Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-28
Price Two Cents

company paid an individual in settlement for & satchel that was actually lost $2OO The claim was set up that it contained samples of valuable jewelry. Suit was threatened, and being persistent, to avoid further trouble the comI @ay handed over the money. Not long afterwards, while looking through baggage car that had been standing for some time on siding, the identical bag was found. On opening it nothing but a miserable and worthless mass of single gloves was discov- cred. No two gloves were alike. I tried to match some of them, but signally failed. Per haps the superintendent wasn't mad He looked as savage as meat axe, and scowled at the baggage boys for month afterwards"
 What pay do you receive for your servi- ces ?" mildly asked the reporter
 ''We get sixty dollars 8 month and work ten hours-that is to say, of real manual la bor about seven hours; discussing the merits of disputed piece of baggage and answer ing foolish questions, about two hours; hauled up before baggage agents, ticket agents, minor and general experiments, say another hour. I tell you if I did not have such strong constitution and felt phy ysicslly able to withstand the pressure I would have been dead long ago. Baggage men seldom stay over five years in the business. Then they pretty thoroughly used up. All they can then do is help to build up some phy sician's practice"
 And heaving a sigh indicative of deep re- gret, he once more turned his attention to the many long feathers from which hung sus- pended the thousands of brass plates com monly called ''checks."
 Where Power Resides in China.
 From the London Spectator.
 We are often asked where, in the great En- pire of China, power really resides, and we believe the best short statement is this. Subject to certain immovable custom, the Elm peror, in his capacity of father of the people, can in fha0rV oiya any order and caY m rraN tice punish with decapitation or exile any official or person who disobeys 1t. He is, in all serious affairs, however, obliged to con- suit, though not to obey, rather large group of Princes of his dynasty and great Man darins, who divide the departments and the great viceroyalties among thmselves The dynasty, moreover, being foreign, is com- pelled to respect the army to some extent while this army is, for financial reasons, so limited in number that it is difficult to Rarri- son the empire, and impossible to hold it down for an ho.r. It is the tradition of the court, therefore, never seriously to offend either the army or the people in such way as to provoke emeutes more especially in Pe- kin. At present the Emperor is boy, only just 12 years of age, and all real authority be- longs to a widow of the last full grown En- peror, Hien Fung-who is called the Empress Mother. but is not the mother of the En- peror-to Prince Kung Lii Hung Chang, the favorite of the native Chinese, and two or three less known high officials. They can send out any orders they please, and are obeyed, but they cannot afford to risk the insurrections which would follow any great affront to the pride of the people, such as the cession of Tonquin would be. China, Tn fact, is 8 more solid Turkey, with Sultan, PashRs' army, and mob sharing power in unequal degrees. As in Turkey, too, all four are bound in the chain of law which cannot be modified.