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Show HsTUFFED vjth PRIDeH ' The Chinaman Thinks That He h the Whole Thing. The Chinese nature is not without its excitable points. There Is no member mem-ber of the human body so stuffed with pride as the Chinese. They are an old and from their standpoint an intelligent intel-ligent people. They are taught and do bfueve that, the world is fU and entirely en-tirely occupied by China, and that the other nation, hang from the edges. They claim to be the inventors of gunpowder, gun-powder, the compass and several other things which modern civilization claim, were originated In the western world They hate foreigner., but their Tate They have been taught to be-that be-that the introduction of railways, ti tiTraph and other modern In-Oo- d .tanratio. to millions ofhem. The crops and manufactured - products of China are moved over canals and rivers by Junks and over country paths by oxen. This slow method of transportation gives employment to millions of psople. Supplant Sup-plant these, the anti-foreign - leads teach, by the locomotive, and what will become of these millions? This argument is not without force to the ignorant Chinaman, who, while he will not do battle In behalf of his religion, will in behalf of his stomach. Couple with this the warning that Vie "foreign "for-eign devils" are going to annihilate their empire and partition their country coun-try and it to not difficult to see why Prince Tuan's horde of batchers ia-treased ia-treased with the day.. |