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The Queer Sights and Strange People of Mighty Peking. Tlio Banks, 'Stock Exchange?, and tho Government Departments and tho Ideas Held by Their Clerks. CONTEMPT FOR FOREIGNERS I They Think Legations Are Sent to China to Pa Tribute. Giants of North China and Information About the Filthiest and Most Interesting City on the Globe. (Copyright, ISO, by Frank G. Cs.rrenter.) The destruction of the Chinese army at Pinyang,' in Corca, and the crippling of their fleet at the mouth of the Yalu river, indicates that the Japanese threat that they will inarch their soldiers into Peking before winter is by no means an Idle one. The Yalu river Is the boundary between Corea and China, and, as it is now, the Japanese practically control the country. The territory of North Corea is very poor. and the Chinese will have to bring their supplies of food with them If they attempt another Invasion. The Japanese will not need a large army to l:e : them out, and they can now center .:oir forces upon China. Teking is by no means hard to reach. The ground between It and the sea is as flat as a floor, and if the Japanese can be landed on the east coast of the Gulf of Pechlli they will be within a few days' march of the great Chinese capital. The only thing that prevents them from gettii.g near it by water Is the big forts at the mouth of the Pelho river. These are manned with. Krupp and Armstrong guns, and Li Hung Chang's army is behind them. Wherever they land they will have to fight what remains of this army, but a victory would mean the capture of Peking and the practical subjugation of China. Peking is, perhaps, one of the least known cities of the world. I have paid two visits to It, and I spent a month in it six years ago. During the present spring I prowled about its streets for days and devoted myself to making a study of the town and its people. It is an immense city. It contains about fifteen hundred thousand, but these are scattered over- an area of twenty-five square miles, and the people, as a rule, live in one-story houses. The city is surrounded by walls which were built hundreds of years ago, and which must have cost many millions of dollars. These walls are in good condition with the exception of one or two places where the floods of last winter undermined them and carried parts of their facings away. It is hard to give an American an idea of one of these walled cities of China, The walls of Peking are sixty feet thick at the bottom. They would fill the average country road or city street, and they are as tail as a four-story house. They are so wide at the top that you could run three railroad trains eide by side around them, and they are so solid that the cars would move more smoothly over these tracks than they do on the trunk lines between New York and Chicago. These walls are faced Inside and out with bricks, each as big as a four-dollar Bible, and the space between them is filled with earth and stones so rammed down that the ages have made the whoie one solid mass. They are built, in fact, much like the great wall of China, and the bricks of the two are almost e:.ctly the same. I have before me a brick which I brought from the great wall. It weighs about twenty pounds, or as much as a two-year-old baby. It Is Mue-gray In color, and it is covered with patches of white lime mortar just like those that I saw in the broken places of the walls of Peking. APPROACHING THE CITY. In approaching Peking, long before you get to the city, you see the Immense towers which stand on the top of tnis wall over the gates which enter the city. These towers are as tall as a big New York flat They rise nine stories above the wall, and they have roofs of blue tiles. They were used in the past as watch towers, and they have many iort holes for cannon. There are thirteen gates which lead into the city, and the towers and the walls near thse are plastered over with proclamations and bills much like a theater bill board. The gates of Peking are merely holes through the wail, and they are about as wide as the ordinary street and perhaps twenty feet high. They are lined with stone and are beautifully arched. They are closed at night with great doors Sheathed with iron, and they are paved with heavy slabs of stone. The .walls of Peking are twentyseven miles long, and the area which they inclose is Irregular in shape, and it consists of two big parallelograms. The one at the -north Is the real capital of China, for it contains the Tartar city, the great government departments, the foreign legations and the Imperial city, in which, surrounded by from five to ten thousand eunuchs, the Emperor live3. The lower par allelogram joins tlie Tartar cty. It has half a dozen temples, including the Temple of Heaven, which was burned not long ago, and which is now being rebuilt of Oregon pine. The Chinese city is where all the mercantile business of this great capital is done. It is cut up Into narrow streets, and it is filld with all sorts of stores. It has markets of all kinds, and Its fur market covers several acres. It has its wholesale as well as its retail fur market, and I have gone out at 6 o'clock in the morning and found perhaps a thousand almond-eyed merchants dressed in gorgeous silks moving about through great beds of furs of all kinds. The furs are piled upon the ground, and you can buy sables for about $3 a skin and tiger skins for $73, which will be worth twice that amount anywhere else in the world. You can buy the finest of ermine, and for $10 you can get a coat of lamb's wool of the kind that our ladies use for long opera cloaks. This Chinese city is a city of banks and of stock exchanges. I visited one morning the silver exchange. It was a rocm like a barn, and the people were buying and selling stocks just as they do on Wall street, yeliing and howling and pushing each other like mad as they did so. It is a c'ty of book stores, and there ar some streets which contain no other shops. We have the idea that the Chinese merely live upon rice aid on rats, and that their chief industries are the making of matting, of fans and of silks. The truth Is that China does a vast business and she produces all sorts of commodities. Nearly every one of these Chinese streets contains shops of all kinds, and the main business of China is not the supplying o goods for the forelgi markets, but the making of those required for her own people. They have as many wants as we have and they I requira ccoa coods. The ecU;3 Crtzz

In the finest xt silk, and there are hundreds of stores which sell nothing but pictures. The art displayed in most of the paintings is abominable, but they are pictures nevertheless, and the Chinese pay good money for them. MARKETS OF THE CITY. I wish I could show you the markets of Feklng. You can get as good meat there as you can In New York, anl there is no finer mutton In the world than that of north China. The sheep are of the fattailed variety, and I saw many which had tails weighing over a pound. It Is queer how they kill the animals which they sell. They have nc slaughter houses, and a sheep is often butchered In front of the fhop and the b'ood lies on the ground while you buy. There are all sort of fl5h, and they are always sold alive. No Chinaman would buy a dead fish, and in case you want to buy less than a whole fish at a time the Chinese peddler will pull the fish out of the water, lay him squirming on the block, and cut a piece of quivering flesh out of his side for you while you wail. He does not kill the fish, anl after you are through he throws it back into a separate pall of water and waits fcr another customer to tak the rest. One of the chief meats sold is pork, anJ ycu see hogs trotting about through the streets of Peking. They wallow In the puddles right under the shadow of the Emperor's palaces, and they are the dirtiest hogs in the wjrld. There are all sorts of game for sale in the markets, and you can get snipe and quail and squirrels of all kinds. The Chinese are the. best raisers of poultry in the world. They

have duck farms and goose farms, and they know all about artificial incubation. They sell great quantities of dried geese and dried ducks, and they carry bushel baskets full of dried ducks about the city for sale. They sell all kinds of fruit and they are adepts In the raising of the choicest of vegetables. They bury their grape vines In the north In the winter, and you can biy nuts by the bushel. As to cats, dogs and rats, I did not see any sold In Peking, and I don't believe that the better classes are accustomed to use them. I am told, however, that such cats as are sold In the south are raided and fattened especially for the marktt, and that their diet is usaally rice. Dogs flesh is supposed, by the people, to give heroic properties to those who feed on it, and the same effect Is produced by bears meat and the groundup bones of wild tigers. These things ought to bring a high price just now ia Peking, for the people certainly have reason to Increase their courage. Another queer article that you see In the Peking market is false hair. I passed several places where long-queued Chinamen stood beside a board upon which were hung long bunches of black Chinese locks. Each of these was a false pigtail, and it is said that one of the chief articles of export from Corea to China Is human hair. The Chinese braid extra locks into their queues and they often patch out their queues with silk thread. VARIETY OF BUSINESS. I might write a full letter about the queer things shown in the Chinese part of the city of Peking. I could tell you of a vast business done in gold and silver paper which the Chinese burn at the graves to furnish their dead with money to pay their passage to' heaven. I could show you shops selling nothing but coffins. In which single articles of this kind cost as high as four thousand dollars, and where the dutiful son often buys his father a coffin and makes It a present to the old man years before Us death. I could tell you of stores where thousands of dollars worth of Incense or joss sticks are sold every month, and I could take you into establishments which sell nothing but birds and gold fishes. There are big stores full of furniture and shops which make nothing but porcelain stoves. There are places where food Is sold in bundles by weight, and establishments where coal dust is mixed up with mud and sold in lumps the size and shape of a baseball at so much apiece. There are great markets for the selling of chickens and flowers, and all sorts of toy stores and stores for the selling of paper and cloth. There are lock peddlers by hundreds and hardware establishments, and If you are very hard up anl In want of a meal I can show you a little hole round the corner where you can get camel's meat soup and mule roast at low prices. There are places for gambling and dime museum shows. There are restaurants of every description and opium joints without number. There are, in fact, 'stores of every sort and description, and the best things m China come to Peking. The most interesting part of Peking, however, Is the big Tartar city. It Is the capital of one-third of the yopulation on the globe, and in it lives the son of heaven, the Emperor of China, to whom all his subjects must bend their knees. It contains the thousands of Manchu officials, th foreign legations, the government departments and all the paraphernalia of this queer Chinese court. It 13. tho most Interesting city on the face of th globe, anl its sights really beggar description. From the walls tne whole city looks like an immense orchard, with here and there oneStory buildings m shining out through the trees. In its center there is a wallel-off inclosure filled with massive buildings, roofed with yellow tiles. This is the Imperial city, in the inneimost parts of which is a brick pen inclosing several square miles where the Emperor lives, surrounded by eunuchs. He Is, perhaps, the rarest bird In the whole Chinese aviary, and I will follow this with a special letter describing some of his antics. He Is kept apart from Chinese and foreigners, and you might live in Peking fifty years and not see him. He really knows nothing about his people or his surroundings, and he is a sort of a puppet who stands still or dances when his highest ofUclals or the old Empress dowager pulls at the string. INDESCRIBABLE FILTH. No better idea of the condition of the government of China could be gotten than by a trip through tfiis Tartar city. It Is one of the oldest towns in the world. It was founded more than a thousand years before Christ, and it has been the capital of millions for ages. It ought to be the greatest city on the face of the globe, but there is no spot more filthy, and slimy, and fouL The city knows nothing of modern improvements. It is cut up into wide streets, but the roads have no sidewalks, and the ruJe Chinese carts sink up to their hubs as they move through the city. There are no water closets. The streets are the sewers, and the most degraded savage of. .our Western plains has a greater regard for the exposure of his person than have these pigtailed, silk-dressed, eraudy, fat Pekingese. The city has absolutely no sanitary improvements, and the street lamps are framework boxes backed with white pajer, and they are seldom lighted except during full moon. It is absolutely unsafe to move about in the night time without a lantern, if you wish to keep your feet clean, and you have to balance yourself in the day to keep out of the mud All of the bouses ar of one story, and the government departments look more like broken-down barn than the of2ce of a great empire. I went one morning to visit the State Department, and as I look-.-d at it I thought of our great buildings of the State, War and Navy, which cost, you know, more than ten million dollars, and which is the biggest granite bulldlmj in the world, Tha street was a mud puddle, and I hugfed low, chaciily fcuildlrca till X fiddly com tot o