Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-10-17

numerous notices such as "...s
Righteousness as your profit aaI
riches will never be lacking" Amin.
bility attracts riches a thousanGla.r.
with justice you will enter into w.t.
region of wealth" I'm your casual con.
versation do not speak of peoplsa
failings"
Music Attracts Children.
That evening we stayed at a cara.
vansary In little mountain Villa.
Here we astonished the natives, and
especially the little boys, by PLAYING
mouth organ. The strains of Poor
Nelly Gray and Hot Time in the
Old Town" soon drew small crowd
OF half naked urchins, who surveyed
us with wondering eyes Having got
ten together our little audience, We
proceeded to question them as to
what they had had to eat during the
day, how old they were and whether
they went to school or not They had
all eaten millet porridge melons and
various kinds OF vegetables Meat
was evidently luxury and eaten only
once in a great while.
They all said they had gone TO
school, upon which Mr.. Peck exam.
ined them like schoolmaster and
made them repeat the san zu ching or
trimetrical classic, which is the frs
book studied by Chinese children. OF
twelve boys between the ages OF i've
and twelve only one was unable to re.
peat the san zu ching. and he was
deaf mute. We we're astonished 10
find that so many of these children Of
the mountains had been to school A
similar examination in a mountain
district in America would not have
given better results. These noun
taineers we're 80 poor that their chi.
dren had to run naked in the summer
but they were, nevertheless, able TO
send them to school. When the OK
animation was over we awarded tho
boys a few pennies each ami urged
them to continue to go to school.
Before nightfall the report hsi
spread throughout the whole town
that some foreigners had come who
made wonderful music and who wcrs
so learned that they could conduct eN
aminations In Chinese. Many people
came to us asking for foreign meGt-
cine. Mothers brought little sick
babies and crippled children to US ask
ing us to cure them. They seemed to
have the idea that all foreigners were
skilled in the art of healing. When
we told them that we could not cure
their diseases they did not believe us.
II was only when we told them that
we had not brought any medicines
that they went away. 1t made Us
sad to think OF all the misery that
must be endured unalleTiated in China
1t brought home to US the fact that
literature alone cannot make people
enlightened and that without science
they must endure all the inconyeD'-
ence and misery of barbarism.
One sees many strange things Ia
China. At Wangchaiying where "e
stopped for tho night on the 18Th }
saw piece of brick tied to a dOnkeg
tail to keep 1t from braying. The
muleteer told me that It was phys-
cal impossibility for donkey to bray
with a weight tied to its tail lay
awake a long time that night wal'.
ing for the donkey to bray, but iGa
brlckbat seemed to do the work LHo
donkey never brayed once.
The next day was the sixth one
from Picking We travelled through
many beautiful mountain passes aaI
were constantly climbing over rocky
ridges or descending into narrow vale
leys. At several places we saw chr
nese placer miners washing the SANDS
OF the mountain streams for gold.
They were using a wooden cradle
very much like that used by the goa
seekers of our western states. NJ
Launpinghsien, where we stopped Tor
tifin, we saw a large monument erect
ed by imperial order to the memory OF
French Catholic missionary who E'd
been killed by the boxers In 1909.
About four in the afternoon wa
came to Kuanien pass, when Is ,-l
In the solid rock, and oyrrioohs J"
hol. We stopped there for a wr.i' %
enjoy the beautiful panorama "n''a
Law stretched before us. IN the valley.
only a few miles away lay the c.'s Oh
Jehol. and beyond II the palaces OF '.'
Manchu emperors After .0"E.
rest we pressed on and ou'rroa '".
city. We found q large Inn Gallo.
Poo Yuan Tien, where we iotHa GOA.
Portable quarters.