Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1910-06-15
CHINA
interesting Sketch of Nam
kin, a City Surrounded
BY a Wall Fifty Feet
High.

Ouly few months ago we were felici-
tating ourselves on our generosity III re-
turning to China many millions OF the
indemnity wrested from her as damages
aud expenses in the suppression of the
Boxer rebellion. The return of these
millions was a fine action rare, if not
unique. it CRATES upon our sense of
fairness to hear that the Chinese are
declaring boycott against American
goods, but not one Chinaman in a thous.
and OF all that immense and densely
populated empire has ever heard of the
return OF the American indemnity fund
and not one in hundred could be made
TO understand 1t, except by means OF "A
liberal education beginning with the
dlphabet. 1t must be understood that
there Is no public sentiment III China
The messes are .densely ignorant The
scholars are versed only in the phil
osOphy OF Confucius and his expounders
The few really educated Chinese, those
who have been through French, Cor
man, English or American universe
ties, are regarded with suspicion and
/ aversion by the ignorant masses. aud
| by the educated Contucians. They are
| looked upon very much as the American
Indians fifty years ago looked upon
those who had been east and seen the
powerful cities of the middle and At
lantic states Their stories were not
believed when they returned to their
tribes and told them of the overwhelm-
ing power of the whites. They had
been given bad medicine
At Nankn on the Yangtze river. "a
city surrounded by wall fifty feet high
and as many feet thick, there has Just
been opened Il so. called international
exposition. This city was four or five
centuries ago the capital of the King
Dynasty, the then rulers of China
who were afterward cYerthrown by the
Manchus, when the seat of government
was transferred from Nankin to Pekin
some 800 miles distant. Nankin has
about 900, 600 population, huddled near
one side of the wall, which is twenty
TWO miles III circumference. There are
gardens and even farms within this
wall and there are also compounds of
the mlllionaires and the luxurious homes
of the German, American, English and
French consulates. The Yangtse river,
equal i'll volume to the Mississippi and
navlgable for large boats from Shanghai
to HangkOw, which latter city is two
or three hundred miles beyond Nankin
flows near Nankin, or about half mile
north of the walled city. The gun boats
that are assembled taere to protect
Americans and Europeans from posi-
BILE uprising can easily shell the city.
Nankln is one of the most interesting
cities In China. The Catholic church
and various Protestant churches have
establishments there, all in compounds
surrounded by walls, where houses of
civilized architecture contrast proudly
with the squalor and semi. barbaric
homes of even well-to do Cinnamon.
American missionaries are doing good
there. They were working for gain.
perhaps, Ill hospitals founded by them
the only tolerable hospitals in the city,
but they had performed many opera
tons for cataract and while many of
the natives believed that their object
was to get human eyes to be used as
medicine, they had at least the conf
dence of their patients whose eyesight
they had restored. Without the city
wall III wild section of weird dreari-
ness are the tombs of the Ming Dynasty.
approached through long collonade of
stone statues, of elephants, horses,
rams aud other animals, all of colossal
size. These are almost prehistoric and
remind one of the Avenue Of the
Sphinxes stretching from Luxor to the
Nile in Egypt.
Our world Is destined at an early day
to get into closer touch with China and
the wonderful Orient.