Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-07
THEY ARE HARD 10 FOLLOW.
WHY THE MOVEMENTS OF THE
'APs PUZZLE NEWSPAPER


ma tue whereabouts OF many OF tho
places mentioned in dispatches. u is
no wonder for the spelling Of those
names mas been carried out under two
distinct systems, the continental GU
ropean) and the English. and few
nave been further manglcd by- the teic-
sraph after the correspondents have
transmitted them For example. the
old-foshioned geographical word spelt
CHOW by tho English, may be written
tehial by the French, OF ehu by 9TH
ers' and 1t was reduced to ju by the
cable the other day in at least one case
-Wciju, which may be found in some
ALIASES as Y-tcheou. Reference has
also been made 10 the imperial palace
nj Je-hol. which hns been marked on
maps 2hehoi. and even She-hOi. which
iast unplaasmtly suggosuyo spelling
Is mlsnomer for the Hunting Park.
though the same does mean Hot fivcr
When In doubt IL may be we'll to try
al names BY both the continental and
English systems OF pronunciation, and
TO search the maps for either spelling,
"A few lNndom notes may adj inter-
est To our inspection OF the rather in-
different maps we possess. and may
show that IN China, a. els eWhere,
names have meaning aud In some
cases entertaining ones. To begin with
inc cardinal points, north, south, east
and west are, respectively Pch, Nan,
Tung and 81 so that tho important
city which We generally call lelln IT,,
In fact, Peh-Ning, and means northern
capital; or In another way, lofty ten
millions. which exceeds our expression
upper ten thousand; 1t also bc3rl, TO
3 the confusion OF outside barharinn5
the title OK Shun Tien Foo. alludlng to
the experimenting hand which directs
streams Of all things, Nan-king used
10 be the southern capital, bcIOfe lhe
present Ta-Tsing or su5llmcly pure
dynasty removed To It's existing quar-
ters The two provinces. Shan-Tuug
and Shun-Si, are, respectively east OF
the hills and west Of the hills the
character shan being corrupt form
of the original pictorial representation
OF three mountain peaks the province
4 which contains the capital Is Chih-h'
meaning direct rule because Pch-king,
I the source Of supreme power Is In II.
{ The province OF Llau-Tung also called
/ ShlnR-king, between the NR-lu river
I and the great wall has the appropriate
meaning OF remote distance
THE Northern dialect Is so different
/ from that OF the South that the natives
Z themselves are often compelled 10
| communicate with each other through
/ the written characters, or still more
strangely, through pidgin English, In
! the North the word no means river,
| aud honnF (somotimes incorrectly spelt
wang, being yellow, we have the tue
! yellow Independently 'Chiua's sor-
row. from It's devastating floods ana be-
| cause it 'nGwcth where 1t listeth,' It's
present mouth being some three hun
/ dred miles from one Of It's former points
| of discharge The name yellow Is
derived from the muddy color OF Its
waters which In turn dlscolor the Gulf
of Pe-Chi-Ll and the Yellow sea. The
mud has also made the gulf shallow
and. with that from the Pel-Ho has
caused the mud fats near Tn-Eu, which
brought disaster TO the English In theil
first attack upon the forts there, whef
our flag officer, Tattnall, stretched ar
international point ana said that Bloc,
Is thicker than water In the South
l(inng Is the word for river. and Yang
TIE is, translated, Son of the Ocean
or course Yang-Tzc-K lang river Il
tautologous though 1t has been so writ
ten. Penking being very scared cap
ital, Tlcn Tsin. on the way TO It alonl
the Pei-Ho, is Heavens Gate, accord
ing to one reading.
Among the words most commonly
used with the names Of towns ar,
three descriptive terms: Foo in OLE
times. meant city or district Of tn,
first class. Chow, one Of the second or
der, and Tslen, OF the third. and for
merly a chow contained about $50
famllles but as towns and cities grow
In the process Of time, even In China
while the language Is said to be I'M
mutable, these titles do not now eX
press a very exact meaning as 10 TIT
size Of the placns, 1t may assist ais,
to note that kcou or kOw u mouth OF
. nulQnl1N chan Is ISLAM a
and hou or hu. lake, In the tltl'
Ta-Licn-Wan, where the papers tel
Us tho japanese have Just landed
force In the rear Of PORT Arthur. waI
means harbor and. Just as our wore
Indicates a place OF shelter, so THU
character wan is built up OF symbol
for water" and TO bend" denotlnl
n place where the shore curves arOun(
a body OF water, making a safe anchor
new chwang. which appears OF
. some maps as Nieou-Tchuang rcpOrtet
to be captured, means Cowtdwn
shnnghalkwan must be intended fo
shan Hal-kwan, the place whore tn
great wall ends at the shore. II Il b
true that 10000 Japanese have lande,
nrar y. they Will be less than 200 milei
from PeklnC Takuan, whore severa
Japanese warships were reported 4
have been sighted, on the 10Th instant
must be o mlaprint Tor Tu-ku mar, OF
the mouth OF the Pel-Ho. II that b,
true there IL little wonder at the re
nor,sd CONSERVATION IN Picking, for !
means that the Chinese feet Is power
ioss al present. II japanese squad
2 ran has also been seen of Nlng-Pl
(Trannuil Waves), about 100 mllel
! south Of Shanghai, the vessels are NJ
/ doubt ready TO Intercept the southern
rhtnrse men-of war and coal likely L
, he brought from Formosa.
"Chlna itself bears several native
titIse' which have been translated The
Celestial Empire and Bcneath-ihe
psnvens. Ail-Betwcen-the-Fo ur-seai
ana The Middle Kingdom; but perhnp'
an,ong It's most heterogeneous people
a. is hest known ns The Eishteen Prov
, inees. which last name, II European
tealotsy will keep lts hands off and lei
;he Japanesc halve or quarter the EN-
n,re viii probably have TO be changed
troyided. also. that no mistakes ar,
made by the piucky japanese. II Il
come comfort that the seat OF war hiss
. hrsn removed from coren. for we hat
ths most important place there spell
In four different ways, and other names
mnder gu,ses which no fellow couit
sns nnf The recent corrected char
1 1's,ied BY the photographic office. has
. ,nvever filled some blank spots which
/, We nave been accustomed TO see mark
: ed 'corea,