The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-07

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ued to send gifts from there. However, the
opposite is tie rule. No employer knows
at what moment his servant will announce
that he intends to leave. They give only
one days notice and no explanation. except
that when hard pressed they say "Muchee
sick"
One thing they cannot abide is fault
finding woman. They have q truly ORR
entail idea of the status of woman, and there
are many who will take no orders from the
household mistresses. In Portland heard
of two instances where Chinese servants
had chased the woman who employed them
out of their kitchens-one with an appraised
ak and one with carving knife.
Yet they not only willingly obey TIE
man Of the house, but will suffer them
selves to be hit and even kicked by their
male employers. Those two stories Of
violent revolt are the only stories of VIC
lence and lawlessness in any form that l
heard related of the Chinese in two visits to
the coast and during nearly eight weeks Of
life side by side with the Chinese. A quiet,
firm housewife can get all the work she
needs out of the average Chinese without
fear that he will revolt.
That their chief faculty is the initiative
everyone knows, and the stories that prove
this have acquired a nutty flavor from much
telling. Yet they so thoroughly illustrate
that one or two must endure repetition.
When q man called his Chinese servant to
the front hall of the house and showed him
how to wind the hall clock the gentleman
did not notice that the hands pointed to one
minute past 9 o'clock The Chinaman
did observe this, however, and there
after he appeared in the hallway at
few minutes before that time and
waited for the exact moment before he
began to wind the instrument Once when
was present at the breaking in of a new
Chinese waiter it happened that we were at
breakfast and needed to hurry to catch a
train. The daughter of the house suggested
that the fruit aud finger-bowls and some
thing else II forget what be dispensed
with, but the mother said, ''No, no, never
il the new man is told to bring on the main
dish without these preliminaries he never
afterward will serve breakfast properly
as long as he lives.n
KILLING INSTEAD OF CURING
The mask that simple truth seems to wear
for every one who seeks information about
the Chinese is confusing when it is not i'm
penetrable. When my friend Mongkow
told me how he had ceased wearing a round
hat believed him. but would be helpless
if he deceived me. Yet few white men
could have told anything about the differ
emit styles of hats, except as such persons
were imaginative and INSCRIPTIONS. 1t is
so with all that we learn concerning the
Chinese. Not a dozen Caucasians on the
continent speak their language, and. very
often, those who do not speak it viii not
believe those who do. The one controlling
idea of the Chinese-hating majority on the
Pacific coast is that it is impossible for a
Chinaman to speak a truthful syllable.
What Talleyrand said of all language
these persons as sert of Chinese-that it is a
thing devised for the concealment of our
thoughts The consequence is that argu-
ment for and against the Chin csc has ceased
and the situation is simplitied by each side
habitually giving the lie to the other "The
Chinese are peaceful, industrious and hon.
est" said one witness before the Canadian
commission. "The Chinese are turbulent
lazy and dishonest were the words of the
very next witness.
Here is longer and more interesting IL
lustration of the conditions which put the
mind of the average white stranger in a
fog when he seeks to investigate Chinese
habits, morals and affairs:
A railroad construction boss, wilderness
policeman, doctor employed to attend a
construction gang, and one or two others
were seated before tent under some trees
beside roaring mountain stream in the
thick of the British Columbian forest. All
were talking about the Chinese.
1.-THE reason they have no manned or sick
among them is that they kill Them" said the
construction boss.
had heard that before, but had heard il
so strenously denied by good authorities
that remarked: THAT is nonsense"
"Tell him abeut that fight down at Don
aid, Doc" said the boss,
Eyes, that's So" the doctor replied
That's good case, though, really, could
| tell him fifty good enough stories to prove
| that they kill all those they think are likely
| to be a burden upon them. In this cast
down at Donald a Chinaman was trying tc
| steal something from a white mans shapty
"a white man we all know very well. The
white man caught the Chinaman and licked
the daylight out Of him. He hammered biz
face into a jelly, and when the Chinamar
could not get up or stand up any longer be
kicked him into pulp. Well, there was
| the deuce and all to pay. Cinnamon were
| very plenty there. and they raised a great
| commotion. The injured man was put in a
shanty by his countrymen, and nothing
was done for him. The white man
was dreadfully afraid the Chinamar
would die, and came to his friends
to consult about the case. 1t was decided
| that with good white treatment the mar
would get well. for he simply suffered from
| toleraoly good licking, such as has done
many a man good in the past. To save our
| friend from standing trial for murder we
] spirited that Chinaman away, and pus him
nnder good doctoring and nursing. He
came around all right, and we soon had
him in the street and ready to 90 to work
! again. A more grateful man you never
| saw. He told his nurse that il he had beer
left to the care Of his countryman he would
have been dead in twentyfour hours. He
| said that they meant nothing but kindness,
but that he had heard them say that he
| could not be saved, and he knew that they
meant to kill him.
"How do they kill their sick and in
juredP'
with poisons- poisons-most
of which are perfectly known to Us. Out
here in the woods, when there is no druggist
or doctor around, they kill their people
quickly and pleasantly with just the right
amount of opium. say pleasantly but
that is not so, for when the opium is ad-
ministered the victim knows what is going
on, which is not the case in the cities, where
poisons less bulky and more easily disguised
are in use.n
Don't the victims protestw
# don't believe they ever do. Death and
pain are two things that no Chinaman will
seek to avoid or postpone. That quality
which he Anglo-Saxon admires under the
mama Of sand or pluck is best exhibited by
the Chiuaman, for whom we have such ex-
IRENE contempt. He is no coward about
death or injury; he never pleads for rescue
or mercy; he never cries or shrinks.
Threaten one, or hack or shoot one. and he
takes it like wooden toy. | speak Of the