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newly laid out settlement for all the dens of this Delmonico and his en-ors follow with dogs, donkeys, world like a California-real estate tourage.
elema awaiting the boot. It had
gents, and cattle, one ridden by the nicely graded dirt streets all bisect- tang of Chinese, chong nails the air, herder. They move along the ing each other at right angles. It Customers plump down their cop-dykes. After them toddles a bad trees set dit along the roadway pors and turn upon bowls of steam, foot-bound woman.... -uno.could almost see the award-log, gleaming white rice-voritally ing of prize for the best kept inhaling China's staff of life with bungalow garden. A checker-board avid gustatory pleasure,
Wooden Ware..
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The aloofness of the engirding night in rented by a sudden blaze of ment to faith in Now Chim. 1 The bluuk walls of a burned out lights ahead and the babble of gently proded the sweating ricelinhouse stare at and in the night excited voices. We slip into a fleet hoy into progress again and set out hours. Yet by day this is a bling of river fehemmen plying their trade down a ma-lou to find the answer to bargain counter of wooden wars ths riddle..
By and by, I came upon the out-chaut.
surped by some wandering merithe night hours. The myriad of skirts of the place. My ears were
{fiares niske their indoura like count- nailed by a strange and stridentjare manged in serried rank.
Row after now, the great how less grent fire-flies sattled on the buming noise. Ping! Ping smaller and smaller they grow,
glossy black surface of the Yang- Ahead at me, a stalwart Chinese And great wooden spoons...`. was belabouring a fibrous white Shorter wooden spoons.. Little Torches wave excitedly as we run ms with a bowlike implement, wooden spoon. Families of baskets, by heavy-laden junka tied up for the Ho was bumily engaged in carding boxes-all things of wood. They night, apparitions for a moment is of the daily steaner from Hong Colton una primitive frue, sot up gleaus like works of art in the more pisa. Then a beazon stabs the kong, keep up the pretence of out of doors upon trestles. Another ing sun, white, fresh, almost ran-night from the hillside and we existener. Only for a moment ennen stepped back and forth spin-gent. Chiners housewives look at surges one again through the river the impressive approach deceive, its yarn on a bamboo spindle be them like their sisters in the West, obscurity. guardian, wooded shostider villa-dot- for the cottage wall. Within the hypnotized by the lure of kitchen swing round a bend into full view ter and crowned with the once-doorway a boy was glimpsed things.
of a Chinese city, the lit-up fronts ✡ creaking Under the willow tres in Tsinaire is samething sendly in the woxden loom, spelling woman
mighty battlements of nurient forts, destrously running
of the godowns limning in the buttd. Tho jade merchant has spread his while little bursts of light mark the wry of the West an be weighed revelation of the place as the with a couple of little pig-tailed wares in endless rows of alluring buildings elimbing back up the bluff. | A long host shoots into mid-stream An upon a time, there was anon of the inner harbour Coldren pulling at her blue jean a lite boy who lived with his opens up beyond the moth-eaten tauser legs. The lud was machine- godfather. Now the old man did Port of St. Thiago da, Batra. Aeros like in his preision--the neker of Everything imaginable that is to the yells of the summen.
useless intrigues the eye.
Sun-drope down to us, is unde fast in a the anchorage lies a dumpy, drabs, the lean shifted rhythmically p By thing in ways that the boy third-rate cruiser enshrouded in and down, the warp being thrown/struck, they hold the gaze in their bedlam of shouts anul maledictions could not understand.
breathless exchange of cargo, drooping awnings to break the piti. neclanically through the width of cool, sinnoth linen and weirdly human and baled. A new paride! that a great many of them?conid bess sit of tropic sammer. Beyond the contrivance as the rocker moved, carved surface. Snuff boxes, jewelry monium breaks in on the night
containers, treys, grotesque irces. wer, silly things for even an old it a number of guard hats, being roll of cloth growing in his and grottoes wrought in lintastic as the fighter is cast off. The pilot pan to spend time upon, writes with the listless Portuguese Thon behind this Yangtze
disregard of nature cajole your cash.whistles twice to the bridge; the Charms Hodges in the China Resign swing lazily with the tide
in watching over a clutter of junke family's cottage industry there Some are of aristocratic whiteness, rapid pound of marine engines pick- foreground for the guunt ongira-loomed the new red brick walls of Others are worked in blood-like reaking up way shakes the river steaaner Tradeed, when the boy was very ing hills with their frowzy patches great building darling the
and sen-greens,
as the boatmen dry rapidly astern The price seems nech puzzled lip bad the Teeling
dear. You know of other stalls in the grip of the Yangtze current But his grandfather was a detandof vegetation only emphasizing the lutch farm houses about it. who should not be humoured, More very harreness of it all. The white, thousand spindles from the United nearby where the cost is one-half of toward the mellownig city lights.
an easy-going dredge spasmodically
States were being set up within its this inerchant. He becomes volu. They blur away in the sud- tenore, he wondered if old people stretches its long atin into the silted span of shining tile roof. In a little in his grief as you would rath- den triumph of the night.. were not in the way. He even
AnOnly the raffles of the river remains While there would be no more cotlessly slash his last price. yair these sentiments to those
up fairway. why had lived much longer. You the leeward side of the hills them the mud walls. The gates of
Then Mneo itself sprawls along ge spinning in the open air, the audienes has formed about you with to mark our cerie descent upon
Nganking. elean country sunlight thrown off appreciative grines.
But one moment, my friend, is· OVERTHE HILLS AND PAR AWAY, are very young," he was told, "analanding and band, with its babble another Chinese spinning will would not this but soapstone ware cùn- your grandfather is very old. How of runners, riesta nu, hawkers close twelve hours a day upon man,
There is a crooked little byway? cum one whohus, so few years under.
ningly wrought in Sochow? How opening off Legation Street that is gambling hause touts, noisily word the ways of one who has lived Chine; an Old World touch about woman, und child. The devouringurious to to check it feels where an arm's length wide and I do not
lingers the caress of a bit of ancient know how may hundreds of miles! the places withal, a Latin civilizachines would do the work of imperial jade from Khotan.. tion built into the store houses of families living close to the Cathay Then Jude Gate in the Weal
hundred Chousand contented
long.
-All I know about it is Romnesque architecture; balus-
that when you walk up it, you must traded terraces: long, be-rinittored windows: aveaded galleries,
be on the watch for strange foot- can use its tiny hands in the temple Chim's great highway has burst falls.jp Padding feet. of machines brought by the com-its bounds; the Yangtze treaking Almost inedible savo for & sibillant
Ten cents-Mex day. hungrily to take its toll of man's
bahind you.. Tuberculosis.
Smoka, handiwork.
Discretion here is the better part Tired bits of green things
Miles on miles of flooded rice of valour-even if you are a lordly More tired human beings, fields turn the farmers into fisher-foreigner with exterritorial rights, ... Dividenda, . . . . The commen to make up for the lost crops, legation guards, and embassies. A tryside retreats.
A large town, punette on the dragon-like head poised on the horizon by three pagodas, slides by shaggy long neck of ananteleluvian us into the dwindling backgrand.monster is apt to come upon you The antinely of a telegraph fine with stenorous breath, a load ol stilting across the country breaks rice-mattel bundles sjung between the monotony of the fint, north the bumps of its back. The reces bank, fringed with trees broken now of a doorway is a gool place if you and then by little risos and a huddleineet a canal bin. They on WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD,
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The willow trees rustled with a murient wind, a breath in the heavens that frist have come all the way from the middle of Asia it was
Yet
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'L'en
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Talung.
worked with blowing Bings, the "Monte Carlo of the Orientmercial missionaries from the West. ruthlessly through the barrier dykes Warning scule as they come up |
it is between the West and cannot forget the narrow, foul- The Rasa. Americu is a very young swelling Chinese alleys cutting beaten and Chinu a very old coun-neros the precisely cofilled road- Aly
ou have not lived long ways nor the encroaching; opiumi enough to know the timelessness of dens and the singsong girls. Over tire; therefore the ways of the licensed gambling houses, the gent people cannot be understand fan-tan joints, and the lotteries by you. Since you are a youthful there broods from a three-hundred Tution with so much to do, you can foot hillside the incacle of the des- arabe augt but impatient with the troyed Collegiate Church of St. ways that he kept a civilization Pal.... A tier of ten Corinthian living for five thousand years. pillars on ten lonic colume. Af. you in the West have that Carved from top in bottoni. yet to do with your carth-binding An eagle, six tired saints on either machines! observed my friend side, the image of the Virgin, the
FROM A WINDOW OF THE GRAND HOTEL.
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Through the duck
Ho-ho Haha!
hurst in things Chinese as we sat dragon, the skeleton, a gulleon as a Through the disk the right cries und the willow trees in Tsinan-fu.minor motif.... All looming like
Hongkong.
Jostle from the thoroughfare......
To pierce dead day's fetid air.
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HONGKONG,
PIRACY AND BRIGANDAGE,
RAMPANT."
It appears, from the experiences of recent piracies, that the despera- does are highly organized, and that; except in the most confined of waters, stich measures as wireless telegraphy, grills, armed guards, tc., while indubitably constituting a necessary precaution, will render
of huts.
by disdainfully, swaying ponder- Tatung looms up a bayon, a fairously yet easily under their burdens; sized place with its whitewashed as they round a corner. walls werping to convey its affluence The padded footfalls recede along tucked in pocket of the Anwel the way. Out through the Tartar Through the hills. It is a boat station, river Wall they go... twisted street takes a gangren-into mid-stram to pick us up for
On and on, en bringingu fifty-foot lighter ont Chinese City. :
Toward the Western Hills. ous hue
a moment, transfer a few passen.
Kalgan Gobi. Shanghai night leers on the gers and their belongings, then drop Urg.b Tea from Cathay to
Mueshold, Tainted with the rampant stew
back in a burst of cries as we east Muscovy today as three hundred them off and head on up-river, years ago, Of simmering chow front rookeries Great stretches of reeds wave rip-
Probably the greatest problem old.
plingly in the wind like the tule
with which China is faced to-day is The centre of the universe-con- that of the cuppression of pirates marshes of San Francisco Bay centric dicles of terraced marble and brigande, whose depredations no vessel absolutely immune from Poor folk are busily engaged in cut- cunningly carved in endless syuare becoming more and mare dar attack. The pirates are able to ting them for fuel mate, wattling bolism. The very altar of the ing and frequent, and who con any rate in any numbers they board vessels-in Chinese ports at for their und-plastered huts. world's oldest living people Fishermen use coracles like, the Irish
stitute a progressive element of mado from the weeds, slowly raising reminiscently while the nodding would in any case be chaotic, says ing, and so long as this state of The groves of ancient trees sigh chaos in a country whose affairs choose, without having to undergo any intensive and thorough search- their maaklike faces as we pass summer grass stealthily encroaches Shipping and Engineering. The affairs exists and pirates are in- devoid curiosity in the lethargic day on the marbled ways.
Deserted consumrnate daring of the pirates.
a ghostly stage set of some abandon-Asailing ear, they shrilly ri Tangkong at dawny the sun rising fed super-production. out of China across the bay. it
Suells as only smells east of Snez kes over the aluost vertical ratu-proclaim Asia's underlying sover-The poot of barren crags behind Kowloon eighty. They give the lie to the inding the New Teritory like a European exterior thawa over all great copper hall,
n the tattered mantle of a bygone Pon it catches the tipe of housesPortuguese grandes.
Across the in a coralline tint. In a wement hazy horizon stands old Cathay re- U rosy down fingers scintillatingly born star of land, water ent toward the drowsy Western bounded, with its trees standing! lius riding peacefully at ancien against the skyline like the pattern The night-bang pall of shadows lifts on a bit of ancient Willow Ware. from Hongkong with a rush as
And Elsewhere. thgh some giant band had drawn
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Through the dusk the resba cries Like curses palpitant, disturb Sensuous, sensual, dusky skies
Which smudgely the town ongird.
Through the dusk-Ho-bol The dusk-Ha-ha! CHINESE THINGS AL FRESCO.
Another client in the offing,
The
THE TOP OF TESTERDAY.
it back into the blanching heavens The longest bar in the world, the for other day. Step by step, the one hundred and ten feet of oasis city's terraced ways stand out under at the Shanghai Chili crowded at the sunrise marching across the sky.noon with the captains of industry The streets lose their night anony-
of the Eastern World, Tho austere uity, piling back sharply toward atmosphere of the British Museum strident singing sound of humming
Over the garden wall comes the on day toil isolated from all things. pavilions mark a bygone imperial is equalled only by their invariable clined to attack ships, there is
Between Noon and Evening. tho brooding heights of the Peak a transplanted to the Orient after the rectal."
splendour. The Zung! Z-n-n-g!
wind rustles success, and the proportion of cases nothing that will wholly deter Borated sweep of cavernos gashes daily in hour. The solidity of the metallic buzz draws clocar down the Yangtze fall away like son gig-dows in ghostly whispers where hall to book is so small as to be dis-
Mountains on either side of the through the broken latticed win in which they fail and are brought from making periodical
attempts. Thy perspective of a now, day Briton who has been long time in street. Suddenly it is silenced at tic gateway.
The root of the whole lies in ops, a vists of glinting walls and the East and purposes to remain the very crescendo of its vibrant call.
a dozen dynasties love seen the Son missed as negligible. It is a note China itself, in the form of the sim-etched
Their hard shoulders stand it of Heaven prepar to intercede for worthy fact that in their attacks chaotic internal condition of the balconies
longer. gleaning
When I looked out through the bare and challenging. through the dank green foliage. Rekind. the bam of closely packed vivid stretch of green at tes time.the corner of the lane. A moment's he brown seems tired of clinging to forgotten temples a perspective of and, with conditions as they are, where and when they choose. The The Hankow Country Club's rate two Chinese were in parley on brush on the green slopes soon to millioned walled, open ou a vista of smaller dry such as trading junks, of lawless elements, pirates and A little the people, Court on court, ver- large ships they have been country, which allows of all sorts. humanity beginning the treadmill of The green grass, the yards of billow-bargaining--then one of the un-life. The angular stratification of architectural splendour culminating there is apparently no limit to their
such as trading junks, brigands, attacking practically the long daily struggle for cruipus of ing canvass awning a swaying en slung a box and opened up a lot. the hills. stands out gaat, granite in the dominating purple dome possible activities, and no vessel travelling by milway in China is existence rises into the vibrat beat barrier to the lowering san, and the From its interior, a shaving equip-outcrops showing bald age-like the Temple of Heaven itself. Its trading on the China Coast which
Lincheng outrage has shown that of pulsating life.
The work-a-day cool, fresh ladies in write languidly ment appeared. In the twinkling disillusionment. It is terribly pris-gilded aper glints gallantly in the can wholly be considered as not by sea, and that the only rest cure native world is set in motion the sipping frous long glasses patroniz-of an eye, an itinerant barber shop tine, as though the thousands of high noon sun.
equally as hazardous as travelling while the West sleeps on to the thredingly tinkling with crushed ice.
But underment subject to possible attack. The re- was set up a pin of water on the years of Chinese life had left them the purple sweep of tiled dome, cent holding up of the China for the present state of affairs is to drone of fans. The humid tropic A certain ten-man country cabinet, a glinting set of razors upon victor. Far through the clear atmos. the heavy overhanging eaves Merchants' s.5. "Taishun" provides tack and rout cut the pirates and hout descends. Of a sudden, the club in an "outport" with its pool, a little shelf, strange" implements phose, earth tree fringing the reverso, each one of a hundred thousand another good lesson, equally as possible. That this is a dificult. city sounds incessantly pound in ponies, and poker on the edge of a for divers purposes.
brigands with as little delay as slopes could-be seen sticking sharp the colourful crest of a peacock feilluminating as the attacks on the the brain. This hypnotic fun-strange, strange land. The rows of The customer squatted down with into the blue sky. fere of mounting coolic cries, the ottles. Stumbling back to the for a lordly air. The burber, plied his padding feet upon the sun-dubbed oign settlement in the tepid grey trade. A shave, my friend? Now harvest. interminably the river's rich shadows within overlaying the doubt that piracy still Bourishes in ities, political and military, makes Country folk along the shore live Though the old order passes, the shows without the shadow of a ambitions of the Chinese author ther-seem wearied of their task."Kwanglee" and the "Sai An," and proposition there can be no doubt, and the apathy and personal wag below, the shrill whine of dawn. Especially cursing the deft trimming of the nostril hairs. gift of reeds. The isolation of their gandy tracery of the interior matic China as a profession, and, that the prospect of its early fulfilment woler wheels turning agonizingly Chinese "boys" who had forgottes The wax removed from the ears. lives weed to detach them foin one worship for a moment the sheer something more than mere piracy very remote. As we have stated, mon wood, the more distant under-the rigala men. too of grinding trams a menacing
The classical-Americanosque
the pulsating life of China's four beauty of the deserted place. Regulations and guards and pre it has practically been proved that nale of Western invasion, the stac-architecture of the Legation primly
A Peking Delmonico's,
hundred millions rather they verence for strange things lays held of pest is to be exterminated, or at the same body of pirates was re-
cautions are necessary if this class enfo intermittent sea sounds from et against the walls of old Peking, Down Hetemin Street, the Fifthed with anything like national templo with its brilliant paatttitute a real and definite danger that the headquarters were, and seemed over to have been connect-of one ae bygone glories people the least deprived of its power to con-sponsible for both the Sui An,.. the aroused water-front assail. The jazz of the American Marine's Avenue of China's capital, there is pale. They appear to exist as
and the Talsun" attacks and Bodden sleep until Ah Ching Band at a diplomatic tea majutnina comer where the gormands strings of wattle-daubed and thatch-station is to be installed where once lic
They tell me a wireless to shipping and the travelling pub-presumably are, at Walchow. ing the prestige of our statesman among reslus men and, other per-ed huts, dwellers on the margin of emperors bowed their loves. There Macao--liclic of Empire,
ship in international circles. The sons of lowly substance nose the the river, their pigs in the yard is no blasphemy-like tint of the for-pieces of information which have the Canton authorities, yet there These facts, and many corollary From the various reports and details thereto, must be known to It alurabers at the month of the bottomless Obinese wisdom of the oint of cooking on the air thoir fishing gets rising and falling getting guneration of one's own been received, it seems clear that has been no punitive expedition, Catton River atuary silted up into "ing abai," that Oriental kooper hungrily y
Tackadaisically from great rigs like people... Baile dream of past glory.
of American diplomatic gates at our Come early in the morning the the labours of prehistoric animals. Almost within the shadow of Chancellory.
the pirates who so successfully at nor talk of one, to Walchow tobring The legation cruck of dawn and nothing but The weathered junka slip up-and-
tacked the Kwanglee" were allied the pirates to book and to teach Hongkong, Batain's stronghold in guards on parade... The empty shuttered shops and walled courts down like grey wraithis" of a for-
to, if not identical with, those who others a lesson that is so sofely need- Eastern sean, Maceo stands as a bolt of the Russian Legution but shrouded in discreet. quiet con bogotten age, the people on them as
plundered the Sui An "and it ised: Wireless or no wireless, armed decayedmonument to Portuguse the high cost u rubles of a passport seen. Yet as if by magic suddenly beings from another world, A
equally possible that the pirates guards or no armed guards, grills pure and the brave days of the vin good--more or low for Siberia. a little cavalcade, torn from the veritable wilderness passen in re-
who were responsible for the orpo grills, so long as no attempt: "grout "captains."*-
No longer do The Peking Club on Armistice Day communal warmth of some wr-view, ripping one in the lengthen Canada rived of Shanghai to June 4 ago were similarly directed from desperadoes of the sea, so long OPS EMR, Empress of Kwanglee" affair more than a year is made to punish these three centuries of ships take it a
Contructs, concessions, con muinone inn, omes down the streating ehdown ac3,30 p.m. Jeff chanahal fappy faven lar Chinese trade from such is the W
is the West in the Bloated wicker hampers, swaying Now and then on the north bankat 11 pm, and la due at Kohe on Joud of Weichow It has been suggest attempts at "piracy; aid it seems ne 4the same headquarters the district will there be piracies, or serious the four corners of the earth East.
pendulous from the ends of poles, delta Land given over to millet opens at 6pm. rolic af ghostly galleon and clipper CHINA IN TWO WORLDS,
ons borns upon the bent shoulders up. Cantals, lead toward the thriv
ed that the pirates have their heads that if neither of the bodies that ship, it te füllen hopelessly into One day I wandered through of the proprietor of a paripateticing inland counties. The moun
quarters in either Hongkong or piss for governments at Peking the dusty annals of commerce that Yangtze River town you have restaurant. The strategie corner tains recede from the other thore,
Shanghal, but there is little ta sug and Canton cannot or will not do inno was great.
never heard of and cannot find upon teached an amazing copjuting ragged, purpling, a series of three
port this contention, for the pre-anything, the foreign powers, for Today, the Chinese junks, with the map forth of travelling kitchen, well- frets sharp against the
sence in each port of highly or the protection of their own national tifoir garzel painted oyes at the prow Beyond the moldering city walle, stocke
rlight!
ganized forces of detectives would interests, and Incidenta pantry and stretches of Towerd evening scanning the listless green waters where things have been as they are well worn table boards on trestles Confucian BOBDO
of naturally tend to induce the pirates Chinese interests al by will have unruffled, save for the swift, passage for a thousand scans, I came upon a with shiny benches from, the, bur walkingboneyard
to have their guiding or directing seriously to take a hand. spirits located elsew
awakens me. ►
becomes
MOYENENT OF STEAMER:
Something Deta