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Show The Chinese People. "Every traveler," says President Angell, of Ann Arbor university, in a lecture bofore the art institute, "who wanders to China and Japan, goes with the conviction that the Japanese nre the superior people he comes back with the knowledge that tho Chinese are. They have tho staying-power, staying-power, the long, strong pull of the Anglo-Saxon." Here are a fow facts gathered from the address: Drunkenness is almost unknown in China. There are few charities. There is the most intense ignorance as to current events; thoro wero no newspapers, no telegraph lines. Politeness is part of the Chinese religion, but the average Chinaman is an unmitigated liar. Filial obedience is a Chinese virtue. The Celestials are great believers in "signs," thousands thou-sands in number. They have no straight streets or walls, because they believe the devil travels in a straight line. They want no foreigners. The Chinese," said Mr. Angell, "are docile, they are not a warlike race, and yet once aroused, with their unnumbered millions, they would mako a tremendous amount of trouble to any nation on the face of the earth. Tho country is gradually succumbing to Western civilization, but slowly, I very slowly." |