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Show i. r i j- jBB BECOAIl MUCQytfifrrr I.ery Tlltnte Ipnn Itkh anctJwBl I Are OWjel wlih AUrtTtJJnje"' U you tnut nb i 'i litjW v lwviuio l'ie hud of i kjIIJ ntfltiSfi gaps, thlcres or Irjiera mis th" Tfen-' don BiprtM. Nankin IVkln and Tien-1 I tain are the hMiliuartera of tbemost powerful of those guilds, nnd yhc,r I rulers are wealthy and reap'1 The "king" of n elan of Chlr' vagabonds of these claaaaa dafitta hta Income' from a trlbdto rendertvl him by hit wretched subjecta. and also lerlm o tort of blackmail on trident and merchants mer-chants by undertaking to keep their1 shops, storm and houses free from th particular pasta which ho controls Krom theao two sources he realties large Income and Is enabled to lire in a large houses nnd keep up great stylt in his rnodo of life. Rich clan has t particular district of the city giver over to Its operation, boond which III members aro forbidden to stray. I lor . rlble selr-multllitions are practiced l the beggars of China In order thai I their deformities nay exclto compassion compas-sion nnd lead to prolU. If yon see a I Mind man soliciting nlms In n Chlnett I street It Is ten lo one that ho has himself him-self destroyed his sight. On certain nays the beggars go about In gangs nl from fifty (o ISO. On these occasions shopkeeiers aro only loo glad to comply com-ply tilth tho king-" demands for blackmail In order that his subjects may bo kept out of their shops. A king of Chinese thieves known ovcry thing that goes on In his district, lis j knows who committed certain thefts and where tha stolen property is lie. like his brother of tho beggars, has n I doub'e source of Income. A large percentage per-centage of tho profits made by his subject sub-ject Is claimed by him mid woe betide them If they attempt to cheat the autocrat. au-tocrat. And If n foreigner Is robbed lie generally ran, by paying tho "king" n certain sum, recover Ills property. Property stolen from Chinamen I , never brought back. i:v-y Ch'neaa city has a Irper house nutsldo Its gstei and most of them hnve two or more. I As In the cases of the beggars nnd I thieves, there Is an executive hetl, I called tho "king" of the lepers, who I controls all lepers and makes nilm nnd compacts, which must bo observed, j Tliwo unfortunates aro numerous 1 throughout tho empire When In tho f 1rst stage of tho disease they are I brought to the leper house., flood caro Is taken of them as long an their rolatlm can meet the demands of the . "king." Hut no matter how wenlthy their faml'tes may be the- "king" evl-I evl-I dently drains them of every penny, nnd both tho leper nnd his relatives often hao to turn beggars. The poorer i lepers are assigned to miserable, tin- clean huts, providing poor ah tiler against bad weather. |