Show iir J Wj II1j iv f I I I iIl JiI 4 I1I lj J tfr k21TiT = Lr yLi LT = r 1 iL r V Ono method of punishing Chinese offenders These men who may or may not bo guilty as their confessions have been wrung from them by torture havo been chaIned in the market place and condemned to wear heavy collars of wood The story of tho crime for which thoy are c ondemned ia written on the pillar to which the men are fastened and the feeblehanded authorities cannot can-not suppress It No one here Is at all surprised that the natives should rise against the Iniquitous laws and punishments inflicted in-flicted upon the longsuffering subjects of the Emperor The Chinese arc probably die most lawabiding people on earth and the moral crookedness of the officials had necessarily to be extreme ex-treme to forco the natives to rebellion It Is hard for a Chinaman to keep out of the clutches of the law be he as honest as the day for If a crime Is committed Chinese law requires that the magistrate In whose district the misdeed occurs must find the culprit pence a day were willing that their boys should act criminal These twelve small boys were brought before the magistrate and sentenced to one months cangue They were placed on one of the most prominent bridges of the city and on the canguc was written writ-ten Punished for Insulting foreigners friends of the Emperor All take warning Whenever I passed these boys they always had an admiring crowd of Celestlals around them envious en-vious that they too could not earn sixpence a day for acting criminal These ridiculous laws and the appalling ap-palling punishment of Innocent heathen are the cause of thg rebellion that Is spreading fast throughout the province of Qnang Tung There will be wholesale whole-sale beheading If l the rebellion Is put He kept that up steadily rain and shine for over a year and never missed a trip Whats more lie showed a pride and Interest In the task that was really half human Sometimes for Instance he would be a little late and find me on the way to the house when he got out of the yard Then It was comical to see him come tearing up the street everv hair bristling and paying as plainly as he could Stop hold on Im here Dont budge another inch On such occasions he would always Insist ongoing back to the corner which was the only place he recognized ofilclally for the delivery of mall matter You can judge whether I became attached to him Often he would be waiting for me cocking his head to one side and fOeHns his Importance from his yellow |