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Show I PAYING FOR THE HONOR; I In China It Cunts to l'nt on Alrn of Iin- .portunue. I la China it is believed that people should paj aecotding to .their meaiw. I The one burlier in Peking wlio ur.ilcr- stands the foreign mode of Iuir-lri.s- ing charges a foivign minister 30 cents, I a secretary of legation's cents, and an I unofllcial foreigner Hi cents. Natives pay about half a centor the same serv- ice. So says Air. Iloleombe.in his book, "The Jlea.1 Chinaman," and luiadds tiiis bit of personal experience: I In passing through Japan I once hud I occasion to employ a Chinese ehiropo- H dist residing there. Ilia charges, so he declared, were five cents to his fellow -B Cliinese, 10 cents to an ordinary .lapau-I .lapau-I cse, and CO cents to all other foreigners. I In the course of the conversntion, while fl he wius at work, he said: "I hear that our Chinese minister B came to this hotel to-day. Do you fl know whom he came to see'.'" B "Oh, yes," said I, "lie came to call on B mo." "Th'iii you must lid an olTicinl," said tlie Chiunman. I modestly 'admitted such to bo the fl fact, and the conversation drifted to J other .subjects. When the man's Inborn were concluded lie demanded a dollar, j in the face of his own statement that his H regular cha'rge to all forcignerr., a-H a-H cepting Japanese, ivasSOuouU!; and lie' t enforced his claim by this argument: H "Sponey that China. minister come see you, you b'long all snnio he. You H b'long same he, you mnkey pay one dol-Bj dol-Bj lar all mine. That b'long poper." fll Youth's Companion. |