Pictures of the Great Events On a Wonderful Half Century
Pictures of the Great Events On a Wonderful Half Century
Fitzhugh Percy Keese
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-^ salute of one hundred guns was fired on the executive buildii^ 298 Digitized by Google NEW POSSESSIONS grounds; the formal transfer of the government on the 12th of August was attended with festive ceremonies, and if Queen Lil still cherished any lingering wish to wreak her royal vengeance on those who had opposed her, she at least found some wholesome solace in the twenty thousand good American dollars a year which Uncle Sam dug down into his pockets to give her. Digitized by Google CHAPTER... XXXIII TO THE rescue! THE ancient and populous empire of China, as is not xincommon with the aged, is extremely set in its ways. You cannot teach an old dog new tricks, and the Celestial Empire has never taken kindly to railroads and electric hghts and sewing-machines and carpet-sweepers and telephones and gas engines, and such other ingenious devices wherewith our modern life is made pleasurable and comfortable. On the great river which winds its way through the mysterious interior regions of the thronging country, the gaudy barges are pro- pelled by ancient sweeps wielded in frantic conflict with the tide by striving natives who would be shocked at the sight of a compact little ten-horse-power gasolene motor which would take them and their baggage along at the rate of twelve or fifteen miles an hour.
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