The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-06
EVERYDAY LIFE In CHINA



! sponsiDle for all stealing onde. This is
| not bad plan, as the following Incl
dent will show. A friend of the writer
was one day going through one of the
gates of Pekin on horseback, his mack
intosh fastened to his saddle behind
him. In the crowd this was stolen. He
rode to the police station at once, re-
ported the loss and gave the police two
days to find the booty. They called up
/ the king OF thieves, threatened him
| that they would have he government on
| his head, and when my friend called
/ two days later the garment was there
| 1t should be stated that the thieves are
/ compelled to divide with the police.
| Chinese beggars, like thieves, are or
| ganized into a guild. This is partly for
! self-protection and partly for self-help.
Every business house In the city Is be-
sleged at stated intervals. unless the
proprietor buys them off This he does
by paying the king of beggars a stipu-
lated sum, when a small red slip of pa
+ per Is pasted on the side of the door
which Is recognized by all the beggars.
In case a beggar is badly treated by
any firm. a dozen or twenty of these
band together and besiege the house
which is unable to rid itself of them
until they have received a sufficient re-
compense. When this Is done the beg
CARS withdraw and the house is left in
peace until time for the next beggar to
come. Their expression when begging
Is THE more you give, the more you'll
have" Yuch kie' yuch w.
Despite his ineff1ciency as an artisan
and workman, the Chinaman as a busi-
ness man has character Indeed, he Is
the business man of the east. He Ia
honest. There Is not big European
business firm in the east In which Chi
namen do not hold responsible places.
Every one of the institutions of the
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking
company has a Chinese cashier; even
those In Japan. The Chinanan, in q
position of trust, IS trustworthy.
The Chinese early discovered that
there Is less friction caused by one
wheel than two, and that wheeled
cart runs easier on a bad road than a
two-wheeled vehicle. and on this ac-
count the wheel-barrow came into re-
QUESTION and now Is universal In
Shanghai the wheel-barrow Is used to
carry people. The wheel Is In the GEN.
ter, the passenger on one side and his
baggage on the other In Shantung a
sail i9 attached to the barrow to get tho
benefit of the wind. In Pekin one often
sees a donkey or two, or mule or two,
or a donkey, mule and horse hitched to
a Wheelbarrow. Sometimes they have
four mules hitched to 1t with two men
in front at the sides to drive and help
balance, it, and a man behind to hold
the handles and assist In balancing It,
The wheel Is without tire, or If II has a
tire 1t is put on in sections foot or
more in length
The Chinese are en1inently practi-
cal, though in no sense scientific, peo-
pie. Everything that we can do, they
can do, though in a very primitive
style. They have an expression,
"hsiang ia tzu," which, in English
would mean that we will think out
some method for bringing about GER
tain end. The European invents ma
chine which, when it is yet going, ac-
not yet arrived at that condition of in
telleCtual development. He can do
nothing more than think out a plan by
which he can do the work himself. In
other words. while the Chinese are the |
most practical people in the world they
lack the mental power to save work.
New York Sun.