The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-10-14

Paddy Field of a Sze-chuan Farm.
D. Stars and Stripes waving a salute t.
a worthy foeman less than 100 feet be
u hind at the end OF the 500-mile jour
9 ney.
!. Chung-king Great City.
h Chung-king, 200 miles above the
gorges, is walled city with 100000
inhabitants, situated at the confluence
/, of the Yangtze and the Kia-ling rivers,
and is, through the fiction Of foreign
treaty an open seaport, notwithstand-
ing the fact that it is 1,50O miles from
the coast and 1000 feet above the level
of the sea. 1t is now the head of steam
navigation for nearly a dozen steam
ers controlled by the Chinese, the seat
OF maritime customs for the West the
point of distribution for all western
borne commerce and the assembling
depot for all shipments to other parts
of China and foreign lands
/ The chief exports to America and
other countries are paint oils of the
tung tree, medicines, bristles, feathers
and hides, and manufactured articles.
Confined between its TWO rivers. this
city, like New York, is growing into
the air, 1t has no suburban lines TO
relieve Its surplus population, and real
estate has accordingly increased in the
past decade from 100 to 200 per cent
in value, making it profitable to erect
fine foreign buildings, in which it ex-
GELS any purely native city in China.
In travelling from Chung-kine
northwestward 300 miles to Cheng-j
tn one must go by sedan-chair. borne
on the shoulders of two, three, or four
bearers. The rich ride in tours by
choice, as do the portly without op-
ton.
In addition to the chair-bearers. tbe
foreign traveller requires coolie TO
pear his cot and bedding, another to
AIRY his food, and an attendant To
'ook 1t. A small party easily be-
'omes regiment, and if an armed
escort accompanies it, as is usual
ne party resembles an army
Beyond the walls of Chung-king ia
ne city OF the dead. The road passes
luare-oulit tombs of the Ming period:
ear by are the crowded lines of nub'
graves for beggars and the very
oor; and then, far away to the ton
tne NIL about four miles distant
e the regulation mounds of Chinese
'aVes' with here and there beautiful-
carved, terraced mausoleums
A more orderly section of broad OF.
nt' reserved for Mohammedan
ayes, shows that the followers Of
crescent are no mean or moon
leraDie company among the citv,s
pulation. ''s
Farming in Sze-chuan.
'ut from the crush and the hum ~
city OF the living and past tho
ct camp of the dead, the traveller
mes to the country-not, however,
country OF the western world.
ner mass of terraced paddy fields
farm gardens. with human ho
Always in sight. The inhabitants
Sze-chuan surpass In rueoad a.
;, OF race the variety of the prov
- scenery. More valuable tbon
fich mineral deposits and sunerh,n
q land, the people of Sza-ob,,as.
at once its prime asset and IN
ST. anu III
nc western part of Sze-cbu,.
!, wen be called the museum -
"ulian races, the as-yet-undis
'eu happy hunting ground NJ tha
oioglst and physiognomist u sno
= oe round the surviving remnants
e "ost heroic struggle for exists
a' humanity has ever wapod
VINO, Tor lack Of better to-
al the "tribesmen." '''
1nlnese call them "the eight
"',ols' out 1t Is believed that
"Ie several times eighteen no
VI tribes. each under its m
council, or feudal lord ~ ~ 1T
'n' or semi-independent of nu
e ana OF the Chinese in w easn
RS they dwell. whose
notable thing about M
''erh emma Is that not q u.ho ~
oar c seen except the wheelbar sS .sc:;
car :, oneng-tu- Thousands Of tons
snnn.,, pass over these high
annually all on the bacts -
ana as one approaches tho 49,. NJ
population he finds the .s,, zen Ill
e water of the city ara on esase 80
also. on their