The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12
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CHINESE JUSTICE.
1t Is Sometimes Melted Out With IA
VigOr That shocks Europeans.

V1gOr That Shocks Europeans.
From Travel.
One night we halted at a place called
Hungary, which in the Stern, stiff Ian
guage of The Universal Gazetteer" may
be said to be a small town in the Yuma
province of China; population about five
thousand; products, fieas and other small
deer. We were making a hurried escape
from the wretched place when Lowe sud
denly missed his camera. Five minutes
before starting 1t was strapped on the
machine, but now it was gone. A swift
run was made to the inn. Had the land
lord seen it? No, he had not; and, be-
sides, he didn't want, to be disturbed, for
he was eating rice. Had anybody seen
the camera? Not a soul. There was moth
ing for it but visit to the mandarin at
the Yamen. He was kindly young fell
! low Of about our own age. He listened
quietly while the loss was explained and
when he understood there had been thiey-
ing, he turned the color of paper with
rage. A Troop ofosoidiery was dispatched
to the inn with orders to arrest every
| body
! There is a Chinese proverb about the
advisabllity OF the dead keeping out of he'll
and the living out of yamens. Landlord,
cook, sweeper, stable cleaner and all of
the yamen in chains, and everyone was
trembling with fright There was much
confused jabbering In the end one of the
men was marched away, but in ten min
utes he was brought back with the
camera. His countenance proclaimed him
an arrant rogue, and when the mandarin
saw that the leather case had been cut
open with a knife, and was informed that
three Photographic appliances were still
missing, his rage was unbounded. Put
ting on his magisterial robes, he sentenced
the thief to be thrashed. He held up one
hand as an inquiry if fifty strokes would
be sufficient punishment. Plenty init
mated the foreigner Down was the man
pitched on his face the legs tied, the flesh
barred, and heavy fell the blows. "WeH,"
said Love- "as I've been put 10 considera-
ole inconvenience over this rascal | think
I'll take snap shot of his thrashing''
And one was taken.
The beating wont on and on, the ruffian
screamed and blood was running from
the wounds on his limbs. Hasn't he had
the fifty YETI" was asked. Fifty! Why
his punishment is five hundred yet" A
plea was put forward for mercy But the
mandarin, with his lips tight would not
listen. 1t was no good telling him that the
quality of mercy was not strained or that
1t droppeth like the dew from heaven or
that IT became the monarch better than
his crown He was paid to punish them
However it was soon all over and the
wretch lay on the ground grooming, writn-
ing and bleeding.
Then in marched the soldiery with five
other men heavily nanacled. The prison
ers fell on their knees and put their lore
heads on the ground The mandarin heck
led the lot like a Partisan judge. He fixed
on one as the ringleader of the robbery If
five hundred stripes was the punishment
of an accomplish what must be the chas-
tisement of the thief in chief? Torture
was reserved for him. He was made 10
sit on his launches His wrists were tied
tightly In front of his knees, and a pole
was stuck between his arms and his legs
and then rested on two tables, so that the
culprtis swung head downward. Strong
Irvine wac slip-kuotted about each big Toe,
and two of the soldiers pulled apart. This
necessarily brought tremendous strain on
the rOped wrists. They blackened imme-
diately. The agony must have been excru-
ciating, for the man screamed. He began
curling and twisting but a soldier went
forward and put his foot on the thief's
dragging pigtail and 50 Kept his head
down The victim foamed at the mouth,
and whenever he was on the point of los
ing consciousness he was raised up by the
queue to give him breathing space, swung
head downward again, and the Irvine about
his toes tugged. II was in vain for the for
eigner to appeal that the barbarous torture
should cease. There was nothing for H.
but to forsake the sickening and revolving
spectacle