The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1912-01-25


shaaban. thirtes nth
w Sunday after Trinity.
eighth moon. eighth
ssatA day. We are on the noble
Yaagtsss. God be praised!"
Ne Shanghai man put his feet up.
q The rail. pufsd his pipe and com.
etacently regarded the twinkling
tights Of Hankow in the rear.
Last night" he continued. the
oonsul entertained me at dinner. We
progressed a. far a. the roast. but
sh. no-the roast came not. and 1t will
ssvsr come"
He shivered.
And Why didn't the roast Gomez"
inquired.
The consul got up to sec. We
found him-ths cook-beside his oven
hs lay-dead. Cholera! Ugh! Now
{ wasn't bit hungry after that!"
l moved farther away.
"And what are the symptoms Of
choiera!"
Sudden DEATH" he replied hoarse-
And that man was in . ''topside"
cabin next to me!
l was glad did not stop overnight
n Hankow. She may be the Queen
City Of the Yanugtsze, but want
aone Of her. She may have . three
mile bund, race meetings. Chrysanthe-
mum Sunday. golf course and hun
drsd beautiful foreign ladies' to dance
with In Victoria hall-but she has Z
cemetery. People do die there. and
sometimes of cholera
spent twelve interesting hours In
Hankow and learned about all pass
ing tourist II expected to remember.
l went on deck and saw broad
plains. blue mountains in the distance.
= mighty river bearing clumsy junks.
and ocean steamer and q British gun
boat. Then we came to Kinkiang and
fingered some hours.
Kinkiang is large and important
city with a wall around it and fear
tul odor within 1t. Nevertheless, l ad-
wise every one to visit it. as 1t has real
Chinese streets which are narrow and
twisted and unclean. packed with Eor-
geous sign boards above and horrible
beings in the murky light below The
shops cape on the street. and the cob
bier. blacksmith, tailor and a 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, q few crocodile heads. dried liz
ards. snake skins, bear head with
the hair on, black mucilaginous mix.
tures in cups and many packages of
herbs.
"A member Of my honored profes.
sion." said the doctor. IF you have
a pain in the east side of your stom-
ach-the Chinese like to particularize
he will give you dose Of asbestos
wrapped in a Confucian epigram, and
II 1t is on the west side you will get
a broiled toad. And, by the way. he
has a really expensive collection Of
remedies. Chin-chin, my venerable
friend, in the name Of our great pro-
fession. greet YOU"
Heavens! It's the boat whistle!"
exclaimed the one tourist IF we
should get left in this hole OF human
devils!"
We rushed for the river and fortu-
nately arrived in time,
Soon the steamer was on its way
and the conversation changed to seem
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, solitary monastery. a few is
lands, perhaps fort with the dragon
f1ag-nothing imposing-nothingt to re-
joice or weep over. All. but\the gorges
of the Yangtsze! Oh. yes! Away
above Hankow and you have to take
a junk from Ichang and be pulled up
by ropes. mo go. water bad" once
said a Chinese boatman. and then the
boat was thrown on the rocks and all
were drowned. Such was the sub
stance of a tale. No. it was far nicer
here. floating along on palace and
eating Wong and enojoying cosmopoli-
tan society.
The next day we saw an enormous
aock Of ducks floating down to mar.
ket in charge Of lone boatman who
controlled them with the flap of bis
saddle ON the water. was told they