The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-26

IL is customary TO think OF Man
churia, that oriental province upo1
which the paws of the Russian beal
now rest, as a little corner of the
world. 1t is nothing of the kind. II
it could be lifted and set down within
the borders of the United States il
would cover all the far eastern states,
together with New York, New jersey,
Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia,
Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois. Its area is 400, 900 square
eastern part of China, directly south
of the Amur or Great river. Well does
that stream deserve it's name, for,
emptying into the Pacific at the Sea
of Okhotsk, it extends backward
through nearly one-third of the vast
extent of Asia On the east Manchu-
ria is bounded by a strip of Siberia and
by the highland and 'solitudes which
separate it from Corea, the hermit
kingdom. On the south is the Yellow
sea and westward it stretches away
toward Mongolia, without natural
frontiers. In Manchuria everything is
still primitive. The mule carts, which
form the only means of transportation,
have clumsy, nail-studded wheels, with
axles as big as kegs, and which bump
along over unseen stones in the same
ruts which have been followed for a
century. Wives are still bought in the
market place, like calves and dogs, and
are taken home, clad in gorgeous col
ored silks and wearing headdresses of
tinsel and artificial flowers. There are
~, 600, 900 people in Manchuria living
in three provinces, Sinking ,Kirin and
Tsi-tsi-har. The first is the largest
and best known. The chief city, Muk-
den, is known as "the af1uent capt.
tai" and has a population as large
as Washington. 1t is surrounded by a
low mud wall, ten miles in circuit,
within which is another wall, three
miles around, thirty-ive or forty feet
high and fifteen feet in width. The
city is like Pekin on a smaller scale.
The streets are wide and clean and
the large, we'll built shops, with their
counters and other arrangements, in
dictate great trade. There are indica-
lions of prosperity everywhere and the
city is regarded as one Of the best in
China. Over toward the Corean border
there is less civilization. 1t has been
the custom for many centuries to hold
a fair in one of the towns near the
Yalu river, which commands the Co
rean trade. This fair is under the
supervision of officers and soldiers.
The Manchurians sell dogs, cats, pipes,
leather, stag's horns, copper and
They take from the Coreans
baskets, rice, cooking utensils, corn.
swine, paper mats and oxen. All the
trading must be done in five hours,
which gives the fair the appearance
a Donnybrook gathering. Just be-
the sun sets all the Coreans are
driven back across the frontier. Man
churia is said to resemble the prov
ince of Quebec, except that within its
borders are enormous ranges of noun
tains which rise as high as 10000 feet
in the air. The larger part of the ter
ritory is covered with forests, which
abound in wild animals, the capture of
which affords employment, clothing
and food to thousands of hunters.
There are bears, deer, wolves and
tigers in the forest Businesses,
while in the more open portions are
myriads of lark, pheasants and ever
the familiar ROY The condor is the
largest bird of prey and rivals it's
brother of the Andes in f%erceness and
strength. So abundant is the game
that 2,4OO stays are annually furnished
to the Chinese emperor that he may
eat simply the delicate bit of meat
found in the f1eshy part of the tail.
The rivers abound in carp, sturgeon,
salmon and pike. Down on the coast
there is a tribe which clothes itself in
garments made of fish skins. The ma
tives eat enormously, beef and pork
being their favorite meats. They are
also said not to be averse to eating
dogs and horses, and among those who
raise silk worms the contents of the
cocoons that have been boiled is an
%epicurean delicacy highly priced
Globe.