Show The Gmnd Canal = = = = = = thing About a Groat Artory of Chlnoso Trado or Ono some so of tho Worlds Groat Wondurs t r dlH fmfttial Jians1Mr Ut Omferor Coital IIi Tarfy r A t f < 0 Oin4at < and s rns Otter Mf Ctliuu Towiu Hm He f p I Irett nnia aNd Ttiinti BuUhitm t OH A Roils k I J Gt lo SteJlfMt He < oJ > Oaclt of ttatfaf ftrmgU a t rimeamen Fbrtslnt The CtttU of Oa CUetHtli Tto I f lMIao 1111 > tit = = I v rrt D 01 > 01 IttL to dSha SINS S Chin My 9 11191 WRITF 111 letter1 Chn I I or t I 1 thug A SIted C city no the I i VVSv bnk of lh r i VA yII tw 1 j 1 H S Itl I JUII J bout f Y 150 mile from C V i V1 I he eCSut x I and b I at the I > s > > ro point where r the Grand tTi f l innal croue I V Ihe angUe 1 Thl canal U l M cn I ft I rel wonder ol the world I i I I repair and a large pert j II t 1 u to rum Hut It has been n 1 kr tltil iterwayt of the tutl si It 1 extend from Peking louih t II I I K Chow some IOU odd r 1 ii I w tire I point running through llit ti t 101 i in from north to middle Chin j ii ntioul ai great en that 1 tte II 1 v Vtk and Chicago U u ii y through a territory con 4 I ooo people or nearly Ite i Ie s at many us the whole nf Ihe In 1 ales and It tap some ol the 1 Ssr4 t I t In the world Peking Ih t I 110 I It j hi count nol far from i cAn i mligillon palace II 1 n city i n Una million people Tienl > tell v this about eighty miles I Ser I S-er and ail run furlher south toi I i dolled slit walled dtle indr ttjwn all along thu course to he I K I iner Unnkiang h about I nneapohi angchow the I 111 lY un the > trial itoutli ol here j I m told a Inlf n million hCP and Suihuti and llangchow u ill ttu I lumcUiing like threequarter elanlwn Huuli At every thirty mile i n b i comic It is afe to say there < a tulle 1 clly containing many time a t tiTh d people and the country I 4 k of It h l u kcn spotted wills i d u I trcci situ i clump I hading n hl I l n xlligc the canal at Chlnklang J1 11111 around the city forming the Un I upon which ihe main part ol this I < xat It rum Irom lucre northward in j ml csviillioutn lock but l above I am told there ate numerous J and lock and In some places h water In c irned through thou country great stone embankments twenty i snort feel high and l the stream at iuiinohthiro p arts It lully too I tIe t-Ie It lint stone loud gate minaged I soldier and it It hero unit there led > ic Li and rivers lone point a r w t i unductcd Into It In lime t aid tin Clinic say that joo ooo U ucmplojrl fur scroll inoiiilii 1 tu nlmt tcu w iti M of Him single lu m ll cult Ihe ellow river and Ii ow Ih Hint the stone cnbank r t i vc SPiihrs 1 ol ore located The J winch 11I1l 1 teen are Inose which ui n jr her through the Yangue t allli I thoSe about llentsm and Ic I j Here I ihe canal Is more like a l I I 1I11h thins an > Ihlnl Clot and there i IV a lull army ol men emnoyed uibeq i n Itlnr pair It was In exist tic sour linn a th 11114111 yenta ago m I iuLjIII11II laid out the line upon i Ii chit J n jiv runs I cluf use for the canal In time < r horn t that of a trade artery 11 it un I faiths lu oath It tap by III < III i anal unit river every jurt it hi hnnt ibm and It U used for 1 M lo n 1 Dilation of Die tribute I tics to Irk Ito I government lanes cf Chlm nre 11 I a r coleuS collected I In kind nnd II y bet thou farmers send about 31 u i pound of lire from tier to j ml it shin emperor and hits official II 3 K I law acre of great tutu Sb t were filled with this ncoawiltlng 1 iii I t nil every town nlong the cub In covernnu bains Jual sari ci 11E ini i taken lo the north lb lair much of It goiK by tea mil a ct L I is still sent by the l drand ii onmt 1 at every town thorn are moo f vrl troll oh every kind and theM I I nm1 lunk sumcllme block the I1 t I II Hundred I l of men are 1iiL I J in towing and I pulling the a hilt places they are draped I n I nlton capstans The canal o a ut like a river In place nnd Ic n through II Is a i slow that Oh I nre boat have started In > uln tin past few jcars and 1 on r ci din eking I until biptember r I m canal are closed to tralric I iruik the earr > lug of thus tribute I the condition of It today Is I OtII III w 111 hrdly be used again ni I Mil w iy which It luau liofil its n l I ll limn Chang hai nikcd 1 fJohh fJo Ib i 13 liii to allow him to build a Otit Jo nt It I from 1 lentsln to Chin J Um will rn cvcntlully II be done TI i I 11 ung she canal ore much I > r have IcHcnbed ns lying ul 1 Ii ol the crerks of the angtse iIi III > ou an lolloped ever I rrj diwho look with wonder 1 horigtu I dolls and every here td > uu mid boats containing I i mhbdhlit prieils who lick out t 1 oat you Thiae pole have II I lo Ihelr end and 1 Into it q Ic l L I etl drop cab or rice I I I n ol Cloa it fu I of priest In > i Ihe I mgtxe river lUll oppo JI I u now writing nil Island I rrll oh c mcd wall lliddli I uI 1 am 111 h his no Inhabilani I Maulv Irallile tenrucen II I > thu 1 II 1 not > e hoi lead up rrolll 11 < < I tie Itmple shine out Y and flowery C ardent hus a ii bcml a temple which con a IIngel nini I old ell shatuce and I havi hotourapliud n I I tie prints In the Nan I ot a priest to knicl aunt f II Q14 1II i nob i lu lrI altitude I 1 uiutt while I took a lime manure of lib devotion and I am Inclined to think there b much hviiocrUy about the turn enlon The prleotn ire lot f fellowt In hug gown of fray or yellow linen and they often have on threecornered bi x harwd hats orblck They h ave their head and faces and are but little re > peeled by the perple They ore Im I told by he I bell ol authorltlet here Igilorant I r li low I and Immoral I The moit of them are opium tmokern and they are the contempt and ridicule of the flIer chum of the Chlnme ftnddhbmi In Chin b In fact a religion I gone to teed It had iti ran In times push and bout a thotrand mid yen ago the greater portion of the Cblnen were I Crt rlll flh ehh thuddlmtts It wnn then the c nuer i culture and learning and now there are few no ie > or to do It reverence The ChInese lire full of superstitions but their religion In I more a system of moralt I than one of theology and they have as many pure InAdeli and agnostic as any People 1 In the world Speaking of ChlntM morality I be Ibm thru It I M little crime her to the liopulallnn an there he I anywhere I And thue people M a rule well Iwhavvd and I 1 am Mirprlied every day at the com moil decency with which they teach t-each other These Chinese dUN have many not over four fet wide In those of Canton you can aland In lh center ami touch both wal a with your two hand There sue no more thronged places In the worl I lhan tlnene sheets and Ihe crowd Inch move through them Is of all grades I suit of all uccupa lion j here I urn mandarins In chain I who are preceded liy their servantswho carry board ii n front of them bearing the title of their muter There arc cootie wheeling greg burrow < which almmt fill the ilrert from lde to lde lime are donkey hy the de In and men loaded l with all sort or heavy burden some i mf which they carry upon their backs and other which they have hung to the end of pole There must be necMsatlly much pushing and crowdIng crowd-Ing and such a seen In Amrnci would Include n light on etery bio k Here there U I nothing ol the kind The scholar and Ihe gentleman give way Is a rule to the heavily loaded laborer I and the worUngmans right are generally gen-erally respected If they are not the trade union are such that liny bring the official and hN1PlI 1 to time A ittlcking Instance of this recently hap twned at Nanking The Chinese you know have no such thing aS ewera and ail I of the slop of each household are collected every iay hy men and carried out Into Ihe country to be stored In vats and afterward lIed na liquid manure Not a drop nor a atom of any thing ol n fertilising nature U allowe to JIO 10 ala and slop have their hxrd price In the market and are bought eel I told The collector of time Tops are the most oflrnslv character of a ChInese I They go about whIt two four gallon buckets fastened tu the end ol a long bamboo pole which rests upon their shoulders Carrying sIlls them a smell worse lhan that of a lonedust factory they belong to the lowest classes I 7h re ol the people The other day one of then men was rapidly walking through Nanking when he happened on turning a 1 corner to run Into a Igh t nnndarln and paltered him with Ihe content of hIs bucket The mamlarln ordered him lo be arrested and he wa taken to prison Ill 1 hed I of the lop union objected and lIehl dad that the man be herd ll wu not d hOle and the slop carrier struck In a body Ihe I Shin him died lliousand eopta I of Nanking had no way lo ret lid ol their loin and llhe danger ol an epidemic dliease wan Imminent Suppose toil lit foj In lance for a week stop up the sewers ol your city you could then appreciate loh tk something ol the stale I of Nanking at this lime I 1 kfrtl however wan far worse off for It has no sewer at all The result wa that the mandarin wa so bedeged thaI he let hubs prisoner go tree and remitted lila fins I in I thai the Chinese hive n fair I lea of justice 1 hey v Ill light against rong and there is I ns much of a democracy here In this respect at Ihere II I in America There he I np place where debt are so piincin ally paid and where credit 11 Ic so easily kotten by all claue ol people lonesty I nnd Integrity are oboe par In China and foreigner li me they would 1 rather deal with the Chinese merchant than with any other bunlne man in Ihe world 1 lie loner goc buck on lili spoken or written word and Mr I wen Cameron one of the i leading director of the Hong Kong and Shinghal Hank I 1 fll establishment which shoes the tightest I i banking hume on Ihe western Pacific and whose capital amount lo million on leaving China not long ago said that in t the dealmgii I fl Slur batik with Chinese I merchant lor a period of more than twenty tear and in sums aggregating hundreds ol millions l of dollar I he had net ft met wllh H defaulting Chinaman Since thl statement Wl made the bank ha been defrauded by a Chinese raInIer generil hoover this slate ment in I correct rime penalties l of shun law are often very severe nnd the Chinese frepienll lake lha I punishment Inlo their ottn hands 1 I All along IW1 Gran II 1 canal and thin eY aniline you may see at the village here and Ihei boali cut In half and placed upon end I asked what these nero slid WI old lhat they were the boat of thieve or pirate who had been caught dealing Shun criminal had hud their heads cut otf nnd their boats were thou set up an a warning other In Shinghal 1 saw a doien men with t great board four feel squaie and weighing as much ns forty pound uach fastened about Ihulr neck 10 that they could not move their hand lo their face nor brush oil the file They were thlete In Wuhu there isa I beggar beg-gar who goe about on the stump of liU leg which have been cut oil just below the knee lie waS caught 5eV aral lime stealing and till WM lIne penally of hi crlmu In some part of the empire a man In punished with death at lrl liii I Ihirtl conviction of theft and pirate are alway behead Law and order aru howater well preserved and I believe Jrolhl liunun life and properly prop-erly I ate an safe hero as the > arc In America A large part of lha arming of this J Im 1 jii li cora by Irrlrat ui end the 0 m rIII i i of tho C imc arc a full a I um imuOhb < a as arc II i ocr I ohm > oh-m lo a I II Ihere are I 1 Ir ulilc ll i kl 1IIT I tarnicr m an I ti n vuocee I j m I ik lie llnct of 1 Ihtlr iu rty they i wok aw iy m peace lIti I I ill i i t genre shun alter generation It n wonderful how well they work snh I how much they get oil ew land 1 Ihrcc I crop n ynrlsbyno mean uncommon and if any sign ol am failure 1 ol crop nl h seen th and for another crop in I straightway own ll is wonderful f how I amall the harms are Then are ihotKaid of holding In China which are less I than an acre U II I estimated lhal an acre of land will In the belter peru ol ihe empire em-pire aupporta lamtlyof sm and aval I time could be written on Cnhicv agriculture agri-culture She UM ol feniiMM in I uni < venial and though there arc practically no horses and hew I cattle there is I no land winch Is l so well fed terylhlng I Is I saved Thousands men do noili isle else bul gamer up bits ol 1 f ndli ng m iller and Mil them lIme refuse of a rich family will bring more than that ol 1 a poor one and tnc shops ot the foreign for-eign part of Shun hlll are fanned out annually for a sum which give the city the moet > I Its educational fund Potato Ifwung the paring < rf finder sells the shavings of the head and ruined houses form part ut the feriiluttng material and tins m suiiuuo hIp put together In such liquid I rm tliut not a bit ol it Is wasted lime m nuns It kept In great van and the lame IH watered like f garden Each plat get lt > daily food and drink A dipper full from the tat is l put 1I Into each bucket of water and the intitme Is I pouted In at the roots of Iha plant All throughout this pall of China inch fertilization goes on and from twenty to thirty do lara a year Is sometime spent upon an acre of ground The tool used are crude lu the e x lieme I seen men working In the field near here wllh long handled hue These hsne lour tectu ul tile acme length as those ol a pltchlotk aud each tooth or tine Is about an Inch In width They ala UM grubbing uses or mattock all < l lImp liar a ort 01 a spade with cr151 piece 01 wood two sItu > cs above where hIsS Iron plat ol the apado bvmen They push the spade down Into the ground by praaslng Hi j bar loot against this clues bar Instead of em the iron itself as we do Heir plow cereals the earth and are not mueli belter than thoaetuvdlnlgypt rhesus Ira pulledtiy water burlalon tile ugliest cattle known lo man rums bulUlo grind the nee tramp the mud and straw ur making the aun dried brick ol which their house are made and do all sort ol I farm work U hen gr um r and when not m work loop are ni ndtd by the Ila hbr 1 little children wh > sit upon Iheli back and who have A wutilerlul control over them They crawl UIHIII the back of tile balEd geltsag hess ujuoto time Iuortte hholh nat > f hoe snuenai wha lawuldS dawn hen head fur them As soon an boy are astride ol the neck the bulla will icnlly raise III head and tlie buy will slide down III neck lilt he has a turn seat just behind Its ilders Here hu will stay all day and 11 I mare seen little hallow ol live and sIn years sound asleep upon the back of IssUe ummali who ate olten danger oils and ugly In their action toward ranger A good bullalu U worth abont Jjo < and far nor oilen enter a sort ol farmers loan aitocialion for the one af r a common lund l ul money Irom Incur to year by which they lock their farms I have wen some cow but their milk Is I nut used as food Ihe Chinaman I iloa not think milk fit to drink and 1 he only use ll as medicine I When he due that h prelen the human valiel and gel a wet niirfe lIst U by no I inans us uncommon thing and Ihe empress em-press Ujwager when she was sick not lung uflo put hersell upon a diet ol thIs kind lIf venture till old lady II did the milking herself lIst mutton ol I thin part ol China Is I very fine and its flavor Ic i aid tu be much improved by fending lIa shed on mulberry leave The hogs are of She lubbery black Chinese variety the dirtiest and filthIest animals of their kind They srenlways minded by a gul or boy whileIn um held and I saw today Illlle girl of ten whose eel were bandaged so thai she seemed lo be walking on e1 I hot Irut ns as die loitered about whipping the hogs Tne As often lite I in tin nouns and 1 you hud them grunting around In the busiest I ol the Chinese cities here I are lot of chicken ducki and gene etcrywhere und Ihu scientific raising ol f poultry by te Chincac wuul I make atelier in ilsIh j Ihuy are salmi lryblh I tbe paun I by must dime who carry tu mm real lusslieus olbamlou urn woik aiuui MU shipped by the but load Ion the country lo Ihe cities EIIg 1 urn useI bf all clancs and the lavonlo egg is from twenty to thirty tear old I 111 us cooked before It I ie I put away and when brought bills ll L hh kY fl teas I black on > our hnl null I lailv like chalk buicks ore pruaaed and dried and the cuoke I one I see m the mantel are oiled so that their picked kins llilne at If covered with tarnish Ihcy are not at all bad to eat I however and those which Ilha I hid In the native resiau lanu are tully aa good 01 any you got In America q I tM I |