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Show Wants the Rod Restored. The Shanghai Times editor says: Tho Jail has been well administered, but Is fuller than It should bo, due, I fear, to tho abolition of tho canguo and bamboo. Tho ordinary criminal has no great objection to repeated short visits to the jail, but shrinks from a repetition of corporal punishment. punish-ment. Punishment with tho bamboo is in vogue throughout China, and hero only has It by special edict been abolished. We depreeato the Chinese authorities making this settlement a field for experiment, and will press for tho relntroductlon of this salutary salu-tary method of punishment. |