Show TILE THE OLD The Old which success successfully fully the attack of Chinese on nn the river during the recent at Taku though she is II said to tD have received a shell through her bows bom has stood guard over our In Inter Interests ter In China Chin for tor 36 years ears and while she 1110 would not be rated all as A for formidable or craft In moc modern m naval classi still sUII In the eyes of the con Chinaman she h has rep represent represented en ened ed n groat areat deal ot of potential force Built In Baltimore In 11 1168 and all as a double ended paddle hel steamer especially designed for liver rIer service she was at once onoe detailed to the Orient when she could be spared to look out for our com commercial mercial welfare which had batI suffered through strew of our domestic ties tiel In she he reached the Asiatic station and from that day to this In concert with her th the lot lost loet In ll AJ proved a tower ot of strength In more than one emergency Actual conflict won wan her renown and the open ouen mouths ot of II her ancient ord ordo nanco have had persuasiveness enough to win the grace ot of many a jacketed jacket mandarin not too tO kindly disposed da to toward ward our r resident in the PoV or ory Kingdom t Could the old craft he have been at her lIr Cr erstwhile anchorage we we should not have had hatt to bear bIRr the recent anxious days day over oYer the questionable safely fety of our U at the court of In l years gone 11 by In tact fact eo 10 At ae 91 it Il was waa possible for tor the to lie at Tien Thin only eighty odd mile front Pekin thin then the head hlad waters ot of navigation For months at a Um time the theold old ship lAY off Tl Ties and b by t taid the said aid of each aeh spring made mad her ber berWa herway Wa way back to the sea over oyer the tH channels channel and through the Ule soft mud of oC the only to feel her lIer way war hack back later latar In the year when hen the waters had once onee more determined their way To Today Today day Taku Is the nearest port pert of ap approach approach and there our vessels a must be content to halt on the highway to the capital The old besets a Urn time I honored battery batter of four loeding I smoothbore guns cun and 1 I pie of rifles to which the d desecrating spirit of modernity ha has added nearly Q a doz dozen n gone of very light caliber |