The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-21
THE Willy CHINESE
sDamage-Getting" Is Their Pao,,.
Form Of Robbery
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There is no form Of robbery a.
Cinnamon are so expert as .dsr inch
getting" Europeans have 70
against this form of blac,,roo,, stuart
and day. Even when the mel mel night
IS slightly injured by EuroT1e3'o.'e oolis
whole native population, N,hfcb -, tha
criminals being starved Ia d. ulnts
cage IN the public streets III, III IN 4
damages. and the bills Of coSts Tor
out IN THIS way would staggar 'uaos
that pastoral concOctOr of 20 even
intellectual damages" who IA and
gave Pretoria as his address merry
liberately throw themselves r-,ISSy DE-
wheels of the vehicles of whit -It he
And they set adTift on the ri,-s,-1
and rotten junks, that the stas,,--Ss Old
the foreigner may run then, 40 u
They have speculative laW-ar, ~
live entirely by this sort of cas-, VINO
If the matter goes to the CONF. a .4,l
white man is put to endless ne
and expense A merchant vrb. GIoe
been twenty years in Canfo7 49, ad
that he has had zoo damage-ga+rii,-,--.ell 5es
lions in all brought against hin, az,
has seen cases of Shammins- IT, zS0d
astOunded European doctors. nave
As for the damaged junks. rba g.
eign demons pilot does not even " "
a gong perpetually, or burn bits y-os
paper, to brighten away the evil So. 91
that interfere with the steeriDaI,,,--,-S
so he must pay. 1eaI'
Photography gives a constant onDo.
tunity Tor blackmail. The box 1.;.L
one eye not only causes Ene cbiIdrsr
Of cOoiieS-valued. dead, at tborea-[i
of dollars aoiece-to die. buf II '- r,.lls
larly casts a blight on silk worms 80 80
crops. All the Photographic mara-ilItt
are made out of the eyes of b9bi--
which are stolen and killed for the nm
pose. How, asked a native LAWYER o..
Shanghai, could a little water ana
white powder see to make such COR
pictures # dead Chinese babies -
were not used, especially when shut mn
in the dark in little black bOx2" AT{
his client got a verdict. which was mn.
set with difficulty afterwards.
The learned native doctor who ar
tends the Chinaman sells TO hi, no
tients plaSters which they can nUr -,
anywhere they like. for the plaster win
of itself. infallibly move to the snot
where the pain is. His patients mus
never wash, or they will become fsb-s
when dead
~ any strange Things nave been said
about the Chinese anticipating certain
european customs and inventions. and
it is a fact that for thousands Of wears
the Chinese medicos have employed
massage, a "kneadinG stick" with a
sort of V at one end of it. being 6or,-
monty supplied to the patients thar
they can proc themselves all over Tho
phrase, "A hair from the dog that Dir
YOU, s illustrated in the Flovarv
Land, for all dog bites must be bound
Up with fur from the animal that in
fiicted the wound.
One of the reasons given by the i'm
perial authorities at Pekin against
steamers being run on a certain mighty
river was that the monkeys that bor-
dered the stream were so numerous and
savage that they would infallibly seize
and wreck the big boats and kill the
British officers on board PERHAPS thu
only invention regarded with any favor
by the Chinese government was the
galvanic battery, as to which the i'm
periaI chancellor deIightedly exclaimed.
What a caDital thing for examining
accused 2ersonsl"