The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-23
PENALTY TO FIT CRIME.
DETAILS FOR HANDLING CRIMT-
 NAILS IN CHINA.

Found Tn "The Fandamentai Layys''
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 lowed to Change His Mind.
 China treats her rniscreants harshly. In addition to sending them to prison or beheading them, she fiogs them. And to make sure that they get all that is coming to them, she Hogs them before infiicting the other punish ment The logging is not done with any willow twig, either. It is done with rawhide, and every blow fetches the blood. If the flogger fails to bring blood every time, he is hogged himself This form of punishment is not admin istered to the ordinary criminals only It is administered to all of low or high degree. Public officials who are re- creant to their trusts, who are caught ill any poodle or graft schemes, are flogged harder than anybody, and then beheaded. Human life Is considered cheap in China, judging from the num- Der of offenses that are made, punish able by death. They have different ways of executing criminals there. The most common way is by behead- ing them In aggravated cases the prisoners are strangled. Where an es- pecially atrocious crime has been com mitted the prisoner is cut into thous and pieces.
 James l.. King, Kansas state libra rian. has just got hold of an old book giving the penal code of China. The book was translated by Sir George Thomas Staunton, of London, in 1S10, and printed at that time. For five. years MT. King has been looking for this book. He has searched every book factory in America and England. A short time ago he accidently found it iii a private library at Cincinnati and "Ta Tsing Leu Lee.' The English bought it. In Chinese it is known as translation is The Fundamental Laws"
 To what extent the Chinese believed in flogging is evidenced by q persual of some of the laws given below:
 A money loaner could charge not to excede per cent per month and no more interest could be received or de- manded than the original amount loaned. no matter how long the loan stood. Transgressors of this law were punished with forty blows. Any gov ernment official violating this law was punished with eighty blows. While this Was hard on the per cent per minute men the borrower had no snap. If he failed to pay off his note within three months after it was due, he re- ceived ten blows and an additional ten for every month thereafter in which he failed to meet his obligations.
 When a Chinainan found some lost or forgotten goods. and failed to turn them over to the officials within five days he was punished with twenty blows
 If a trustee should deceitfully allege death of cattle for the loss of money or other properties so intrusted to him he got 100 blows,
 China had tariff on salt, tea and alum at that time. Manufacturers and merchants had to have government li- censes to sell these commodities. If any oneclandestinely made or exposed these goods he was subjected to 100 blows. All smugglers of goods on which there was tariff received fifty blows and had their goods confiscated
 Cheap imitation goods were not poked off on the unsuspecting China man. Takers had hard TOW to tra- vet A law provided that if any manu- facturer or dealer offered for sale any articles which was not as strong, dur able and genuine as it is professed to be or if he prepared and sold any silk stuffs of thinner or slighter texture and quality, narrower or shorter than the established standard, he was pun iished with fifty blows.
 In concluding sacred rites those in charge of the ceremonies ha dto be on- to their jogs to save flogging. If the animals, precious stones. silks, grain and other articles introduced into the grand sacrifices were not of 8 quality prescribed by the ritual regulations the superintendent got fifty lashes: if any article was wanting he got eighty blows and if any one of the s}tars were unprovided he got 100. If the off cer in charge of the animals reserved for sacrifice at grand solemnities did not rear and feed them properly so that any of them became lean he suf- fered forty blows, and an additional forty for every lean animal found.
 Magicians who raised evil spirits by means of magic books and dire impre- cations received 100 blows and were banished.
 His imperial majesty had all sorts of protection not only from without but within his household. His doctor got 100 blows if he did not accompany his inedicine with q nrnrriptifs1 showing if ingredients. The cook got so blows if the food was not clean; 60 blows if it was not properly selected; 50 blows if