| Show i s 1 1 1 t i s 0 1 i t. t e Chinas China's Population jf Interesting st ng A Article i e by Myton Man Mail p- p ft 1 P ft V ft ft t I M f c 1 W H w H Z W 01 Z I Z ft a Z V fc a v s M w China Sept 10 1916 1916 The Myton Free Press l I My Myton ton Utah I Dear Editor As I 1 have bae now made I my hound home in China for the past two I A 1 years an and over I will give you a few fow j i Outlines of of Chinas China's resources and j my lily first t impression upon arriving in ins I s Peking i China has a population of oC overt over over- t figu figures es accepted h by the Maritime l customs and is the old oldest est eat of the worlds world's great countries No country countr has lies more people and only the Russian and British empires more land Jand The The abundant productions of her fertile l plains ina her great stor stores stored of minerals her forest and animal resources re- re sources make China one of the richest richest richest rich rich- est countries in natural wealth Some of oC tier her ancient works of engineering are among t the c eight wonders of the mow r mow world In earlier times China had very skillful engineers Great examples examples ex ex- amples of oC ancient engineering such as ati the Great Wall the Grand Canal the Iron Bridge of the Stone Bridge of the valley and irrigation system of Szechwan remain to show us how well understood understood under under- stood lood were the needs of ot the country countr- The Great Wall is 1250 miles long The Grand Canal is about 12 1200 0 miles long It Connects with crossing the at is a poor and mountainous mountain mountain- ous Otis inland province more than half hatt the tho people arc are not Chinese but hut are wild tribes who have been beeD conquered by Chinese A Du Day In Ln Pelan Peking 7 1 On the first arrival at Peking there is nothing I perhaps that Impresses ss Continued on Page Three CHINAS CHINA'S POPULATION I Continued from Page One a foreigner more vivid vividly than the city wall Especially if he comes from a land without walled cities and by br way of with Its modern looking foreign concessions and its native nathe huts low and plastered with yellow ellow mud The wall of Peking built of ot brick rises some fort forty feet sloping slightly slight slight- 1 ly to its battle tOl top At regular regular regular reg reg- ular Intervals are heavy square square like projections from whose top a defending defending defending defend defend- ing army can command the intervening intervening intervening inter inter- wall front The gate towers rise two or three stories above the wall top heavy roofed the rows of port holes closed with wooden shutters shutters shutters shut shut- whose painted canons threaten the surrounding countr country The heavy iron gates stand swung open In th the arched gateway Passing through the gate one one finds himself Inside a city and yet not In Inside Inside inside In- In side for a semi-circular semi wall only a afew afew few feet less high than the outer wall shuts in an entrance court where fire could be e poured down don on half halt successful besiegers Within this court is much life and crowding Traffic is congested trying trying try try- ing to go both ways at once Food sellers shoe lunch pot flower-pot and clothes merchants have their wares spread out on display beggers await you ready ready- to give ghe a military salute or to grovel in the dust and call catl you ou venera venerable le grand aunt Hello com conn which means give me mc something something some some- thing or in bad English baby 1 aby no got chow etc If If only they can canI I I t. IO hereby entice a copper COPler or two out of or your our pocket el Dogs and children un- un kept and aud uncounted are where everywhere at once A second gateway passed through an equally thick wall and you are arc actually in Peking Chinese cities ma may suggest to some a place lilace crowded crowd crowd- ed and dirty and without visible plan which is rather appalling to a west west- ener on first sight I confess it brought some such vision to my mind based mostly on Ching town in Shanghai Chee fu Tong- Tong shan etc Such visions are not without their counterpart in fact even in Peking but he lie who looks g for such sights on the big streets has hasa a aver very pleasant disappointment and anda a feeling that he should apologize to someone The main streets are straight and wide divided into three by hr a deep narrow gutter trench of or brick hrick The central road is for fast travel Rickshaws Rick Rick- Rickshaws shaws with passengers are fast traffic traffic fic the puller naked to the waist and shining sliming with sweat a dirt dirty cloth wrapped about his head and his ba baggy bag bag- j- j gy blue trousers flapping lapping as he jogs along Carriages take the central road Carriages of ot the legation folks with coachman and footman in white while low low- conical hats loaded down with Ion lonz red fringe I and swaddled in huge many taped coats with broad colored borders livery I suppose it should b be called and shut-door shut carriages of Chinese some-bodies some with attendants attendants attendants attend attend- ants similarly but less l garbed two In front sitting high un an with U their shoulders above the ed edge e of the roof One is the driver and the other is taken perhaps for no other purpose than to keep up that insistent clanging of the gong that makes one turn about started to look for the fire engine A third man stands on a cushioned platform at the rear and peers over the carriage carriage carriage car car- roof on the lookout for such time as he must jump down and run forward to the head of a skin pony and steer safely through a pack pact of rickshaws and the children at the corner of the street Inside the carriage sits the somebody some somo- bod jody body thin faced pale and blue spectacled spectacled spectacled spec spec- In foreign hat and plain Chinese garments looking heartrendingly heartrendingly heart- heart like a nobody How have havethe havethe havethe the mighty might fallen from the days when a nobleman drove forth with half haIr a dozen at least his wealth and rank blazoned In embroidery er ery Non on his garments garments But th the ne new new Republic is less to blame than appetites appetites appetites ap ap- petites we are told opium among them Pedestrians are fast travel and take the central road some sonic are gentlemen gentlemen gentlemen gen gen- in neat gra gray garments others in part foreign clothes combined in ever every way that imagination can con con- There are Chinese women in trousers and short jackets stumbling along on cn their small crooked crook crook- ed cd triangular feet reet and Manchu women with gorgeous garments painted faces and high headdresses some smoking cigarettes in iii neat bone holders There are coolies in blue with brackets at each end of or their carrying poles in them therm anything anything anything any any- thing from peanuts to dog bones and aud snails Riders of are not few tew One often sees a blue clad cladman cladman man of mi middle class his weather heat beaten en face smiling from under sunder a wide brimmed hat faced with sk sky blue and sl sky y blue strings tied tinder under under un un- der his chin chum sitting with legs bowed out over a sack of grain load enough to break a mules' mules back hack but he lie jogs along merrily merril to the tune of or the bells hells fastened around his neck Down one of the side roads come three stacks of straw bobbling hobbling along at a brisk little tittle gait If you meet them them full in front you ou can see that each has a gray nose and a wagging tail but from the side the they remain remaina a mystery One coal wagon with reed sides a small horse in the shafts and a donkey ey on a long rope long rope ahead ahead- The next one a donkey and a man Iuan working side by side and the next a aman aman aman man in the shafts and a half grown IJo boy in the rear or on the end of the rope can be seen most anywhere Then comes tonnes a stately line of camels swaying down the street ever every camel with two sacks of coal The rope from the spike nose-spike of ot each is fastened fast fast- ened emed to the saddle of the one in front and a stripling leads them all Men en with empty erupt rickshaws wander along eyeing each well dressed pedestrian and nud asking eagerly Sha Shia Want Vant no want have not have or sha can do Then comes the flute of or the time blind blindman blindman man who alternately plays and feels his way along the gutter with a long bamboo pole the protesting squeals of a drove of rough looking bearish pigs th the thrill squeak of or the water sellers seller's wheelbarrow the gong cries of ot the petty pett wandering merchant all form part of or the coming corning and going on the street I will send you oU an account of my visit to the great wall its history etc front rom what I can learn from the history of or the Chinese LA LAWRENCE WRENCE i i 1 A |
