Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-06

has half a dozen temples including the Tenn
pie of Heaven. which was burned down not
long ago, and which Is now being rebuilt of
Oregon pine.
In Chinese Marts.
The Chinese city is where all the mercan-
tile business of this great capital is done
1t is cut UP into narrow streets. and 1t Is
filled with all sorts of stores. 1t has mar
kets of all kinds. and its fur market covers
several acres. 1t has it's wholesale as we'll
as its retail fur market. and / have gone
out at O'Clock in the morning and found
perhaps thousand Acknowledged merchants
dressed in gorgeous silks moving about
through great beds Of furs of all kinds
The furs are piled upon the ground. and you
can buy sables for about s. a skin, and tiger
skins for S15, which will be worth twice that
amount anywhere else in the world You
can buy the finest of ermine. and for so you
can get coat OF lambs wool, of the kind
that our ladies use for long opera cloaks
This Chinese city Is city Of banks and of
stock exchanges. / visited one morning the
silver exchange. 1t was a room like a
barn. and the people were buying and SELL
ing stocks just they do on Wall street.
yelling and bowling and pushing each other
like mad as they did so. 1t Is a city Of book
stores, and there are some streets which
contain no other shops. We have the idea
that the Chinese merely live upon rice and
on rats, and that their chief industries are
the making of mating, of fans and of silks
The truth is that China does a vast busi-
ness, and she produces all sorts of commodi-
ties. Nearly every enc of these Chinese
streets contains shops of all kinds, and the
main business of China is not the supplying
goous fer the foreign markets. hut the max
ing OF those required for her own people.
they have as many wants as We have. and
they require as good goods. The mobiles
dress In the finest of silk, and there are
hundreds of stores which sell nothing but
pictures. The art displayed in most Of the
ttrrff IL
lures nevertheless, and the Chinese pay
good money for them.
Meat md Fish.
1 wish / could show you the markets of
Peking. You can get as good meat there
as you can In New York. and there Is no
finer mutton in the world than that of
north China. The sheep are of the fat-tail-
ed variety. and I saw many which had tails
weighing over a pound. 1t is queer how
they kill the animals which they sell.
They have no slaughter houses, and
sheep Is often butchered in front Of
the shop and the blood lies on the ground
while you buy. There are all sorts Of fish,
and they are always sold alive. No China
man would b " g dead fish, and In case you
wa mt to buy less than whole fish at
time, the Chinese peddler will pull the fish
cut of the water. lay him sauirming on the
block. and cut piece of quive-ing flesh out
OF his side for you while you wait. He
does not Kill the fish, and after you are
through he throws il back into a separate
pail of water and waits for another GUS
toner to take off the rest. One of the chief
meats sold is pork. and you see hogs trot-
ting about through the streets of Picking.
They wallow in the puddleS right under the
shadow Of the emperor's palaces, and they
are the 6irticst hogs in the world. There
are all sorts of game for sale in the mar
kets, and you can get snjpe and quail and
squirrels of all kE1s. The Chinese are the
best raisers of poultry in the world. They
have duck farms and goose farms, and they
know all about artificial incubation. They