The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-28

riously i'll the most effective way of curing
them is for one of their children to cut
piece Of flesh out of their own arm or leg
and administer broth made OF the flesh.
CHINESE POLICE
are not rated high by resident foreigners,
yet the law is very strict if they let
criminal escape. Recently a man was
found guilty of what in America would be
called homicide and sentenced to be
strangled-not hanged. He managed to
escape and the two policemen in charge OF
him each got one hundred lashes and three
years transportation.
A shrewd politician here tells me that
every massacre of Christians in China
the last one is only five weeks old-is in
stigated by influential mandarius of pure
blood who hope thereby to embroil the
Pekin government with the foreign powers
and bring about the downfall of the
| present alien dynasty, who are Tartars
and not Chinese. The regning family is a
very ancient and warlike one-I might say
the very cream of tartar; while their
prime minister, Ii Hung Chang (the one
that Chinese Gordon tried to kiln, is-welI,
! you know the diplomatic ability Of that old
scoundrel. BY the way, it was Ii lungs
l predecessor of whom it was said that he
died without leaving an enemy behind,
having had them all beheaded prior to his
departure.
| Hong Kong is merely an English ces-
! sion from the Chinese and typical Anglo
oriental port, hence after strolling about
the beautiful hills gardens and bungalows,
visited Kowloon on the opposite side Of
the bay, city devoted
EXCLUSIVELY TO CHINESE GAMBLING.
1 remember in Japan a city called Yos-
howard devoted exclusively to something
worse.
| 1 had already decided to ignore the Las
cars advice and not keep away from Can
ton, so one evening engaged passage in q
small steamboat plying on the Chu-Kiang
! or Pearl river and arrived at my destna-
ton by daylight next morning. The prin-
cipal passengers were Chinese in the steer
age where close surveillance is kept over
them by mounted guard, to prevent their
access to the saloon deck during the pas
sage. Stands Of repeating rifles are kept
in the saloon and all the officers are pro-
vided with arms.
Last year the steamer Namoa was
boarded by Chinese pirates disguised as
passengers, who killed the captain and
others, looted the boat and escaped in
some junks they had signalled from the
shore. The kwantung province, through
which the Pearl river runs, took up the
. IU6
district IN which the crime occurred was.
as usual in China, held responsible and in q
few weeks he sent in thirty subjects for
the headsman. The pirate captain was
known TO be among them, having been
lden tilted by two of the European passen-
gers. My informant who witnessed the
execution, states that twenty-five of those
remaining were probably innocent, ''but, -
he naively adds, ''what difference does tt at
| r5h do
sir, none whatever. You see, a crime is
committed in some province, thirty men
are known to have been involved. A for.
elgn consul makes kick, the Pekin gov
eminent hold the head mandarin respon-
s1bie, the latter secures two or three of the
ring leaders, makes up the balance Of the
number from whatever real or supposed
criminals happen TO be lying around loose
and sends into Canton the proper number
FOR DEcAPITATIoN.
Everything is lovely and no one feels hurt,
unless 1t be the victims and they are never
heard to complain after reaching Can ton D
A more characteristic city than Canton
probably does not exist in the world. It's
population is said TO De one and half NIL
lion, $4,000 of which comprise the boating
population, who make their residence anC
living exclusively on the water. To me il
was the most interesting part of Canton
Some Of their larger boats are embellisheC
with large, google eyes in the bows, for. a:
they logically prove, IF no got eye, how
can see? If no can see, how can go2 All
too muchee fool, you" Many of the man.
DARN boats, notwithstanding their tinse
ornamentation and gaudy display, arr
finely proportioned, swift and graceful
but the most remarkably and expeusiyelI
ornamented are the flower boats'' of Can
ton, which are splendid with colored Ian
} terms, carved ornaments, gilded eornices
silk flags, satin banners and vases of bril-
liant flowers and Towering shrubs, Will,
within them sit eGthroned, slanting-eyeC
Delilahs, Phrynes and Aspasias. To thes
come all the rich debauchees and fast son
of wealthy mandarins and basest of all bat
: tered roues, who, having exhausted tn
hercer pleasures and burned out the fuel o
life, still linger around the flame. The bet
ter class of patrons come in covered boat
and by the silent highway of the river. ar
safe from supervision or intrusion whel
once on board one of these floating palaces
The most fragrant tobacco and the choices
opium, foreign wines and cordials (you
Celestial does not drink liquor, and [ an
! writing of him), music, song, dancing girl
, and mirth, all lend their aid confluence th
imagination of the willing victims. Chins
men declare that no foreigner mas yet pen
etrated the mystery of these
GORGEOUS WATER RETREATS,
but who can tell what is truth that come
from their lips.
l When man of the boating class wishe
: to marry, he goes into some field an
/, gathers little sheef Of rice, which h
5 fastens to one of his oars. Then when h
: meets the girl of his choice he puts the Ga
r into the water and goes several time
I around the boat belonging to her. Tn
Q next day, if the latter accepts his homage
J, she, in her turn fastens bunch of flower
Q to her oar and rows about near him Tn
rice IN this case is an emblem OF the sui
r port promised by him and the flowers {
: the happiness offered by her. But anon
d the middle and upper classes more elabc
! rate customs prevail AT wedding feas
d of one of the latter, two cups of wine, on
y sweetened, the other with bitter herbs in
fused in it, were drank together by III
: newly-msrried pair to symbolic tn;
: henceforth they must share together life
8 sweet and bitter. Taste and means piJ
Il the only limit to the number of wives tn,
: may be taken. White is the mournir
o color. The coffin is either followed Ii
It or made in the shape Of one; some of the
n being of carved ebony and sandalwood ar
10 costing upwards of $500.
}, The noise arising from this boating Dol
1. ulation is as appalling as the minglt
= odors Of Chinese temple 10 oyerpowerin