Show CHINESE cli I 1 NESE JUSTICE tiie rr lure W in th t be A i j ru lu enny casp respects acts the chinese are a bof most A rational and practical race though their ways are not those of western s london truth relates an incident that is ij characteristic of ch chinese ilese methods in government deriu during the recent anti forcin cl devil riot at some place between ton tu and Kal kalbing Kaipi ping nr the mob destroyed a good length of the railway that had recently boon been carried carrica through the district the local mandarin instead of using the forces under him to quell the riot sen sent t the soldiers to assi assist 13 t 1 in i n the evil work the embankments berc leveled for some dist distance nance and the rails thrown in into to the river and an attempt was made to destroy the bridges mr I kinder tho licad head engineer of the line linc laid the state of the case before vic the of who is the head director of the undertaking the toatoa sent bent for the mandarin to please yourself tind and your friends said lie he you have destroyed the railway track to please me you will wili put imbach it bade justas just as it was before if in one month from today to day the trains are arc not running as before you lose your head and your family and ancestors once stora ore are disgraced gr iced mr kinder estimates tho camago and loss by non running of trains at fil fifty ty thousand toels which sum you w will I 1 ill ha have ve to pay out of your funds to tho the company for labor all your officials ialy soldiers and towns folks will dorkas work as you yon direct no money mone y for their labor anda and I 1 all salaries are arc stopped until th the c repairs repairs V are arc complete I 1 shall ahall appoint a board of hers to reft return irn you with power to torture and imprison anyone who makes tho the least disturbance or trouble the mandarin begged for mercy merca on the plea that as tal the d courtr country y was vas all under water lie he could not pos possibly get mud and stone wherewith to build the embankments the toatoa sow saw tho the force of this plea aud and he said lie he would give g ive him a chance lie could pull down any of his forts that he liked in in order to provide material for the repair of the railway and lie he would give him three months after the railway ra ivay was vas completed to rebuild liis bis forts at his the mandarins manda rines own expense in less than three weeks the trains were running again and the mandarin and liis his agents are aa re now rebuilding the forts |