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Show THE CHINESE. A writer in a current magazine tells of the crude methods of the Chinese In railroad building in their own country. That is only because there is no one there to train and direct them. It was hard to get reliable laborers on the old Central Pacific when the building of the line was first started East from Sacramento, so a contract was made for 10,000 Chinese. They came and went to work. They were not much of a success until Charlie Crocker decided, that the first thing they needed was food. He cut off half their rice rations ra-tions and substituted beef, flour, potatoes and hominy. Then the drones were sifted out and, finally, when the disciplined host got into working order, they were all right. They could do their full proportion of work and one Chinese tracklayer track-layer was the swiftest man on the line. He never missed a bolt when he struck at it, and moved a with the quickness and precision of a machine. General Pleasanton once said to the write?: "Of a hundred American volunteers, fifty will he found to be natural soldiers. Of the other fifty, twenty-five will make good soldiers. The other twenty-five might-just as well -be sent home at once they never will be worth a cent as soldiers." sol-diers." It is so with Chinese. Take a thousand of thorn and a part are useless. But a heavy contingent, contin-gent, say half, need-nothing but education and the kindling in their hearts of a little hope and they will do the world's work In almost any field. The world does not "half appreciate the Chinese race. Within the next century they will "bloom out a very terror of the earth. |