The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-07-11
AS SEEN BY ARP,
The Heathen Chinee and His Tricks
That are Vain.

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, even then our merchantmen onj
touched at the ports End learned bu
! little OF the vast unknown iuterio,
Her immense domain was set down 81
five and One-half millions OF souar
miles, being one-tenth of the habitabl
globe and nearly twice the area OF tn,
whole United States. Her populatio,
was in 1860 500, ,00O 600 and is now prob
badly 600 900, 900. Her government foI
1T least 1000 years has been one OF rev
olutions, Internal broils and changes o
dynasty, but it has stood and still
stands and no doubt will continue tc
stand. Travellers tell us that the stag
nation and ignorance that has lonp
been charged upon China do not ex,
ist; that they are au Industrious, peace.
loving people, and all their troubles
como from outsiders. | was ruminat.
[ ing ABOUT this China business and the
war over there and the cable dispatches
that come In day, for we had an old
Time district school in our town last
night and old Mother FELTON, and NV.
sell were the two youngest scholars
one hau on draw string frock and >,
| par OF psntalettes and was suckipr a
| sslck ol molassesea eandy, and | had on a
snlrt ana one galus and pair of
oreeches that come down nearly tn tho
top OF my blue home. made socks. She
was Becky and | was Bill. We belong.
ed to the infant class and had to stand
up and spell "ba" and "bee" and Wbn y
becky cried because che couldn't snail
AK and had to go foot | consolatoa
her all could Kirby Anderson wns
the smallest boy in school and 1Se
larg est Ounce. He was in geopranhv
and said China was ss big as Bartow
County, and that's how come to rrmi.
nate about China. All that | ever
learned ab9ptIjht4Hass III ittr ;s1y geugrap,y
was that Pekin waists capital and thu
people were all hesthen and eat rats
and there was griat wall around the |
entire country. Ou book makers ought |
10 have known better for Marco Polo
hac travelled all oNr that country and
lived there for twaty-four Years and
was made governorpfa a large province
and ne says he neNr mingled with 81
better people. COfucius gave them
laws 1900 years agCthat they still rev
erence and obey. Families are faithfnl
to each other aid Children are taught
TO obey their psrens as long as thew
live. Confuciut hal such REVEREND
for his mother tat le mourned for her
for three years when she died. How
many sons do hat In this Christian
country. OF corse they have some
race traits and lstoms that seem very
bad to us, but hey are not malicious
nor selfish nor ae they reveugeful un.
less wrought upo 1t by bad treatment.
Our Cnristlan Pple massacred 200 Of
them out West few years ago for no
crime but becap they were in the wav
and wanted wtk and accepted it at
less wages. Nio ever saw more
harmless, indufl0us people than those
scattered ChiImen who are found in l.
almost every wn and village in this 1
country. Forhirty years | have Oh .
served them my travels from Nir-
ginia to TeYaind never heard a com. o
plant. Be:tf and gambling is a pa 9
tional amusepnt, but it is on a limit
ed scale andnakes nobody rich or y
poor 1t doe't compare with our u
stock gamblt or high rolling on
steamboats, olentucky poker among
the bloods. over saw General John .
g. Breckinrie but once, and that was =,
at faro banh Richmond during the ~
war. Colona'owers took me in there u
to show me W the thing was done y.
and to our sprise Breckinridge was a,
doing it. M
But the g.t crime against China n'
was the induction OF opium from III
India by thoglish. This began in So
1910, and ip2S had gotten up to !, 900 10
chests. Inlln and in vain did the q
emperor q his counsellers protest rl
and plead .Ihey saw that the opium -,
habit was eading and running their ~ ~
people. Yo3S 1T bad increased to VI
"A 900 chg and Its Importation was " "
stopped prce OF arms-and II 900 1
chests weelZed and destroyed. This an
brought war and the Chinese gov wa
ernment to pay $2l 600 900 for the ge
yo1,
81 900 4est. Then treaty was Kl
patchcda and the opium business in lis
creased $4,000, chests in 1860. on
wonderht it Is now. But the Eng M
lish mtants now pay "a duty, but T.
that ahts to several millions of us
dollars hally. What will not JOHNNY P
Built do money? No wonder China th'
men ha suspicion of ali foreigners Gu
and Tempt for our missionaries. 6e'
The Csc authorities passed q law 10
againhting opium and gave it q ms
deathhlty, but IL was smugged in "a,
all time and they declared that Oh
not efuddha could stop it. rel
Not to that great Buddha, nv WI
readPlls me that the common peo- 10
Pile d. express any great alteration ou' '
for hor faith in him. AS Dir. John. oet
son fixed to Boswell, " it Is ncces. me
sarvlvery nation to have some Ill the
ligidether they understand 1t or the
not, hence the superstition OF the me
Chihas taken hold Of Buddha as lro
the they can do. But this unknown anS
Godtailed them so often in great gro
em{ {cies they have no unwayering hn'
faithim. And yet there are over um
l,Ot priests la the empire who um
msoeggarly living out of Buddha- nel
isd dnddna has given them little chs
gd everything. Everything that he'
co.'s their temporal welfare; moth. sta
inthe heart or the immortal soul, pre-,
TIP not believe in either. They SUI
SIT there is no future life, but IL SOL
tls then good conduct in this life KIN
Tsure safety in that. If the rice heI
Jrains, they appeal to the god OF pal
tlf the drought continues long, swt
trag the little rain god out on his the
, and let him stand in the burn. enc
n until 1T does rain. They want Por
p see and feel how hot it is. If doV
Pin comes too much and lasts too Mn
Eand the rice Is sprouting In the low
they get their squirt guns and sea
Fh the rain god every day until oac
Pps the pour down. We ought to sur
had him over here this June and pal
Pur Cinnamon to work on MIN. aoV
" the government-the govern Snt
\ OF GOO, 100000 of people does not his
hall 40 much as ours, with about ano