Show FOREIGN WARES N CHINA increasing demand there for the products of the west the chinese peasant la no longer content to burn bean oil he wants kerosene in scores ot hanible laos homes I 1 saw american lamps costing 20 rupees apiece and a magistrate proudly showed me a collection ot 19 of these shining articles the narrow streets of canton are brilliant with german and american chandeliers and myriads of private houses throughout the empire are lighted by foreign lamps the desire of the asiatic to possess foreign lamps Is equalled equal led only by his passion or foreign clocks the de mand for clocks Is insatiable I 1 count ed 27 in the private apartments of the emperor of china and my wife 19 in the bedroom of the empress dowager while cheaper ones tick to the delight ed wonder of myriads of humbler peo pie century |