The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14

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zen SIN one runs the gauntlet of bordas
oI clamorous coolies. who fall unon Won
SSlAe your hand luggage snatch vOur
trunk, and swing it with ropes unon ,
pole and trot off with it. before Won can
say JACK Robinson. The only practicaole
means OF eVading their peculiar methods
Is TO tie all your small luggage on vo,,r
person with strong strings and sit on YOUR
trunk until you can select one or two
hfehnsS who seem little less vocifero1s
ana VlilainouS than the rest This sounds
easy out nothing could be more 5itficuit
Ior II involves a simula lion of total deae
ness to their bowls and wells blindness 70
thelr filth and impudence. and insensihi-
lty 10 their general bad smell
Ot Ilen-Tsin I have already written--i.s
resemblance. in the Chinese ouarter -
the narrower streets of Pe5in. with the
same shops, the same restaurants and the
same thrOngs, swinging along in chairs
or, best Of all. in the blessed iiprikisba
10 get back 60 macadamized streets aft
er the horrors of Pekin, is like returning
10 the upper regions after Temporary sechl-
sion in the neither world For. being made
possibly 10y the splendid streets of The for
elgn settlement, the jinrikisha is fn. general
use, the Chinese being among its most
liberal patrons. as they now are Of the
railways. Light, comfortable. if one can
ever become reconcied to the toiling
sweating human being as a beast of b1r-
den; the charge is Is cents Mexican or
IL cents i'm American currency an hour
Too much cannot be said in praise of
the foreign part of Tien-Tsin There are
number of excellent hotels where the
food and service are much better than
could be found i'm an American town of
the same size The business houses Enc
fish, American and French. have been
well and solidly built. while the private
residences are. many of them. very hand
some, surrounded by walls the gates
standing open. through which one has
glimpses of sunny courts filed with plants
and floWcrs-chrysant hemums-at this SEQ
son of the wear i'm all their magnjfcence
Tien-Tsin is the most irnporrant omen mort
in North China-the poin+ If dis5rihution
for two-rhirds of the imports from the
United States especialIy cottons which
are widely Distributed through regions ad
accent to The Gulf of Pe-ohi-u This 70
zion is bordered nv ,he Russian canoes
sion on the. north and bv the German on
the south. Tien-Tsin is the door 10 Pc
kin. and until the last two wears was ac-
rassih1e h1, tho Poi-bo +bo veI1ov, muddy
stream flowing like a canal between low
reedv shores down IN the orlf at TAX,
Az every ono knows who has etndiad
the eaopranhv Of china the rivers have
no fixed channels. rbev move in tho i'm
net,o,s floods mai come nouring down
from the mountains in the rainy season
sometimes as much as a hundred roiIas
from their old beds leaving the interven-
inc tracts hurled dean Under tho Sand
dss+roIi,,y life poakiner daear+ nf oI,itt'
vatad faIde over an area Of NAN, en-
dreds Of miles and nII,reino the fsrnine,
nonmIation into Terrible novertv and fap19
Inc Tba enormous canals oonstrnc+a,,
NV the eovernnnent 10 correot Tho eI,u
have heen of M avniI in tbis diraotio,,
altbo,,ob +ba,, bo,a for,,,,s H., 49,, 80,
e,roat ,,,atarT,o,-s or.a1-5ad n,,+t, .asr
aione, u,bicb s,,nhlias of fooS and 80
cbandise can hn carried ~ ne r,arilat.
ot :, 1,or,, trieiny ooit Mo17arr, oai,,,,
irr T,,hS,, ~ brooI, ~, ~ Si,, 49,
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soT i oarred dnn',, w, tho n,,rra,. - -
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81 a. = -, $3.50 " "a - i
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