Show A Chinese Superstition In China telegraph wires aro placed underground Instead of on poles The Chinese worship ancestors and regard their last resting place as so sacred that oven a shadow must not bo cast upon their graves In the more thickly thick-ly populated parts of the empire these graves aro scattered everywhere and when tho workmen of the first telegraph tele-graph companies began operations tho natives In crowds followed them and enraged at what they considered sacrilege sacri-lege cut down tho poles us fast as they were put up Discovering the cause of this fanatical fanati-cal zeal and finding the Chinese government gov-ernment entirely powerless or Indisposed Indis-posed to Interfere In a matter touching touch-Ing tho religious susceptibilities of tho people the telegraph companies solved thu difficulty by proceeding to bury tho wires with tho venerated ancestors |