The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-07

Korea, the hermit kingdom. On the
south is the Yellow sea- and westward
it stretches away toward Mongolia
without natural frontiers. Its boun-
dairy in that direction was once marked
by long line of palisades, erected four
centuries ago, to keep out the tribes of
the west. These palisades have long
since disappeared.
But the great wall which was built
1900 years ago to protect China against
the MonSolians and the Manchurians
still stands, the most Stupendous work
ever constructed by the hand of man.
Millions of wOrkmen were employed
upon it, and ere its /, 500 miles of tortu-
Gus length had been completed. mill
lions of human lives were the CHASTITY
tribute which it demanded Upon the
Manchurian side it presents a bold face
of gray brick and stone, ibristling with
towers which were a formidable de-
Tense in the days of croSs-b bow warfare.
on the Chinese side is a steep en-
bankment of earth.
Such was the method which the an
Client Chinese devised for keeping out
the Manchurians. But one day, away
back in the seventeenth century, a Chi
neSe emperor, sore pressed by rebels at
the very gate of Pekin, let the Man
churian hordes through the wall in or
der to gain their assistance in subduing
his enemies. The Manchurians never
returned. From that day to this their
dynasty mas ruled emma.
The Manchurians are of such ancient
heritage that their beginning is a trae
dition. Once upon time, their story
goes, three heaven-born maidens were
bathing in a lake in the Long White
mountains. A magpie, flying overhead,
dropped a red fruit which one of the
maidens ate. She gave birth to a son,
named Aisin Gioro, who was the first OF
the Manchurian race. Scientists, VINO
will not accept this poetic Fancy, say
that the Manchurians came originally
from the great Mongol country on the
WeSt-a movement OF the human race
from west to east different from the
ordinary migrations, which have been
from east to west.
Nukden, the chief city of Mapchuria,
is 500 miles northeast of Pekin. Now
adays this distance is Travelled by rail-
road A long line of steel rails pene-
trates a break in the Chinese wall, and
when this gap has been passed, Man
churia is spread out like a magnificent
panorama Its borderland is no longer
a terra incOgnita- On the contrary,
the tourist has invaded the once un-
known country and has carried off eV-
/ cry portable idol from the temples and
/ left the priests with nothing but the
| larger images that cannot be moved.
| In the country everything is still prim-
/ tive The mule carts, which form the
1 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 CEN
tury. Wives are still bought in the
market place, like calves and dogs,
and are taken home, clad in gorgeous
colored silks, and wearing headdresses
/ of tinsel and artificial flowers.
There are u, OOO, coo people in Manchu-
ria living in three provinces, Sinking,
/ Kirin and Tsi-tsi-har. The first is the
/ largest and best known Its chief city.
! Mukden, is known as THE Affluent
/ Capital 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-five 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. well-built shops, swith their
counters and other arrangements, in
/ dicate great trade. There are indica-
] tions of prosperity everywhere and the
| city is regarded as one of the best in
| China. One of the old emperorS made
himself famous among his subjects and
added to the glory of the city by po-
etical eulogy, which was circulated in
| sixty-four different kinds of Chinese
1 writing. He was the original. appar-
entity, of Proctor Knott. who sang the
praises Oh Dui9ln ana gave eIefnal
Fame to the city by the unsalted seas.
over toward the Korean border there
/ is less civilization. 1t has been the
custom for many centuries to hold a
| fair in one Of the towns near the YaIu
river, which commands the Korean
! trade. This fair is under the super
/ vision of officers and soldiers. The
! Manchurians sell dogs, cats, pipes,
I leather, stays horns. copper and
horses. They take from the Koreans
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 of
a Donnybrook gathering. Just before
the sun sets all the Koreans are driven
back across the frontier.
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! The climate of Manchuria. is healthy
but the extremes of temperature are
great The thermometer will raise as
high as so degrees in the summer and
descend as low as 20 or 80 degrees be-
: low zero IN the winter. The rivers,
which are numerous, remain frozen
from December to April, but the snow
is not as heavy as in the northern part
or the United States. Driven by the
easterly winds, however. and as fine as
powder, 1t penetrates the houses and
clothing and even the lungs Travelling
IN winter is extremely uncomfortable
The eyebrows become a mass of ice
the eyelashes Freeze and the beard be-
comes a CONCEALED mass The wind cuts
and pierces the skin with the sharp