Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-08-25
CHINESE POLICE.
The Sort of Picnic They Have in At
tacking Bandits.


Pail Mall Gazette.
To preserve the emperors peace
throughout the realm, the principal
agents are the policemen attached to
the tribunals, small and great, who are
known by their red robes, their high
black caps, and the official pheasant
feather surmOunting their heads like a
horn. A mere magistrate will preside
over Il score of these picturesque algua'
zils, while the yamm of project or a
criminal inspector contains fifty OF
more armed constables, some Of whom
act as jailOrs and headsmen in case of
need.
The policemen, the actual consta,
bles, are divided into privates, corpo
rails, and sergeants. They are shel,
tered in a magistrates yamun, if bach
elors; but if married they often inhab'
it a hut within the compound of thGil
superiOr's dwelling. They cat rice and
melons at the charge of the province,
and they receive n very small monthly
payment, enough to buy tobacccO and
opium, should their chief not cmbezzle
it on the road. But for this the pleas
ant-plumed care little; theirdependence
is on bribery, and where denmciation
may cause ruin, and must cause an.
noyance, no spy need despair of com
Portable living. Curiously enough, the
police eXtOrt less from the rich than
from the poor To crush a wealthy
man is not such an easy task as in the
Mussulman countries, and justice grows
gentle as she mounts the social ladder.
Even some great mandarin, when de-
graded for some Oilense, is not so harShly
used us a Turk or Persian of cores
ponding rank would be by his prince.
The pheasant.plumed cOnStabulary
are quite capable of controlling mobs
and arresting the small fry of rascal
dom, but they are mere mousing owls,
quite unfit to hawk at such noble game
as the kOuan-kOuen, or bandits. For
this purpose either band of braves
must be hired at the eXl ense of the
provincial treasury, or the regular
forces of the government must be EN-
plOyed. Most of the kOuan-kOuen have
to take refuge among the huge swamps.
natural Businesses which abound in al
most every province, where they erect
their miniature stCckade Of bamboo,
build wattled hats, and dig deep
trenches around the little camp. On
ly the fOwlers and fishermen ever pen
citrate these tangled morasses, guarded
by fever and fathOmless quicksands
and with these poor men the kouan-
kOuem stand well, paying liberally for
provisions, salt, gunpOwder, and news.
! The magistrates would never venture a
force among the Quagmires without
proper guidance. BY threats and prom
ises, by the exhibition of Il little money
and plenty of stick, they induce some
of the fishers to pilot the column
through the labyrinth of mud and
waters; and IN imposing aspect does
that company present. First march Il
company of veterans, with l0ng-barreled
gingals, matches lighted and ammmi-
ti"', :" plenty me Su'ueS arc WIN 'I'es.
,ilatchioCN-ilGli' , WIN theIr nalluS l'e'i
peiIilu IIls'r pacNS anu Il cora AROUND
eacil man Meek aS Il GellcaIc precalI-
'ioiIaly measure linen comes INC
cNlel iniilIary maliuarlh' mounted ana
''lllleu llhe Il ocythIall; AU MS Dach
come S"ULSuIl'eii ana Spearlheil' aiI
WIN SllleluS a''" lieliiie'S' mucous win
urasoiS anu tlGelS VI Iailcy coior'' very
!earIuI 10 pehoIu' Inc suoalterh OIL
llceFS loIlo"' salIah'iy heaulhS lhe
archer" ana locheI'iieii' the former oi
whom au'ailce WIN liielr snort BOWS
DenI ana a parDeu arrow htted To the
Su'hg' inc CINal mandarin rlueS next,
SWORD Ill manu. iolIo"eo ny MS own
pollcelliel, III pheasant leaIIlerS ana
serge, anu ny a troop oi lhlpresSe COO
iIeS' luril'Sileu WIN ropes cHlills, let
'erS' anu spare Da'ioooS enough 10 Sc
cure aCoiiSlueraole amount OF IelollS,
"A Daiiu ol music Orlligs up the rear
DuV l'ie SolsS anu li''Ies VIII not De
wanted uil'li the celeoralloh OF Ihe We
tory, 50 'he heroes advance without
tle DeaI OF drum OF NOISY cIamor'
IWliiii'S Ilelr WHY nluStaches ana va
porih9 neheaIh theiE Dre!th OF the
ueeus Ihey are ABOUT topeflorm. But
when once ialrly among the marshes a
change comes over Ihe plg-IaiIeu Boba-
dllS' Ihey see spears through the rank
grasses ana sedgeS; they huddle to-
gether ike scared sheep at the waving
OF the caheOrake; when the Wild fowls
rise with changing wing and harsh note,
the sound suggests the war-cry Of the
kouan-kouen. Inc Old adage is re-
every BUSH for Il thief, and is pretty
much of Lady MCDulTs OpiniOn as tC