The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1898-03-03
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man nature is the desire every one has
who travel any, to relate his exper.
fences over and oyer again to his suffer-
ing friends every time they will give
him an opportunity. The people them
selves are to blame for this
state of affairs, but they shouldn't be,
as this desire to give long travelling re-
citals is second nature; 'tis an energy
born in every character which lies latent
until a trip has been taken, when it de-
velopes into one of the foremost traits of
the being.
once knew man who was raised on
quarter section of land and as the
postoftice was only half mile distant
he was never known to so farther away
than to the office to get his mail, and he
was considered by his neighbors to be
the most quiet and unostentatious per-
son in the community; but one day
while drawing grain from thresh-
ing machine at work on his farm his
team ran away and carried him down
into another county, and just as soon as
he got back home he began to bore his
neighbors with long stories about what
he saw while away. If this man had al
ways remained at home he would per.
haps have always been respected. But
fate willed it otherwise. am some
what afflicted with this trait myself-as
l once took a trip which my friends
have no doubt guessed by this time. If
there are any who have not heard of it
would like to meet them at the
earliest opportunity and l will take
great pleasure telling them about it. I
offer the above explanation as slight
attempt to eliminate my case in the eyes
of those who may chance to pcruse the
following article.
l recently received letter from a
friend out on the Pacific coast which
states that the better class of Chinese
who understand the situation out there
are very indignant over the exhibition of
foreign battle ships now in Chinese
water. The attempt on the part of fore.
ign powers to forceibly open up trade
with that nation is really blessing in
disguise to Chinaman, as they are q
class of people who seem to have reach
ed low maximum of intcllectuait,
thousands of years ago. and have ncve1
been able to advance beyond it, as Other
nations have, by a mutual Interchange
OF ideas. 1t seems to be absolutely nee
essnry for tho commoner class of China
men to come in contact with the peopl,
of other nations before they will be abl,
! to absorb that amount of knowIedg
necessary for their recognition anon,
tho advanced and enterprising nation
of the world. Unless it is some of tn
Negro tribes of darkest Africa, the Chin
ese are tho most superstitious people il
the world.
lived on the Pacific coast during tn
. fall of '93 and the year '94 and Will
there l met a great many Chinamer
e and among all of them was that sam
Q uniform degree of mental ability whic
n seemed to have raised to low leve
Il without being able to rise farther Will
), that variety Of intellectually which on
0 meets with among more civilized pcopl
r was totally lacking. While living ther
d l had my washing done by Chinama
by the name of Too Much and use
l. to sit in his wash house for hours an
a discuss the Geary law which was caul
t. ing considerable excitement among til
Chinese at that time. One day To
Much got enthusiastic and intimate
that if there should be another enac
mcnt like the Geary law Oh our par
his people would come over and wiz
70 the Americans out Of existance. I the
O told him that if China should declal
o war against the United States we woul
j. go over there and lick them befol
g. breakfast and that there wouldn
,r be enough Cinnamon left to stock
l. billiard table. This made Too Muc
h hopping mad and he jumped into tn
Al middle of tho floor and with Hashin
eyes he addressed me. as near as l ca
remember, in the following languag
"Teuna muck hoy, ooh lab ah, chin
foo eh sio ah teee, ah hooli NAH"
After his first anger had subsidized b
rcco]lected himself and after noticein
that his language was not impressin
a me very deeply he began to speak
q broken English He said that "Melica
g. men no lick um China boys below blea
o fast. China boy think Mclean ma
IT talkce big lie. Plenty soldiers in ol
g country besides 'ketchum' Confuciol
II and heap good JOSS After this he r.
J. fused to do any more washing for me
% ] had it done by brother of his by tt
name Hung Too Long"
JOHSATHAE BEESWAx,