St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-26
The Native OF the Flowery
Kingdom Not Particular
as to What He Eats.
And Stolen Sweets Seem to
Him Better 1han Those
Obtained Honestly.
The Rage for Chinese Serv-
ants Is. a Distinguishing
Feature Of California.
OAKLAND. Cal, Noy. 16.

'Tisa land of big trees and of rich, luscious
wines;
TITS the land where the maStodon once
proudly trod,
And the snow covered mountains point up
ward to God;
Where the coasts echo back the bold song OF
the free,
As they're washed by the waves of a limit
Till the isles of the West TO earth's fart hest
domain
Have caught up the glad sound ana pro-
Aud from island TO island the anthem still
rolls.
Till at last it will ring from equator to poles.
TITS land of great promise, rich soil and
bright skies,
Where sick man gets well and rich one
Where the Iarbaric native long since was
oerthrown,
And his land by the husbandman yearly is
And gathered i in season to enrich the worlds
store.
For the old world keeps crying to send them
"Some more"
And even 10 China, Japan and Cathay
Our products are travelling by night and by
day:
And as all people here are religious and
wise,
So everything tends to helpa poor man to
rise
Rise like scum on a pot or the froth upon
beer
SO that none but crank at misfortune can
sneer;
For of cold we've galore and of silver
enough;
Then let destiny hew our ends ever so rou gh,
The poor man can climb, though ne may
never get there
Now, lest some one should ask, HE may
never get where!a
1t mightLow be stated, lest they lose nights
That the object of climbings the top of the
heap:
And in this favored land it is nothing but
fun
For a poor man to climb like son of gun.
Monopolies and trusts cannot thrive on this
coast,
nor like Eastern people. of their great riches
boast:
For the trusts we have here have the right
kind of gall
They leave nothing 10 fight for but just take
II all;
And as every one knows, this is as it should
be,
Where all labor is done by the heather
Chinee,
From the washing foul linen at two bittee
each
To trundling Of babies on the cool, shady
beech,
Or the raising of pumpkins and squashes ad
lib.
To cutting aud making of the infantile bib.
Here are no temples to Baal or Egyptian
Thoth.
Nor calf of the Hebrews at which Moses
grew Wroth;
These barbarian relies long since took their
And the doctrine of Darwin is proved to be
right:
For none can survive except the creme de Ia
creme
And the Chinaman's pigtail now reigns here
supreme;
While the sons of Confucius high carnival
hold
In the halls of the godly, and even make
To pilfer the linen silver spoons and such
stuff,
Then HE them to China when they've riches
enough.
One may not learn all the peculiari-
ties of country Or people in a three
months residence, but good deal may
be picked up in that length of time in
regard TO which a nonresident would
have but very crude idea. | have
been asked to tell what | have learned
about the heathen Chinee here in Cali
fornia. / can truly answer that | have
learned all about him that there is to
learn. There is not a wrinkle in him.
from his toe to the tip of his pigtail,
that | do not know as we'll, if not better,
than he does himself; and that he is an
animal of many wrinkles there can be
no doubt. If there is anything on the
earth, Or under it, that a Chinaman will
not eat or steal it has yet to be discov-
cred, and the probabilities now are that
it never will be. As for lying, he
doesn't know what The truth is: neither
is it in him; he has not the slightest use
for it, and never makes its acquaint-
ance He is industrious only while his
employer stands over him, and even
then his eye is constantly sweeping the
landscape in search of portable prop
erty.
The Chinaman loves nothing but HIM
self and Vrnerates nothing but his
grandfather-his grandmother. poor old
woman, doesn't count for anything. As
all example of how mean John can be
when he takes notion, q circumstance
that occurred in San Francisco some
time ago may be related. The Chinese
have a large burying ground in the sub
urbS of the city, where they deposit
their dead until such time as they can
remove them TO the FloWery Kingdom.
for no Celestial is supposed to rest we'll
in grave outside of China. 1t is Gus
tomary with them upon planting one of
their number to place large quantity
of well cooked food on and near the
his journey. At least some say this is
what tits for, while others assert that it
is for the purpose Of propitiating any
evil spirit that may have felonious de-
signs upon the deceased. But note
what followed For several months
the police and others Of the
city noticed that all the tramps and
pariahS of society appeared to have
migrated to the vicinity Of the cemete-
Ties, for there are several situated in the
same locality. A watch was finally
kept upon some of them, when it was
discovered that they were living Oh the
top shelf, as it We're. and holding high
carnival over the Chinese funeral baked
meats. Many of the previously ema-
ciated tramps had become so fat and
sleek that their friends didn't know
them. The Chinese graveyard author
tiles were Informed of the fact by some
meddiesOme busybody, and they imme-
diately took measures to effectually
put stop to such vandalism. After
that, whenever food was placed Oh a
grave, it was thoroughly mixed with
sand and dirt, which, of course. COM
pletely spoiled it for the stomach of the
most robust tramp in the country. Ii
that wasn't condensed essence of mean
ness, what was it?
AS for morality, Henry VIII. was a
veritable saint in comparison to any of
them. They do not drink whisky, for
the reason that 1t doesn't make them
drunk enough, so they take opium in
stead. | saw dozens Of places in China
town where nothing else was sold, and
they all seemed to be busy dosing it
out to their customers. didn't go into
any of their smoking dens, for the
odors outside on almost any Of their
streets are quite sufficient for white
man. So far as moral responsibility is
concerned. they think no more of taking
the lite of man than wringing the