| Show bOO 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 OC Oo 0 0 0 O O o 8 Indestructible g o o o minions the tb g o o o I g o g I Perils ris g 0 I o oo o 0 oo o o 0 oO O 0 VIEWS Y WS OF iu WHEAT VAT wT OF OP SHANGHAI S NG WHO WO BY Y LONU p 0 O 0 TK IN I CHIHA CNA CA HAS HS ACQUIRED ACQUE AIT AN A 0 O g C OF TEE CHINESE CHE SITUATION g Q 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 OCO 0 0 To an American an n adequate ad com corn comprehension of the tremendous tre is 18 almost impossible This country has to approach it i The densest Mums lums of the great geat American cities clUes with wit their teeming ten tenements ten give but ut a a o faint faint aint idea Iden of Chinas swarming arming communities s The very vel farm far ins districts are as as a overcrowded as our grat American cities clUe It I is this vast and vcr ver increasing population which constitutes the main danger to to the civilized of a war which should involve the Chinese people The nitre force forc of numbers number df those mil ml uncounted and with wih an any d gre of accuracy would wear ar d a vast army An admiral of the th American navy nay who has had traveled in China put the case tersely a few weeks ago ajro aJo when lie he said stid that all al the armies of the world might be kept busy for years ear killing and there still be enough left lef to be beS S serious menace to mankind should the te survivors unite unie In war Statistics In In China Chinn ar the merest gue gUeSS s work but It is highly probable that all Al given estimates fall faU short of f frather frather rather than exceed the conditions Mr Archibald Little Lite the traveler gave In Ina Ina Ina a recent root lecture letur In Shanghai an idea idear of r the conditions In the province of t at the present time huan Is an inland province about COO COOby by 4 miles mies in extent made up of ot mountain ranges a most unfavorable for farming Nevertheless the populace supports itself mainly by the raising of tiny tny crops on minute plots of tf rr land Mr Little Litte said that in travel traveling traveling ing through it in any direction It was wa impossible for tor days at a time to find finda fn a a vacant ant spot large enough to pitch pich a aman small man tent upon Frequently he said th the Chinese farmer would climb a flight right of 30 stone steps to a piece 01 ot O land no more than ten or twelve feet tet square and this economy of space went on onto onto onto to the very ver topmost point of all aU the mountains While Mr Little Lite was as trav tray traveling eling through a 0 boy of 9 or 10 years jears fell fel in one day with wih his traveling party part and plodded sturdily along all aU allday lay day Ia keeping up bravely with wih the re retinue taking dust heat hent and hill hI climb cUmb climbIng in Ing as a patiently as the grown men menH Ho lie H was wa naked save for a 1 loin oln cloth and amI without food or money At night Mr tr Little Litte who speaks the language asked him where he was wu going to which he replied To Su Low Lw to carry c coal oal oal But ut said sid Mr Little Litte you cannot carry c rry coal cal you are too young Oh said sid the little man m n I can cus crry rry fifteen baskets in a day for I 1 will Mill wi be b paid seventeen cash cah about 14 13 1 cents ent Have you ou eaten today oday inquired Mr Little Lite No said sid the brave little fellow but Im Im not net n t hungry A As s th thee e was still about thirty miles mIes of tf If hard har hill bill hi road to be rotten gotten oten over be before before e fore reaching Su Low one dan an conceive something of the moral courage of that child Amidst unutterable poverty disorder and confusion of despite despie overpopulation pestilence and ad am famine the th chinaman hinaman increases and multiplies uninterruptedly This is in part due to the universal d ire Bire ft tr fir r children pro prony ny nv TY who shall hand down the name and in l family blood through long genera generations gener tons An All the miseries of existence have liae no terrors terror for the Chinaman so long as a he is raising children to wor at the ancestral tombs His in l he counts as naught if he henly henly may turn to his family and with lath tc devotion die He within the thet t harmed circle Ask sk him how long he has ha lived In a n certain locality and he hei i iU answer SOO 00 or 1000 years ears meaning tint tbt for that length lengh of time his family lis ha perpetuated itself and left lef the ther r s of Its It tombs there t ere If I death claim daim his legitimate children he looks t I the thE children of his concubine or to th Ill M se of some sonic relative relate whom he adopts adopt to 10 t perpetuate te the family name and ad tra Failing this he has recourse t a 1 method which to occidental moral mor it iy ity is somewhat startling he lie hires s for fora a 1 rear yai ear a friends wife who has bas a reputation reputation tation for fecundity hoping thus to repair the fortunes fortune of his line lne and to Iap heavens beavens worst curse cu that of childlessness From time to time the Chinese have paid In il the of their of life HE and nature auditing her br ac aci i with wih a red re pencil has ha revenged hi r elf with wih decimating plague plage and famine But th the recuperative ability of f the race after aler such loss lose los of life Is ls without parallel Chinese annals with wih f f ry evidence of authenticity state that after th the Black BIk Plague of the century had ha swept away Us Is ts millions the birth rate rte showed an increase that was almost Incredible The h of triplets throughout China was of f common occurrence and Infant mor mortality mortality decreased to a 1 very er small amal per percentage rn tage I Lon e for his hl children is the dominant im turn ion in the heart hear Pa Pa tl nt under tinder abuse ridicule and ill il treatment tr of himself him l he will wil endure no nn harm ha rm to hit his hi children Lay Ly a hand had upon them and you ou see e him descending I In multitudes from his mud h hovel every EI man with wih a heart hert full tul of or n rw and ind savagery bent on your oUr de tie e It I t is l by appeal aDDeal to this fel feling feel feeling ing log that the secret society men of I hina ale aie now arousing widespread pred against all foreigners Un tin Under Under der ler their thir teachings millions of f the nol oho class are coming to believe belee that that all al are kidnapers kidnaper and that the th ees eyt ey of f rhines hines children are used for tasking medicine There is a I story stor being Dems mattered atter broadcast brod t at this mo moment merit ment In n the effect that the railroads s say ay av the hI foundation of their bridges in ins s bones Tha Tha belief is at he fhe herwit of fC much of the antagonism to the tho of or railroads Alt All over the te the Chinese Chin s are guarding their vi wells ells I lest the foreigners put poison polson in Less than ve hundred years IK ngo ou our ur ancestors ane tors held precisely pr lY the he thern rn ng as do the Chinese During Durn the fourteenth can oen n fury hp persecuted l lUt and burned alive alve nf u l o of f Jews lop the supposed of f wens welts anti aad and during luin ih hs S t mortality cau K d by the bubonic in fourteen hundred and forty forte rort leht ll ht the Jews were cin en enas n nA M a as s having brought the fearful iii upon the Christians and in th alone alo twelve thousand Jews lP P burned bume alive by bi the infuriated people oIt It I was wa wa reported all al over Europe that nat the tM Jews Jew received poison polson from e et t places pat which they prepared pr with ih owls and snakes in order to d troy the children of the Christians TI In superstitions and prejudices the maman 1 If Is today where the EurO T Tan in was wa live centuries back OwIng i the severity of the th purely animal for fr existence his bis instinct of isolation and his egotism The tie Oriental has stood still while the reit rf r of f the th world has advanced tl r 1 Inder ner favorable conditions he should b ive se been ben ahead of u u and this must mOst musteR musti t eR Into account In reckoning i count wL Aln hips m ae a foe fot for Cor the h 3 seeds eds of a rJ tr order of f civilization are aro ar latent VL I in bins hina na They Th hr he blossomed estee I anI Jima maJ may eam blossom The China man a 8 g j characteristics too are the th uli V a as to make Jake mae him formidable I a th e Physical point pint of view he seems te we e fit t of all I a races race to survive ad verse conditions Wel Well built buIt possessed of marvelous endurance with w th an un unequaled equaled of racial perpetuation Inured to all nI hardships thriving amidst conditions of at o life that would wipe out most races he is of the ma material trial of those who conquer by the te very vey power of ot persistence That he will 1 ever amalgamate with wih other pee peo peoples pe ples les is highly improbable Admitting that Nat we all 01 sprang from an anthropoid race there still must have haye been some characteristics ch peculiar to the stock st ck from which the man with wih the almond eye ey came cam The persistency with wih which h he turns his face to the east eat and In Invokes InvoIces yokes voIces the spirit of his ancestors his unwillingness to associate with other men his his highly religious and superstitious na nature nature nature ture are wavering shadows of some origin too long hidden away from us to find out Not a little HUle has ba been ben hastily hasty said sid sidI about the fighting qualities of the I Chinaman but we have yet et to learn what he will wil do under suitable jve ive During the war we I must remember he was asked to fight for a cause cuse of which he knew nothing With small smal newspaper facilities and no common tongue Ot it should be borne in mind that each of the eighteen hun dred tired provinces uses a language pe peculiar culiar to itself and also that men from the t different provinces province not only cannot converse with wih each other but usually owing to their clannishness hate each other poorly paid and poorly fed he was husted to the thc front ironi and asked ak d to t fight for tor a a cause of which he had never heard Men lIen who fight well wel are usually men who believe beleve in their cause cuse It I matters maters not whether that cause cuse be beI true tre or not not the th fact that he believes I it i determines the mans whole conduct in connection with wih it It Events Event near ner Pe kin recently recent have demonstrated that the secret society men of f China know how to bring every ever man woman oman and child to arms when they desire to do doso doso doso so Being familiar with wih the super superstitions of the th people they appeal di directly directly l I recty to them with wih the result that they can spread abroad such I ing rumors as may yet prove a fire fre brand bd to the t e vast empire There Th re is yet et splendid mettle in China but hope has gone out mette of ot the China mans heart The spirit of discontent is ir IS dead within him Like a dumb ani ant animal animal mal happy if he may ea or if he may my m y not eat with wih no possessions but his children he moves on to meet his com corn ing doom There are intellectual and able l the flower Dower of this great geat stalk tout but ut they are few and the stalk Is withered at the root rot All Al classes are suffering from the agony that precedes the birth of a new era ra The time tUne has come when China has reached the I limit of what bat she can ca do under the old conditions The Chinese empire em ire is on the verge of dissolution but ut there ther still sUU remains for the armies arie of civilization to tt reckon with wih the tIe Chinese Chinese people p ople sullen savage and superstitious with wih fearful possibilities pf f danger in i their steadily ste diy Increasing milons millions MRS LU LIT WHEAT EAT Shanghai China |
