Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-06

uoWn SUfedu, with huge 'glarfnS eyes It's
the bow that they may see their way
through storm and darkness, but there
are with them, also, vessels flying the
nag ca every natlon-English, first of all.
DANISH, French, German and Italian. The
line of European vessels extends from
Japan through the inland sea down the
Chinese coast and around the shores of
all Asia-a taliying of the powers that be,
as events in the near or remote future
will prove. Along one bank of the mud.
dy stream run a railway and a telegraph
line, both completed and having been in
operation for some years. There ara
mills, with their tall chimneys sending
out clouds of black smoke-cotton mills
and silk mills. representing foreign in
dustry and thousands of dollars of for
eign capital. When one steps ashore, one
sees, not a Chinese, but a solid, substan-
tlal English city embowered in sub-tropi-
cal gardens. There are some finely ma.
cadamized streets, the same stone side
wal ks, the ample supply of light and
water and other modern conveniences
Which, as much as anything else. entitle
Shanghai to it's name, "the model settles
ment.' 1t is not only the model, but it
Is the larget-a splendid, substantial, we'll
governed English city, with a Chinese
quarter as a mere adjunct, and it's Chi
nese population quite over-shadowed by
it's Heterogeneous American and Europe-
an residents. But it is not so wholly
English as might appear, for there are
also an American settlement and a
French settlement, the latter as Partisan
as the Rue Haussmann-with all the
brightness and gayety to which a certain
oriental tone has been given. The six
story buildings along the Bund. or water
front, are of solid and pleasing architec-
ture. There is a tumble of coolie jinri-
kisha men. the drivers of queer cabs. with
Stated Turf windows like a new species
OF Black Maria; Indian police in black
clothes and towering scarlet turbans, who
tell You that they spik a little Engliss."
and, last Of all, a constabulary precisely
the counterpart Of that of London. or Liy-
erpool. Shanghai differs from the latter
in another respect-the streets are dense
~ shaded, trees and s%hrubbery not being
confined to parks and secluded gardens.
hidden behind the houses.
IN the hotels one finds a French menu.
Ialrly good cooking. electric lights, the
telephone, brilliantly polished floors.
without even rugs to break the shining
smeothness of their. surface; with the
same old chests of drawers and squat
tables that are indigenous to British hos
telrles the world over, n everybody eats
curry and tripe. A glance at the sigma
lures upon the hotel register shows a list
OF names from every part of the world
London, New. York. Budapest, Vienna.
Melbourne, Batavia, Singapore, Calcutta.
birmingham and Brussels. There is the
corporation lawyer from New York. keen.
49, oAAAA oASSI liz lllLSISSlS ID Il AN
american railway enterprise; the Bel
glan and British engineer, an English
OFFICER on his way to his command in up-
per Burmah; a high caste Indian, in his
towering turpassive Chinese, whose coun-
try one quite forgets that it is looking on
--emotionless as a sphynx, thinking hfs
own thoughts. going his own way and
keeping his own counsel.
1t lmpresses the observer as the prepar-
alton for a stirring drama, in which the
cnleI actors are quietly, taking their
places. ready for the part that NAV be
assigned them. The house is. flied with
Chlnese~ servants, who go out among this
modern Babel listening and noting a good
deal more than one might suppose, and
MAKING, what use of their knowledge?
Nobody, knows-yet.
These. same. silent, velvet footed SER
wants are clad in long robes OF linen. like
those on shfpboard, except. tina the robes
are blue. and vainly the unframed ear
endeavors to translate into human apeech
their queer .~fa'setto jargon, which passes
for pigeon English.
Zone has just drifted into my room and
delivered a long address which I con-
strued as something about ar1ady, and
presently discovered was an explanation
that the mosquito net, which was sdeftly
tucked around the head of the bed. would
not be needed, as.it was now too late for
mosquitoes. There is one trait which
apparently can never be eradicated-and
that is their hereditary and deep rooted
contempt and aversion for women,
An English lady. a distinguished writer.
now in China with her. husband, who is
interested in building steamers for navi-
cation in Chinese waters, said thai at
frst when she came out to the country
she could not accustom herself to the I'M
disguised dlsrespect with which she was
treated. Officials of high rank came to
confer with her husband, whom they
greeted with profound salaams, but, al
though she. was at his side, her existence
was utterly disregarded. She was told
that it would have been a shocking
breach of Chinese decorum had the men
taken any notice of her. presence. From
his 1t Will appear that years of contact
with Europeans and Americans, to say
nothing Of the efforts of missionaries.
have changed the Chinese very little, For
these We're men of the educated classes.
informed at least, as to Anglo-Saxon etti-
quette, whether they ignored it or not,
There Is amovement on foot to create
a sentiment that may lead to the aboli.
ton of footbinding. An effort has been
made to interest the more liberal and pro-
gressive Chinese in the movement ana
to secure their cooperation. A further
effort will be made to arouse the SYM
pathy of the empress, and an adience
will be asked for a deputation. who will
will be held on Friday in Shanghai, at
which addresses will be made. and subse-
quently steps will be taken to continue
further work.
I have had a strange hint to-day from
a man who is probably better informed
upon eastern matters than any person
living, who was with Gordon in his Chi
nese campaign. who has lived here all
his life and who speaks Chinese perfect
ly. The rumor did not relate to China,
to Japan, and was neither more nor
less than a statement to the effect that
japan Is preparing to make a SwOOn nm,
on Port Arthur and other Russian ports.
take them and drive the Russians back
to their own legitimate frontier. My in
f0rmant said that 1t was for this pur-
post that they are enlarging their navy,
which. since they could not afford to