The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-04

! and can snap it's fingers at other ma
( tons" 1t is the policy Of selfish
Z ness, but We can have nothing where
/ i'm to complain, as it has always been
/ our own policy with respect 10 otheI
/ nations. if Mr. Chamberlain should
ultimately succeed. These merchants
and capitalists from Indian, Japan,
4 Australia and Canada and all parts OF
the empire who met in great feast at
Vancouver and whose speeches l had
the pleasure of hearing, entertained no
shadow of doubt that this policy would
succeed within a couple of years. Here
and there a peep" came from Cana
dian manufacturer who Saw his end
in the thrush Of England's manufac-
tured goods into this country at a
cheaper price than he could manufac-
ture them. but this feeble protest was
drowned in the loud applause which
greeted every mention Of Mr.. Cham
berlains name. England has two idols,
just uow-on the field of battle, Kitch-
ener, in the council of state, Cham
berlain; and the shouts that rang out
to this latter idol from that dinner par
ty at Vancouver where sat several
hundred of England's great capitalists
and merchants-manufactu from
Manchester. capitalists from Pail Mail,
tufted Parsee from Bombay, banker
from Moutreal-are still ringing in my
ears to warn me that all the world is
not yet peace and good will to men, ="
but very keen competition and jeal-
OuSy. / came away at least assured
of this. that there is in the Dominion
Of Canada no annexation spirit for
union with the United States.
The other interesting event was the
burial of the Tyee, the chief officer of
the thousands of Cinnamon in Van
couver All good Cinnamon 80 to
China when they die, ultimately; but
this one-tke Great Tyee-was to Sc tx
a resting place, at least for a Will,
in foreign soil. and so he had a funeral
at Vancouver. I stumbled upon the
event accidentally but was greatly in
terested. In front of the house a feast
was held out in the streets; all the
dainty Chinese dishes from a birdnest
to a curious sea food was served with
a pair of Chop-sticks to every one who
cared to partake, the meanwhile the
priests were making offerings of rice
and drink 10 the Joss amid the most
internal Clangor of discordant instru-
ments. Then the Tyee's body was car
ried al the head of the procession, and
a Joss house and a sitting Buddha was
carried in the rear amid fearful notes
of music that were never heard on sea
or land, just to keep off the evil spirits
while the Tyee was sailing up to join
his ancestors. Between these two chief
objects at the head and tail of the pro-
cesson was long string of empty car
riages tied up in white ribbon, nobody
in the carriages, not a soul, at least not
a visible onei 1 touched a white hair
ed Chinaman from among the thOus-
ands that lined the pavements for
blocks and asked: What mean those
empty carriages. and that blue cd -
vertisement with Chinese characters
written upon it, which is attached to
each carriage? And he replied "Mr.
Sing-Chu presents this carriage to Mr..
Tyee's ghost and requests Mr.. Tyee to
ask his great-great-g great grandfather
aunts uncle's Cousins second wife's
ghost to please to ride in this Door,
mean. paltry, furnished. humble car
riage." Carriages are provided for the
spirits of the dead mans ance tors to
the fifth generation, and his living de-
scendants can go it on foot I decided
/ would not go any further, but broke
away from the cortege, and as 1 wan
dered back to the hotel through the
streets of Chinatown. l pondered upon
the strange mysteries of oriental life
and people.
SalmOn-Canning.
One of the chief industries of the
Sunset City" and its many suburbs.
and one OF the most interesting to a
stranger, is the salmon canning. They
are caught and canned right at the
same spot. 1t is not in the Atlantic
ocean. but in the estuaries of the Pa
citic. particularly in the Columbia and
Fraser rivers that the vast millions of
salmon are caught which are canned
by the millions and sent over the world
wherever the lover of salmon abides.