Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-10-26

in and says, Papa, papa, Yooeys
smoking again." the hair OF the vener-
able parent rises straight up with hor-
ror. And person who has three feet
and four inches of hair plastered into
a tight braid would be pleasing thing
to see at the moment that very hair
on his head was standing straight up.
The elder Hop does not grasp his Off
spring by the arm and say, Young
man. come with me to the woodshed,'
but he then and there proceeds to ad-
minister the split bamboo with great
earnestness, and then, if he thinks his
offspring merits additional punish
ment, he carries him into the house
and chains his feet to a heavy iron
weight.
AS an additional and much more
dreaded punishment the wicked Chi
nese youth may be refused his share OF
the pork which is annually divided by
each clan family upon their return
from the ancestral graves and which
is regarded as gift from the departed.
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sons by simply setting them adrift on
the street or by surrendering them to
prison. Parents sometimes sell their
children and often sons are taken by
creditors as hostages for debt.
One difference between bad boys in
China and in America is that in China
sons never get so old but that their
parents can whip them.
Sometimes in China a man 80 or 10
years old can be seen being soundly
thrashed by his irate parents. This
would be a terrible thing for the
American boy, who, no matter what
depths of woe he may be in, looks
| fondly forward to the time when he
shall outgrow the switch just as he
outgrows his trousers.
There was an article in one of the
Hongkong papers last summer about
an aged Chinese woman who looked
out of her window and saw one of her
elder sons. a man of 80, who had long
been married and had big family OF
his own, passing the house Keeling
drunk. The old lady concluded she
had not been as strict when her son
was a child as she should have been,
and so she picked up heavy piece OF
bamboo. and, rushing out into the
street, pounded her big son to her
hearts content and until he had prom
ised to reform and let alone opium and
drink.
The filial respect and devotion in
culcated in Chinese boys from their
earliest infancy would forbid a Chi
nese boy from ever committing such
a heinous crime as to raise his hand
against his father or mother. The
worst crime of which the Chinese can
conceive is for boy to strike one OF
his parents, and II young Chinaman
should kill his father or mother the
law visits the most vondign punish.
ment not only upon him but his neigh
bors and friends.
| In most provinces instances of par
ricide have been punished by the i'm
mediate decapitation Of the murderer
and the dividing of the body into
small bits. Then the family home |!
seized by the state and the house
RACED to the ground and the earth un
der the house and in the yard is dug
d in to the depth of three feet and car
ried away. The nearest neighbors OIL
both sides of the4 house where tn
crime was committed are fiogged O
exiNa, the principal teacher of the cul
prit is put to death, the district mag
istrate of the place is removed from
office and disgraced, and the viceroy
of that province, the governor of tn