The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-04-07

you'll never get the property, so do
your worst" Mr.. NJ says it is
allowable here TO bury alive for a
heInous o%tfense, when the members of
a clan agree upon it; then the Man
darins will not interfere.
A case of this kind happened a few
years ago IN this province. The
threat to the old woman lets you see
how heinous a crime man Chinese
regard intercourse with foreigners for
religious purposes. After several
days delay the Mandarin promised
Brother N q paper, insuring
p%eaceable occupancy Of the house, or
else an equally eligible one," and
therefore the missionaries hoped for
no further difficulty. But before VIC
left Chow Yuen we sent for the old
woman, the landlady, but she could
not be found. But it is not, impossi-
bic that her relatives have put her
out of sight"
TRAVEL, VILLAGES, ETC.
The roads in this part Of China are
trails or bride paths. along which
the pack animals string out ia single
file up hill and down. On level
ground two can ride abreast. Bed
ding is carried in a fiat sack like a
mattress across the saddle, Sheazas,
or mule ~litters, mentioned above, are
frequently used. In China there are
no farm houses, but all the people
cluster in villages, which therefore
are seen in all directions every mile
or so. Each village is composed Of
one, two or three families, with all
their generations; SO that if the fam
lily name is Wrong, every one in that
place Is named Wrong, with one or
two other names added to distinguish
them. (This is pretty much as though
in Smithville all were Smiths, distin-
guished as Tom, Dick and Harry
DIET OF THE NORTHERN CHINESE.
Rice is grown chiefly in the south
ern part of China, and up hero is a
luxury; even down there rice as white
and clean as you have it is a luxury.
On my trip to Ningpo / could not eat
their rice. Millet is a grain as large
as mustard seed, yellow when cooked,
and then looking and tasting just like
mush made of coarse coarn meal. 1t
is very good, and forms the staple of
food here. The whent -four they
make into quite good bread. rolls,
f~rltters and s~ponge-eake, but all their
baking" consists of steaming. You
would be pleased to taste some of
their bread. Try it and you will like
it. Make the dough into dumplings
as big as your fist. Put a little water
in a kettle and q wooden frame
in it, In which to place the bread, to be
out of the water. Put on the lid, tic
it down and then cook. The bread
does not look nice, for there is no
brown crust, but, except that the Chi
nese put no salt in it, IL tastes very
good. They eat a great deal Of cab.
bage, and this is a good dish. 1t is
really a kind of lettuce, tasting like
canlihower. Pork, chicken and duck
are almost all the meat they have,
The missionaries at Tungchow occa.
sionally have an OK killed for their
own use. The Chinese are extrava.
gaDtly fond of garlic, and eat it al
most every meal. Their breath is
odoriferous In consequence. One
we'll, if he could dispense with no.
tions of cleanliness-not otherwise.
|, INN ACCOMMODATIONS IN CHOW YUEN.
You can scarcely conceive of any
teing pretending to be comfortable
ShA mao AOED Vi OAA4OA III ~ Lh4A A.
q Chinese house. Take the room We
three missionaries are occupying al
, this Chinesen inn for an example. II il
about twenty feet square, on the
ground floor of course. The floor il
of rammed earth. The walls, once
J white, are brown with smoke; the
roof Of the house is the ceiling, til,
thatching being smoky and cobwebby
/ The two windows are glazed with pa,
per. The side of the room is fur.
nished with a long, low table or bed.
stead, on which a coarso mat il
spread, on which again the patIve'
/, would spread . oo'efs.t"bIe au9 20 ~
-iSsP. we have a mattress and gooG
bedding of our own. and are com
Portable. The Chinese depend fol
warmth, chiefly on wearing much
clothing, that for winter being quilted
cotton. And SO In u DON there Is
no stove. When we wish to warm
our fingers, u servant brings IN a
copper pan with a little charcoal fire
over which we rub our hands This
is the style in China, where fuel is
both very scarce and dear. A native
woman coming into Mrs. Ms par
Tor. said, Heaven cannot be nicer
than this" Yet if the government
would permit coal mines to be opened
there would DO no lack Of fuel, for
coal abcunds. Our seats are the ma
tive chairs-very rude, you would
say, and two stools or horses, such as
our carpenters put their boards on 20
saw them. These are the usual style
of bench. There are, in short, very
few houses in Philadelphia that are
not better than this Chinese inn, yet
we can get on comfortably enough by
wearing 0ur hvercoatg.