The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-02-17
JOHN.
SIS Diagnosis, by Mark Twain.

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Of Californias ouriosities the
Me In the States will some day be-
familiar with through the
Sc Railroad. l mean Cinnamon.
crnia contains seventy thousand
hem, and every ship brings more.
IS a Chinese quarter In every
and village in California and
da. for boards of aldermen will.
low them to live all around town,
wherever they chose to locate.
Is lot a hardship, for they pre-
h1-d together.
LlARlTIEs AND sUPERsTITIoNs.
b are people who fondly
their ancient customs. They
In auai mt costumes their aDcss-
wore Eve hundred years ago.
build temples, gaudy with gid
ud hide0us with staring idols,
here they worship after the fash
ae'r fathers. a strict record
.heir chiefs of the name
E-+J enca IF every Chinaman,
a1 dies his body is sent back
FIR burial, for they can new
~ their heaven unless they
or hiua. And besides, China
zip their ancestors, and they
mt their share of worship after
re done with this world. Even
the Chinese government sells
load oil degraded and criminal
10 a Cuban or Sandwich Is
planter, it Is strictly stipulated
.he body Of every one OF them
be sent back to CHINA after
Cinnamon being smart, shrewd
Ie. take to some few Of our COM
TAI customs aud virtues, but
aow we can't make great head
tie matter of eiVillzing them.
In each them to gamble little,
amehoW We cant make them get
e. 1t is discouraging-because
.a degenerate a being that won't
TuL
Ceinaman is the most frugal,
strious and thrifty of all crea-
81. Nc matter how slender are
RACES you pay him. he will pan
0 lay up money. Aud Cinnamon
he most gifted gardeners III the
Give one Of them a sand
II ut would not support lizard,
ae will make it yield generous
) of vegetables. The Chinaman
IS nothing. Everything has a
8 IN his eyes. He gathers up all
astaway rags, and bones, and bits
ass aud makes marketable arti-
of them. And be picks up all
ruit cans you throw away and
them to get the tin and solder.
n a white man discards a gold
-sr as no longer worth anything,
patient Chinaman, always salts
wita suali profits, and never In
try 10 get rich, takes possession
works Il contentedly for years.
0hiuaman makes a good cock,
d washerwoman, a good chamber
{, o good gardener, good bank
clerk, a good miner, a good rail
laborer, a good anything you
&c TO put Linn at; for these peo-
are all educated; they are all
accountants; they are very quiet
peaceabIe; they never disturb
lselVes about politics; they are Sc
bic, quick, smart and natur-
ha0dv aud ingenious that you
each them anything; they have
ca ousies; they never lose q no
q. never require watching to keen
81, work; they are gifted witt
5rld Of patience, endurance anC
eminent They are the best
ring class America has ever seen
q they do not care cent who l;
ident. They are miserably abus-
? the laws of California, but thai
of thing will cease some day. IL
found Just about impossible tC
I the California eud of the Pa
railroad with white men at three
ars day aud take care of all the
Is aud fights and strikes; blu
put on Cinnamon at one dollar
~ and find themselves, anC
built it without fights, strikes o.
hing, aud saved the bulk of then
IS, too. You will have thes'
tail toilers among yeu In tn,
es'' some day, but you will fine
IA right easy to get along with
you will like them, too, becaus
will stand heap of abuse. \ OIL
hud them ever so convenient
luse when you get mad you cal
ch club and go out aud tax
.faction out of a Chinaman. IN
ve American negro is getting S
lent. now, that the patriot ffon
and cannot take a little recrea
out of him without getting int
able. So the Chinaman will a!
q needed relief.
MODEST VILLAINY.
evidence that Cinnamon ar
SIZED with small gains, l will re
* that they drill FIVE holes int
- edse OF gold coins-drill clea
cough IRON edge to edge-and say
gold thus bored out, and fill u
hole with some sort Of mctalli
qposition that does not spoil th
Of the coin. Their counterfeit
put nine parts OF good metal
If bogus coins-a8d so 1t Is vel
rative in the long run. and II
"a thing to impossible to detect th