The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-02

taught by Western nations, occurre'
at Shanghai. Kinteeyuen, a man ed
ucated to mercantile pursuits, seein!
Shanghai increasing rapidly in foreigl
trade, inquired what branch he ha.
better establish himself in SO as to sc
cure some of it. He was advised t,
join the English Church, and to set hl
store for the sale Of silk piece. goods
manufactured OF Soochow. He did so
At once the missionaries relieved him
of the care and expense of the educa
tion of his children. Foreigners bought
largely of him. One day his store was
ablaze with candles, and he dressed in
a snow-white suit, his queue plated
with the same (the morning costume)
was receiving his customers with
smiles. On being interrOgated as to
ihe usual appearance of his store, he
remarked lie had lost his No. wife.
Your No. 1 wife: Have you more
than One7' 'Oh, yes. have four more.
-Four more? Are you nota member
of the English Church? p 'Oh, yes, !,
was the reply. Then how; do you
reconcile the possession of SO many
wives with your religion? 90, says
Kintee-yuen, you foreigners do all
the same; you eat, beef one day, NUT
ton another, and chicken another day.
But as general thing they are
stolid, are they not?' iasa3y ~
Yes; uncontrolably 80. e Their, sto-
lidity is the greatest obstacle foreigners
encounter in their efforts to imbue
them with our notions in morals,
manners and customs. They look
| with suspicion on all that is new.
They use plow made of one pole,
with a metal spike at the end. When
asked by foreigner, Why do you
not use our plow?' they inquire, How
long have you used your kind?' And
when told for about a century, they
inquire, How many crops do you
raise?' And when told one, they re-
ply, We have used ours more than
1900 years, and raise two or three
crops Thus, while Western nations
are always looking ahead for know
edge, they look back. They are our
antipodes in more senses than that of
geographical location. Let me give
you some of their maxims as transla-
ted by Confucius and Mencius. Con-
fucius was asked whether the superior
man esteemed valor. He replied !:
8 The superior man considers justice of
the first Importance Mencius said to
one of the Kings: I entreat your
Majesty not to love low valor. If a
man strike his sword, and with a fierce
countenance call out, Who will oppose
me? this is the low valor of common
man. Again he said; Those who
wrangle anu fight for territory, and fill
wastes with dead bodies, aid who fight
for cities SO as to fill them with dead
bodies, may be said to lean on the earth
to eat human flesh /; death is not a suf-
ficient punishment for such crimes.
Those who delight in war deserve the
highest punishment Meacius also
says: When a man says, I know
we'll how to draw up an army, i am
skilled in fighting, he is a great Grim
inal." 1t is the study and emulation
of such maxims and examples as these
that had made the Chinese nation Of
rabbits. And yet a thousand of them
will, if required, march to certain
death without q murmur. or tremOr.v
EAT ALL YOU WANT AT NIGHT.
81
One of the popular errors in this
country is that which regards eating
in the evening as detrimental to health.
Almost any one can find a score of
persons among his acquaintances who
have dinner Mt two or three o'clock in
the afternoon because they are unwil-
ling, later in the day, to trust their
stomachs with anything more solid
than tea and toast. If they go abroad
they look upon the steamer of Welsh
rarebits and the like, at ten o'clock in
the evening, with much the same hor-
ror that they would regard an excessive
use of liquar. But when once fairly
brought in contact with foreign habits,
say English dinners at eight and Ger
man suppers at 10 p. m., they usually
fall back on the supposition that the
usage of several generations has fitted
the digestive organs of foreigners to
bear this excessive straid. One very
worthy American lady dismissed ma
tive doctor in Paris as confessedIy in
because he recommended
for some dyspeptic trouble that she
should eat a hearty meal some two
hours before going to bed. Fortunate
ly his successor took the same stand
and though she considered the method
Of treatment as wholly wrong, she was
into following it, and. what
is more, was cured in spite of herself.
If our physicians would make this
matter of diet more of a study, it would
fully repay them. It cannot be that
we are differently organized from our
brethren across the water, and hence
what long experience has shown to be
healthfnl for them cannot prove other
wise for US. The strain which our
American habits of eating put upon
The physical system is, that it crowds
,ne Two really uI0-glVlnS meals OF the
lay, breakfast and dinner, close togeth-
er, and then leaves the body to fast
or sixteen hours out of the twenty
our. {H tet- +t.t.t.. .!....
A FIRST RATE SToRY.-The Watch
man tells this stealing story |
IF young man who stood before a |
Presbytery in Scotland asking ordlna-
ion. Principal Robinson was Moder-
or. The young man was rigidly ex-
and asked 10 preach. The ex-
animation and the sermon were both
The candidate retired,
md the Moderator said: Il feel com
oelled to say that the sermon W which
he vOnnv man hae nroochod 80 NOT