The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-03

the relatives and friends from the
mouse, and the corpse is put into the coffin
with closed doors. Both eyes are secretly
taken out and the Orlfice sealed ND with a
plaster. They call this the sealing of the
eyes for the western journey.
The reason for extracting the eyes is this
From 100 pounds of Chinese lead can be
extracted eight pounds of silver and the
remaining nlnety-two pounds can be sold
at the original cost But the only way to
the lead with the eyes of a Chinaman.
The eyes of foreigners are of no use for
TINS purpose Hence, they do not take out
those of their own people, but only those
OF the Chinese" The writer here goes on
10 speak of the use OF Chinese eyes as
Photographic material. and be shows tina
these eyes spread over the surface in way
take magic pictures which the Christians
prize.
Further On in the work there is an ex-
tract from the public records, showing
how Chinese scholar cheated a mission
airy and saved bis eyes. | copy the extract
verbatim:
''In the reign of the Emperor Wan Lie
foreigner. named Pa-Ta-Li, came into
Chekang and began to persuade men to
Join the Christian sect. ana great numbers
were ensnared by him. Now, there was a
certain military undergraduate, named
wang Wen-Mu. an athlete, who, hearing
that when any one who joined this sect
died they secretly took out his eve, had a
desire to test the matter. So for some
days he ate nothing, and word was sent to
the priest that he was about to die. The
priest came, ana, sure enough, he had
little knife in his hand. Coming forward,
ne was about to cut out WaDg'S eyes,
when he, sprlnging up suddenly, beat him
ana drove him out of his house, and cut
OFF his head and destroyed his image of
III of alr 90 ma fn ho In ~,
In the capital the Emperor rewarded him
literally"
Speaking of the medical treatment of
the foreigners, these books describe inst
how the foreigners make them. | would
say first, however, that the average China
man OF the interior knows no distinction
between German, French, English or
American. Merchant and missionary are
all one to him. and great riot will kill
the men IN business as we'll as the preach
ers of the gospel. These books, which
have been circulated by the million ali
over China, state that the brains of Chin
ese babies are very valuable TO us. and
were caused by two missionary nuns
calling some children into one Of
their houses. Their parents had an
infectious disease, and the nuns wanted to
protect the children from it. A relative of
one of tine children tried to take them
away but the children would not go, and
he reused the people, telling them the
nuns were going to kill the children and
use their eyes for medicine. In short
time mob of 5000 inuriated Chinese was
collected. The nuns were arrested and the
buildings of the missionaries burned.
After the riot was over a pacard IN Chi
nese was put up by the rioters melting the
people to more bloodshed. L visited the
town yesterday. 1t is dirty Chinese city,
lying on the banks of the Yanglse. and is
now comparatively peaceful. The mis-
sion buildings have been rebuilt. The
placard l spoke of is quite long, but a part
OF 1t 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 the city. Every convert is paid
monthly sum of So, aud 1t is by such
means that ignorant males and females
are led 10 enter churches. Now women
are procured from other places and paid
TO abduct children, whose eyes and intes-
tines are taken out and whose hearts and
kidneys are cut Off What crimes have
these little children done that they should
suffer these horrible deaths?"
The proclamation then goes on to
state now the children were being snug
gled away, and cites number of instances
of Chinese babies who have disappeared
states that a year ago a woman by the
name of Shen had one-year-old child
lying in a cradle, when ''it was taken
away in the twinkling of an eye, cradle
and all, without leaving the slightest
trace" II speaks of underground cells
where the deviIish foreigners hide the
babies, and closes by calling upon the
people to rise and drive out tie barbarian
thieves.
The riots of 1891 were general. They
extended all over the empire, ana procla-
nations melting the people to drive out
the foreigners were everywhere put up.
Dates we're fixed upon again and again
for a massacre, and the Human
ties, among other threats, said they
would butcher the Christians, for
eign and native. and slice them
into pieces. and weighing divide them
among the people for a cannibal feast.
These HuuaniteS are the best soldiers
of the empire. They come from an i'm
most fierce of all the Chinese. They
form to a large extent the great
secret society known as the Koloa
Hui, and thev have their organization
everywhere. They are especially strong
at Marking and from that point the work
ing of the rioters seemed 10 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 is
evidently false.
At Hankow the Viceroy or Governor of
the State. who lives in the big capital
river. said he could do nothing,
ana thousands of Chinese students
who were there to attend the eXami-
nations collected on the walls of the