Show BEGGARS u K KIND m IN K 1 Organized In n a Trust and Monn the City Olty More Feared By Than the Invaders May Play nn an Important Part In the tho War That Is IsNow isNow Now I t H n n Pekin le Is a city ot of beggars ner ilar excel x el lance lence There are at the lowe lowest t beggars In time the ta the ChInese empire says the tho Enquirer The streets ot of the City swarm with them and ow owIng owing Ing to lo a 11 r remarkably clever organization tion these beggars beggar are a lit state ate within a state Ev n the court has baa b been n obliged at various arlous times to r reckon kon with this thin peculiar social factor and formal treaties are In existence between the king of the beggars and the palace ot of the emperor While Parts Paris boasts boast Ii a syndicate of people In cir clr the Pekin organization Is less euphonIously named but much more powerful KING OF THE TIIE BEGGARS The beggars of the Celestial city be belong lonG almost without exception to one Beggars Guild under the command or of a king kine whose orders are obeyed without fall and who has power of ct life lUe and death over the disobedient Pekin must die and will alp all nes forever after arter It aa a special treaty with lh the king of beg r rund und and In instead tead ot of paying a particular fax to a special beggar begar they pay a rIY sum to the king and receive a sign on yellow paper Brethren are requested not to molest this houle The store storekeeper tore keeper may be certain that lie be will not be e for a complaint would M as cure the speedy execution of oC the ot of offender fender The kIng does doel not belle ld defying his hll authority WEDDING AND FUNERAL lIAR VESTS vl During weddings and funeral hundreds hun hundreds of beggars Infest Infelt the neighbor neighborhood hood bood ot of the ceremony They consider It d a good opportunity to squeeze money out ot of the pockets of celebrants and mourners But Dut as AI the appearance ot of a hundred bundred or so crippled and vagabonds Is very el Irritable to both classes notice le III given to the kim a certain sum lIum paid and the funeral or wedding may proceed unmolested Doth Both morally and physically the beg beggars gars gara of Pekin ore are the lowest type of oC mankind Dr the physician ot of the French embassy declares that beGgars raided several business houses I and plundered a quantity of rice nee Titer were wart more feared thin than the Japanese I and many a mandarin deposited his hll fish In some or of he foreign I IS as well as decided to seek leek refuge there thereIn In case calli of oC a general beggars beggar The Chinaman le Is 1 a born all travelers say that while traveling In Inthe Inthe the neighborhood ot of Pekin children approached them and bending their knees Implore to be given some cash In Corea there le Ie on the eon con contrary not a beggar to be seen IHn In Jn Ja Japan pan the beggars do not molt molest the falsey liaN erby or the hou householder What the be behavior havior or of these hordes will be durinG the present disturbances le II merelY a matter of oC conjecture All As none of them themIs Is II armed except with huge knives merely ro robberies of oC Chi Chinese may mar be ex expected expected The foreigners need apprehend 1 no harm from them Their cruelty and Impertinence is III only equaled by cowardliness and only once have they attempted to a European who had no trouble In dispersing them with merely a show of oC a revolver They dId not watt walt for tor him to tire fire but scampered red oft off In n every direction As a trouble to the Chinese troops however the em empress empress press dowager will hear tram from them be before tore fore Ion long g |