The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-08-19

"Heathen Chinee."
J,mc, III, u, In the Storooscopic Photograph.
Like most people who visit the Fow-
cry KINGDOM, ! was impressed both
favorably and unfavorahly, being con-
stantly IN a dual state of mind-that of
disgust and that of admiration
disgust to witness such such universal
conditions of filth, streets two yard
wide. unscavenged and unseWer-
er and well-nigh impossible with gar
bage that has been accommodating for
years, and redolent of the most pesti-
lential odors. Notwithstanding the
narrow and filthy condition of these
streets, the are lined with all
sorts OF shops and markets and
markets often combine the slaugh-
terinE places for various kinds
of meat; these include the pork market,
the fish-market, the dog-market. the
cat.market, stands for the sale of
edible bugs twater bectles), fried grass
hopper stands, etc.
Along these narrow rocking streets
are low one-story buildings that serve
both as shops and dwelling-p places.
These damp, dirty, unsanitary homes
would appear to he the most deleCtahle
of haunts for every denomination of
mcrobe the sleeping places are es-
sontially on the ground, and the water
supply is almost invariably from
source that is turbid with every form
of pollution, as at Canton where the
water supply is from the river which
supports a floating population of 250,-
600
These apparently unWholesome and
uneanitary conditions that seem to pre-
vail in China. fill the newcomer with
inexpressible disgust; yet the swarm
in population intimates no increased
mortality there from. The universal
condition of filth which prevail are to
western civilization one of the most
repulsive features of the Chinese civil
regime. We are accustomed to identify
cleanliness with godliness, and natural
ly postulate that crime and barharism
must he closely allied to filth; but in
the case of John Chinaman it is pro-
badly too rigorous an application of
an antithesis. All Cleanly people are
not by any means godly, neither are all
Cinnamon dirty.
AT THE DOG MARKET.
Accompanied by an obiging and well
informed American missionary, | made
a somewhat close in spection of the dog
market. | found at the door, as a
sign. a tender halfGrown pup that had
been scalded, scraped as We sCrape
pigs in our country, and suspended
from a beam over the entrance. 1t
looked white and clean, showing its
teeth yisibly as though it had. when
the last summons came, made a protest
against a martyrdom for Chow" on
entering the room / found man en-
Neloped in steam, vigorously at work
scraping a medium sized canine corpse.
In adjoining room another dog butcher
was sousing large shaggy carcass in
a Caldron of sCaldinG water. on the
floor in the same room lay another
victim sweltering in blood with itS
throat cut. ON returning to the place
of entrance, there was salesman
watching over "A simmering stew-pan
that contained finely minced dOE-meat
a few plates were ranged along a mar
row counter and in these he served tC
pasSerS-hy for few cash, a ladlefuI
of hot saVory dogmeat. They say dog
meat gives strength, and that cat
meat makes the skin smooth; and
cannot say that ii is not so. In this
free country and American girl is free
to experiment with Cat-meat as a skin.
beautiter; and in reference to dog
meat as food, everyone turns from the
thought with loathing, but no one of.
fers a reasons for so doing. Dogs are
as Clean-feeding as pigs.
We in the western world are toe
often inclined to base an opinion OF
John" on some poor laundry-man who
has come TO our shores. While ! am
willing to admit that, judged by the
western standard, the Chnaman is
filthy in his habits, the reader should
know at the same time that there are
thousands of Chinese homes that wOult
serve as models of cleanliness to home.
in our own country; he should be re,
minded also that there are thousand
of Chinese ladies and Chinese gentle
men of high culture and refinement
that there are Chinese millionaires anc
magnificent Chinese palaces innumer
able, that there are Chinese scholars
artist and artisans of rare skill and ex
cellence.
JEALOUSY OF FOREIGNERS.
Now that / have mentioned what
consider his greatest vice, what shal
l name as the second? Shall il be hi
hostility to foreigners? OF course. tha
is a subject for volumes, while here
am only offering a few opionions TIL,
Chinese were not always hostile I,
foreigners; for over 250 years durin,
what is known as the Ming dynasty
a golden period in her history-foreign
ers We're received with great favor
and this celebrated ruler Kublai Khar
invited the Pope to send good an,
learned men to China to disseminat
western knowledge among his people
but that rare opportunity was lost witt
the fall of the Ming dynasty.
The enlightened rule of the Ming
was followed by that of the Manchu
who seem to have inaugurated tn
rorelgn-deVlI hating period. TIL
cause of this hostility toward foreigner
on the part of the Manchus seems I,
have been a jealousy of foreign trad
and influence. The Manchus were s.
greatly in the minority that they dread
ed not only the influence of foreigners
but also of their true Chinese subjects
over whom they exercised a icalou
tyranny. Writers on Chinese histor
look upon this jealousy of foreign in
huence on the part of the Manch
rulers as the origin of the widesprea
hostility to everything western at In