The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-01

Chinaman meets another they never
| shake hands like they do in this coun-
| try, but each one shakes his own hand.
/ If person would come down the street
on horse back, or rather mule or dom
key back and wished to ask some ques-
ton of the person they met they must
first disnount and place himself upon
an equal footing with the person ad-
dressed The greatest politeness is
strictly observed by all natives and
| they respect age. There a person
never grows a mustache until after ne
| is 40 and whiskers not until after he
is past 80. / have worn a full beard
and they generally put me down at
about 20. For this reason / am spoken
of as the old, old man and treated with
the utmost respect.
1T makes no difference there how
high a position person holds, if one
his elder relatives should call at his
house the elder person is always given
the seat of honor, and the host takes
his station in the doorway Of the room
This virtually says: You are my
guest and your enemies Will have to
pass over my dead body before they
can injure YOU
I'VE have sixty-tour miles Of rail-
road in operation In China now, and the
Russian government is building great
line. The Russian government Is IN
the aScendancy in China over any other
foreign nation, and Is granted more
privileges and il IS claimed that they
have secret mortgage upon the coun-
try for indemnity furnished to Japan
and cam close down at any time the
interests of Russia would demand such
a STEP I do not know this 10 be am
actual fact, but il is frequently COM
mented upon
at am often asked why more railroads
have never been built in China and
can only say that the greatest reason
IS the great respect held by the Chinese
for their dead. In that country they
do not have q general cemetery Ike in
this country, but each family have
Cemetery Of their own and the country
Is filed With private graveyerds. They
hold that one OF the spirits OF the de-
ceased always remains on guard at
the grave and any disrespect shown
the dead win be revenged by the evil
spirit. Now to build a railroad it
would be necessary TO run through
and over many of these graves and
this disrespect to the dead is some
thing that Chinaman will not think
OF.
They all believe in the Transmission
Of the soul and that when the soul
leaves the body at at once enters some
animal or fowl. This may be a mule.
donkey, cat or dog. Let a man De
caught abusing an animal and some |
one reminds him that his soul IS liable |
TO enter an animal after death and he |
will at once desist and pray for for |
giveness. |
The greatest changes I find are in |
the United States and tell you I en-
joyed the state fair. Just think, when /
left the United States they had no
such horses, COWS, chickens or farm i'm
elements like I saw there. A person |
fully appreciate the great i'm
orovements in this country unless they /
have been absent like 1 have been. Let
any person stop and go back thirty
years and compare things as they
we're at that time with what he finds
.oday and he will be filled with wonder
ind admiration This is my situation
exactly and / ann only sorry that /
:annot spend a month in the beautiful
.ity of Wichita and enjoy myself es-
recially with the beautiful drives.
II could name hundreds of strange
between China and the
United States, but this will be sufficient
o show that they are great and it is
lard to think that both countries are
n existence at the close of the nine
zenith century. 1t all goes TO show
what Christianity does for a country.
n time the improvements OF the United
tates viii be extended to that country,
ut it will be when Christianity has
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