The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-07-07

| round, open his eyes and take good
 look at the strange man; then again re- | suming his blind condition, went on his
 way tip-tapping along the streets with
 the stick. This would certainly injure
 his professional standing" among those who saw it, but in view of his op- portunity that was of secondary consid-
 eration to him just then.
 l Beggars sometimes disfigure them | selves, and even mutilate themselves
 and children, involving much pain, sor-
 row and crying with the latter, in or- | der simply to make more powerful ap-
 peal for charity. In my early days
 tried to reform few beggars, with l comparatively little success. Plying | the poor dirty outcasts, took them home to my house, first had them un- dress and throw away their rags. then I
 had them bathed (which was usually an | unwelcome experience), then we gave
 them some other clothing and shave up. which meant good deal We gave
 them work and good food, but none of
 them stayed long; all but one slipped away without saying goodby. though they did not steal anything. One was sent to his home and reconciled to his
 estranged parents. Laziness accounts for at least seventy-flve per cent. of the
 beggars of China,
 Steadfast opposition to foreigners,
 which is everywhere noticeable, Is large ly due to the fact that they recognize our influence in the country as great, and tending to change the status quo, which all in authority at least wish to maintain, and they are backed by nine ty-eight per cent of the literati. yet the people trust the foreigner, They have much more confidence in the honesty and probity of the stranger in their midst than in their own fellow country men, and truly there are large reasons for this. I was once leaving Kwangsin for city about twenty eight miles away, and had got about a third of mile out of the city when a man. total stranger to me, ran up and said:
 MT. Foreigner, where are you go- ing?" I answered, ITO Yohshan, where I expect to arrive tonight" He then said, Well, I have a letter here, which very much want to send on to Yohshan; but the post has gone out, and have no other means; may I trouble you to de- liver it for me?" I promised him I would do so; indeed I was so pleased with the mans confidence in me that would have gone some little out of my way to oblige him.
 On another occasion was out one af- ternoon with my family for a short trip into the country, when 1 found that neither I nor our servant had brought any money A man, again a total stranger to me, happened to be walking along the road just ahead of us. I ap- preached him and inquired: My friend will you lend me fifty cash? We have come out without money" He re- plied T don't think have so much" but he counted out thirty-seve cash. and gave me that without hesitation. I told him that if he would come around to my house the next day would give him fifty cash as repayment He de- clared he did not want repayment. and that I was welcome to the money. Stlll he did actually come around to see me. Now if that experience had happened to me In New York, or even in Philadel- phia, and I had asked the nearest man for loan of fifty cents, he would. at least, have explained that 1t was not the right season for it.
 "A EOlulbT rom h3Snga- ria. who had been patient in my hos pital for few days, left twenty dollars in silver in my hands for safe keeping. He disappeared for several months, and did not know where he was, but he re- appeared in due time for his money.
 As illustrating the unchanging way they cling to the past, which is so in- tense and so general among them I l may mention that once asked man who was at work gardening, Are you a native of this city?" No" he replied, Eve come from S." mentioning a | place some distance off. I asked him, How long have you been here?" He | replied, Seven generations" Well, I | smiled and thought, why you are a cu- rious old fossil-are you not native of , this city vet?
 missionary friend of mine being de- sirous of building house, was inquir- ing of brickmaker as to whether he could make a good kind of brick. The | man assured my friend he could, and added: q have been making bricks for two hundred years meaning that his