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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDCLCTI, UTAH VISITOR TO ALAMO C gets real Thrill r.rcc!izdl7an ICc;3 S!tfo Young OitttaeiiaduiMiirMlid.ViMpiitklMoftfd Historic Structure Filled With - Relics. Perhaps the best known of all places of interest In San Antonio, Texas, is the Alamo. This famous building faces Alamo plaza, a park- way two blocks long by a block wide, in which grow palms and various trees and plants. other ' The Alamo is a small building of adobe, surrounded by a court, inclosed with a high stone, wall. . The thrill of the Alamo comes as you first place foot on its floor. The very atmosphere of the place the recollection of the deeds of valor enacted within it quickens the semi-tropic- aUa pmI tff until U dateeto aueli m pinplM, liw fpotn, inn nd freekla dimnpptmr. Skin i than soft end velvety. Your few lo arwe youneer. MereeHied Wns brine out the hidden beauty of your akin Tn remove nrlnUee tue one ounoe Powdered Sarolito dfcwolved in mohalf pint witch kneel. At drag etoree Salt Labe Citys fewest Hotel al by National Geographic Society. Washington. D. C. WNU Service. Prepared China, SZECHWAN disturbances, is one most populous and picturesque regions of China. Marco Polo described it as a cultivated province, garden with great cities. A more modem sobriquet is The Garden of Asia. Chungking, the Yangtze port, is a great doorway of Szechwan. It is a walled city with 600,000 inhabitants, situated at the confluence of the Yangtze and the Kialing rivers. Through the fiction of a foreign treaty it Is an open seaport notwithstanding the fact that it is 1,500 miles from the coast and 1,000 feet above the level of the sea. It is now the head of steam navigation on the Yangtze, the seat of maritime customs for the West, the point of distribution for all western-borncommerce and the assembling depot for all shipments to other parts of China and foreign lands. The chief exports to America and other countries are paint oils of the tung-tremedicines, bristles, feathers and hides, and, of manufactured articles, silks, satins and crepes of the finest grades. Confined between its two rivers, this city, like New York, is growing into the air. It has no suburban lines to relieve its surplus population, and real estate has accordingly increased In the past .decade from 100 to 200 per cent in value, making it profitable to erect fine foreign buildings, in which it excels any purely native city In China. From Chungking northwestward 300 miles to Chengtu, the capital, one travels by sedan chair, borne on the shoulders of two, three or four bearers, as ones avoirdupois requires or his Troy weight permits; for the rich ride in fours by choice, as do the portly with out option. In addition to the the foreign traveler requires a coolie to bear his cot and bedding, another to carry his food, and an attendant to cook it A "small party easily becomes a regiment, and If an armed escort accompanies It as is usual, the party resembles an army. City of the Dead. Beyond the walls of Chungking the traveler enters the city of the dead tombs of the Here are square-buil- t Ming period ; near by are the crowded lines of public graves for beggars and the very poor; and then, far away to the top of the hill, about four miles distant, arc the regulation mounds of Chinese graves,, with here and there carved, terraced maubeautifully soleums A more orderly section of broad exMohammedan for reserved tent, graves, shows that the followers of the Crescent are no mean or inconsiderable company among the citys population. Over these sleeping camps the telegraph lines are now strung and the Chengtu .railway will tunnel beneath them. Factories and homes are pushing them farther from the city, which is a sure indication that the hand of superstition is losing its grip, for a quarter century ago this would have spelled riot. The Szechwanese from of old have been expert workers in stone, as is evidenced by the many tombs, homes and places of defense carved deep into the rocky cliffs along the rivers. Their Chinese conquerors have inherited this art along with their land, for the coun try abounds with artistically carved stone bridges, and memorial arches of massive proportions ornately wrought in stone. West China might be called The Land of the Pagoda, for nearly every e e, chair-bearer- s, -- s. has its towering sentinel from three to fifteen stories in height They are generally placed upon some eminence overlooking the city they protect, and may have served as watch towers in times of trouble, but the real purpose of their erection most likely was to exert a benign influence upon the fung sue! the spirits of wind and wave that bring prosperity and ward off disaster. Out from the crush and the bum of the city of the living and past the quiet camp of the dead, one comes to the country not, however, the country of the1 western world ; rather a mass of terraced paddy fields and farm gardens, with human beings always In sight. People are the only feature of the landscape that cannot be left behind or ignored ; so one stops to glance at the inhabitants of Szechwan, Who surpass in rugged diversity of race the variety of the provinces scefcery. The People of Szechwan. More valuable than its rich mineral deposits and superbly tilled lands, the people of Szechwan are at once its prime asset and interest. Four epochs mark the Szechwanese and help to explain them: First, the slow retreat of the ancient aborigines up into the mountains of the south and west and the occupation of the fertile land by the oncoming victorious Chinese. Second, the ruthless Chinese wars, culminating in the ravages of the tyrant Chang, who, in accordance with his slogan, Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill Kill ! Kill ! for all men are evil," left many of its cities desolate and its fields without inhabitants. Third, the repeopling of the province by emigrants from the north, central, and southeastern provinces of China, who, fusing with the scattered Chinese and aboriginal inhabitants and with Mohammedan mercenaries from western Asia, formed the composite Szechwanese, styled Chinese, with a differcity Q.lt.Pilo OiQtinonl Q. B. 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USE A little thing sometimes makes a busy r Another interesting sight in downbig impression. town San Antonio is San Fernando This remarkable old cathedral. church was built in 1731. It is In an excellent state of preservation and services conducted in Spanish are held in it every Sunday. AND Next door to it is a modern strucPUT one as ture of twelve stories, and of stands across the square and conON YOUR HANDKERCHIEF templates the two, one cannot fail to AND PILLOW be struck with the contrast between ITS NEW the busy, thriving city of today and the Spanish world that flourished once at San Antonio and is. gone One or the Other Maysie Im going to diet. Daysie Is that so, dearie? HenToo many men make a life work na or peroxide? Weekly Telegraph (Sheffield). of not believing in religion. TEMPLE SQUARE Medicine Man. . , , f . I - work-a-da- u) i Essence Hktbl ! ence." Fourth, the contact of Christian life and thought upon these peoples, a period of reforms and revolutions, a transition from the old order to the New China of today and the China of promise of tomorrow. Remnants of Many Races. The western part of Szechwan might well be called the Museum of the Humap Races, the happy bunting ground of the ethnologist and physiognomist. Here are to be found the surviving remnants in the most heroic struggle for existence that humanity has ever waged and who, for lack of a better term, are called the Tribesmen. As one crosses the Min river, which, fl ng south, divides the province into east and west, and moves westward, towards the snow covered mountains, he comes upon the shambling homes of these people, hidden in impassable ravines or perched upon cliff or mountain side, of which they seem to be part and counterpart., The Chinese call them The Eighteen Nations, but it is believed that there are several times eighteen nations or tribes, each under Its own king, council, or feudal lord, independent or of each other and of the Chinese in .whose borders they dwell. Among the tribesmen are found representatives of the black, yellow, and white branches of the human family, and some of them, especially the dwarf peoples, are believed to be of very ancient origin. 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