The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-11-07
EAors From A oHlNAMAN.
Ho Wants TO BE Buried nt Home, hut
Prefers TO Live in America.

Prefers TO Live in America.
He was Chinaman of unusual frank
ness and was willing to talk. There
was hardly trace of the suspicion and
secretiveness so common to those OF
his race who come TO America, but that
might have been because he had lived
here for several years, and had lived
partly like a white man. He offered to
the reporter cigar, which was declined
with shudder, on the plea that pipe
was preferred; so the Chinaman light
ed the thing himself, and between
whiffs chatted in this fashion, seldom
getting an 81" in place of an 81" ex-
cept when he talked fast.
jess got back this country. Like
it. Like Melica heap better than in
China. Where / came flom? Near
Shanghai Know Shanghai? Nice place.
All fiat. Fine as silk-silk cloth-but
no like live there Why not? Oh, not
like China people much. Poor people,
not got much money, work hard, get
nothin'. They weak, not strong, like
Melicans. They cheat, too. Want
money bad. / come to Melica years
ago First go San Francisco, then
cook for family in Oakland, then I
study laundry and make thirty dollars
month when l start shop myself
That's much for Chinaman. At home
he make ten cent day.
"Then go New York and start shop
in Mott street. Sell tea-things like
that. Some cups, Dishes those things,
too. Any vases? What that? Oh, you
mean big bottles, all blue, all red, eh?
Yes, some vases. Some old vases worth
lot money. You not know bout that.
You see, sometime when man make lot
of cups an dishes an vases, one will be
magic. Put things in it an empty it
an bimcby you go look at it; got full
again. Fill itself. Man that make it
he not know which it is, an il he find
some other man buy it-pay dollah for
it-he mad with himself because he not
smart and not see which is magic dish.
Then ! go back China, see my chillen,
an give money to 'em. But not stay
there. No. Like to get back. My
wife an my blothGrs an my chillen
| they cry an they say, You not go
! Melica, You stay here long with us
l say no, got go back get some
| money. Las time l come back and
work in mill in British Columbia. Lots
Indians there. Like Indians; they
brave, not 'fraid nothin'. Like hear
Indian talk Soft They kill China
man in ashington-Indian did Not
like that. Now l go work on railroad.
! Wish / get back New York. Know lot
people there. Know All Sin? No. 1
heard o him. Know Wong Chin Foo?
! Yes, he clever little fellah Gone to
Boston to make newspaper some time,
| half English, half China letter. He
tells stories bout China people, and
Chinaman not like him pretty well.
I He can't go to China. No. His fadder
big man there, but make king mad an
| got head cut Off. Wong, he brought to
Melica. If he try 20 back-skeek!-
head come off. Sec? Bimeby plaps
! he pardon an he let go back
Lot o. Cinnamon want go back be
buried. like that. Sometime China
man have wife in China an have moth
er one here. Can have two if he likes
an get money to keep two. Sometime
! he marry white woman. Then have
trouble. Her friends they try to make
her leave her husband an be bad They
tempt her, and say: IIa! You marry
Chinaman! Ia" You hear bout that
! Chinaman in New Haven marry white
lady? He have trouble. lie fight his
muddcr-in-law an break her. Mudder-
in-law not let him alone, but she let
him alone now an he happy. Melicans
think Chinaman 60 home an live when
he got 81. 600. He not can, for that.
Cost lot money get home; then get mar
ried an cost $500 for clothes an dinners
an presents; then build house for bout
$500, and he have only bout $500 to
start business That not much.
No banks for Chinaman. Bust!
Then what you do eh? Come
back an work on lailroad.
People poor in China, but not
eat rats. No, never see 'em. Eat rice
lots rice-potatas, eg'table, pork,
duck, fish, dry fish, grouse, eat livers
out O birds. Nice Like boys more than
girls in China, an when people marry
they expect boys better than girls.
Girls marry, go way, not care for fader
an mudder lil1 Mclean girls. Mclean
girls say to their husband 4 marry
you, you take care my fader an mud
DER amt it? But boys live wi their
fader an muddcr an take care of EN-
All JlIuC'
"Chinameu not do rnuch like Nell
cans. Not make mills an railroads.
Not dig mines, cause like to see their
mountains nice, not rotten. They
'fraid mills an railroads take away
their work. Want to saw wood and
carry things theyselfs. They tear up
: all except three mile of Shanghai rail
road. They not like railroad run near
graves of their faders an mudders,
cause they go to graves an sit there
an bow an say something nice. Rail-
road company buy graves, sometimes,
so can run over en- China people pray
, to joss. Yo blieve bout joss? Me
: neither. l go Congational church in
: San Flancisco Fine church. Lot of
lights, All gas, Man come out an
light all gas at once, in evening. Finet
Shookum IIa ha. Indian word L
live with Siwashees in British Columbia
once. They like Cinnamon Look like
'em. Cinnamon blieve Jews used to be
China people, long ago China govern
{ ment good,
T "Have kng-we call king, not en-
peror-an always have one prophet.
He tell what goin' to be some time.
, You not believe that? You have
, plophet, too. He come out an look at
/ stars an he say Nice to-mollow.' An