns ouo result, the household should be able to supply Its own ten-pure, strong and invigorating, instead of tho ...ti.,..-,,iiv. often far from cheap, stuff generally sold throughout tho CTsltthese little tea gardens are ex tended and multiply factories will be established In each neighborhood for tho larger manufacture of commercial tea, wWtuer tho products of the gar dens surrounding mny be brought and sold, precisely as canning factories and :4iatf. iFfjrS&Vf Vbllsuments the cooks are h1A1rlnbl.iV1en. Half a dozen coolies will squntlfound a bucket of steaming rice nnd rami four to six small savory dishes of stewed cabbage, onions, scraps offat pork, cheap fish, etc. They flll their bowls nt discretion from the bucket They help themselves discreet ly with their chop-sticks from the vn rious relishes provided. On ordinnry occas'lons even n wealthy Chlnnnian wlilslt down to some such simple fare sered Indeed on a table lustead of on the ground, but in nlmost equally sim ple style. It Is only when a banquet Is substituted for the usual meal that eat-( Im; Is treated seriously as a line art, ln"r. manner worthy its Importance to tlm human race. Then the guests will . -..,..... .i,i, l.ntwix.n niul 4 In th&Jlftai' . . . f uoou and will renin In steauuy ni me table until nny hour from 10 to mid night. A Natural AVeRthor nurcau. An euchnnted ravlue of the Ullon Vallev, Honduras, Is described ns 11 regular weather bureau, with the pe culiarity that It Is always reliable. The tumbling of a cataract down the side of a mountain gives the ravine Its voice, which cnu ie uoaiu im . ....... miles, and this Indicates by Its volume tho approach of rain and whether tho coming storm Is to be light or heavy. Tradition says that the ravine Is he lionio of a dragon who controls the clouds and winds. It Is a sign of weakness to venomous- ly hate people Every poor man has a fnvorlte Joke which he tells on some rich man. f, .r.r; f 1