Show THE GREAT CHINESE PUZZLED These are days when there Is serious seri-ous thought in all the Cabinets of Europe Russia has some designs on northern China She has held them for a long time She has had them ever since she went In with China to settle the ChineseJapanese war She got an good ns a bill of sale then from China for north China including Manchuria Man-churia for her services and for the gold she advanced Slowly but very surely she has been encroaching ever since She has fortified Port Arthur and placed a heavy garrison there She has more soldiers in that vicinity than the nations know anything about There are nome nations on earth whose newspapers declare that the present upheaval In China Is more due to Russia Rus-sia than to China Itself Then there is Germany Her war lord has declared de-clared that Pelting shall he raxed to I the ground He Isan economical lord however and he intends to make China pay not only for every missionary mission-ary killed and f6r the Embassador killed 1 but for every soldier that will be killed and for every cannon shot that will be fired in the coming war Then Great Britain lias more commercial commer-cial Interests In China than any other power and Great Britain Is in no good humor She has been taunted with her weakness for years by the nations of Europe With her little army and her great fieet she has rested secure but with the Boer war the taunts turned into sneers and imprecations and every Insulting thing that could be said has been said by 1 the people oL Germany and of Prance in regard to her She Js not In UH I heat of humor She hat 800000 trained fighting l men now and a ficct lartjc enough to mnet all the ships ofPrance und Germany combined She will want to have her Buy in that sqttlpnient I In China and In a few days we shall see the spec tacle of tho three great powurs of the Old World Great Britain Germany and Rudsio all intent upon Sand S-and dividing China and all hating each other with an almost immemorial hate Then there Is another factor Japan can put forth as much power In that neighborhood as any of her opponents Sho haa a magnificentlytrained tremendous tre-mendous army Her fleet Is the equal of Germanys and can be aa well handled han-dled as Germanys If it comes to a life and death struggle if her ships go down they will not go down unattended unat-tended Her particular grievance Is against Russia It Is the Jealousy of I Russia and Germany that has kept Japan from sending an army to relieve the mystery whl hangs over Peking today I Now how will the final settlement bfe made That is what Js worrying the brains of all the Cabinets of Europe and giving many a man an unquiet pHlow who three months ago slept sweetly China has asked that the United States interpose to use Its influence in-fluence and no doubt It will We be lIve Great Britain will listen to what the United States says because really what Great Britain wants Is unrestricted unre-stricted trade an l It may result in an alliance of Great Britain Germany and Japan to carry out the best judgment I Judg-ment of our own country which among all the rest has no private designs seeking execution Our country does not want any Chinese soil It does not want any revenge it wants only what China would want If a great host of hel own people on our own soil were to be assaulted and overwhelmed by a mob only that and guarantees that the injustice would not be repeated China so far trusts us She has no faith in any European power but the whole question Is most complicated and The brightest eyes cannot see through the clouds to where the end Is to be |