The morning news., 1894-09-10
know, but I have to answer
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1.-The old man is we'll
"Then comes: How many, little prec-
Gus one have youp / reply gravely:
II have two little dogs The little
dogs are my children. The last ques-
tion is:
How many children have you in this
illustrious institution My answer is: =
4 have 100 little brothers.
ATLAsT HE COMES TO BUSINESS.
s'Then he comes to business and SAYS:
Venerable master, have brought my
little dog here, and worshipfully intrust
him to your CHARGE The little fellow,
who has been standing in corner of the
room, at this comes forward, kneels down
before me. puts his hands on the ground,
knocks his head on the floor and wor-
ships me- | raise him up and send him
| off to school, and arrangements are made
about his dormitory, course of study, etc.
The gentleman rises to take his leave.
Il have tormented you exceedingly to-
day. he remarks. 'Oh no. / answer, Il
have dishonored YOU AS he goes to-
ward the door he keeps saying, i am
gone, l am gone, and | reply Go slowly,
90 slowly AS / follow him to the gate
in the garden he says; Please restrain
your golden footsteps When we arrive
at the gate we again shake our own
| hands, bow very reverently TO one another
and he is gone.
Their politeness is sometimes carried
| to an extreme which seems amusing to
US. have seen five or six men haggle for
| five minutes over who should first enter
door at which they had chanced to
meet. They all urge each other to go in
| first. And this ceremonious politeness is
| not confined to the upper classes. If two
| wheelbarrow men meet in narrow path
and one has to go to one side to let the
| other pass, the one who kept the road
4 wr~al Il -.
| and the other will reply. Don't mention
it, But while they are exceedingly po-
lite among themselves they are very rude,
| as rule, to a foreigner.
| The reporter asked him If he would say
something more about the Chinese He
then said:
The qualities the Chinese value most
of all are diligence, economy, patience
| and obedience. This will illustrate their
economy. missionary once met an old
| woman walking on road. She was so
feeble that he asked her why she was
not in the house. She replied that sh o
knew she was going to die, and was
going home to die there, so there would
be less expense for her coffin and burial.
A last monument to their diligence is the
great wall
obedience and honor to parents, how
ever, is the cardinal principle. A story
! is told of a boy whose mother was too poor
| to have mosquito netting so the good
boy sat on the bed and barred the upper
J part of his body so the mosquitoes could
| feast on him first. Another story is that
poor boy who wanted to catch some fish
for his mother stripped himself and lay
on the frozen river until the warmth of
| his body thawed the ice, and the fish
| jumped out. These are some of the
| stories Chinese parents tell their chill
| dren TO teach them what an excellent
thing it is to honor and obey their
| parents.
~ know for fact that it is no unusual
thing for boys to cut out pieces of their
| flesh for medicine for their parents. For
1 medicine do you SayI Yes, for the Chi
nese nave the most ridiculous ideas about
medicine. They have no surgery They
use snake skins and other charms One
way they treat disease is to give nine
| pills to person 8 years old, forty to one
| 40 years old, and so on.
Their great fault is learning hardly
anything that is practical They only
| study ethical books, and are as ignorant
as children of the sciences. Their expla-
nation of an earthquake is that the back
| of the crocodile who passes his time hold
ing up the globe begins 10 itch, and so
! when the crocodile wriggles the earth be-
gins TO shake. The ignorant people think
that an eclipse is caused by a huge mon
| ster, who comes into the sky and incon-
| siderately gobbles up the sun or moon. as
the case may be. They are afraid of thun-
der, but not of the crackers, and bang
their tom-toms to scare him away. They
are afraid of thunder, but not of the
lightning, and have no ideas. of course
| ABOUT the cause of them. They believe
that the rainbow is composed of poison
Gus gases. Boys are taught that If they
point their finger at a rainbow they will
have felon on it,
STUDENTS IDEA OF HIS COUNTRY.
Mr.. Pott showed copy of The St.
Johns Echo, published in English by the
students of the college. IL was a neat
looking sheet. and many of the articles
showed a good deal Of thought stu
dent named Zaw-foh Kung signs his name
TO an article on The Political Adj
vantages 10 a Nation which Come from
Christianity " Part of IL is worth quot
ing. He says:
Nothing exhibits more influence upon
human society than religion, the birth of
which dates as far back as the creation of
the hrst man and woman, and has con-
nected itself with the movements of the
human race down to the present genera
tion. Nor is there anything existing that
eau surpass religion IN deciding the fate
or the outcome of a nation, as IL is the
only indispensable means of bringing men
up 10 higher state OF civilization
"Our beloved country, China, has been
crushed with the weight of 4, 900 years of
falsehood and superstition and buried IN
der millenniums of ignorance and deprav-
ity. China as read in the papers. 'as
compared with Christian cnuntries, is
1000 years behind in the race Of the ma
tional progress And the author Of this
piece. with more emphasis, further ADDS,
What is worse than that, she means 10
stay so, if il be possible
What has prevented her rapid growth2
Or in other words, what causes her 10
have lost IN the racei Her conservative
religions have deprived the people OF the
desire toward perfect civilization. her
fanaticism bas bound her feet like strong
feCters, so II is utterly impossible for her
to take rapid strides. II China were TO
castof these bondages and adopt Chris
tian principles her condition would un-
dou0tedly be improved, not merely in her
spiritual condition, but IN political as