Show AS THEY DO THINGS IN CHINA Queer and beyond comprehension arc the ways of the heathen Chinee A A story comes from Minnesota of which State Gen Alexander C Jones the United States Consul at Chinklang China is a citizen One morning the Consul entered the Shanghai club of which ho is a distinguished I dis-tinguished member What is up General exclaimed a group of friends near the door What has brought you down here Only a desire to please some polite rioters and Incendiaries was the singular sin-gular response Thats beyond us GeneraL Explain It With pleasure In my consular district dis-trict a high Chinese official Is removed only when a big riot occurs in his jurisdiction jur-isdiction and the report of the affair gets to the central Government at Peking The official of course tries his best to suppress the news when an outbreak out-break takes place This Is not difficult when the sufferer Is a native or a lot of natives but Is impossible when he Is a man of determination and a foreign devil Tho people up here haVc found out this fact and have come to know my character A new prefect arrived in our city not long ago and soon made himself so unpopular that the citizens determined upon a riot A delegation called upon me and expressed their regret re-gret that they would be obliged to burn down my consulate this morning I thanked them for their courtesy and said i was sorry I could not be on hand to enjoy the conflagration 03 I should be in Shanghai today Will you lose much Inquired an Interested listener Hardly The prefect will bo removed re-moved and will also be compelled to pay me the value of everything Injured and a handsome sum say 10000 for the trouble of coming down bore and spending a day or two Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post |