The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-07-16
ORlENTALlSNI IN NEW ENG:
LAND.
The Chinese NJ the Lap>tone-Our Photo.
Srapns OF the PiStnils s'Ah My's and 'sAh
Sin.'' in their New Home.

| All My is short of stature, slightly
bulit, and his beardless face suggests that he Is
yet bat boy but we must not Judge his age by
home standards. His eyes seem half shut, 50
narrow are they. but they are keen and quick.
Ills skin is dusky, his fat, his teeth promi-
nent: Half his head is shaved close: oa the crown
Is coiled the long braided cue of let black hair.
terminating in tassel, which would be hanging
about All My's heels We're he in full dress His
cue ls shorter than those of some of his cemrades
as ne Is young; there are some in the party that
Just touch the ground. It is the dearest possess.
ion OF a chnaman, and the one member of the
company, who is old and bald, wears false one,
pinned to his pate the Lord knows how All Nv
has shaved the heads Of some of his comrades
since he got IN from his long journey. and has
had the same service performed for himself AS
the crowning act of a thorough ablution which
mas lett him clean as wax. His hands are very
small and delicate and soft womans owing,
perhaps, In some measure to his wearing long
sleeves and having national habit of clasping
ms hands together in the overlapping ends, as
In null. He wears "a blue nankeen blouse.
made in China, with much care of stitching, fast
ened by frogs and small brass buttons: loose
trowsers of the same stuff stockings like any.
BODY else and wonderfully easy little slipper
IKE shses, the toes pointing a little upward, the
sole an inch thick, of white pressed wool.-His
mead Is anonymously covered with a common
SOFT hat, OF American manufacture. Mr. Sa,np.
sons agent finding himself obliged to provide for
all his charge, in this respect before leaving San
Francisco. All My bears himself rather shvlv.
but yet with certain dignity, as we inspect him
lie Is studying English with all his might, and
loses no opportunity to gain crumb of informa.
ton. what You call! he says plucking at
the couch by which he stands. Bed" we an.
swer. "fes, l know, bed he replies, shaking
his head, and pointing still more vigorously,
"but what you call 2" Mattress" we reply and
,whoeve. meets All My for the next hour Will
hear him softly repeating, with much motion of
the jaw and manifest difficulty of combining the
ssyliables, "Mat-tress; MATTRESS" until he
knows 1t perfectly, and is ready to absorb anoth-
er atom of knowledge in the same very slow
manner
fass we now into the next room. used by the
new colonists as sitting room and dining ROOM
furnished with benches and tables, and lighted
with gas-an unnecessary piece of liberality on
Mr.. SIMPSONS part, as the laborers contract and
expect to furnish their own candles-but adding
much to the cheerfulness of the place. Here
again the place swarms with Cinnamon, in
great variety of interesting occupations But
before we begin to examine them in detail. Mr..
Sampson introduces Mr. Sing" the Chinese fore.
man, who can explain much that would other.
wise be mysterious
An Sing is not ordinary Chinaman A
young man like most of his fellows his face
shows brighter intelligence, or, perhaps, rather
wider culture than any of the rest He has
been eight years in this country, serving the first
nve faithfully as house servant, cook and cham
bermaid, and has made such progress in his stay
as to enable him to command the ..great wage"
for one of his race, which have already men
toned. He is Americanzed in many WAYS He
wears the garments of our civilization through.
out, remarkably natty boot fitting his little
foot: but he still cherishes the native fashions,
and has brought in his baggage. .or use on spec
ial occasions, Chinese shoes of gorg eous embrnid-
cry, and superb coat of sea otter skin lined with
silk, which paid prodigious duty on entering
California. lie speaks broken English readily;
but being fast talker of swift ideas, it is i'm.
possible for your correspondent to understand
him when he undertakes IL long explanation
though his short answers are plain enough. He
reads print pretty we'll, lodging the hard words
as child would lie has taken an English name
Tor common use, bting "Charle" in everyday life,
and MIR. Sing only state occasions More
remarkable than all, he has joined the Methodist
church, and brings letter OF credit from his San
Francisco pastor to the clergyman in North
Adams in the approved way. l should not hest.
tate to predict IA full congregation next Sunday.
to hear the new members relation OF experience.
Still another Of Charities requirements was
brought out by an incident of the journey hither
At Omaha the bitter hostility of emigrants from
the East towards emigrants from the West began
to make itself heard. A big, somewhat tipsv
lrlshman, forced his way into the car, breathing
menaces OF violence, and drew his loaded revol.
Yer upon the foreman, who strove TO prevent him.
Charlie, with one motion, seized the fellows
pistol hand and held it harmessly aloft, and at
the same instant drew his own revolver and
held 1t against his breast. You leave" said All
Sings gentle tones. me shoot you. Me lust AZ
quick shoot you as not" And 50 he backed the
astonlshed lrishman out OF the car and down
the steps, IN u way that showed he had learned
something besides RELIC ion in eight wears spent
in California and Nevada
The young men who fill this room, resting
from their journey and waiting to be set at work,
are neither smoking nor drinking. talking obsCe.
nifty nor quarrelling. as some classes of. emf
grants wot of would be likely to be nor are
any OF them absolutely idle. Here one is read.
ing. with evident ease and rapidity, Chinese
book which he has brought with him.
"iour people can all read :" observed to All
Sing. ave have some emigrants come here who
cant read"
1t is edifyng to watch the Chinaman's amaze.
ment.
"No read English, you mean"
''Some who cannot read at all. in their own
language"
"What for not learn when children lazy
Bad ? Fool?'
at is difficulty to explain it to him"
Gin China every boy 20 to school" he says. "If
no want to go, law make go. Boy not learn
quick, teacher keep him in long time after school
Boy behave bad, teacher make him stand long
time hands in desk, So" illustrating graphically
"No boy in China not learn to read"
At the next table China,nan has got out
from his slpnaor hau n h1anlr hnnls Tho