Show CHINESE TELEGRAPHY I Why the Art Does Not Develop In the Land of the Pigtail London Globe I As the Chinese languagis not alphabetic alphabet-ic and a each word in it is represented by a special character none of the tee graphic systems generally in use can be employed in China Usually each character charac-ter is represented by a number and it is this number which has never more than four figures that is transmitted lt > bring abut this result a code of f3rtymne pages has been established each page having ten columns of twenty characters char-acters so that O characters aro disposed dis-posed of ill tile words commonly used are inserted and a few places are kept bank for new ones I When a dispatch is to be sent a employee em-ployee translates I Into figures and at the receiving station an inverse operation puts It buck irtto Chinese characters Ot I course this Is I rather a long process but f is simply i necessary at employ enough persons and In Chna the educated unemployed unem-ployed are numerous An obstacle In the way of the development develop-ment ot telegraphy iff China Is the partiality par-tiality which dIe people display for annexing an-nexing the teJegraph Poles which furnish ex sllent lirewcod he wires arE found useful for many purposes ino authorities are slow to adopt re preesie measures but when tftoy do act they reach excellent results very quickly the excessive hcvcrlty of the penal code In China gives them an opportunity l eg3rgf Y ran xh following anecdote is told of an event In the environs of Shanghai Pita lines there wet continually destroyed The taotai who va In frequent editions with the Europeans and had become tired of hearing their complaints declared simply that for each post pulled down a head should b cut off anting those oC tie Inhabitants In-habitants who lived in the vicinity As decrees ot this kind are ex ute very literally In China the result a that In spite ot the fatalistic hpirit of the Chinese and tlieir Indifference to death the posts In that particular neighborhood were afterward left severely alone |