The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-03-12

have been smoked, dried and are
now ready for the housheold.
Next, perhaps, are men carving
the most beautiful "blackwood "
furniture and here is a man making
brushes. All these and a thouasnd
others jumbled together in a hope
less tangle of crooked streets. All
perfectly open, in fact, as | said,
the whole fronts of the buildings are
taken down.
The law requires streets to be not
less than Z feet wide from building
to building and in many places they
are so, even widening out to 10 or
Is feet here and there.
OF course chairs are the only
means of travel except as you walk,
thing no European would attempt,
At frequent intervals are heavy
gates across the streets and here
they narrow to about 4 feet. You
meet string of chairs or a funeral
procession, then there is shouting
and gesticulating, the crowd fatten
themselves against the walls or step
into side streets, the chairs sway and
pitch but somehow we are passed
and on we go. You almost hold
your breath as they twist and turn
on impossible corners and you are
out of the crowd in a quiet street
walled high with granite buildings
without windows on the ground
floor Your guide stops at a door
of grated iron and raps. The inner
door is opened and through the
heavy, grated door some one looks
you over, then the grated door
slides open, you enter. 1t slides be-
hind you, the iron door is locked |
and with bows and smiles you are
ushered INTO store where the finest
goods are displayed at fabulous
prices, which, of course, they have
not the slightest expectation that !
you will pay. Here they are max
ing the beautiful Kingfsher jewelry,
where the minute pieces of feathers
are stuck in place till the piece looks
like enamel. Here are the richly
Mandarin Coats" at
all prices from $40 to 5000 or $500.
Here on a crude hand loom a man
its weaving by hand, the beautiful
igured silks while a boy overhead
pulls the threads of the warp out and
n to follow the pattern. Again it is
ilk shawls, so fine and beautiful
hat you are surely tempted to eX-
A few steps farther
md we are in the famous execution
ard, where thousands have been
'eheaded, and those rough crosses
,gainst the wall are where those
,oor wretches are bound, who are to
,erish by being cut to pieces little
" httle-first the eyelids, then
he ears, nose, tongue, breasts, fin
ers, toes, and so on till at the end
f 80, "A, or 100 cuts as the sentence
nay be, a fatal thrust is given that
nds the torture. Inside the prison
its the old executioner, who low
lgly handles his sharp sword and
ellis you that with 1000 or 5000
to his credit, he has
ardly ever failed to shear the head
fl with one blow.
Then here is the women's temple
here jealous wives bring paper
nages of their enemies and torture
lem with pins stuck here and there, :
so as to hold them head
own, till once a week the priest u
urns them, when the torturcs of q
he paper images pass to the living .
lemy. a
Here we saw what used to be a |
,mmon, but is now a very rare
ght, l. e., a wealthy woman with
tile feet, not more than three in }
hes long. The binding ofchildren's
,et is now forbidden by law, but !
lis little lady was praying at the
Itar on her knees, so we saw the !
nv feet in the beautiful shoes.
As Won 90 along the streets. you