Blue waters and green and the Far East today . man. She reads the times,and China is today a thousand years ahead of Russiain the intelligence of her lower classes and the virtueof her higher. Well, I did not intend to talk Chinese politics will do that when I go to Shanghai, which is theCopeland County of China. We descended once more to the city. We saw theCity of the Dead, a beautiful place, where the betterclass are kept till their tombs are ready, or sometimestill transport can be had to their native tombs. Wesaw the great Mandarin coffins hollowed from asingle log of teak or cherr
Blue waters and green and the Far East today . man. She reads the times,and China is today a thousand years ahead of Russiain the intelligence of her lower classes and the virtueof her higher. Well, I did not intend to talk Chinese politics will do that when I go to Shanghai, which is theCopeland County of China. We descended once more to the city. We saw theCity of the Dead, a beautiful place, where the betterclass are kept till their tombs are ready, or sometimestill transport can be had to their native tombs. Wesaw the great Mandarin coffins hollowed from asingle log of teak or cherry, beautifully polished,and before it the ever-burning joss-sticks and the riceand flowers. And we saw the Water Clock. Everhear of it? I did when I was at school some sixty orseventy years ago. I think it was an illustration ofhydrostatics or biology; I dont remember now. Itis in a lofty tower over the principal street of the stone receptacle permits four drops of water asecond to fall into a stone tub, in which there is a float [142]. CANTON with a brass graduate fixed to it. As the water fillsthe lower tub the graduate rises and marks the flightof time by hours. Every two hours the attendantsets out a great announcing-board, with the hour on,and Cantons two millions take their time and appointtheir tasks by that. For six hundred years this simplemechanism has ordered the daily life of the like the Buddhist gods, its day is done. Everystore has an American clock, nearly every , as elsewhere, the old order changeth. And finally, after pricing more jades and things,we left Canton for the Shameen, the English concessionon an island, separated by a narrow canal from theold city. There we found an English hotel and dis-missed Ah Kow and the coolies. For myself, Icrawled into a hot bath, tried to soak off the heat-blisters, doped myself with talcum powder, got intomy pajamas, and on the wide cool veranda of my roomsought to forget my troubles. Cer
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