The Sentinel=record., 1912-05-19
BEHEADlNG MEN IN THE STREETS
BROTHER OF MRS. DR. j. w. BUSH WRITES INTERESTINGLY OF
 CHINESE SITUATION.
Starvation for the Most Part Among Lower Ranks of People Who Never
 Get the Taste of Meats.

The following very interesting letter from a brother or Mrs Dr. ]. w. Bush who is in China, will be read with very much interest by all because of the graphic and plain story it tells of the situation in country just now attracting universal interest:
 Tien Tsin. China, March 2S, 1912.
 Dear Sister: Have written some cards and letter. but for fear of mis- carriage in the mail will write again Had very nice trip from Honolulu via Nagasaki, Yokohama and Kobe Japan. Spent a couple of days in each port. This city~is located on the edge of desert, about 20 miles from the coast. The old town (Tien Tsin proper) is occupied solely by Chinese, and is an awful sight to look at. The poor or laboring class are actually starving to death, work is very scarce and those that are fortunate enough 10 get work receive about $l5 to $20 per year, they get their board, which consists of a little rice and tea. venture to say there are thousands of Chinese here who have not tasted meat for year They are kept in their own district by a guard of po- lice, and very few white people go there, as they have every disease known, from leprosy down. I made one visit over there and that satisfied my curiosity. We had to resort 70 the police to get away from the beg gars.
 Man is the beast of burden in this country. If you want to go any place in the city, you step in a ginrickshaw which is a two wheeled rig with rub Der tires and upholstered seat. 1t is drawn by man. He will trot for hours like a horse and doesn't seem to tire as easily as the average pony If you order load of coal, say half a ton, it will be drawn up by six or eight Chinamen. New, or East Tien Tsin, where the white people live, is modern city, every house, no mat ter how small, is built of brick. The town is divided into districts, called concessions. each country has their concession, say French, German Rus. sian, English, etc They pay so much 10 the Chinese government for per mission to carry on business. The sewerage system is poor, but the streets, are kept clean, It gets very degrees below zero. It has been quite cold since l have been here. The day l visited the Chinese city proper, it showed a little and in that weather saw Chinese with nothing on but rag around their waist; they were actually freezing and starving to death. If native commits a crime, especially theft. he is beheaded in the street without ceremony.
 Picking, the capital, 95 miles from here, is worse than this city. We went up to Picking last Sunday and in driving through the streets saw bodies .of three Chinese lying in the street with their heads cut off. They tie their hands behind them and tie their feet, and make them get down on their knees, then a policeman cuts their heads off with heavy knife some thing like a sword. The bodies are often left in the street for days be- fore buried.
 Living is very cheap in thls coun- try. For instance, if you go in first class restaurant and order a half chicken, any style, with three eggs, po- tatoes, bread, butter and tea or coffee it will cost you 20 cents.
 You can buy 125 fresh eggs for 50 cents; a large frying spring chicken is worth from 10 to t2 cents. My laundry costs me 40 cents per month no matter how much A/laundry man gets about s15 per year and chow, It is awful when you consider how cheap living Is and people starving to death. The disagreeable thing here Is the stand storms which come every two or three weeks and last 24 to 4s hours, You can't go out of the house without goggles. The sand blows from the desert toward the sea. 1 say train of 200 camels come into Peking last Sunday loaded with merchandise from the interior The camel is only used on the desert; the Chinamen to the work in the cities. Servants are so cheap that white man never works in this country. Everyone keeps a cooley (seryantl to do every little chore There are two of us rooming together and We pay one sS per month
 and we don't have 10 lay our hands to anything. Our clothes are brushes and
 shoes shined when we get up in the
 morning, no matter what time we go