Show HEATHENS j ARE EASILY 1 EXCITED 1 r rrrT Wild Scenes Around the Temple of the Goddess j of Mercy i ABSURD IDEAS I ABOUT FOREIGNERS Temple Doors Broken in and the Priest Beaten 1 Extraordinary Instance of HOTS Easy I i to Excite the Anti Foreign Inflammability of thc Lower Orders In the Chinese Ivlngtlom The Legend Attaching to the JTaiueB 5rs A Strange < Condition of Affairs Which Can 1 Scarcely Be Explained J j TOKIO Japan Aug 1 vfa San Francisco Aug Correspondence of the United Associated Presses An extraordinary ex-traordinary Instance of the readilyex cited aaitiforeigny inflammability of the lower orders in China has just occurred at Soochow On the 19th of July some foreigners accompanied by their servants vants went for a short excursion from i that city and arriving at the temple o the Goddess of Mercy in the sulbusrtbs entered into conversation with the albs as to the meantes of some votive bags suspended in the temple The abbess explained that the bags contained the names of children who on being attacked by smallpox were brought to the temple and offered at the altar elf the goddess after which 1 ceremony supposed to save their lives they were token away bags containing contain-ing their names being left in their I stead While this conversation was going on a crowd of children collected < collect-ed outside and began crying out J FOREIGN DEVIL The foreigners took no notice butter but-ter servants rebuked the crtillren telling them If they did not desist the foreigners would oaten them The children ran off in alarm and reported to their parents that foreigners had come t seize them and carry them rff A panic quickly ensued The alarm was given and amid beating of eronss j gven a large number o peasants and rrwd lies variously armed began to as3 ° nt > le I for the purpose of attacking the foreigners 1 for-eigners in the nunnery Fortunately the elders of the place succeeded in quieting the tumult and the foreigners got home without any knowledge of the 1 fate they had s barely escaped 1 But the train had been fired Rumors were quickly spread that the foreism I then engaged in building in Chlncryangv I wanted a number of children to bury at the foundations of their new houses the ground being inconveniently soft and were also about t steal all the namebags in the temples t be usa us-a charms A generaIt 1 STAMPEDE OF FAMILIES i I and children took place some flying < amd others running to I from Soochow rd ohe rnning t it for refuge Some bat arriving at a place fifteen miles down the river I I were seen to b manned by persons i wearing tight jackets and Japam se I mode straw hats These were mistaken mis-taken for foreigners come t eize the 1 namebags in the temple at that place namebas ad a rsh was tee the temple The priests closing the doors in op 1 prehension cC a riot were accused o having been bribed by foreigners and in the sequel the temple doors were broken the priests badly beaten and he all the namebags recovered by people who then started en masse fo J i Soochow The mandarins are said t have made no attemwt to alay these absurd suspicions The story coa5t3 abrd commentary of the tutes a striking commCta te a by entertained about foreigners ideas etertfned fOieigers i the lower orders in China Everywhore that I tthe theory seems t prevail I Chinese children are special OBJECTS OF FOREIGN FEROCITY i recently arrested in Hunan A man aretd renty I for kidnapping wa a cUd confessed under 1 bamboo torture that he had been hired 1 I I by a foreigner Hod the magistrate j token him ac his word the mission j w ten hm would prob aries in the neighborhood woud ares But a been murdered ably have bee mure 1 further application of the bamboo induced fwte man to withdraw his confession i j confes-sion duced te I wbw h I |