Show rro = I j i > r J r 1 I I I 1J I I t 1 iC r fyirrdr i v r t i I J 4 1 t a 4 J 1 I i t o tit I 2J1A9fII 4 1 I I c I TIE I W c 3 1 I t f l iF I n r I Ya7 rt I t 5 I 1 1 r l f l l r 7L14 I 1 i = = c = = = 1 r I Dir w r Il 1 lLa i Bestially indifferent to age or sex the Boxers butcher women and children as ruthlessly as they slaughter the men This illustrates a sudden at tack on a Christian mission not far from VeiHien which is 150 miles west of longChow Severn Presbyterinn missionaries are reported to IJ J I have I escaped but many more are known to have been sacrificecL ato tho Dowagers lust for power I northas for example In Manchuria It would lake the name of PehChihle i while tho present district would become I be-come NanChihle Another note which t may be of interest is that Peking is i also written and pronounced PelChIng I by many Chinese as well as European scholars 1 It is difficult for us Westerners to I realize the topsyturvy character of everything In the middle kingdom I Each place has one written name which i has anywhere from five to a hundred f and fifty different pronunciations according I ac-cording to tho language or dialect of the Chinaman who reads the charac I tcr Chihlo In the main Is an alluvial country which may be Compared lo I and curbing the Yellow river and other bodies of water so corrupt is its administration admin-istration that although millions ate spent every year I not one per cent of the appropriation is said to leach its destination Thus the streams forever are shoaling and the banks slowly rising ris-ing until In many cases the level of the Water practically is the level of the land A heavy rain therefore causes I each affluent to overflow Its banks and to convert tho territory for miles and hundreds and even thousands of square miles Into a shallow sea Inci dentally these floods drown from five thousand to a million natives every year But this is regarded as a matter of little Importance in the Land of the Dragon As might be expected lhese conditions prevent the having of good roads In the entire province there are said to fly to the present time Next is the great treaty port of Tien Tain which as far back as 1S80 was estimated to have a population of 500000 and which under un-der statesmanlike rule of LI Hung Chang now is said to have a million H Is situated On the Pehho river and is at the head of the grand canal on one sldo and Is the head of steam navigation navi-gation from the ocean on the other Th se two facts give it an Importance political commercial Industrial and strategic which cannot be overlooked Taku which Is practically the port guarding tho foot of the river Is a third but this is now in the possession of the civilized powers Shan Hai Iowan is the fourth The name indicates indi-cates Its character Shan Is mountain Hal means sea and Kwan means warden 1 war-den or guard The name might bo defined de-fined as the mountain port warden or I blow came when the ranch canal was 1 established which took lr21 1 and trafllc away from the imperial post road and transferred It lo Tien Tsln Jts second blow came when many oIls o-Ils govcinmuntal functions were transferred trans-ferred by the Chinese politicians to the imperial capital und IM third and deadliest blow occurred + hon LI Hung Chang removed the seat of government govern-ment and placed It In Tien Tsln The population resents these changes and Is bitter against the governing classes on the one side and the foreigners for-eigners on the other The changes do scrlbcd have reduced the place from opulence to pnupcilsm and made the descendants of the fioirl merchants and bankers of the last Century the slarvllngs and outcasts of today TslNan on the Yellow river will bo of Importance on account of Its |