Show chinese nat onal vice william edgar gell who has trav aled much in china thinks that the great peculiarity 0 the chinaman is that he lives in a fictitious environ ment to him the world is one of un realities he worships demons enor sums 0 money are paid by the chinese to locate the devil coal mines are not worked because it is held to be wicked to disturb the demon who lives in the bowels ol 01 the earth shall we drive shafts into his back the chinaman asks one misfortune Is he common use of opium vast i sections of abe land are devoted to the growth of abe on the steamboats on alie canals in the great business houses ever a here men lie down and smoke 1 it is a na mania aged to be bad |