From western China to the Golden Gate; the experiences of an American university graduate in the Orient, with thirty illustrations . s method oftravel as soon as it was available, while the for-eigners clung obstinately to the old style, shut-ting their eyes to the fact that it had beensuperseded. While the writer is not positively informed,it is safe to say that the steamer completed tworound trips before the officers reached Chung-king. Twice they met the steamer descending,twice they saw it pass them bound up is barely possible that, by the second timethey saw it glide on and leav
From western China to the Golden Gate; the experiences of an American university graduate in the Orient, with thirty illustrations . s method oftravel as soon as it was available, while the for-eigners clung obstinately to the old style, shut-ting their eyes to the fact that it had beensuperseded. While the writer is not positively informed,it is safe to say that the steamer completed tworound trips before the officers reached Chung-king. Twice they met the steamer descending,twice they saw it pass them bound up is barely possible that, by the second timethey saw it glide on and leave them, they hadlost some of their conservatism. Another case of ultra-conservatism on thepart of the foreign resident in China comes tomind. A few days before the incident abovenarrated, a party of missionaries had started upthe river for western China. Their leader wasan old fellow known as Dr. Wilson, w^ho hadbeen in that country I dont know how long,but had been away on furlough two starting up stream, he had insisted ontaking his silver with him in the form of ingots,instead of the more convenient dollars which. A SHADY LANE. Sprague, photo. 125 are now universally current in that was told by the Ichang missionaries thatthe ingots were out of date and that he hadbetter take dollars, but the obstinate fellow in-sisted that because, when he first went to Chen-tu, dollars were not current there, such muststill be the case, and he departed up the riverwith his lump silver. Even the missionarywho told the writer the incident, a person ofthe most solemn, stupid type, could not helpcracking a wooden grin at the old mans ex-pense. I have told how beggary has been almostsuppressed in western China, but in the for-eign settlement at Shanghai, a city entirely inthe hands of Europeans and Americans, andgoverned by a municipal council from whichChinese are rigorously excluded, the old-fash-ioned Chinese beggar still wanders about thestreets. If you enquire why the
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