The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-07-21
UPRISINGS EASY IN CHINA.
EXpERIENCE PROF. .HE.ADL1ND
 WITH fl MOB AT PEKIN,

Continual Insurrections That Some
 ti-urs start From Trivial Causss-Ef- L.
 feet of Western nEduention--intfi i'll cien-
 Rcmnrknb Abl.
 "There Is probably no country in the
 world that has, and has always had, so
 many and large uprisings as the em-
 pire of China" says Isaac Iaylof
 Headland, professor of mental ana moral philosophy in Pekin University
 Naturally a people of peace they are yet people of war-no, not of war, put of family squabbles, for their uprisln8S, except in extreme cases do not rise to
 the dignity of war.
 When there s a strong emperor at the head of the government they are peaceful, but when, as in the present
 instalice, there is a woman on the throne, the whole empire is turned lnto quarrelsome harem, with the empress dowager in the character of the doml- neerng mother-in-law, making trouble for the whole world. At such time rioting even on d large scale may De precipitated by the most trivial causes
 Let me describe an experience through which my wife and l passed. My wife, who is a physician, was going ! in a sedan chair to see a sick woman. l followed on a donkey to escort her. Just as we were passing through the east gate of Pekin a company of sol diers came out of q side street and started the same way we had to go, My wife was compelled to get out Of the chair on account of the muddy streets. The crowd that bad gathered to see the soldiers called Us foreign | devils. l suggested that we cross over and go down a side street. As we did this a hoodlum came out of corner shop, with nothing on save a pair of 1 trousers and pair Of shoes, deter- mined to raise row. He followed us and gathered a crowd, who began to | throw sticks 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 l between us and him, themselves re- 1 ceiving many of the blows which were aimed at us. For nearly half hour we were in the mob and, while not se- riously injured physically, both our nerves and feelings were badly hurt. 1 call attention to the fact that the mob was started by one scoundrel, or, as the Chinese would call him, a fer tu tzu Ca man who encumbers the grouhd--in ef- | feet a loafer), and some of the better class risked their own comfort and safety to protect us. The city authori- ties issued an edict at once, the scoun- dre was arrested and a wooden collar about two feet square. 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 secret society to create disturbance about the first thing they do is to placard the city The announcement is first cut on a board, the operation costing fifty cents, perhaps. From this rude en- graving they can print from hundred to a thousand 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 will be seen by the largest possible number The word is then passed from lip to lip, and this the people call yao yen-or, as we say, report gossip. No people in the world, perhaps, are greater goSsipers than the Chinese, They tell everything they know and everything they can think about
 This is especially the case at Tien- Tsln. The -Tsinese-or, as they are sometimes called 'Tient sinners which they most emphatically are-are constantly placarding the city stating the day they expect to attack the for eigners and massacre them or drive them out. ,Even the Tient sinners, however are not so bad as the Moham medans, as is indicated by the proverb which says Ten oily mouthed Pekin- ese; nor can ten lippy Tientsinese out csc; nor can ten lippy t-sineseout- talk one thieving Mohammedan.
 'Tien-Tsin, like all the other ports, has suffered from it's intercourse with foreigners. With the Tien-Tsinese 1t Is much as some hold it to be with the new woman-'she has ceased to be a woman, and has not yet become a man they have ceased to be purely Chi ne&e and have only become foreignzed to the extent of drinking imported wine, beer and whlskey; smoking ci- gars and cigarettes and swearing. A Tien-TGinese who knows not a word of respectable English is often able to swear very uently.
 ''While Iii Hung Chang was Viceroy, with his residence at Tien-Tsin. it made mode advancement and improve ment than under any other regime He established medical college and dis pensafy both for men and women, and a university, which is now under the management of c. D. Tenny and is one of the best managed government schools in the empire, if not the best of all, and is perhaps on as firm a basis as any of them. The students in all these government schools receive as- siStance from the government to the | extent of from five to ten ounces of sil- | yer a month, according to their rank. In Pekin there are three large educa- tional institutions-the Pekin Imperial | university, the Pekin (Methodist uni versity and the Tung Wen Kuan or r..