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Show Woe of Chinese Postmen. Tho modern postal aorvlce, Introduced Introduc-ed Into China only a couple of yean ago, hag already proved a groat success, suc-cess, and In noarly all tho largo cities tho mall Is now dollvered by uniform' ed carriers, Just as It Is In our own cities. These carriers, however, assume as-sume great "risks and responsibilities, for only tho other day, in the city of Nanking, one of tho mandarins ordered order-ed tho postman who served the district In which ho lived to be bauibooed and canguod, two of tho most cruel methods meth-ods of punishment known to tho heathen. hea-then. Upon Inquiry by the Ilrltlsh superintendent of the postal sorvlco as to tho reason for such arbitrary conduct con-duct It was found that the postman bad deliver -J ut tho house of his accuser ac-cuser a sealed anonymous letter which contained bltu of stinging sarcasm concerning his avarlco, extortion, Ignorance Ig-norance etc. Under tho Chlncso code of justice, the carrier who brought tho letter was responsible for Its contents, although It was scaled. It has always been tho rulo In China to punish the bearer of bad nows and roward tho bearer of good nows, and tho mandarin proposed to apply It to tho modern postal service Introduced by the "foreign "for-eign dovlls," but tho Ilrlion who has charge of the postal sorvlco finally convinced con-vinced tho mandarin that tho postman was In no way responsible for tho Insult, In-sult, and secured his release. |