and swishing queue, who represents such swarming myriads
that the mind is confused in the attempt to comprehend the
enormous number. The canny Scotchman and the shrewd
Yankee are alike discomfited by the Chinese. Those who do
not believe it should ask the American and European traders
who are being crowded out of Saigon, Shanghai, Bangkok,
Singapore, Penang, Batavia and Manila. In many of the ports
of Asia outside of China, the Chinese have shown themselves
to be successful colonizers, able to meet competition, so that
to-day they own the most valuable property and control the
bulk of the trade. It is true that the Chinese are inordinately
conceited; but shades of the Fourth of July orator, screams of
the American eagle! it requires considerable self-possession in
a Yankee to criticize any one else on the planet for conceit.
The Chinese have not, at least, padded a census to make the
world believe that they are greater than they really are. In
June, 1903, the same New York newspaper that gave the horrible
details of the burning of a negro by an American mob
within thirty miles of Philadelphia announced that a Chinese,
Chung Hui Wang, had taken the highest honours in the graduating
class at Yale University. Another New York journal, in
commenting on the fact that Chao Chu, son of the former
Chinese minister, Wu Ting Fang, was graduated in 1904 at
the Atlantic City High School as the valedictorian of a class of
thirty-one, remarked:


``At every commencement there are honours enough to go around, and
those won by the Celestial contestants will not be begrudged them. Yet
it is not exactly flattering to smart American youth to realize that