The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-06
OF several OF the slain IN order to get him.
SCH Into a position for more work.
DOG FIGHT WORTH SEEING

continued to assail him from the front. n
nal a dozen darted back OF him. Amid
mucn snarling they fastened their teeth
IN MS TANKS. At this point il again
seemed necessary for me to go to the aid
Oh the mascot. But Mr.. Bulldog, beyond
impatient twists of his hind quarters. did
nothing to show tha. he felt this rear
attack. He was still busy at the other
end OF his spinal column. Not only busy.
work in hand. "e
Once in a while one of the ours happened
10 escape from Mr.. Bulldogs teeth with
OUT Iatal injury. AS often as this hap-
pened tile wounded but lucky beast SUNK
away TO the rear, and, once through the
PACK or his comrades. went yelping down
the street.
Again, the number of slain or help,ass
adversaries made such a pile that Mr.. Bull
uoS was forced TO jump over them and
leap forward. His enemies retreated, ey-
cept those hanging on at his rear, WHO
advanced with him. As the number of tIa
enect1ve assailants grew less the howlir,
died down. With less noise came the ap-
pearance of anxiety on the part of the
Wild dogs. 1t was plain that they could
not understand what IL meant to find so
vigorous an alien. At the same time it
took them several minutes to realize that
they were outclassed.
Ihere were nearly two-score of dead or
oadly hurt logs lying on the ground by
the time that the yelping pack realized that
the day was lost for them. The last few
left before Mr.. Bulldogs clicking teeth
broke and fed. The mascot did not pur-
sue. With an angry snarl he shook him
self and turned. Quick as a flash the half
dozen dogs who had been putting the
marks of their teeth on his TANKS fell away.
Mr.. Bulldog sprang at them. They slGnk,
wheeled and fled, yelping with fright. Lake
their masters, the Chinese, they could rot
night when the odds were less than a dozen
TO one.
Mr.. Bulldog did not pursue. Though his
jaws were dripping with the blood of
battle. he stood still, looking half-sleep-
lily after the last visible few OF the flee
ing enemy. Next, for a moment or two,
he surveyed the casualties close by. AS
L stepped forward to see IL 1t was safe TO
pat him he heard me coming. Cooking one
eye. Mr.. Bulldog looked at me. as much
as to say: -
rs that all the fight there is in the Chi
nese?"
the mascot opened his mouth in a prodig-
ious yawn. Yet, cowardly as these Picking
dogs are when facing an enemy of abil-
ity. they will pounce upon a dying man
and tear him to pieces with more dispatch
than the same number Of wolves could
show.
1t is the eternal yelping of these ours
by day and their incessant bowling by
night that gives the newcomer the first
and greatest sensation of the true desc
lation of Picking. On every hand there
are visible pictures that complete the re-
alization of devastation. Among the most
! picturesque specimens of architecture some
months ago were the pagoda-like towers
on the city walls, most of them marking
gates. These towers, in many instances.
have been reduced to blackened piles
through the torch of the incendiary, wheth-
er yellow or caucasian. Other towers show
the fearful work of the shot and shell of
the invaders.
THE DESTRUCTIVE BOXERS.
The handsome tower over the famous
Meridian gate was burned by the Boxers
themselves at the very beginning of the
siege of the legations. That part of the
southern city just beyond the Meridian
gate and just past the famous Beggars'
bridge is simply fire-swept. Hardly one
OF the buildings in this neighbOrhood can
boast of a roof. the walls are blackened
and all but destroyed. The eastern, or
Che-ho gate, through which the japanese
entered the city, is burned beyond recog-
milton. In these pagodas millions of swal-
lows had their nests; now the swallows
are dispersed beyond the city. The Chi
nese, who look upon this bird as a bring
er of all good fortune, believe that their
luck for the future has gone in the flight
OF the swallow.
Street after street where rich dealers in
silks and furS, bric-a-brac, jade and cloi-
some once carried on their trade are now
Uttered with the ruins of the fre-de-
stroyed buildings. This destruction was the
work not of the invaders but of the Box
ers and savage imperial troops. There has
been a great deal of talk about the loot
captured by the allied soldiers, but they did
not get a 1.-THE of what was stolen and
carted ava by Boxers and the soldiers
of the Emperor. Nc one can compute the
millions that would represent the value of
what was taken by the covetous yellow
lOOterS who fed at first news OF the dp-
proach of the allies.
Through these thieves of their own race
the Chinese merchants, who were strictly
noncombatant even at the height of the
| anti-fOreign fury, have lost their homes
and places of business, their stocks in trade
and millions in actual cash. 1t will need
many "A year of hard work, careful business
and strenuous saving TO enable Picking TO
| recover from the losses caused by the
blcod-mad but frightened Boxers and i'm
| perial troops.
Most of the gates of the city, standing at
the outer end of tunnel-like passages
through walls fifty or more feet thick,
have been shattered. Hardly one of these
gates can now be closed at night, though
formerly. for generations, all were made
fast when dark descended. The charred
remnants of these barriers of wood and
iron now hang on broken hinges.
Up TO this summer the Han-lin library.
which adjoined the British legation. was
the great national library of China. 1t was
destroyed by the Boxers in their frantic eff
forts to reduce the legations. The vandal-
ism of this destruction was astonishing.
] There were scores of thousands Of rare old
books long out of print, with hundreds of
manuscripts. antedating the discovery of
printing i'm China, and of the greatest value
in the historical way. 1t will not be posi-
BILE to duplicate any of the works formerly
in this library, and the loss to the outside
world was paralleled only by the destruc-
ton of the Alexandrian library.
Such ruin was wrought by the desperate
Chinese themselves that il is almost re-
freshing to discover something that was
done by the invaders. Nothing could look
| more fOrlOrn than the southern gate of
the Forbidden City, which Reilly'S Ameri-
can battery riddled and crushed AS a mill
tary necessity. The Catholic Cathedrals,
of which there were several in Picking,
were all destroyed by the Boxers, except
the one in which the Catholics gathered
and changed into a(fort.
Completely Quilted were the colleges and
| hospitalss the finest buildings in all China
which disappeared before the fury of the
| Boxers. who not only tore down the walls
| and carted away the bricks. but who also
went so far as to dig up the foundations
| and remove them. Nothing was left here
but the holes in the ground. And the cost
of these buildings so wantonly destroyed
had run up into the millions, even in a
| country where materials and labor are so
! low-priced.
There is not a part of Peking in which
| fire did not do fearful work before the
| allies reached here. 1t will be years ere
the Chinese capital. even under the most