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Show Wos of Chinese Postmen, The modern postal service, introchic-".i introchic-".i into China only a couple of years ago, has already proved a great success, suc-cess, and in nearly all the large cities the mail is now delivered by uniformed uniform-ed carriers, just as It is in our own cities. These carriers, however, assume as-sume great risks and responsibilities, for only the other day, in the city of Nanking, one of the mandarins ordered order-ed the postman who served the district in which he lived to be bambooed and cangued, two of the most cruel methods meth-ods of punishment known to the heathen. hea-then. Upon inquiry by the British superintendent of the postal service as to the reason for such arbitrary conduct con-duct it was found that the postman had delivered at the house of his accuser ac-cuser a sealed anonymous letter which contained bits of stinging sarcasm concerning his avarice, extortion, ignorance, ig-norance, etc. Under the Chinese code of justice, the carrier who brought the letter was responsible for its contents, although It was sealed. It has always been the rule in China to punish the bearer of bad news and reward the bearer of good news, and the mandarin proposed to apply it to the modern postal service introduced by the "foreign "for-eign devils," but the Briton who has charge of the postal service finally convinced con-vinced the mandarin that the postman was in no way responsible for the insult, in-sult, and secured his release. |
