The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-06-03
NEWS Of
THE NEAR
ORIENT
The Chinese Court
Visits the
TOmbs.
(From Saturdays Daily)

- the City of Picking:
PEKIN. May 5.--The court did not
sss OF as early as It expected on sun
day morning. Instead of at sunrise
the hour fixed, 1t was quarter past
seven when 1t passed through the
Tunghua Men. The military body
guard was lined up on either side the
roadway from the Forbidden city. and
when the imperial family came out
turned In behind It. There were the
Immediate retinue and the chamber
keepers In front, a choice scalawage-
RE, but the advance or foreguard was
dressed UP two miles out of the city
awaiting its charge. The small fry
and less went bowling along In carts.
cutting up the imperial roadway In
places and In others taking short cuts
in the direction OF the days destina-
ton. A few foreigners witnessed these
dOings. which were well worth an early
morning walk. from behind palings. but
the curiosity has worn off with the
crowd; the gorgeous Oriental process
sion Is too early for the Sybarites. and
being on Sunday morning the Chris
tians were outrued. AS announced In
the edict. the imperial party drank tea
at the Tung -yueh-miao just outside the
Tartar city wall and went on a mile or
so. where they burned incense at a
large temple. At both these temples
yellow chairs waited to receive them
three.
There had been good deal of fur
bishing and printing since the last per-
Torrance. The shabbiness apparent
when they arrived in Picking was alb
nhnirG apnnItranantS and
flags were all new. spick and span
new. and the procession tossed, rolled
and glittered in the sunlight. OF course
the DowaEer bores with n big auger
when she gets fair chance. Thou
sands OF people had congregated out
side the city to witness 1t and appro-
priated the spectacle with truly Chi
nese proprietorship and independence
as though 1t was their own, which ii
was, of course. Their behavior must
he very shocking to the writer's OF
books about them. The man with the
bow and arrow who shoots out the eye
Of the chap who dares to behold his
sacred majesty, the Son of Heaven
must have been dead these thousands
Of years. and yet I saw an honest man
yesterday who knew a Chinaman who
said he had been shot in this way. not
in the eye. but somewhere in the limbs
The gentleman told a story of Tung-
Chfs journey to the eastern tombs and
was a witness to his return after days
Of rain In fathoms of mud, when, the
horses having all been killed by the
toll, the soldiers were impressed and
pulled the Emperor's cart into the city
Numbers of horses have already beer
killed by the preliminary eXertions, an
idea Of which can be gained from the
fact that nearly all the carts for hire
about the town have been pressed into
the service of the pilgrims. Think OF
an ordinary cart animal, such as one
hires In the streets, going to the east
ern tombs in a week, which, according
to reliable Chinese information is from
two hundred to three hundred and six
ty II distant! The butcher shop only a
little way above my door Is a crying
protest to this kind of cruelty. There
were troops, fine ones, lined UP in close
order on both sides of the road fol
five miles out of the east gate! Every
brigade had thirty or forty of thos,
immense Chinese standards, the breeze
just lively enough to fill them. A boy
forced by his companions into the mid
die OF the road between the standard
fit and was left for his mother to take
away Some timid groups, curiosity
and wonder struck, ludcrously craned
their necks here and there when every.
one else was sloshing about nonchal.
ant An occasional old man at the
base of some old stone monument in
the field, content with a more quie
and broader view than that of the con.
tending crowd. Perspective and thought
were his requirements.
The Emperor was in fun view in q
large chair with large windows anC
looked interestedly about him. Owing
- her sensitiveneSs on the subject OF
her side view the Dowager sat between
blue curtains far back in her chain
ana was to be seen only by a direct
front-window glance. A couple OF
thousand soldiers accompanied then
ana the Picking garrison on parade
marched back to their barracks. II
was all over by ten o'clock three miles
out OF the city-the bedragoned moi
IKE colony of ants scrambling on to-
ward Tung-ehow, leaving us to come
SAME IN HONOLULU.
back wrapped in thought.
HoNGkoNG, May 1.-The laundry
question has drawn out the following
interesting letter from a housewife:
Sir: In view OF the statement made by
Dr. Clark In his report on the health of
the Colony TO the effect that respiratory
diseases are answerable for 1887, or 1913
per cent OF the total Chinese deaths, and
that $50. or 81 per cent of the total deaths
are que to phthisis alone. is it not time
the law stepped In TO prevent the insan-
itary and repulsive method in vogue
AMONGST the Chinese washermen of
damping articles of clothing preparatory
to ironing by spraying from the mouth ?
] have been told by those who have lived
there that the authorities put a stop 10
this disgusting practice some years ago
IN Singapore. In Shanghai every laundry
IN supervised; also the same supervision Is
employed I'm Japan. Why then should
Honskong he subjected to this benighted
and hesthenish practice? Why. simply