The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 22, 1900, Page 10

1a THE SUNDAY OCALL. EEERD BEEAL W4 the Chinese Swallow Up Cheir C’anyuerors? earer 2,000,000, The Peking-Tientsin are, they are unable to marshal them Rallroad, which runs from the mouth of When they aded the: the river up to the capital, passes Tien- feeble resi Did Seymour TGake the Worst Roule to Peking? plied by those who, like many earlier Chi- s, have simply used the T organized secret soclety to ac- posite side of the river and are well within the c their purposes. Tt will mot do B O oraua the Peiho untll it reaches people stmpiy swa 4 1 what is told of the Yangtsun, about elghteen miles above them. T are greate sentiment amol T & was the destruction of the mators the wortd has ever er Taian, right in the heart of Driaea'™t this point which prevented the have grown by belng conquer for over twenty reinforcements from reaching the rellev- gols under the great Kublal fr - mission has bsen ing force that stopped at Langfang, about and usurped the sovereignty hills .,f“m,:r ,_4r”x"*<(‘na; forty miles from Tientsin and just halt e\ th s it way to Peking. el tive C1 From Langfang the raflroad makes a ary to th . . s bed sharp turn to the west in order to pass - Manchus eonqu self v around the ancient royal hunting park d seized the reins of govern wace ! he rich Eoxes s that les south of the capital. Passing they, too, have been engulfed ate Shenst by the ol iy An-ting, fifty-four miles from Tientsin, e of black-hatred thelr o = : b with the for- the next station is Huangtsun, an impor- made Into & province. Neither J o why; tant village only fifteen miles from the The . ior il capital. Huangtsun is particularly easy of o to 1 passage north defense, as it lies on a commanding ele- pos 1 marshes instead ot vation with the raging torrent of the Hun phy the several powers would doubtless prey to the powers claiming River on one side, while the headwaters when they have suppiled the of the Feng and Lung rivers protect the of Chefu or the hau, both of = @ ach. After { eastern flank. Fengtal, so frequently .mpire with modern facilitles for trans- ated pg L B e i mentioned in the dispatches, is really of portation then will ths Chiness come into = -fu, a large H no importance except as being the juns (p.ir own again and history repeat itseif. ° mountaing H tion of the Peking-Tientsin Rallroad with mppne Chinaman will absorb the outsiders of Pechill. and has one the branch to Pau-ting-fu. It was former- .,.4 i they be not separated from him 1y the terminus of the main lines, thOUER Ly 105 wide a sea he will dd them to ht it was almost five miles from the Walls of emoi " Yviinin fts borders aiready dwall the capital city, but afterward, by strat- .. :,q of the entire human race, Its egy, the Empress was induced to “order’ pai¢ pilfon of population promises a trads it built up to the city. that is recognized as the grand prise of The forelgn settlement at Tlentsin Mes ¢ o " oo 0 0" A1 other markets tads a distance south of the native city and is insignificance beside it. It ts not * th protected by & heavy wall of earthworks . 0 8L L0 ot the powers have o 3 with & @itoly outside. been st ; threats and coercton to g 3 ‘“Smothering” Foreign Intruders. bring it heir control and that they i The Chinese are a peculiar peopls and have je s watched each other whils s have peculiar ways of putting down thetr to secure additfonal concessions - } o Jwofet of the prov numerous local Insurrections. They never ces and to enlargé thetr own SN & Dand 95 sisiams miles southwest of Peking ar oppose such movements while they are influence. One reason that the galning strength. They put up only & Government has apparently fa- CLASS FROM WIHICH THE ROXERS SPRING miles due west of Tlentsin, with which it is connected by river. Pang-ting-fu the present terminus of the Luhan R road, being built by the Belgian sy from Peking southwest to Ha is that it b afford an some of granted to for ngth and shows signs of col- might lapse. Then they jump on it with vigor. s ity for repudiating s that have been n ent years. The e tance of about 800 miles. At Pang P common 1 o - & - ars peaceabla r the Original Motive. the Boxers ignored the presence of a The pow t and hospitable posed to the fn- be no & body of American missions but at- om this, howe hat ¥ troduction of sight never load of Ch open flatcar ed the par of F i s ; .ged on the road 1 they attempted to escape d utting off "m _'nf:uhn:. but here they separated, the plain toward Tientsin. Tientsin, the at its junction with the Grand canal, them following the railroad as it great port of North China, has the larg- about thirty miles from the coast. The kirted the foothills hile they h the to Tientsin, finally = = e . et of ki % ; t the western edge est foreign population of any Chinese city Population of the native city is us P A . M . e - £t Plain toward the oapital &t Pe- except Shanghal. Tientsin lies on the SWem asabout 1000000, but if the suburbs feteriti v n t r ~d laugh as g s K the others struck east across westersh bank of the Péiho or North RIVF 10 1t; are holudea 1t will he fatnd to be foes, beca fc 2 Y MORRISON WAL HERE ARE THE GODS WHOM THE XERY SITK T P vy T H Rl ' ’S T AT T s s A B > g the Chinese t dead, wh t nterests the ve this world, and there P god of hell, whose duty is to punish rd the wicke d 1o rew and i openly pay of Conft out to punishments guern , the latter a f fortuna Medicine god is his other name, seen in paintings, on bronzes and { ege] rec oged i and he is. worstions o ame, se 1 8, s and in the also never fail to touch that part of his prima: > o ah Hi“fi{«,!'r‘,r""“] ";m-!:lr;gg “a':-dq:r’v'éffifi' {,;;’;L f:fmflrf}mh statues, and he is some- body which corresponds to LE afflicted an.f'y&“‘.fi.'fl?‘.figi.g.' wn‘t’etw‘\gblaclp lf‘:': :s“ufl dl]¥rln? of ar‘\: :‘::lrworzh:-r. Ras g 2 trinity with Apitaonmling: a8 It were. tlmes with elght attendants. As his namé part of their own bodies, fesling confident Amonk the Boxers are many skeptios, boi is Soniiepaocteine of ancestor worahin e g two biher gods shown In the ilius- - His &ES Do one Easa 1o e Seran Thet he ety 15 o heal the sick,'and that in this way the heailng virtues of the there areaiso many. falthA Tollowsrs of never ceased to mock at the Christians there are many who ol o are also” most popuAr defties, WAE I VOEne evers Befere 1LL Aust FOJSMD fhat he possesses this power devout Ce- deity will b transferred fo themselves. Buddha and Confuclus, and thess Tatter ~Thoy s rms o o aaion i morll, heTe are many who ¢ cially the obe Enown S8 BREseHATe:’ TeCONdS Wore T e g nese Jestlalg firmly Lelleve. Not oniy, there- At first sight it may seem singular that have long been opposed to the Christlans *The Sauenk of ihe Celestial Pig.’ and ioic ol ot Roth st - s figure may be fore, do the sick pray to him, but they bellef in such gods should have been the in China, since they saw that thelr relig. they have derided the most sacred cere- e 5