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Show CHINESE HAS HIS SON JAIJB Claiming that his son has become so thoroughly Christianized that he refuses to work, Ling Sing, Sr., a Chinese Chi-nese vegetable vender, caused the arrest ar-rest of his son. Ling, Jr., and appeared against his scion in police court this morning, -urging the court to sentence the hoy to the rock pile. The elder Sing contended that his son has become corrupted by his association as-sociation with Christian youths and has contracted from them an aversion for toll. He told the court that the boy had refused to work In the garden or to help in the sale of garden truck. Occasionally when the youth could be stirred to drive a vegetable wagon he displayed the American knack of "knocking down," which caused the father additional grief. Young ring has attended publje school in this city and has also been sent to Sunday school and, according to tho older Sing, acquired his waywardness way-wardness from one of these sources. When, In defense of the youth, it was suggested to tho father that the hoy might be a victim, of the vicious hookworm, tho queued parent shook his head dubiously and Insisted that Ling waB just Tlaln lazy. On tho charge of vagrancy, which , was brought against the young Chinese, Chi-nese, the court sentenced him to ten days on the rock pile In passing sentence, sen-tence, the Judge stated that lt was the first time in the history oX th'e'Jo cal police court, so faV as ho knew, that a Chinaman had been convicted ( of vagrancy. ' |