The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-16
TYPICAL SIGHTS in CHINA.

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J, TYPICAL SIGHTS IN CHINA.
scenes That Suggest Familiar Spots In
Our Own Country.
: Oh, but it was beautiful country
that confronted US on that first morn
ing out The land led forever away in
great reaches of brilliant verdure,
raised neck high above the criss-crossed
waterways. The tasselled, whispering
rice stood knee-high and brilliant in
uncountable fields, only broken by
other multitudinous fields of cotton.
darker green and brown, already
plucked and whiting, but specked
with white tatters of the garnered cot
ton bolls. Its all Holland magnified.
so they say who know Holland-the
long, low vistas of luxuriant green, the
ever-lengthening, unbroken, fiat view.
| the sllvery water routes, and the great
sails in every distance, seeming to rlide
over the land To me the same scenes
suggested Long Island at its best To
every one from America or England
the comparisons would be as homelike
and familiar. To be sure, there was
every here and there the jar of some
thing Chinese in the form Of pagoda
rising polelike in the far distance. in
the plenty of smooth-skinned buffa- |
Ices, IN the quaint granite bridges. in
the swarming of people in loose and
Iaded blue, and now and then, in the
little outside refugees or rest-hcuses
along the only roads, the towpaths.
And these resting-places were no more
Chinese than the account that Ana
MAS, our boy, gave Of them.
"Velly good ting said he. ..Snp-
pose one bakerman (beggar) got velly
much lain or got velly much tired-too
nuchee walkee--can lest, can makee
leep night time. Plenty man can do.
no hing OF the eye in any direction
ais 70 compass many pump-sheds or
rrlgatlng stations. These are com
osed OF square roof of mating upon
our short poles, and under it a hori-
ontai cogged wheel that grinds !
hahn OF buckets reaching down into
ne water. A blindfolded buffalo turns :
ne great wheel by dragging its motor
ar around behind him - an OK Of the
frican type, with hide like a hippo-
otamus turned black, and with shape
nat black horns that curve back in
ne with his body. A man or a boy or i
girl lounges on the earth near bv to :,
'ep the solemn beast from forgetting VI
$ lot to labor. over his eyes he H
ears bandage of straw, or two old pa
oes, or the shells Of pair Of tor. XII
lses, and yet at each creaking. push- 90
9 round of his wheel he stems over
e chain of scoops with the precision e &c
perfect sight, while the water pours ~
TO the field behind it in solid liouid r.
cam. Outlines the sheltering shed Ro
q lush pumpkin vine trained over
brown roof, and then the great frs
zen leaves and blazing yellow bios VIII
ms caused my artistic companion to !
ii for his oils. She
n as full harmony With the sweet thr
re country are the numerous VILLAGES bo'
ere the tillers of one-acre or three ing
e rice and cotto, g.. ~ wee
her, not merely as neighbors ruled ran
the usual ten heads of families, but N
y, very oftenas folk of one blood and the
MY and surnames-for such are the Dos
ages OF China. Beside the lesser tim,
ais and streams one sees these
'uresque settlements-each long
OF low buildings overwhelmed to !
vision hy clouds of tree foliage. II
m distance the matched roofs
ping out of the greenery recall
~ hamlets that l have seen in Dew -
are. But nearer at hand they look 4
villages made of mating, while
'er yet the houses are seen 70 he \
OF brick, wood, bamboo or stone -
,ei, as matting-which composes so
FENCES and compounds and sheds -
dominate the view.-Julian Ralph,
arper's Magazine. Dve