| Show TWO MONSTERS OF CHINA they guard graves of former rulers of the flowery kingdom the rev frederic poolo poole who conducts the christian fe leagues agnes mission in chinatown said yesterday when I 1 was a miss missionary ionar y to china I 1 visited the two huge elephants each 30 feet in height and each carved out of a single block of stone thata chvat guard the grave in ill ivankow of 0 the last of the chinese emperors they are impressive and majestic beasts and are known to be over years old how they were transported to bankow no one can understand lor for their belg weight ht is enormous and there is not a stone quarry a anywhere near bankow th the e backs of the two elephants are rounded yet balanced nicely on them lie hundreds nf at little stones for there is a popular chinese belief that he who can throw upon on c of them thein a stone that will lodge there will have a son for his next child so every daya day a lot of pebbles are hurled and two or three out of every hundred s stick t I 1 cr well a brother missionary was with me and lie he for an experiment threw at the nearest elephant two stones at once both for a wonder stuck thereupon my friend turned to me and said with a look of dismay 1 I 1 hope not poole philadelphia record |
