The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 1, 1900, Page 9

THE SUNDAY CALL VAITING = e DECISION ons takes the s which the e drills of our with the big h them 3 through , the other held That is to give rough it all they give careful at- the expressions on their faces. ¥ t is considered good in immobile re- 1al expressions t of view Boxer drill i different face upon them. The command is then like the Ital- fan order, “Facclo feroce” (*Look fierce”). Th . too—perfect image for the devil to copy after, sometimes. things help. The Chinese say * not win a woman with frowns nor a battle with smiles.” The first part we all know is true. Ask some soldier about the other, or perhaps he can tell you about both; soldier boys think of ev- erything. There are few members of the Chinese patriotic order here in San clsco, the Boxers in China being largely in the Manchu and Tartar regions of the while the Chinese in California arly all from Canton and vicinity. them the reformers have a large ran- While neither of these socleties is revolutionary or rebellious, they by no means agree with each other or with the present Government. That zugust adjunct to the sun, moon and stars does not belleve in doing any- thing. It is well satisfied with itself, and Caink majesty of its presence suffl- clent nse against the assaults of the natio The Poxers. on the contrary, see that it is necessary to do something to save the empire, and that the doing must be very presently. Their remedy is to re turn to the methods which have pre. served them already through a geological age or §o; to preserve themselves just as they would fruit, by shutting off cutside communication and keeping sweet. Old ways are best, they say. 1 are the conservatives of Chin The radicals are represented by the Po Wong Woey, or society for assisting the Emperor. Thev are the most progressive and traveled people of China, who fore- see that China must fall in' line with the procession, build railroads. public yorks. steamers and have telegraphs and free_newspapers. ey are led by Kang Yu Wel, who is much favored by the Eng- lish-speaking people in China. ‘Who is the head of the great Boxer READY FOR movement Is a secret that none can gu but it I8 supposed to be a cer who Is In great favor in the Pa Forbidden Boxers have been seen arilli for m: g be its walls. This drill, shown in the pi tures, old and quaint though it be, Is what ten million men are doing in China to-day-. One hundred hundred thousg that makes ten million—prac Boxer drill. There may not be so many, is the guess of some miiit men. haps there will be another guess coming. Those ten million B believe in China for the Chinese. hey have kept China for themselves through fifty hun- dred years. h the times when Tamerlane, r_and C conquering the world. They a China can be kept together for awhile yet. There arc not enoush bullets cast to Kill them all. for it takes ever so many pounds jead to kill a man at long ides a Chinaman is not afraid me. when threat- I no care.” ey always ened: you killy And they do not either. Life with the Chinese Is as they sa Laf tal yi, hui tak yL,"” “Easy come and v go.” One man dropy out of the ,000,000 does not leave as much vacancy as’'the hole caused by pulling a needle out of a mill pond. The population of China increases so rapidly that their army would be repien- ished Tfaster than all of the arts of war could deplete it. The.wealth of the nation in ready money I8 enormous. Thelr credit is in- gxhaustible, for they have no national e . The wealth of color and the elaborated ornamentation of the costumes worn by Boxers on dress parade is only suggested by the photographs. The material is ail of hand spun silk; dved in the brightest of colors.” This silk is stiff with em finely worked and overlald with gold bullion. Over this again are small ' metal mirrors representing the “eyes” of Buddha which flash in the sun as does the armor’of a mailed knight. Their weapons are numerous as the sticks of a golfer, and Jike the golf player. they have an attendant who bears their arms for them. Thelr swords and knives are their spe- clal pride and are of the greatest inter- THE ADSAULT, o E BOXERS WHO HAVE SET GHE WHOSE QIVICIZED WORLD TO FIGHTING SIVING HIM POINTERS WORLDS EYES ARE \ 3 J ON HIMM L R Chingse View. By Jhan Mun, o o METH=D OF : EXECUTION Prominent among them s ved sword which seems to be common to all Asia, varying from the single arched scimitar of thé Turk to the wiggly kris of the Sulu Islander, which seems to have been modeled after a crawiing snake. e their broad understanding of foreign sf- falrs and strange conditions. It has been accounted an honor to be- long to the organization; in its ranks there are members of most of the best families of China