The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-08-07

no trace w cruelty 10 BIO seen, In aim
ple Expressions sha welcomed VA, bul
hap actions were full or freedom Anl
warmth, HhG Ap0sn and wished III
we'll ehp reached both hands toward
eAeh lady and then 10 herself, and said
with much enthusiastic aApn0stne.sl
na0ne family, NIL ono family
"Nv9WthinR she aAid was In chinese,
eDe presented 10 each lady thu empress,
the aMpapOr's wife, who gave her hand
10 eAeh, The empress N young and
what IA called 4 beautiful Chinese
WOMAD Hha W0pe tho decorations,
paint et9n Of the young women,
nIhe empress d0WAHer hAda each
lAdy GO0dby AMI then went 10 the thes
Atah We soon followed with our largo
ana beautiful escorts AMI listened W
and saw 4 chinese thnAtpV M lts very
best After about ono hours stay, In,
teppP0tePs explaining tho Mays and ton
being served oil tho while, w. were
escorted back 10 tho banquet hill and
seated M before M 4 loaded Mble Of
much feed, Again wa were taken 10
other pOOma and tho tREles cleared
away, Onen more va were permitted
10 900 tho empress d0WRgen kh9 was
very G0pdlAl, and when ton WAS passed
10 VI she stepped forward and tipped
eaGh cup Of ton 10 her own llps, She
took n zip, then lifted tho GNp IN tho
other aide 10 our lipA and said AgaInl
n'Ona family, NIL ono family
nHGp9 she presented Ns more benWt'
fnl gifts, MI alike, After this wonders
mi dream dAy, ~ vppy nnpaal even 10
tho seeming, Wn mnnhpl home M h
o'clock, In these foreign countries
Americans and HnHllah Apo almost, "
not quite, ono peoples II IN often, very
often, aaln bF tho English, American
ADd other gOlnlgn countries Tint IlnHi
llsl and American Are MI tho same,
Only think, China after centuries and
centuries OF locked doors hAs now
opened them n little, No foreign
woman eVnr saw tho rulers OF China
before, AMI no Chinese ruler evop sAw
\ foreign W0mNn before, mink Of
thlal l9nHllHh was mo tpst language
spoken 10 them by foreign women,
Hngllsh II tho commercial language ~
ghlAay and women took Hngllsh Into
the Forbidden CITY md 10 tho very
throne OF ghIna ana gAvo u In M l1nE,
llsl W0mnR'A thought,
INV first boy tried ~ Impress upon
mo what n Hpnlt thlHH Ind come into
my life In this visit 10 royalty, no saIdl
'MndAme much grand lhInH cnme IN
YOU Emperor 1NMlo down from
heaven, No foreign Indy hoo Mimi few
Cinnamon Ho came down from
heavon f0n popP blessed He opened
hIa Dyes, pOllpd them I'D, ahO0li hin
h2ad ana pointed 40 10 Impress upon
me the ap1nt honor and blessing W0
Ind received,
mo him " WIS MI 10 mo tho ems
pnpOp, llttl1 or nothing To san tho en-
press dOWAgeh Rhn h n woman, Tho
emperor N ADGp1d 10 tho Chinese,
Ha IN walled In hIs city ana II moi N
DO s1nn by hls subjects, nor N no 10
400 them, Ito lnalns nothing OF hIs
country or 00HntvEmen by observation
Op experience, How 1An this empire
grow In strength ana glory In such
DondagaY Everything about tbIs China
h mRde up OF tho seeming improbable,
" N tho extreme Of oil we GAn dpoDm,
While cur loved thoughts often turn
Oh tho whole, W9 Ape getting
much value ont OF GhlnA, and predict
That through good cheer ana good VIII
W. may not come AWnE with my feel
lnga or regret In OURSELVES 0p others
thAt have come 10 this fapOW lAnd,
N.Y. GOngeP'a lAb0rs In1Inaae M now
questions keep coming np 10 DO met"