The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
to the mile. Two others exceed $50 and

to the mile Two OUTLETS eAeseu 1'o az"
a couple run over 4oe-
japan has only 1lsCo1 square mics all
told and q population OF but 100000 TIE
ona province OF SEE Chuen alone. in China.
is nearly ten per cent. greater in area than
Japan, with a population fifty per cent
larger than that OF tha MikaGo's Kingdom
Four of tho Chinese provinces with a
combined area Of 2ea.G0a square miles
equal say. 10 the aggregate of the North
Atlantic States with Virginia added-have
gross population OF ioS.G0s.e5t or an av-
erags of 800 to the square mile. Tn States
named have a popuat ton OF 2t, oG",o ot, or 100
to the square mile.
Cholera. the genuine Asiatac article IS
a regular summer visitation in China; is.
in fact. more or less visitant ten of the
twelve months, while smallpox IS present
all the year round. Little real attention
is paid to either
When in Shanghai. where. in July and
August. the thermometer CLIMBS over the
hundred-above mark and stays there
through the twenty-four hours the Chinese
were dying by the hundreds daily The
mortality as reported was. to the stranger.
simnly appalling. But the European resi-
dents took it as the merest matter OF
course.
Gong right on with their ''pegs'-whis-
key and sotia-doing business with the
same ronchaIance as if the dreaded Asiatc
t~Ea
the street. and generally having just as
good a time as though their insurance on
life was of the gilt edge order. AMI 1t
+! was from their NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Cine can get used TO anything. is the old
| saying and 50 it would seem with cholera.
smallpox and other Incidental features or
Eastern life.
Your Shanghai. Hong Kong or Tien Tsin
European friend will tell you not to drink
! water and YOU will be all right The sure
| preventative lies in the negative don't
! there is ever coupled with it the Affirmative
! do and rhe context as whole is inclu-
| sive OF the Injunction to recognize the in
! failib!e efficacy of the peg
! Take your Scotch regularly. enioins
| your friend ana like the good fellow he
! is. sets the example so often for your
| benefit an, also % show ne practices Waat
! ne breaches that somehow or other you
/ become as oh!Sitous as The Oldest resi-
! danter to cholera or any other i'll 10 WHICH
! human flesh is heir
DRINKS WATER AND DIES.
Meanwhile the Chinese drink water and
Gle.
4 bit of figuring with paper and pencil.
taking the gross population as 4 basis OF
calculation. shows the death rate not 10 be
so fearful as the aggregate mortality
would appear to imply. Even n thousand
4 day. for such center of native mass!n:s
as Shanghai. would be scarcely more than
a tenth Of one per cent.
Very few Europeans get the cholera. not
only the care in avoiding water as beV-
erase, but cleanliness of person. frequent
change OF clothing and refraining from
exposure in the sun. rendering them COM
paratively free from it. The bubonic
plague. when it is raging. is no more dam
gerous to Europeans than is the cholera
f..@.- ~r1tr rro nm
every risk OF being brought in contact with
it may DC Stunned.
All three OF these diseases are infectious,
not contagious. and when one has been
some time in the East he gets TO recognizes
a decidsd difference in the terms
The native goes right on having cholera.
smallpox and the bubonic plague. whenever
it is around, yet with ali he Is not on the
wane but on the gain. There is no outward
. evidences OF. a decrease, on the contrary
every appearance OF steady increase OF
the population.
Japan's average per square mile dupfi-
Gated in the Chinese Empire. as whole,
; would mean an aggregate population OF d
billion and a quarter The Japs. as they
live find sustenance when crowded IN
three hundred to the square mile. The
Chinese. as they live. are in clover. four
hundred to the square mile. This average
sixteen hundred million. equal TO that al
present estimated for the entire earth
What China's increase viii IN reality
prove when the existing conditions
radically change-and recent events make
this inevitabie-must become OF the IN
teresting demonstrations of the future
The per cent. OF Japan's annual ausmeh-
tation has consistently advanced with tae
adoption OF modern methods. not mercy
as to the strictly sanitary. but IN other
relations of life ara environment From
al, increase of less than one per cent IN
1850 it advanced to nearly one ana
half per cent If: 1899 This ratio applied
to China would. on the basis OF present
non,Iatjor Of four hundred millions, carry
har close to the half billion notch by the
! time we were ready TO take the next
census. and ourselves officially pass the
frst hundred million mark
MAJOR PANGBoRN.