Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-02-16


senth day. We are on the noble
Yangtsze. God be praised!"
The Shanghai man put his feet up
on the rail, pulled his pipe and com
placently regarded the twinkling
lights OF Hankow In the rear.
Last night" he continued, the
consul entertained me at dinner. We
progressed as far as the roast, but
ali. no-the roast came not. and It win
never come"
He shivered.
"And why didn't the roast Gomez
inquired
The consul got up to see We
found him-ths cook-beside his oven
he lay-dead. Cholerai Ughi Now
/ wasn't BIT hungry after thatl"
l moved farther away.
And, what are the symptoms OF
cholera1"
Sudden DEATH" he replied hoarse-
ly
And that man was in a "tcpslde"
cabin next to mel
| was glad I did not stop overnight
In Hankow. She may be the Queen
City Of the Yanugtsze, but want
none Of her. She may have a three
mile bund. race meetings. Chrysanthe-
mum Sunday. golf course and hun
dred beautiful foreign ladies to dance
with in Victoria hall-but she has a
cemetery. People do die there, and
sometimes Of cholera
spent twelve interesting hours in
Hankow and learned about all pass
ing tourist is expected to remember.
went on deck and saw broad
plains. blue mountains in the distance,
q mighty river bearing clumsy junks.
and ocean steamer and a British gun
boat. Then we. came to Kinkiang and
fingered some hours.
Kinkiang Is large and important
city with wall around It and a fear
ful odor within 1t. Nevertheless. ad-
wise every one to visit II. as II has real
Chinese streets which are narrow and
twisted and unclean. packed with gor-
geous sign boards above and horrible
; beings in the murlZy light below. The
shops cape on the street, and the cob
bier. blacksmith. tailor and horde
Of other workmen ply their trade
against the Shiny walls undisturbed
by the seething mass of pedestrians
and shouting gangs Of burden-bearing
coolies
We struggled on through the filthy
crowds. peeped into strange holes-in-
the-wall and bought water pipes and
Chinese spectacles Then appeared a
vender the like Of which none OF the
tourists had ever seen before. He
had q collection of monkey skele-
tons, a few crocodile heads, dried liz
ards, snake skins, a bear head with
the hair on. black mucilaginous mix
lures in cups and many packages Of
herbs.
"A member Of my honored profess
sion," said the doctor IF you have
pain in the east side OF your stom-
ach-the Chinese like to rarticularize
---he win give you dose Of asbestos
wrapped IN Confucian epigram. and
II It is on the west side you viii get
a broiled toad And, by the way. he
has really expensive collection of
remedies. Chin-ehin, my venerable
friend. in the name Of our great pro-
fession. greet you"
Heavens! It's, the boat whistler"
exclaimed the one tourist. IF we
should get left In this hole OF human
devilsi"
We rushed for the river and fortu-
nately arrived in time.
Soon the steamer was on its way
and the conversation changed to seen
cry and ali agreed that the scenery on
the Yangtsze was not particularly
grand. Green fields and sleepy ham,
lets. here and there a lake or river.
a patch Of woods. then an ancient pa
CODA, a solitary monastery, a few is.
lands, perhaps a fort with the dragon
hag-nothing imposing-nothing to re-
joice or weep over. All. but the gorges
Of the Yangtszel Oh. yes! Away
above Hankow and you have to take
q Junk from Ichang and be pulled up
by ropes. mo go. water bad" once
said Chinese boatman. and then the
boat was thrown on the rocks and all
were drowned. Such was the sub
stance of tale. No. 1t was far nicer
here. floating along on a palace and
eating Wong and enjoying cosmopoIi-
tan society.
The next day we saw an enormous
flock of ducks floating down to mar
ket in charge Of lone boatman who
controlled them with the Zap OF his
paddle on the water 4 was told they
breed them in incubators--thousand
at time--in kind of brick oven.
and haze been so doing for centuries.
Sometimes the river has great white
spots caused by the floating eggshells |
thrown out of these incubators. When |
TIE ducks land at night the last one
out Is struck by the bostman with a |
bit Of rag on the en- of a bamboo |
stick. This always causes a fierce |
scramble. as once last is enough for |
the average duck
But the end Of the journey was near.
Our stops at Wubu, Marking and
Chinkiang were short The French |
priest, With the long black beard and :