young � and the man who was them paused from his labor long enough to sell me a handful near by was the smoke blackened ruin of the farm house the yellow peril fired by the when they retreated from t river bed two men were removing the cleaning the confusion preparatory to they were clad in blue hung down thi backs i was in china i rode to the shore into the village of iii there were no lounging men smoking pipes and chattering the previous day the ru had been there a bloody battle had bee fought and to day the were there � bt what was that to talk about i everybody was men were offering eggs and chickens and fruit c sale upon the street and bread as i live bread i small round or i rode on into tb country here a toiling population was i evidence the houses and walls were strong an substantial stone and brick replaced the mu walls of the dwellings twilight fell an and still the went up and the the following after trains o heavily loaded by an carts drawn by from four to six cows or � cows even with new born tottering along on legs out the yellow peril side the traces everybody worked everything worked i saw a man mending the road i was in china i came to the city of and lodged with a merchant he was a grain merchant com he had hundreds of stored in great of stout peas and beans in and in the back yard his went round and round grinding out meal also in his back yard were buildings containing sunk into the ground and here the were at work making leather i bought a measure of corn from mine host for my horses and he me thirty cents i was in china was with troops it was the thick of war but it did not matter the work of went on just the same the shops were wide open the streets were lined with one could buy anything get anything made i dined at a chinese myself at a public bath in a private tub with a small boy to assist in the i bought milk butter vegetables bread and cake i repeat it cake � good cake i bought knives forks and dishes and there r h � � the yellow peril were and a in realized for me new designs of mine for my ten poles my shoes were sent out to be repaired my hair a servant returns with corn beef in a bottle of port another c and beer blessed beer to wash out from mi throat the dust of an army it was the land ci i was in china the is the perfect type of � of r he chinese is the t pe of for sheer work no in th world can with him work is the of his nostrils it is his solution of existence i is to him what and lighting in far and spiritual have been to other i il to him it in access to th ins of toil in till soil and labor il i with implements and is all h of and of the powers that be work u it ik ai o e all things and he will if iu tor an taking of the he l at the column ami them a t lu walls he did this the yellow peril not from a sense of patriotism but for the foreign devils because they paid him a daily of fifty cents he is not frightened by war he it as he does rain and sunshine the changing of the seasons and other natural phenomena he for it it and it and when the tide of battle sweeps by the thunder of the guns still in the distant he is seen calmly bending to his usual tasks nay war itself bears fruits whereof he may pick before the dead are cold or the burial have arrived he is out on the field the bodies collecting the and in the shell holes for and fragments of iron the chinese is no coward he does not carry away his doors and windows to the mountains but remains to guard them when alien soldiers occupy his town he does not hide away his chickens and his eggs nor any other he possesses he proceeds at once to them for sale nor is he to be into lowering his price what if the be a soldier and an alien made by victory and confident by overwhelming force he has two large saved over from last year the yellow peril which he will sell for five sen or for the same three small what if one soldier taking away with him three large there be twenty other soldiers about he turns over his sack of fruit to another and races down the street after his and t soldier for their flight and he does n return til he has away one large pe from that soldier s grasp nor is the chinese the type of he has been so often he is not so i disposed toward new ideas and new methods as i history would seem to indicate true his customs and methods have been permanent the centuries but this has been due to the fa that his was in the hands of the classes and that these governing scholars four salvation lay in all progress ideas i he ideas behind the troubles ar the over the introduction of railroad af other de il have from the minds of the and been spread i their and and enterprise have been the yellow peril in the chinese for scores of generations only has remained to him industry and in this has he found the supreme expression of his being on the other handy his to new ideas has been 