The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-01-20
IN CORVALLIS.
TALES OFSTRANGE CHINESE
TOLD BY BISHOP.

They Believe Air and Earth to be
Full of Devils-Death of Jacob
Whitaker County Bills
Ordered Paid-Other
Local News.
In China, when child is dying,
the parents carry it out of the house
and leave it outside to perish alone.
The monarch of that country has
power over the life of every man.
woman and child in the empire.
and if he wants subject, no mat
ter how hign or how low, out of the
way, be makes his wishes Known
to such subject and the lattsr at
once comm t. suicide. If a murder
or theft is cummitted in one house
and the foofpri is of the assassin
Or t1ief can be traced over the pro
perty of a neighbor, the latter il
held responsible FIR the crime.
These and many other strange
Gus oms of the Cele-tial empire
were told to a big audience at
the Methodist churcn bv Bi-hop
Earl Crsnsto n, in an address Sun.
day evening. The bi-h ,p spent
some time In Chic a few y'a-s ag)
and in t-ltirg of his experiences,
he held his audience charmed f.
an hour and a ha f Sunday even
ing The reason the Chinese par
.ents carry out their dying child. is
that tn y think death is caus.d by
a dsvil. aud it il t, get the devil
out before h' does other harm thai
tbs child i. .rried out to die alone.
FULL OF DEVILS.
Tbe Chinese think the air, the
soil aud the wa'er is filed, each
W til it, own kind of devils, and
thas when everything is quiet tina
there Is nice a ljustment between
them, and that when there is no.
such adjustment, there are earth
quakAs, thunder storms, pc. ttlences
and Uther cAlamities. That is why
they obj7ct to railroads. Tney
think tuat th4 turning up of the
soil 10 grading will lloerate ground
devils which will get into trouble
with the air d.vils and that earth
quakes, and all mann r of troubles
will result, That is why they do
not dig out the immense depo:its
Of coal, iron, g I'D and other min.
ais with which their c,u, try
abound. A Chinaman fell heir
to moun'a II Of coal, and &C lug
Oh the advice of fore; G aers, baga,
to sink sh aft. The people of the
adjoining city were thrown into
CONSERVATION, and they begged
him to desist in his digging. He
refu 'ed, All they made up hug,
purse, and p id him tribute for d
number Of years oa his agreement
t. d 6 no more cHa',
The pNor supsrstitious hea hen
think these devils, which they call
,e- gs1i" fly il straight lines, and
.Fthey build, in many instances,
high board wall ia front of the
building to keep them out of the
house. On thase wallis th-y some
times po up a written prayer, beg
ging the 'fengsui" or devils to
stay out. Every disease in tha t
county is supposed to bs caused by
a certain devil or divinity. A mo d
81 OF this divinity is k,pt in the
temples, and when a Chinese doct-
or practices Oh Il patient, hs op9r-
ates with this divinity. Ifthe pl-
tient ba' a boil on his hip, the doc
tors treatment consists in placing
9 cluster On the hip of the divinity.
THE MIND IS IN THE STOMACH,
The Chinese do not thiuk the
seat of tbs mind is in the brain,
Once distinguished American in
China, discussed the subject with
TWO Cain So dig ,itlries. "Of course
the seat of the mind is inside the
skull" he was saying, when one of
the China scientists nudged his
companion and sho k his head
with an incredu' 'ous gris. mo
not in the skull,' replied the dis'
tinguished celestial; 1.-THE seat o
the mind is in the stomach
The Chinese believe an eclipse Of
the sun or moon is caused by the
attempt of great, invisible dragon
that flies about in the air to swal
low these orbs. Bishop Cranstor
was in China when an eclipss O
the moon occurred. As the darl
spot began to appear on the edge Q
the moon. the Chinese beat cans, tor