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THE NANKING INDUSTRY. SOLUTION OF BIRDS AND
TREES PROBLEM. PEKING AS IT IS TO-DAY.
Clay figuros made at Hui Shan Wusih, Kiangsu province, are Sir Perceval
It is easy to understand how Landon, the special correspondent of the well-known to all outsidors who the hovering of birds may give Daily Telegraph, in a mail article, visit the place. Foreign tourists warning of a school of fish to the written in October gives the always take away a few picoos. Asherman or indicate the pro- following interesting pen picture with them as mementove. This, sence of carrion to the hunter, of life in the Chinese capital as trade is monopolized by a group but it is not so clear how birds of makers at Hul Shan, with inay guide the prospector to a he has been sooing it.
Yesterday the sun was low in whom no others can compete. In gold mine. A grayish Venezuela a luminous baze of gold behind Nanking, however, some of the bird, the purples of the Western Hills: toy makers are now turning out usually hidden in the dense One looked down upon a dense similar olay figures for the chil-foliage of tall trees, is called growth of trece, horizon-wide and dren of the city in a highly erodit-"El Minero (The Miner) by matted together in the dusk, upablo manner. They learnt the the nativos, on account of its through which the yellow roofs art from a clay maker immigrant habit of frequenting localities of gold minos or abundant quartz. of the Imperial city lay alone-from Wusih
The trade is highly profitable On-hoaring of this belief, F. D. ranked by, like a fleet of golden two-deckers above the undulating because of the low cost of pro-Pagliuchi, Venezuelan mining green. Just beyond them the duction, the net profit boing ongineer, investigated, and, as five-pointed Coal Hill, crowned estimated at 70 to 80 per cent. told in Engineering and Mining with shrines, rose up like an is without counting the time spent Journal-Press, he was able to dis- land under whose lee they lay at by the maker. The toys consist cover quartz ledges near when- either human or animal ever he hoard the bird's cry. The anchor. The ultramarine mist, of partly amoke, partly dust, partly figures made in a highly realistic strange bil habit was very por- distance, drifted across the sceno; manner. A kind of adhesive clay plexing. Then a miner informed and the furrows ploughed in the is first powdered and mixed with him that the prospector keeps greenery by the straight, yellow-water to form a pliable plaster watch for the Mera tree, which The figures are shaped by hand, grows near gold mines, and speci- topped walls merged a mile away painted and mounted with paper mens were shown near the mine into the growing darkness,
There is no town in all the decorations. Birds are the most under examination. This gave world that is even remotely like favourite theme of the Nanking the key to the mystery. it was Poking. It is rather smaller than makers, who fashion them in evident that the tree grows in The silceous soil, and, while that may in the days when Marco Pole set various natural postures.
the price of the figure is quite reason-not be auriferous, it is a likely. down his admiration in greatest book of travels that has able, considering the amount of place for gold in a gold-bearing been written, and it has been re-labour and the degree of skill re- country. The bird is attracted to built since his thirteenth-century quired to turn them out. A bird the quartz lodges by the berries day. But the rebuildings have three inches in longth fetches of the Mora tree. not affected either the plan of the retail price of from 10 to 20 lown or the position of its cents, small money. There are greatest structures; they have ocen for each Imperial builder in turn merely an oppor.unity to raise a fairer structure than that which he took down. To this day Marco's statement of the criss-croas design of Tarfar Peking strects ia nearly true,
Buenos Aires. Nov, 13.-The though the relative positions off
Boy Scout movement has been the gates in the now northerni
characterized in Argentina as á wall have seemingly been altered.
European homes which can be "The whole plan of the city was
generation because
its regularly laid out by line, and the made in a Chinese house but harmful influence on the younger streets in general ure consequent-in no other native structure in militaristic Londencies. ly so straight that when a porsan Asia. The air is full of crios, ascends the wall over one of the The water-carriers wheel their. This opinion was formally, ex- gates and looks right forward he shrieking barrows all the day; pressed by a special committeo can see the gate opposite to him the street criers are never silent:of the National Council of Educa- on the other side of the city." He bells and clangs and wooden tion here when recommending needs, however, a clear day, for knocks announcing to the in-that the National Association of the opposite gates are three and itiated the trade of the coming Argentine Boy Scouts be denied four miles apart. To-day, in this pedlar go on from early dawn to the right to organize troops in time of stress and change, Poking long past midnight. Sometimes the Public Schools of Buenos is no less magnificont because, over all one may hear the drone Aires.
"The Boy Scouts which are for a time at least, its human of a great gong mattering from glory has departed. Still rise the behind temple walls, sometimes organized in this country pre- the fantastic whistle of the sent a military character which long strung-out courts and cor- ridors and palaces of the Em-pigeous overhead, and always the is not in accordance with the peror's city, empty all. Still in rasping fall of the water thrown fundamental principles of our their place are the giant walls of by long-handled bowls upon the pedagogical ideals, brick, and the gates and marble dusty roadway. The main ways committee's bridges and the pavilions of a lost are clogged with traffic, and Press. Imperialism. The history of strings of shaggy, two-humped Peking never stays its course, Mongolian camels go about the streets eternally. Sometimes never lessens in interest, and every change has been designed there is a funeral or a marriage in sanguine. There is no respite procession, each with its accom- even in our days. Round the paniment of fluttering flags or Legation Quarter in the inner braying instruments and its city lies out the clear-swept and central palanquin of garish red. ominous glacis that is the greatest It is hard to toll ono. from the of all memorials of the Boxer other save by the presence or the siege: and on it, however fast the absence of a small company of game, to some older ears the white-clad men whose duty it is hoofs of the pelo ponics still drum to see the last rites said over the out "1909-1900-1900." And what vast misshaped coffins that the of to-morrow? Oun Peking Chinoso love. change?
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retailers who obtain the figures from the makers at only 60 pur cent, of the ordinary retail price.. The average daily earnings of a Nanking clay figure maker vary according to individual skill from $0.60 to $1.-Chinese Economic, Bulletin.
Sometimes on high days the public buildinga are crudely adorned with hang- ings of wicker structures of pink and scarlet and magenta, set about with yellow rosettes, but Peking needs no decoration.
DISJOINTED LIFE. ¿
FOREIGN COMMUNITY. There are two unoxpectedly good hotels here which form use ful centres for a foreign society us mixed and as interesting in its composition as any in Asia-a society watchful and sometimes If there is one word more than bitter of tongue and pen, a society another that applies to the life that is pot as smart or as here it is, I think-disjointed. For business-ridden or as rich as that herein there is no real connoo- of Shanghai. In this meeting-tion of interest or sympathy of pluce of twenty races, all on the thought, there is scarcely un- same plane of pleasant or distaste-derstanding between the workers' ful exile, the stranger soon learns-for whom no one as yet has; that, except among the less wise.proposed the mercy of a sixteen- diplomacy veils all speech and hour day-and their nominal silences much. In spite of Pek-governors, the Ministers and De
Between ing's reputation, scandal is not partments of States. the piece de resistance of most these latter and the foreign: dinner conversation; and thore is colonies on the one hand and on souffle of it before the other their Ministers and over- coffee-why, more harm is done lords at Mukden and Kalgan there than is meant. Indeed, a cor-is no bond whatever. From un- tain Jargo tolerance of other point of view the centros those who carry. things and shrines of the religions, of with a high hand marke Peking, China are as entirely remote and is no doubt a tradition of a from the life and the love of the time when Europe was practical-common people as if Buddha and ly two yours distant, instead of Confucius and Lag-tsze had fifteen days. There is lotus innevor lived, From yet another] the air as well as in the Palace-though the Manchu Emperor moate, and the traveller, who has been haled by Feng Yu- must generally como here hsiang out of the Forbidden City through sither India or Japan, and is taking sanctuary in finds the broad good humour of Tientsin-the breach that has the masses of China pleasant always existed between the after the sad visages of India secret adherents to Imperialism und the super-smiling of, Japan. Jand the open advocates of a: Ro Peking is a capital of con-publiean-Government that has tradictions, She has many never really existed seems to treen, but faw gardens; and in grow no less. It was a shrewd pite of the width of her main observer who said that, hidden thoroughfares the city is made up in some recess, there is still to of narrow alleye cramped bebe found in every house through- twoen windowless walls, dirty out Paking a dragon fly for use and evil-smelling, yet pierced on a day of restoration day avory hundred yards ly, a door which some look forward to and that for one tantalising second some fear, but of which none suggests one of those luxurious would deny the possibility.
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