Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . oliday. The men have enter-tainments called one-dish parties, where women are not invited,and each takes his own refreshments. The women of the nobilityare veiled and go about in two-men chairs, but one sees them peep-ing at passing Europeans. The ordinary Corean housewife goesunveiled. AMERICANS WHO FOUGHT FOR CHINA. In the stirring events of the past three ye
Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . oliday. The men have enter-tainments called one-dish parties, where women are not invited,and each takes his own refreshments. The women of the nobilityare veiled and go about in two-men chairs, but one sees them peep-ing at passing Europeans. The ordinary Corean housewife goesunveiled. AMERICANS WHO FOUGHT FOR CHINA. In the stirring events of the past three years, events that havemade and unmade nations, and in which heroes have become com-mon, it is not surprising that the name of Philo McGifhn, theAmerican naval officer who commanded a Chinese battleship in thewar with Japan, should have slipped from the memory of many ofhis countrymen. But now that the Chinese question is uppermost in the troubledarena of international politics, the brief story of the life of the heroof the Yalu, the American sailor who fought so valiantly for China, JAPAN AND COREA. 51J is worth telling. Until the United States war with Spain, CaptainMcGiffin enjoyed the distinction of being the only man of Amen-. A TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION TO BRING LUCK can or European blood who ever commanded a modern war-ship inbattle. Not only this, he has been recognized as one of the bravest 512 JAPAN AND COREA. men of our time. His life is an illustration of Disraelis saying:u Adventures are for the adventurous. Captain Philo McGiffin was born in Washington, the countyseat of Washington County, in western Pennsylvania, where islocated the famous Washington and Jefferson College, that playedsuch a vital part in the early history of the country west of theAllegheny mountains. His great-grandfather was a Scotchman bybirth, who settled in America previous to the Revolutionary war,and took part in that strife on the side of the colonists. After thesurrender of Lord Cornwallis at
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