The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-19

dren ana concoct bewitchfng draughts
therefrom. If a mother sees a foreign
devil coming along the road she hustIes
her children out OF sight; or if she has
not time to do this she holds her hands
over their eyes and covers their heads
as best She can to preserve them from
the raYisher.
No matter what you do when you are
in China you are an object of suspicion
Even, supposing the impossible that be-
ing a foreigner you act exactly as a ma
tive. why does he do SOP" the China
man queries to himself. ut is evident
he has designs. 1t will be wise to
watch him-from a safe distance"
In China there are two reasons for dis
trusting folk Ghe Chinese distrust each
other only a little less than they distrust
foreigners); in one case they distrust folk
because they do not know them, and in
the other because they do. If you would
find the house of a person whose address
you have, It's not much use to inquire
Nobody knows him. 1t is safer not to
know. You want him for an evil pur-
pose, perhaps to kill him, and then his
relatives would take vengeance on the in
formers.
If you have lost your way at night you
are likely to t'sleep OUT, for no one will
respond to your knocking at the gates.
You may be thief or spook, and any
way, why should any one be out at such
an hour?
There is a Chinese legend which says
man should not enter a temple alone,
nor should two look down into well to-
gether Why? The priest might make
away with solitary worshiper, and as
to the well, one man might owe the other
and therefore, push him is as the easiest
means of settling the account. In san
F'rancisco's Chinatown the strong box OF
ohio Off a
Chinese aldermen. Twelve padlocks fast
en- it, one for each alderman, who has
his own peculiar key, different from the
others Once money and papers We're IN
demand, but one Of the aldermen thougnt-
lessly died and so could not come TO the
opening 1t was some time before seafch-
ers could find his key, and when they got
n none dared use it lest he be stricken
with the same fatal disease. No, the box
remained shut until all the formal1ties
of a new election had provided man
TO take the dead mans place.
The viceroy of the Two Kung provinces
bought machinery for making "casn =
the copper or brass coins SO common III
china They are round, with square
hole In them, and are worth from one
half to two-thirds of a mill. 1t so nap
nened that the plungers for punching the
holes made round ones instead Of square
in the coins Not a Chinaman would
use them A coin with a round mole!
That was watchcraft surely, and so the
viceroy had to send to England TOT otier
plungers at great delay and expense
Some officials investigating silk and tea
went over the silk and the tea districts,
to the CONSERVATION Of the inhabitants
who would not believe that these men
desired TO improve the conditions Of cul-
tivation. "Too absurd! We snail soon
have heavier taxes" the people salo'
70 cot nT
foreigners house. Tea may be sooc-
| +orad'' and the food also. You may be
sure a native will not step on your tnres-
! hold when be enters, nor will ne LOOK III
| q mirror in YOUR home If he can possibly
avoid it. He is afraid of Chinese BOOKS
| even If they come from forelgn-Haue
presses or from a foreigners snop. Allls
| explains the trouble missionaries have
! sometimes in giving away portions OF
| Scripture printed in Chinese. The ma
| tives are afraid. They do not care one
wav or the other, perhaps, about the
| sentiments in the pamphlets, but there
NAV be a spell in the ink or In the
paper. ~,
moral to lie as to make a pun en %rIn
| Confucius could do what Jared SPARKS 1,lN
| saws George Washington could not. Inc
| sage had a caller. He did not wish to
Gee him So he told the servant to say,
| INV master is ILL.," AS the caller went
away Confucius sang merrily, SO that
the caller, hearing, might realize the lie
and draw his differences as to his recep-
tion should he call again. Mercius, VINO
| lived in the same reign, was also able
in this field.
Chinese do not sympathize with Attic,
| lions. Good morning, hunchback;
."gl,Ilo. poclmark;'' $50, Mr.. Clubfoot,
| are the samples of greetings to untor-
Inmates A person falls in mt; no one
gives aid. To do so might involve one, II
| suspicion of being the cause of the MT.
They are more than pnsympathetic
however; they are as cruel as it is pos
sible to be- They punish criminals WITH
beatings as high as $500 blows with E
rod. They crush prisoners ankles, cut on
their flesh bit by bit, put lime in theii
eyes, bury them alive, burn them, cruclf5
them, shut them up in cages, as they dit
Sir Harry Parkes forty odd years ago
and make them eat their own filth. ST.
Harry had gone to Pekin under tiaf
of truce His companions were tortur
ed to death.
To prove adultery they cut off the heads
of the suspects and put them in tub O.
water, and if they float toward each othe
they are guilty. If not the pair is ytndi
Gated.