The state herald., 1912-01-26
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w Sunday after Trinity,

eighth moon. eighth.
eenth day. We are on the noble
Yangtsze. God be praised!"
The Shanghai man put his feet up.
on the rail. puffed 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
ah. no-the roast came not. and 1t will
never come"
He shivered
And why didn't the roast Gomez"
inquired.
The consul got up to see We
found him-the cook-beside his oven
he lay-dead. Cholera! Ugh! Now
wasn't Il bit hungry after that!"
| moved farther away.
And what are the symptoms OF
rholera?'
Sudden DEATH" he replied hoarse-
ly.
And that man was In ''topside"
rabin next to mel
was glad 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.
n mighty river bearing clumsy junks.
and ocean steamer and n British gun
boat Then We came to Kinkiang and
fingered some hours.
Klnkiang is large and important
city with wall around II and fear
frl odor within II. Nevertheless. | ad-
wise every one 10 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 murky light below. The
shops cape on the street. and the cob.
bier. blacksmith. tailor and n horde
Of other workmen ply their trade
ngainst the sllmy walls undlsturbed
by the seething mass OF pedestrians
and shouting gangs OF urden.bearing
coolies.
We struggled on through the filthy
crowds. peeped into strange holes.in.
thewall 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 collection OF monkey skole.
tons. a few crocodile heads. dried llz.
ards. snake skins. a bear head with
the hair on. black mucilaginous mix.
turos In cups and many packages OF
herbs
"A member OF my honored profes.
sion" said the doctor III you have
a pain In the east side OF your stom.
ach--the Chinese like TO pnrtioulnriEe
he will give you n dose Of asbestos
wrapped in n Confueian eplgram. and
n II II on the west side you will get
broilod toad And, by the way. he
has really expensive collection OF
remedies. Chin-ohin. my venerable
friend. In the name OF our great pro,
fossion, I greet YOU"
Heavens It's the boat whistlc!"
exclaimed the one tourist III we
should get loft In this hole OF human
deyllsl"
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 MI agreed that the scenery on
the yangtSzo wna not particularly
grand Green nslda and sleepy ham.
icth. hero and there lake or river,
patch Of woodn. then an ancient pa.
CODA, solitary monastery. few IN,
lands. perhaps a fort with the dragon
fihg-nothing imposing nothing TO re
joioc or weep over. All. but tho gorEeu
of tho Yhngtazel oh. yeri Away
above Hankow and you have TO take
junk from iohang and be pulled ur
by ropes mo go. water bad" once
snid n Chinese boatman. md then tho
boat was thrown on the roekn and nil
were drowned, Such was the sub
stance Of n tale No. II was far nicer
here, floating along on palace and
eating Wong and anojoying cosmopoll
tan society
The next day We saw M enormous
mock Of duckg floating down 10 mar
ket In cnafgo ci lone boa'man who
controlled them with N, NJ hla
aaddle Y. etc water I "a the,