The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-24
BY ARTHUR II. SMITH IN THE OUTLOOK

are those who nave tralleQ the Idir
name of the United States and Great
Britain in the dust. In an especially
fragrant case a man termed himself
"Cervais Cook & Co.," and blackmailed
large numbers of poor Chinese, Wrest-
ing from them silver, goods, and even
the title deeds of their property, as an
equivalent for protection which he had
no power to give, and which in Rus
sian patrol territory it was impudent
to offer. This individual was tried by
court martial and sentenced to be shot
"a sentence none too severe, but not
carried out.
UNIVERSAL PILLAGE.
To the other and terrible evils insep-
arabic from military occupation must
be added that of pillage, which is for
hidden in theory by some nations, but
practiced to some extent by all soldie. S.
Day after day long lines Of mules may
be seen loaded with the loot of silk
shops, cloth shops. grain shops, with
anything and everything. The British
policy Is the most scientific; under 1t
everything is turned into a commo2
stock and sold for the benefit of the
occupying army. The Russian plan is
that of the Middle Ages, slightly modi-
fled by a veneer of Christianity, and is
accompanied by the violation of women
on a scale which leads to the suicd !.
Of hundreds of Chinese, till the wells
are choked. The sayagery of the Rus
sian troops Is simply barbaric, but
there Is no nation which can throw
stones at another in this dreadful mat
ter. And all this has come upon Pc
king and follows the terrible evils
which went before.
BUSINESS DESTROYED.
There Is not only no business doing
in Picking, but the very sources of
commercial prosperity have been cut
up by the roots. In the northern city
were four allied banks, each with the
character "Heng," denoting Perpetuity,
and the syndicate (owned by a eunuch
, of the palace) was supposed to he as
safe as the Bank Of England. In the
third week In June the Chinese sold ers
plundered each of the perpet,,ities.
which have ceased to exist-as have all
other cash shops and banks. The
streets are abundantly supplied with
bank-bills. which blow hithe: and
thither with the gusts of wind, ard are
impartially rooted in the cutters by the
, few surviving pigs.
: BOXERS OFFICIALLY RECOG-
NIZED.
t. That the Boxer movement was essen.
TALLY an Imperial one is now proved
: beyond doubt. It's yellow handbills arr
. headed with the words Ching Ming
: denoting 'in accordance with Imperia
orders" and it's proclamations embody
the same language. The Boxers ever
: went to the length of issuing s new
: coin of enormous size and thickness
: with the legend, 'T'ien Hsi:. TIA
Ping The Empire at Peace
. prophecy remote from the facts as de-
. veloped. The Manchu and Monso, pal
aces in which these schemes wer. de
a vised and carried out are now aban
8 doned. Prince Tuan is reported to have
!. set fire to his palace before he left Pc
king. That of Prince Chuang is occu
pied as Japanese headquarters. TIL
: hated missionaries and the remnant o
Z the flock whom they have succeeded ii
g saving, are now living in the haadsom,
n dwellings of some Cf those who latel.
n tried to Kill them, as the Children. o
/. Israel occupied the fenced cities in tn
: land of Canaan, cities which the,
II neither built or bought
DESTRUCTION OF CITY GATES.
The capital Of country is tina
II country In small, and Picking is patrol
= led and governed ~ THE Powers,
% which issue proclamations in Chimes
. forbidding disorder, and dire etin
those who may have complaints t
/ whom to go. The city gates ara tn
I, center OF its life and the symbols O
d its power. The outer brick towe~ o
d the Chien-Men caught fire from tn
- great conf1agration set by the Boxers
III
= it was burning for day and night
. The other tower was accidental
q burned late in August. The Japunes
IS blew. up the outer tower of the Chi
g Huaegate and destroyed it. and fir
. was also SGT to the outer tower Of tn
:. Ha-Ta gate the day after the roreig
- troops arrived. 1t is now a WRECK
5 having afforded picturesque sight t
Is those who witnessed the bombardmen
If of the southern approaches to the pal
IT ace August Is. when the three cute
l. gates were blown in by America
"a guns. The TungPien and Sha- X u
- gates of the southern city were sac
III broken by shells the day before; an
lie all the nine gates OF the northern city
lie as well as the seven remaining enc
= OF the southern city, are guarded b
e troops of the eight powers co-operatin
in military occupation. The ster
porticullis of the outer tower of tn
front gate tnever opened except vhe
IL the Emperor passed through Is d.
h. stroyed. and for the first time there
Of straight road from the ,alac
s. grounds to the southern city. not fo
Sc the Emperor, but for every CG,nes
J." and every foreigner alike. 1t is
re -Wall-nf- China obliteratel at
is blow.
OIL THE TEMPLE OF AGRICULTURE
co Within the last-numed gate. on tn
wv western side of the great street. 8
n spacious Enclosure known as the I nj
tn pie of Agriculture, the main con ent
" of which are two large halls and
r smaller one to one side. The latter wa
or used for the storage of gilded an
he lacquered specimens of agricultur;
'le implements-the pillow, the seed drill
la the harrow. the brush harrow. tn
he spade, the broom, the pitchfork, an
~ smaller utensils, such as baskets an
co broad hats. All of these are uncere
~ moniously hustled :nto the open al
&c and some of the smaller articles flu,
be- 1ish convenient fuel for the Ninth an
"A Fourteenth Regiments of United STATE
,ir Infantry, whose officers max. tt
in building their headquarters. TIL. rsa
he hall is now hospital. and flies til
en- Red Cross flag. while the front hall
y, the commissariat headquarters OF tt
IN American detachment of the Unite
&c States army of occupation, and /.
az plays long rows of hams, cases of t,
co bacco. boxes of army beans, ana bal
. rels of beef.
- The marble altar where the Etapert
e. worships old legendary Shen- Nung