| Show S ey V ara ej ae at lebing there was wa until lately cad trouble about tas ae Thil tation of the eer r vitals tante of 0 darkness Jark dar kneas neu the city ie Is built on th the ZI north orth li bink ink of the ali I 1 ang tie jut just below th the entrance to the grand sue uc cession of gorr s and opposite to it atre a range of hills called the pyra midi oo 00 account of their curiously pyrum pyramidal idal formation it wa was found by the local professor professors of the groat great eleno science of feng fling thul shut or knowledge ot of light ani and air that ills evil spirits ailing down the riv r rebounded from tho the hill can oft he be great pyramid on to the city and brought bad luck with them tola this wai was an intolerable grievance and rail bulted in tho the of a christian church and many worshipers the prejudice prejudices and superstitions of the chinaman ham bays bad had uninterrupted p led growth of at lt 4 years 50 to LID perk in a ring fence fenee small wonder they excel even those of rural europe in the rich pro Tinee 1 of uan the tho peasants peran tji and yeomen dwell la in small 11 tum itI lates modeled in every par nicular of their n rr upon the plan ot of a regular city it wi without iab t iti its encircling walls mutual suspicion it if not actual conflict ia is the b it of life and to lire live in culk act set village ie in to earr carry Y out the obvious and convenient principle chinese society rest rests upon a basis bails of at mutual cuir guar 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 f i A 11 14 4 4 A y r 1 I 1 a I 1 it 1 X I 1 li 11 Is II 11 I 1 I 1 i 1 I I 1 1 I 1 I 1 v V IV k I 1 r N I 1 I 1 I 1 pa W N 1 IT 11 41 11 V 11 1 N 1 I 1 N I 1 6 q 1 t 0 K 4 I 1 cje 6 I 1 11 I 1 if 4 4 r I 1 0 it t 1 i 1 0 I 1 1 V gap f e I 1 4 AV 9 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 V I 1 I 1 N I 1 I 1 I 1 y A F f ot lot V I 1 vi od N 1 1 I 1 A i 4 A 11 V I 1 41 I 1 I 1 r 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 ill 1 4 j tz 11 I 1 il C it I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 d I 1 5 V ir V 1 aw MASSACRE IV IN A CHRISTIAN AT 1 I v antee nice through family and neighbor hood and find to lead an isolated existence Is to run counter to the main current of national instinct from the mean and t tortuous alleys that fringe tha 1113 rive r aide man and women pour out at daybreak to the labors 0 of the field and are save in time of 0 flood allow themselves little time to rest their weary limbs when the flood comes their ra kle habitations run ul tits of mud and reed reeds are either wept swept away or utterly waterlogged tor for the season that I 1 Is ae as to chinese equanimity the house Is put together again agalia and in th mishap Is I 1 set down to the inevitable malignity of the river god who has I 1 not been fed and pampered at the shrine hard bard by the late puke duke of feinburg gate it aa as hi his opinion that shanghai was the I 1 wickedest and fastest city east 0 of suez certainly there Is in more glaring disregard of at all the laws of goj god and man than can readily be found in other parti parts evea eten of the celestial ccle sti empire As one approaches it along the ilvano poo or Vi sung river the becomes beco nes crowded with anchored vessels 1 and shipyard hammering and the noises ot of industry fill the air with a deafening da fening din FAc factories and mills and arks of various kinds line the shore bare and the hum bum and roar of mod era rn activity dull the ear until it Is dit dlf 11 alt to realize that this rushing hustling feverishly busy place I 1 Is 4 I 1 asiatic at ail all dut but the heavy nauseous scent of china bean oil plus incense plus ears of accumulated and mid concentrated eubence of abominations are so driml oriental Or lentil that they soon reassure one |
