Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1922-06-01

set down on the sloping shore; the
lid removed; and the corpse laiC
upon it. A man at each foot holds
up the legs, and the body is wrapped
with long, narrow strip of rather
coarse looking white cotton goods
The legs are treated similarly
| When the ankle is reached, the striI
is torn back enough to make two
strings with which to tie the wrap
ping. The chest is wound about
ion as the legs, the strings again
being supplied by simply splitting
/ the strip of goods a little and tying
them as at the ankles. A few
pieces of cheap yellow paper
| C'cash,' representing Chinese
money! are placed in the coffin; !;
the corpse deposited; the lid nailed
down with a rock; and the grave
digger's hoe laid on top. Then the
whole is picked up on poles and car
ried away by four men.
On Friday evening the military
officer came aboard and told the
passengers to go ashore to another
boat, and readily nearly all Of them
did so. Mr.. Smith has been out
here long enough to understand the
Chinese pretty well, so he went up
to look at the other boat before we
moved. He was taking a large and
heavy trunk and some other heavy
goods and we had several pieces OF
baggage in addition to the bedding
for three of us, making it rather in
convenient to move. Our friend
were still on the boat and that the
passengers who had left us had no
place to lie down. We stuck it out
with the officer to remain aboard
and he said through an Interpreter
that it would be all right. Our bed
ding was hastily spread and our
berths again occupied. Now he
comes along asking us to move in
to cne of the little cabins, already
occupied, and not desired by our
party at all. We declined and he
again spoke about us going over to
the other boat, but received some
rather straight talk from Mr. Smith
to the effect that Americans were
not used to "being fooled around"
and we spent the night on the Sal
Ming. 1t appeared to us on Satur-
day that we would better make the
transfer, and we did after being
aboard one night with the soldiers,
for we saw no other purpose served
by the tying up our boat SO long
except to furnish barracks for the
men. They were brought in in
groups and told where to lie down,
but it seemed to take a long time to
nf Il ~
were stuck up in the timbers of the
roof and hung on the posts of the
open berths and stored around
where they could be and men lay all
over that floor like pigs in a pen,
but they offered no affront to us
whatever. When we got over to
the other boat there were three
berths of the open type reserved for
US and only small number of SOL
diers for guard against robbers.
But still we lay tied up to the shore.
1t was said there was a difficulty
about getting this last boat to take
the other boats cargo and then we
learned that our boat could not go
till "the officer gave the sailing
list. Our friend went back to see
him about this and found him asleep.
Later in the evening he returned
and addressed himself to a subord-
nate: Yesterday when we showed
you our passports, you didn't even
look at them and now if we are de-
layed beyond tomorrow my consul
must know about it, "A thousand
begs' Ca Chinese expression) that
you don't delay us any longer" 1t
was no great time till the list came
over and we expected to 90 Sunday
morning.
This Saturday was a rather damp,
rainy day and the rocky, sandy,
dirty shore was somewhat slippery
The scaveneer went about picking
up what he saw and wanted The
little horses were brought ashore
and some of them were exceedingly
glad for a chance to roll in the dirt
Some more dead soldiers were to be
disposed of. They wrapped up one