Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-02-11

says
All being equal in China, compeli-
ton for Office Is open to all. Educa-
cheney in scholarship Is the basis of
this competition.
These comparative examinations for
public appointment are an institution
over a thousand years old. Through
them, persons from the humblest con-
ditions of life may surely rise to the
highest places of honor and influence
in the empire.
Only four classes Of persons, and
their posterity for three generations,
are excluded from these examinations;
the children of prostitutes, execution
ers, play actors, and inferior servants
of mandarins and iailers. It Is
thought In China that the immediate
descendants Of these four classes
would lack the moral qualifications of
good rulers.
Chinese laborers don't strike, don't
get drunk, don't attend political meet
ings, don'tmarch In professions, don t
''soger," never stop work to talk or
tioningly, keep quiet, and labor steadi-
"
hour law if it were given to them.
In the school rooms, shops, and
private residences of China, aud fire.
queutly by the roadside, baskets OF
| boxes are eonspicuOusly placed bear
ing the inscription, Respect printed
paper T. In these are gathered al
scraps and fragments, printed and
written. Persons are hired to 20
| - cd ao11.aot than, ifTss IL
preston of the national veneratioT
! for writing as the basis Of learning
| The people will rescue the written and
printed letters Of their language from
the dishonOr of being trampled on, Of
put to base domestic uses. They give
them the honor of incineration, anc
then give the ashes to the rivers.
Raphael Pumpelly states an i'm
mense fact when he says that in traV
!, cling 5000 miles in China (Which con
. tsins 400, 900, GOO people), he did no
: seeQne Chinaman drunk.
: ThsChinese are the most iudustri
: GUS peUple on earth. One-third 0
the human race In numbers, it is vel
ascertained that they perform from
; six -tenths to seven -ienths of the man
ual labor of theworId.
? Free day schools exist all over Chi
: ma, commonly instituted aud support
4 ed by the 5enetactions Of rich fami
lies or individuals
In not a temple in China eau a mud
figure or nude picture Of divinit
/ be found, except the infant held 10 th
9 arms of the Goddess Of mercy.
r China alone, of all countries, has
: society for the suppression of immol
= al books and pictures. The Govern
! ment gives it sanction and civil SUI
3 port. BY law, this society can comm
' the makers, vendors, aud possessor
4 of immoral works 10 bring them to /
= headquarters, together with the sterl
/ otype blocks from which they ha,
Z been printed, aud there receives a pa
8 tial equivalent for them 10 money, an
& then see the abominatiOns Dublicl
i committed to the flames.
(. Schools are universal in China, an
y the proportion of people there WI
= can read, write, aud cipher, Is great
Z, than Ia any other country In Il
world.
!, The benevolent societies, now thou
If ands of years old among the Chimes
d put to shame the social or civil ben
y factions OF any country included wit
s. ia Christendom. Every city, al
n nearly every village. has orphan as
A. lums, which, in advance of ours, T
le ceive and care for the children of po
ot parents yet living, who are unable
3 support their offspring. The graft
u tous distribution of medicines by i
y sociations is common throughout Oh
Y ma. Asylums for Old Men exist,
= which, in addition to immense dinin
rooms, kitchens, and dormitories, a