Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-01-20
THE WAYS OF CHINAMEN.
Lecture on the Chinese In California
and their Peculiar Habits.

and their Peculiar Habits.
The Chinese in California are being
lectured about by Prentice Mulford.
He said that the Chinese first entered
California in 1850. He trotted patiently
after the white man, and the two full
filed the fable of the hare and the tor
toise. The Mongolian has carried back
to his native land uncounted millions OF
dollars. He does not assimilate with
us, does not even use our groceries, 1,
does not allow his bones to rest in our
graveyards. The Chinaman is found in
nearly every avocation except law and
divinity. He built the Pacific railroad.
It had been said that Chinese could not
blast, because that was process requir-
ing skill ), but the Chinese proved his
ability by making fifteen tunnels through
the Sierras.
The Chinaman does three-fcurths of
the laundrying in California. Previous to
ironing the clean clothes he fills his
mouth with water, and with great noise
diffuses il over the clothes, like spray.
There are 20, 900 Chinese in San Fran
cisco. Their quarter has the Mongolian
architecture, the Mongolian garb, and
Mongolian groceries. Their food used
to- be called "heathenish truck. F."
It is true that the Chimes from their
dense population to be fed, have &C
quired the faculty of utilizing as food
every nutritious substance and while
much of. their food we should consider
unsavory, if not wholesomely gross,
there are some articles eaten by them
which we might well adopt-for instance,
q soup made of shell-fsh. - 80 -
The Chinaman is O. recreative barbar-
ian. He plays more and preserves the
spirit of his youth longer than we do.
In California he has theaters in which
a. drama occupies months, like a serial
story In a newspaper. He never dances,
and thinks dancing is an indication OF
Anglo Saxon insanity. He flies kites
and plays battledore and shuttlecock.
His evening meal Is prolonged, and he
is not a. gloomy, silent eater. He is q
good agriculturist. With our compare
lively wasteful farming, and our COM
pletely wasteful sewage of cities, how
Would China have fed her three hundred
millionEof people2d He does not adopt
our religion, and has little of bis own
except belief in Goo, and the devil He
pays more attention to the devil, as be-
ing dangerous He has distinct ideas
OF an immortal state, and believes it to
tbe like earthly existence sublimated.
So he spreads ont a feast for the be-
loved dead, believing that they eat the
eyaporatiensof exhalationof the viands.
Many loads of saltpork have been drawn
in funeral sprocessions to be in theory
.partaken of by the departed and when
it's freshness. is over he takes it home
and eats it himself As for his cooking,
he simply. willis his veg etables in boiling
water, and; eats his meat half raw. But
he has an idea of literature, and on his
business sign he places, along with his
name and business, o verse from his
favorite post or philosopher. His medi-
cinal pills are about as large as walnuts.
He is not allowed to, testify in court,
but when It is necessary to introduce his
statement, the way TO Bind him with the
solemnitypf sni!oath is to bring in a
living fowl and kilsit.3t He has been
taxed while other foreigners are exempt,
but is not allowed to testify in court,
nor his children, to, attend the public
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