The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-06-12
aLIMpsE III LIE oHINEsE.
A Resident of Shanghai Tells OF Their
FaIlings and Virtues.

A Resident of Shanghai Tells OF Their
FaiIings and Virtues.
A very handsome and distinguished
looking gentleman is Mr.. Francis w.
HarrelI, former citizen of Virginia,
but now q resident of Shanghai China,
who. with his wife, is visiting Wash
ington. Mr.. Harrell lived for six years
in Japan, occupying the chair of Eng
fish in the leading university of that
country, and there he met his future
wife, who was the first child of white
parents born in the mikado's domin-
ions. Mrs. Harrell not only speaks
Japanese like a native, but she is pro-
foundly versed in the literature of the
country. Mr.. HarreH is now connected
with the great shipping firm of N. j.
Robinson & Co, and he comes to the
United States to contract for some
high-power guns, TO be used by the
Chinese in defending several of their
important rivers.
'The Chinese government" said he,
sis in bad way, and any organized
effort to overthrow it, if backed by a
few capable and determined leaders,
would doubtless be successful. The
present dynasty is very unpopular, and
a great many people were glad because
OF its humiliation by the japanese. The
6espotic rule of the mandarins has
deadened all patriotic feeling. They
are non-progressive as well as tyran-
nical, and block the ways to the open
ing of the empire to railroads, tele-
graph lines and all other accompani-
mcnts of civilization. AS long as the
masses can be kept in ignorance their
power and prestige will be secure. The
nandarins melted the lower classes to
the recent massacre of the mission
aries, but the instigators were shrewd
enough to escape punishment them
selves
"But it viii not do to underrate the
Chinese because Of their defeat by a
smaller nation. With proper military
organization they would prove q for
midable foe to any power on earth.
The men arc brave, and they only need
training to become irst-class soldiers.
AS a business people they are far
superior to the japanese. When a Chi
ncse merchant gives his word it is
sacred; there is no use in putting a
contract in writing when dealing with
them, and if in rare cases one defaults
his relatives or friends cheerfully COM
ply with the obligation. On the con-
trary, the Japs viii break their word
whenever seIf-interest dictates, and the
only way to deal with them is by writ
ten instruments. They are bright and
clever, but lacking in the solid and en-
during qualities of the Chinese.
Shanghai is one of the most beau
tiful and well-kept cities of the cast,
and we'll deserves the title OF Little
Paris. In some ways it is the most
peculiar city OF. earth. The natives
have a government of their own, and
.he foreigners are allowed to govern
themselves. There are large colonies
of English, Americans, French and
Germans.
''rhc prestige of Ii Hung Chang has
greatly gone down of late, and the
coming man of the empire is Chang
Chi Ching, viceroy of Nanl1in. He is
enthusiastic on the subject of organ
ling a great army after the German
system, and when he accomplishes his
purpose he could put himself at the
head of the empire without any
trouble. Washington Post.