The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-10-16
A NEWBERRY BOY in CHINA.
Writes of HIS Trsvels-A Tramp
Among the Mongols- Che-Foo, or
the City Of the Carnotion--- r..
Peking Mountain-The
PHILIPPINES.

colored hill that stands some twelve
miles east Of the city. The Mongols
call it Wulanhata. Che Foo, from the
spectacular point Of view, is distinct
ly disappointing. 1t is indeed the
least interesting of all the central
places Of business outside the great
wall. In the city itself there are shops
and stores and shops and practically
nothing else. One blessed thing
about it for the foreigner is that the
people do not bother you with their
curiosity and inquisitiveness. You
may walk about the town at your
pleasure and neither man nor a
child will follow you around. Every
body seems too busy to worry about
you and consequently you do not
worry about them. Only when you
produce your tripod camera and at
tempt to set it up in the streets will
you get few curious sightseers turn
ing up from you know not where and
disappearing you know not whittier
| when you have finished.
Here as we'll as all Of northern
China the trade is entirely in the
hands of the Chinese. Not Mon
gol s house Of business is there
among all the multitudes Of shops.
The reason for this is the incapability
of the Mongol race. I found it the
same in Manchuria, which place l
was lucky enough to visit early in
July. While there, we visited Dalney,
very pretty seaport, but has not
yet recovered from the great battle
| fought there between the Japanese
battle ships and Russian land batter
les. From Dalney our party went
by rail to Port Arthur, distance OF
thirty-four miles. The scenery was
grand, but Port Arthur is a mass of
ruins. I took stroll up 2.3 Meter
Hill, but could not find as much as
piece of gun stock Or bullet. The
place has been plundered I guess by
every European who visits Port
Arthur for curios. In both Dalney
and Port Arthur ] found the Mongo-
lian used more like pack horse than
a man.
Now returning to China. She has
some good features, but not Of the
natives. They are the most dishonest
Of all people, 7 think, but they have
their stock, nice horses and cows and
they are well taken care of in north
ern China. The principal crops are
corn, rice sugar cane and millet
Have fine pasture lands. The men
are great fishermen, and the women
do the work. One Of the delightful
features Of CheFoo is the multitude
Of beautiful birds that hang at the
doorc II the stores in the sunlight
and whistle the livelong day The
Chinese haven't much love for Uncle
Sans folks, anywhere between the
Woosong river and Peking, so We
foreigners have to be on our ps and
Qs.
I arrived in China June %, '06,
from Japan. I spent about six weeks
in Japan-that is, the southern part
Made trip through the Inland Sen
and made short stops along the coast.
First in Yakahoma, large and very
rich city. From there we went to
Kobe and on to Nagasaki. Well, she
has, without any exceptions, the most
beautiful harbor in the world. In my
whole trip through the West Indies,
in which [ touched Porto Rico, Haiti,
San Domingo, Trinidad and Vene-
zuela in summer, 1905, and my trip
last spring from New York to India,
!, in which our ship made stops as fol-
lows: Five days in Gibraltar, Spain;
ten days in Tangiers, Morocco; eight
days in Algiers, east Africa; two
! weeks in Villefrauche, France, T mover
saw as beautiful a harbor. While
there / went to Nice and Monte Carlo.
From there to Genoa, Italy, from
there to Naples and was several weeks
in that port. Naples is a very old
but beautiful city and is only a few
minutes ride from Mt. Vesuvins,
w''ich was very active at times while
we were there and at night was grand.
After Naples, our next stop was at
Pirena in Greece, a very mean little
harbor and worse city, but very
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