The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-08
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through which my wife and I passed.
Ny wife, who is a physician, was go
ing in a sedan chair to see a sick wo-
man. followed on donkey to escort
her Just as we were passing through
the east gate of Pekin a company of
soldiers came out of side street and
started the same way we had to go.
Ny wife was compelled to get out of
the chair on account of the muddy
streets. The crowd that had gathered
to see the soldiers called us foreign
devils. | suggested that we cross over
and go down a side street. AS we did
this a hoodlum came out of a corner
shop, with nothing on save a pair Of
trousers and a pair of shoes, deter
mined to raise row. He followed us,
gathered crowd. who began to throw
bricks, stones, dirt and mud, while the
original disturber of the peace got
close enough to kick my wife several
times, without my knowledge. Then he
kicked me and I knocked him down.
and was about to step on him when
several friendly Chinese stepped be-
tween us and him. themselves receiv-
ing many of the blows which were
aimed at US. For nearly a half hour
we were in the mob, and, while not
seriously injured physically, both our
nerves and feelings were badly hurt. It
always hurts an American to kick him.
L call attention 10 the fact, however,
that the mob was started by one scoun-
drel or, as the Chinese would call him.
a Fier Tu tzu Ga man who encumbers
the grOund-in effect, a loafer), and
some of the better class risked their
own comfort and safety to protect us.
The city authorities issued an edict at
once, the scoundreI was arrested and
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which he had to wear for month was
put about his neck.
When it is designed by any of the
hoodlums or the members of a secret
society TO create a disturbance. about
the first thing they do is to placard
the city. The announcement is first
cut on board, the operation costing
90 cents perhaps. From this rude en-
craving they can print from 100 to 900
copies These are given to the members
OF the society and are sent to different
portions of the city to be posted on the
walls of the houses or courts, but more
especially near the city gates and at the
cross streets. for in these localities
they viii be seen by the largest possible
number The word is then passed from
lip TO lip, and this the people call Yao
1en-or, as we say, report. gossip. No
people in the world, perhaps, are great
er gossipers than the Chinese. They tell
everything they know and everything
they can think about.
This is especially the case at Tien
Tsln. The Tien Tsinese-or. as they are
SOMETIMES called, 'Tient sinners"
Whlch they most emphatically are
are constantly plscarding the civ stat
ing the day they expect to attack the
foreigners and massacre them or drive
them out. Even the "Tient sinners"
however, are not so bad as the Mo-
hammedans. as is indicated by the pro-
verb which says. Ten oily mouthed
Peklnese can't out-talk one ippv
Iientsinese; nor can ten lippy TEN
tsinese out-talk one thieving Moham-
medan."
Schools In Tien Tsin and Pekiu.
Tien Tsin, like all the other ports
mas suffered from it's intercourse witb
foreigners. With the Ten Tsinese if is /
as much as some hold it 10 be with the
new Woman-"she has ceased to be a
woman, and has not yet become a
man"-they have ceased to he nI1ra,v
ChlneSe and have only become for-
elgnlzed 10 the extent of drinking i'm
ported wine, beer and whisky: smoking
cigars ana cigarettes and swearing. A
Ten Tsinese who knows not a word of
respectable English is often able Ia
swear fiuently.
While Ii Hung Chang was vicsrov
with his residence at Tien Tsin. IL noada
more advancement and improvement
IMAM under any other regime. He es-
tablished a medical college and dis
pensary, both for men and women. and
university, which is now under the
management Of Mr.. c. d. Tenny. and
is one OF the best managed govern
ment schools in the empire. if NOT tbA
pest OF all, and is. perhaps. on as Arm
a oasls as any of them. The students
III al tnese government schools re-
ceive assistance from the s,S,1,eT,,,,a',.
TO the extent of from five to ten ounces ,,,,,S
OF silver a month. according 10 their
rank In Pekin there are three large