The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-18

kept for draught purposes are allowed
to Craze where they please. A China
man never touches milk, and will only
milk his cattle when some foreign
deviI' will buy the milk. They are
also largely vegetarian in their
diet: strict Buddhists being entire
ly so. And when they do depart
from vegetarian principles, they prefer
pork to either beef or mutton. One
great feature of the country is the pig;
large, black and uncomely to a degree;
and the scavenger of the neighborhood.
Chinese pork is not delicacy likely
to tempt the foreigner, in spite of
Charles Lambs deliverances on the
subject.
The people of this district are kindly,
hospitable, and of peaceful disposi-
ton; for the most part agrlculturlsts.
an unenviable reputation all over China
as being desperadoes, with whom the
less one had to do the better. Even
their officers at times are powerless to
control them. To show. the spirit of
these men, let me recount an incident
In the winter of Sc large number of
these southern soldiers was disbanded
at Newchwang Their pay being as
usual in arrears and their homes over
| 1900 miles away they became desper-
ate, and applied their energies to THEY
| ing. Three of them attacked q house
one night close to where l was living,
but meeting with unexpected resistance
they had to beat a retreat. Two sue
cessfully jumped through the window,
but the third man. in attempting to fol-
low the others, was caught by his feet
| by the men of the house. A tug of war
Immediately followed, the two soldiers
trying to drag out their comrade by
the arms, while his legs were held by
those within. Seeing that those inside
were too many for them, on the prin-
ciple that dead men tell no tales" one
of the two outside, with one of the long
knives they always carry, quickly Sc
vered the head of his comrade from his
body and then made Off with his COM
panion in the darkness. Contrary to
what generally happens, these two were
/ caught later and beheaded, not for the
murder of their comrade, but for the
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afterward their heads adorned the en-
trance gate of the city, as warning to
all wouldbe thieves.
The Japanese as Soldiers.
While, therefore, the Chinese soldiery
are often brutal and utterly without
scipline-witness the murder of the
Rev. j. A. Wylie last August in city
forty ymiles from Moukden,-the soldiers
of the Mikado have been trained more
in accordance with civilized nations
and are less likely to harm either coun-
try or people as they pass through
than would the same number of Chinese
troops. There are no mountain passes
between Port Arthur cand Moukder
which could easily be held against
them; and If the Chinese attempt tC
stop their advances it would be more
in the nature of guerilla warfare thar
anything else. Between Moukden ant
Pekin there are many points at which
few well directed troops might dc
much toward stopping whole army
Before, however, the Japanese forces
get so far, China may have had hel
eyes effectually opened and her prid,
humbled; and peace been concluded
That the war may soon be ended can
not but be the wish of everyone; fol
war in any shape or form seems but {
relic of barbarism.
w. w. Shaw.