Show iz U A pit nit mm in him coma afeld fer an audience with the rich monarch of the flowery nowery kingdom 3 busy preparation preparations at r under way at the tb american na a her embassies et t joltki 11 for the aa l nual audience with w j tb his hi imperial lije jesty aty ilan the etro emperor eror of china which li Is to tike take place within a fortnight the occasion Is I 1 always one of greet great moment la in dip lamalle circle circles of 0 it tl empire a capital and I 1 Is part jearly important ibis year in view p me ins possible partition of 0 the empt v ju tho the liter future la in tie tae content for bilth the tui aut o 0 acao ministers are conduct inc lag a a effort will be made by each ch to make an a impressio oa on hlf hir MJ aty at t lie ilie audience so 10 that the root most gor got xoua pius pageant the empire bat ba ever wit liessem Is j likely to 10 1 en seen u the will pi bibly not differ i la in other reaped respects from iti its usual lines U though once a year only doc does kun riving lanu deign to bed jibed the light of 0 bf countenance en on the barbarian rep rementa tives of foreign countries he rarely permit permits the interview to lat list longer tamn ten thi this Is doubtless doubt leia aue to a proper respect for the comfort of the diplo diplomatic matio corp corps they could not be expected to endure with comfort a longer with the effulgence which emanate emanates from the presence of lh ill eon of lavon vw V s tritt brief erf od ad bolever bo olev wever r weeks of preparation are necessary nece aary to perfect the flory glory ot of the diplomatic uniforms for the eventful day fi aben the morning arrives there la Is a great run on aedan sedan chairo it would be deemed highly indecorous to travel to the tb palace in any other conveyance and frequently those tho liked at wedding are brought into requisition on the window windows ot at a bridal chair are inscribed the characters chara etere billions icil and when theae these conveyances through the streets considerable amusement la Is ere erched ted among the gators tor the mor more of whom with the ot of a london street boy inquire of the occa occupant pant whether he expect expects to obtain a wife wits from the palace the annual audience la Is the only oc at cation when foreigners are permitted to enter the sacred precinct precincts of the forbidden city the punishment in filc te on intruders Intrude ra at other time times be ins instant autant death from pagoda on the south wall of tho the tartar citi cit the yellow turret turrets of the royal building buildings can plainly be distinguished beyond the capacious capa cloua court yard while in the latter there may way be seen on any fine day the imperial clauda sunning themselves themi elica ses in various posture postures all unmindful of the fact that they have in their keeping the ruler of at the vol verae verse the member members of the foreign lega tlona on arriving at a aide side entrance in tue tte palace caliz are received by some two thousand thoua and mandarin gorgeously gorge outly appareled in like and tura their re spec tive degrees being denoted by the color ofa abe button on their bata bats and the square decoration on their breasts brea ala the english and american legations are usually arrayed in sober evening dress unless ibe the minister min later happen happens to be a military man when be wear wears his hi uniform the anglo saxon saxons at completely outshone out anone by the prend front j rus AM german holland austrian spanish Span lih italian and japanese Japan cae legation whose display of gold lace late gold embroideries medals ribbon ribbons cinalt ill blaa plumea plumes spears swards word and bel hot beta meta look tor for all the world like an alhambra ballet a and ad of course make a profound impression on the mind ind of the tinsel loving toting oriental the waiting room into which the diplomatic corpa corps la to shown can calk best be tom compared pared to a waiting room on the london chatham and dover railway it la Is a apartment sparsely 1 tam lae and the wall walls are decorated i with a few scrolls on bach are in 1 scribed confucian proverbs pr more honored 1 in tho breach the than I 1 la the b observance 1 j the room Is I 1 not half halt big enough to accommodate the ministers and chett sul aultes itil number numbers of whom baye to wait in the hall ball to fortify them again against the ordeal await ine inc tea la to served in to cup of dirty china and japanese are ilia dt ft A bile waiting here the rain min aisters are visited by the hiet chief officers of tate state the commanding figure of I 1 11 I 1 llona chang being conspicuously prominent aa as he brassea from one grou to another in 10 that s eclas of mental haree arse play pla for which he Is I 1 so noted and erecting greeting everyone ev eryon with a genial genal mlle rival 1 for 41 etting or the nonce national jeni jeal kusles nagle aa as arl fry aa as tre tta consular r students atad rt IN tbt 3 club an all eem seem to bear up ialey in face of the impend ing 1 atrain upon their nerve f 4 prince kung knot the thel emperor a uncle in a hort time aull announce ounces abit the rep la Is about to take olce cigar el I 1 irette irettes are thrown awry aw white kid glova arc are put va ta and beaded by the lt ministers the entire body emerge into the open air whence through a pis p axe ass between lines of blue teria tecy apy tf f f proceed to 16 the audience chubei a it f yellow tiled building with a courtyard fe in front the emperor I 1 Is boated seated be shand a mail small able table which Is I 1 covered ji W 11 with yellow silk upon a plat platform fm a few tt higher than then the coor ot at the hall the prince printed of the tho flood blood stand near him the minetti king the ru er of over people look looks more like a sickly ban man a IL man of uta til eight lie its Is I 1 a poor mix miserable erable in vertebrate afi creature trea ture whose laek lack lustre eyes re hollow bollow cheeks and general 1 sp pear of at weariness furnish incontrovertible tro evidence of his letb leners of character chara eer and no surprise to felt that inch such a weal nc should be made the willing tool of me tu ignorant and prejudiced prier aio 10 t s i him col cal auby the venerable american min fater and doyen of at the pekin diplomatic corp corps stands in the centre of ih th eight ministers the inglish rep being on hia him richt right anil and the french minister on hie eft the min liten all oil bow simultaneously whon hr n about fifteen feet from the throne the crowd of behind indulging Indal finx la 14 a barloa le te like bobbing of beadi beads which detracts considerably irom from the dignity of the occasion occa alon and gives rise to mothered smothered laughter a on it the part ot of the younger lats colonel read reads a brief speech of congratulation of less than two minute minutes duration which ii Is interpreted into chinese by 11 31 ot at the russian location legation the senior interpreter prent present prince kung rung then advance to the platform on the emperor led left and kneeling kneel lat render readers the message into banchu the language of the court the emperor lastly acknowledges it 11 in a brief speech of a dozen sentences which are re punctuated by apostrophic strophic che the a on the part of prince kung kong the latter translates the em jerore a speech into mandarin N M pa P re rt tran alutin t it U into franch tn tor for the benefit of tue too barbarians the ministers and staffs then retire back wards in a R necessarily awkward manner and return to their respective lex lega aton i and the emperor once more withdraw withdraws into the most mysterious lous court circle that the world contains ITIL the celestial empire has in the course of at its lt lengthy history known three cree capitals in different parti parts of its it extent the first capital which held iti its own for a pace space of over a thousand year years was wa the city of sl SI gnan fu tu the present capital of the province of shen el at this waa was evacuated arly early in the rule ot or the adin in dynasty in favor of nankin on the yang te tse klang which in the ahrn turbulent condition of the empire was deemed seer for tho the ready geuns of escape it offered by mean means of lt its network of water nankin which signifies cour court of the south remained the relerce reU reslO erce orce of at the coit cot coitt t until the fifteenth cestary when the tb sartes alea of at rising shur ML centred red in the southern ou thern s caused abott r flitting this time tt tc pekin the north ern tru capital capitol which 1 ti t i remained the he imperial city to the present day but aich rumor fay says Is destined to be b shortly evacuated in favor of sl anan fu to because of the inroads of at ausla the first ar of the city la Is dis nothing meets the eye but a suggestion of battlements with ath loop holed walla walls which aa as they are ap preached take f rm zm as a grim gate with a it wonderful the first impression caid by the ederic u of the city id oue oho of tell m eve thins I 1 anso on big a it cale vale the walla walls are fully thirty feet high and an d the roof root of the attendant gattsy twice am much they extend aa as far as the eye can reach on both older their tool length belal wenty one ane ralle miles and ibey hey are t euty ITO feet wide w ide lit at toe ins base pekin comprises three sepe cities each hemmed in n by its wall each die did binet from the others these are the chinese city the manchu mancha or 0 tartar city and mad the innermost Inner moel or purple vf 1 r bidden city two tao and a quarter miles in circuit the Imp imperial erlat demesne of the emperor and his court the walls between the chinese and manchu cities are even stronger than those already passed being fifty arty icet it high and am proportionately broad klong t 40 S J ti I 1 x kal t 1 AM GATE OF PEKIN gitil h a top ct of och such portion portions as a har have not at rtin lien into decay Is a promenade mom thirty tut feet rid 11 and lad or one a of 1 th 11 cataway eway it I 1 the famous observatory wt re the chinese 1 have succeeded la in taking a variety of astronomical a ok erra atlo tlona a with ith the aid of a moot eccentric eca tea 1 collection I 1 lection ot at apparatus klu the best view of pekin Is 1 obtained irom from the summit vt of the th king shine shang or prospect in the center or of the lachu manchu city this mound li Is feet acet high and accommodates live or different Hudd buddhist hIst tempia 11 the general aspect hect of t the metal quarter can be seen from i the he avenue close to the observatory i litre where are placed the officer officers of the six board as a well as a the great exan exon na no lion on hall halls where here me avdis of students are every year examined for the decree degree of mandarin andarin in the european Ku parties of the capital wh where whre re are the various consulates and legations le fatton I 1 is situated in x tb the inner city the buildings jaro ro ranged on an ill made roadway rutin log el ug tho the baaki banks of at a canal there are uto u rare menta ments and the reaux are 0 a uneven aa as tn in make foals walking extremely th the mape pet t of the mancha city la Is tolerably a ilona ted the main streets are ar wide and the buildings tow low the choppi are for the mot most part kally gally defied end nd algae with flying archea arches borota the pathway are frequent the aspect of the public buildings Is I 1 however like hat that ot of the wall walls tumble down and their exter exterior lor outi lied lika t F wf irr I 1 conjar 4 THE CITY of SHANGHAI every other pince ofte la fit this city ot of borrup cioll with falb and the people are well ell accorded to their surround lilLs it Is I 1 indeed doubtful whether except ine inc in canton a dirtier let set of human beings exists and there are more thin than a million of them all exhibiting a great contempt fur for the white mal which they do not hesitate heal tate to show ai always provided there la Is only one or two of him in eight sight on oil account 0 ita its extreme antiquity bekin te 14 interesting hut but as a show place pekin la Is disappointing in the struggle tnie gle of europe for corn com merall mary in china the wealthy city of shanghai will play a leading part parl it stands at the mouth of at the ying ue tse kiang klan the valley of which for three thousand thou tand miles inland la Is the richest territory in china the illimitable commercial possibilities of the yang tae tea kiang have been little more than thou tapped they haire have yet to aki D developed deT eloped and the present tion of affa irit may WAY lead to thia this shanghai haa has long been the center of commercial interests Inte reata on the coat it of f china it la Is the metropolis mero me dropoll polis of the far rr baat east ita its harbor beema with merchant thipa ships sometimes at a time 4 gig 0 I 1 aall I 1 9 1 A A STREET IN PEKIN british stately buildings along the quay quays are the branches tran che ot of british commercial houses cheri are french freach and german compounds tat the brit lah settlement ett lement predominate the foreign attl x ulment Is in governed by a municipal couhill which consist consists chiefly of merchants they are elected by the S 5 european residents reel dent but control a total population of within their jurisdiction the council haa been the means ot of g greatly r improving ng the he saul tary condition of at the city the carried on re minds one ot of the pal work la in an english city there are municipal gae gas and water supplee electric highl garden gardens parks parka public markets a drill dritt hall and we well 11 organized police service hoeni tali have here been provided for or the treatment ot at Itse sats shanghai Shan hal waa was a pioneer in the matter of electric lighting arc are lam cainia were ere introduced lo 10 I 1 ihrl lone tons before the light had bad been used in many towne towns lu england now it li Is proposed to construct electric tram tr amaya ways one should not forget to mention that there her ie to an efficient nr are brigade and that the businesslike bitnes but nes like apa ite its own workshops hop for drain pipe and other ein sin gitary appliance appliances the municipal council of shanghai Is 1 altogether a remarkable organization which doce does much to preserve good order protect public health and generally promote the well being of a strangely stran cely mixed community of at over t r quarter jur ter of a ml million illon shanghai in I 1 by no mean the biggest port in CLI A n pont point of population but ita its trade la Is enormously ahead of the other and the thus the or which the municipal wa oun ell enforce enforces Is i of the utmost importance the excellent state la in 1 which ji bibb finds itself only howa shows whal what western method methods cando can do tor for eastern money cannot buy an ounce of lore love but it will 1 purchase ton tons of sympathy tyni pathy lif life after all ta to but a big bundle of little things |