Show A ch nese superstition in china telegraph wires are placed underground instead ot on poles the chinese worship ancestors and regard their last resting place as so sacred that even a shadow must not be cast upon their graves in the more thick ly populated parts ol 01 the empire these graves are scattered everywhere and when the workmen of the first telegraph companies began operations the natives in crowds followed them and enraged at what they considered lege cut down the poles as fast as they were put up discovering the cause of this banati cal zeal and finding the chinese gov eminent entirely powerless or india posed to interfere in a matter touch ing the religious susceptibilities 0 the people the telegraph companies solved the difficulty by i proceeding roce eding to bury the wires with the venerated ancestors |