The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-11-02
3 TALES OF GLOBE TROTTERS.
ACTUAL EXPERIENCES OF MEN Who HAD
been THERE"
Chinese Justice Fly Paper to
Catch Tigers - Justifiable Hom-
icide in Texas.

Shanghai, China, Sept S.-Three
men sat in the public garden which |
faces Whangpoo Creek and marks
the end of the English Bund in |
Shanghai. One of them was mis- !
Slonary, whose station is in the in !
terror of China Another was an
English engineer who had spent
many years in India. The third /
was Texan, recently arrived in
China on a leisurely trip around /
the world. The three smoked in /
silence while the band played a
piece of American ragtime and then :
the missionary broke the silence.
Il have lived out here for ten
years" he said. "and the longer |
live here the moro mystified | am
when | try to understand the work
lngS OF the Chinese mind when it
decides judicial problems. We had
very interesting trial in my viii 7
lage only 4 few days ago and the
result was very different from what
one would expect in a Western
court.
Chow Ling, a tea merchant. who
mad recently proSpcrcd, decided
that he could broaden his matrimon-
ial relations and looked about for
No. 2. wife. He found n girl to
dlckering with her mother they
agreed on $500 as the amount to
be paid by him.
4" the money had been paid the
girls mother heard new reports Of
Chow's prosperity and decided she
had not demanded a price as high
as she could have received. The
day before the time set for the
wedding she hired n band of row
dies to waylay the marriage process
sion and carry off the bride and this
programme was executed.
Chow Ling complained to the
Magistrate and soon the girl and
her mother appeared in court. The
Magistrate heard all the evidence
and then decided that the mother
should pay the $500 she had re-
ceived to him in way of a fine SO
poor Chow Ling is without either
his bride or his $500, and besides
that is not in very good standing
with his first wife because of his
plans to supplant her with
Younger No. 2. The mother, who
lost her $500, refused to pay the
rowdies, SO the next day they went
TO her home and broke up all the
furniture
The English engineer threw his
cigar stump into the creek.
That's a typical Chinese court
vel IuiCI, lie Sdlu, 'Dut we must not
think that these Oriental people are
umprogressive. They are advancing
all the time and sometimes they
surprise you in the way they adapt
western ideas, or inventions.
"A few months ago | was in
Gwalitor, India, when a couple of
tigers had been terrifying the coun-
try. They had killed a large amount
of live stock and had invaded some
OF the villages and killed a few
natives.
The unusual preparation for an
extensive tiger hunt were being
made when one of the natives sue
ceeded in trapping the two brutes
in a special hut he had built for
the purpose. They went inside af-
ter the bait he had placed there,
the door was swung to and auto
matically bolted. The tigers were
inside right enough. as any one
could know when he got in earsh OF
OF them, but the problem was now
to get them out
Every one puzzled over this for
a few days while the tigers got
hungrier and hungrier and it be-
came increasingly dangerous to let
them out. Then the very capable
head shikari of the Maharajah of
Gwalfor solved the problem. He
bought lot of sticky fly paper and
carpeted the approach to the hut
with it, leaving the beasts no op-
portunity to escape except over this
sticky substance. When the prep
arations were complete the door was
swung open and all of the natives
retired to the highest trees to
watch the developments.
The two tigers came rushing out
and Immediately found sheets OF
sticky fly paper clinging to their
paws. In trying to get it off they
plastered their eyes and noses with |
the same material and then rolled
over and over in their anger un-
til they became completely envolv-
ed ia heavy sheets of paper. In
this helpless condition the head
shikaH's men rushed in and tied
them securely"
The Texan had listened to these
stories with all the interest of a !
tourist who is new TO the Orient.
That beats any hunting story /
ever heard a cowpuncher TELL" said
he, and we've got some pretty
good prevaricators out near the
border too.
But 1 guess you fellows have
never had many man killers out this
way, 80 / am a kind OF curiosity.
because / belong to that class"
Here he held up a big left hand
and against the light the mission
ary and the engineer could see that
the third finger was gone.
1T was down in San Antonio"
continued the Texan, "In the early
'9Os when things were a good deal
more free and easy than they are
now that the town has gone into
the winter resort business and
doesn't want to shock it profitable
visitors. But at that time there
was a good many places where yc