The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-10-14

HE SEA 4 LIE rus.
This. however. We soon passed by and
struck into the open country. We pass
ed trees on one side and great fields OF
green corn. intergrown with the useful
bean, on the other. Suddenly . rins
SHOT rang out We started, for as yet
the Chinese had not laid down an arm
and 'snipers" tzharpshooters) were re-
ported all around us.
who fired that shot1'' angrily cried an
officer riding hastily from the rear and
pushing on to the front Once there he
was informed that another officer had
fred his gun to clean the barrel, but the
cleansing process was not repeated.
Foragfng for Food.
Now and then the soldiers and Chi
nese coolies ran into the fields along the
way, and brought back melons and green
corn: the latter they ate greedily and
In its raw state. 1t was nearly noon
when We thought 10 lunch. We heard
an underofflcer calling loudly for food
to give to the sick soldiers in the am
bulance. No food was forthcoming from
the army, for the officers in charge had
either not seen at or had forgotten to
bring them any refreshments or nourish-
ment for their seventeen miles journey in
we who had lunches divided them and
received hearty thanks from the sick and
wounded, who were already faint and
worn with their long ride
Occasionally we paused TO rest Our
little red-haired driver invariably, IN the
very short interval climbed down and
lay between the rows of corn and COM
posed himself to sleep.
How are you getting aiongr' some-
one asked him.
Well. don't know Just how. Can't
keep from going to sleep. so / climb every
bank ana hit every stone that's going"
wen. you were pretty musical last
night; that must be your trouble"
Musical. was II" Well, just tell me
was quarrelsome or hilarious?"
''Oh. no; / guess not when / seen you.
lou had just enough to be musical. but
you was pretty musical, sure"
This conversation was not reassurins,
and less so when in a few minutes after
we started again we were run upon the
LETT bank and the wagon hung in q posi-
ton Of delightful uncertainty as to
whether II would keep on Its wheels or
turn over on its side.
Jump OUT yelled someone So jump
ave did.
board mission and the finest college Tor
native students in North China. Not a
whole brick was left In the roomy com
pound grounds. The walls had even
material ruin of the property and 10
recall the wholesale slaughter of native
converts In the Tungchow district. Pass
ing this we drove. by ancestral mounds
crumbling away. leaving exposed the
bare, white bones OF those who died
long before China seriously contemplated
driving tho foreigners out.
Of Tungchow and could see the foreign
guards doing sentry duty upon them,
and various flags flying After pausinR
moment for a fresh. cool drink from
the city. Then down a little declIvity
and we followed a narrow road that
curved about a dirty fragment OF tiny
canal TO the Peiho, where guard of
receive the army supplies as they come
up the river from Tientsin to that point.
Down River by Boat.
The river at this point IL not broad, as
rivers TO- It's surface was covered with
hugo riceboats and other river craft
The British pressboat that follows the
British army for the accommodation of
largest and best-ftted boat. in the river.
The other boats carried the flags of all
natione, but from the topmast Of this
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cant of tho great world OF journalism.
through whose medium mightier works
are done than can be accomplished by
II was with difficulty we dismounted.
for our Joints had stiffened with the
eight hours ride. but we crnwied down
from our high perches and out from tho
wagons and looked around for one OF
the Officers. Our train was long and I'm
posing. Even we felt imposing. hats
knocked on one side. hair tumbied about.
clothes almost torn on
No oficer appeared. and Mat. Foote
promptly disappeared. Tho place was In
confusion. Turbaned Sikhs Tndians)
squatted In groups over gay-colored
silks and Chinese garments that they
had looted. Transfers yelled and swore
as they unhitched their mules. One stray
man began 20 cook his food, another by
our side killed chicken hv holding its
head on provision box and pulling It's
body from H. There were immense
stores OF boxed provision on every side.
A few Russian soldiers wandered stold-
" about. The japanese wero alert and
smiling and always kindly.
We departed from this small oasis with
something like regret. Treadng our way
through boxes and mule heels. we finally
reached the large fiat ricehosts that were
20 bear us TO Tfentsin. The masts had
been taken down and run lengthwtse Of
the boats over them were hung mating
and brown canvas, forming canopy.
Our trunks were soon dropped into the