Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-12-17

journey from Marking where the peo-
pie have never seen a foreigner. Miss
Kelley got into such village about a
week ago, and her foreign dress and
white skin frightened the people so
that she almost made clearing Of the
ivillage. But when she spoke to them
in Chinese they became little bolder,
and in short time there was reg
ulnr jam of people around her, and
she had a splendid opportunity to talk |
to them. She stayed there quite
awhile, and promised to return again.
Although the people had never seen
foreigner, they had heard much about
DR.. Macklin. You know he was the
first one of our people to enter Nan
king-T believe the first one to enter
China.
! Now, for goodness sake, don't be-
lieve what you read about Boxers in
China. The disturbances you wrote
about were at Honan, hundreds of
miles away in the interior, and it was
not caused by Boxers at all. 1t was
simply food riot. The people had
small crops, and did not raise enough
to keep themselves in food, so they
raised riot and tried to compel the
officials, who were all Chinese, to feed
them. When the officials refused, the
rioters ran them out of the villages
and cities. 1t was simply disturb
,ance among the Chinese themselves,
and no foreigners were near. In fact,
I don't believe any foreigners ever
have been at the place where the dis
turbance was SO that was the sum
and substance of the "Boxer upris-
ing" that the papers at home have
been making such fuss over. | have
read some of the American reports
here, and they are perfectly ridieu'
lous. AS soon as there is the least
II ouble or anti-foreign movement in
any part of China we will hear it here
because there is a consulate here, and
Mr.. Oracle, and he must let us know
lie there is the least disturbance, and
he would tell us before there was even
the beginning of such an uprising as
YOU wrote me about, so as we haven Z
heard even the least hint of an in
, tended riot, ! think 1 will be safe in
AL.A haa hQnn
Don't believe everything you read in
the newspapers, because they have q
faculty of getting exaggerated reports
You must remember that, according to
the newspapers, Port Arthur had fal'
len II times before l left home, but
when got over here ! found it still
standing. Also the Yladivostock
squadron was entirely destroyed, and
few days later it was engaged in bat
tie around Port Arthur.
Last week crowd of seven of us
4 went out TO the Ming tombs. 1t is
a place where the emperor of the Ming
family is buried. You know that
Il Nanking was, in years gone by, the
:, capital of the Chinese empire. The
/. Ming family was in power during tins
= time. The emperor whose tomb W.
visited was ruling about 800 years ago
>, or lust before Columbus discovered
America. He is buried on a LITTLE
knoll. and dirt was brought from
:. Ievery province in China (at that time
. there were 13 of them) to cover hi
grave. Over the little hill are plant
, ed trees from every part of China
, and all of this is enclosed by higi
, stone wall In front Of the grave II
a queer sort Of building that l eanno
: describe 1t is of stone with smaliel
portion on top of red sun-dried brick
This upper portion is simply square
= Iof arches. There are stairways o.
\ stone leading up to this upper Por
: tion. and from here one can see 10
miles around. The remains OF the EN-
lperor are not in this building, but
!, simply serves the purpose OF tomD
stone. When we were about half
- mile this side of the tomb we came t.
~ a double row of immense stone image
!. facing each other. These were plaee'
u at regular intervals from here ON I
the tomb and represented ancient CHI
= nese soldiers. They are supposed Z
:. guard the tomb. Another way, W
passed through double row Of ami
y mails also carved out of solid block
; oe stone. There were four OF eae
. kind of animal, two standing faein
:. each other and two crouehing faein
- each other. There were four horses
- four lions, four elephants and fou
. eamels. They are all wonderful
- ! wen preserved, considering the fac
- that they are at least 400 years ole
u ~. . ,y.v hack from the tOmbs W