Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-02

and the orifice sealed I'D with q plaster.
They call this the sealing of the eyes for
for extracting the eyes Is this: From 100
pounds Of Chinese lead can be extracted
eight pounds of silver, and the remaining
ninety-two pounds can be sold at the orig
NAL cost But the only way to obtain this
silver is by compromising the lead with the
eyes of Chinanan. The eyes of foreigners
are of no use for this purpose. Hence, they
do not take out those of their own people
but only those of the Chinese" The writer
here goes on to speak of the use of Chinese
eyes as Photographic material and he
shows that these eyes spread over the sur
face tn a way to take magic pictures, which
the Christians prize.
Further on in the work there Ia an ex-
tract from the public records, showing how
batfm:
In the reign Of the Emperor Wan Lie q
foreigner. named Pa-Ta-1i. came into Che
Afahg ana began to persuade men to Join
the Christian sect, and great numbers were
ensnared by him. Now. there was a GER
tain military undergraduate named Wang
Wen-Au, an athlete, who, hearing that
when any one who Joined this sect died thew
secretly took out hts eyes. had a desire To
test the matter. SO for some days he ate
nothing fSh and word was sent to the priest
tnat ne was about to die. The priest came
and, sure enough, he had a little knife In
his hand- Coming forward he was about
70 cut out Wang's eyes, when he. springing
ms house. and cut OF hts head and de-
stroyet his image of Jesus When this
AFFAIR came to be known in the capital the
emperor rewarded him literally"
Why a Mission Was Nobhcd-
| Speaking Of the medical treatment of the
foreigners, these books describe iust how
the foreigners make them I would saw
first, however. that the average Chinaman
OF the interior knows TO distinction beween
German. French. English or American
Merchant and missionary are all one to
Elm, and great riot will kill the men in
business as well as the preachers of the
Gospel These books, which have been cir
Cuiated by the million all over China. state
tfat the brains of Cainese babies are very
valuable TO US. and part of the recent
riots at Wuhu were caused by two mis-
sionary nuns calling some children info
one OF their houses. Their parents had an
infectious disease. and the nuns wanted r.,
protect the children from it. A. relative of
one OF the children tried to take thepN
away, but the children would not 60 and
he reused the people, telling them the nuns
were going TO kill the children and use their
eyes for medicine. In a short time a mob
of 5000 Infatuated Chinese was collected
The nuns were arrested and the buildings
OF the missionaries burned After the riot
vas over placard in Chinese was put up
by the rioters melting the people to more
bloodshed 1 visited the town yesterday
1t Is dirty Chinese city lying on the banks
peaceful. The missioh buildings nave been
rebuilt. The pIacard I spoke Of is quite
lcng, but part Of it reads as follows:
'The country is betrayed and the people
are ruined. Human beings are trampled
down and reduced to dust. Lately the
Christians are building churches In every
portion of this city Every convert is paid
a monthly sum of S6 and 1t Is by such
E.eans that ignorant males and females are
led to enter. churches where men and vo-
men congregate together without disorisai-
nation. Vow women are procured from
other places and are paid to abduct chill
dren, whose eyes and intestines are taken
out and whose hearts and kidneys are cut
Off. What crimes have these little children
done that they SHOULD suffer these horrible
deathsT The proclamation then goes on
to state how the children were being SNUG
gled away and cites number of instances
of Chinese babies which have disappeared
through magic of the foreigners. 1t states
that year ago a woman by the name of
Shen had one-year-old child lying in a
cradle. when 1T was taken away in the
twinkfing of an eye, cradle and ALL without
leaving the slightest trace" 1t speaks of
Underground cells where the devtlish for
eigners hide the babies and closes by CALI
ing upon the people to rise and drive out
the barbarian thieves.
What a Gunboat Did.
The riots of 1891 were general They ex-
tended all over the empire and prociama-
ticns melting the people to drive out the
foreigners were everywhere put up. Da-es
were fixed upon again and again for a mas
sacre, and the Hunanftes among other
threats. said they would butcher the Chris
tians, foreign and native, and slice them
into pieces. and weighing divide them among
the people for cannibal feast These HUI
nantes are the best soldiers Of the empire
Ihey come from an immense province south
or here and are the most fierce of all the
Chinese They form to a large extent the
great secret society known the Koioa
HUI. and they have their organization ev-
erywhere. They are especially strong at
Nank1ng and from that point the working
or the rioters seemed to be directed. There
Is no doubt but that the educated classes
OF the chinese incite these troubles. They
say they come from the people and they
cannot control Them but this rs evidently
raise. Al Hankow the vfceroy or governor
or the state, who lives IN the big capital
city or Wuchang, just across the river, said
ne could do nothing. and thousands of Chi
hese students who were there to attend the
examinations collected on the walls of the
city To watch the people massacre the for
elsners AT this time, however, an English
gunooat appeared on the scene Its COM
mander sent his compliments to the gov
ernor, saying IL was unfortunate that he
couId not control his people. for at the first
outbreak he would have to shell the city
Inc messenger then went on as follows:
The commander would regret this very
much di4 al {,,ox T.