H?W THEY PUNISH BAD W IN CHINA ‘ •DC'TTAD CT KH tsrjL run S^wi -M pno ikb^vrV/ ’’vootvj JHCXUIC iwn' V ►OUWJX9 flUMtt AON* Bad boys In China meet much the same fate that they do in the United States for ordinary offenses, but if little Hop Lee or Ah Moo is especial ly bad he is much more severely pun ished in China than wicked little Tom my Jones or Sammy Brown in this country. Where Tommy and Sammy would only go to the reform school to remain until they gave evidence of be ing better boys. Hop Lee or Ah Moo might be thrown into a miserable pris on along with the meanest kind of ruffians in the empire. Or they might be sentenced to parade the streets with a cangue around their necks in place of a collar. A cangue is a wood en platform three or four feet square, with a hole in the middle through which the head is placed. Then planks are nailed close around the neck so that the head cannot be withdrawn, and the boy, with the cangue resting on hie boulders, Is turned out to drift about the town and be taunted by all the other hoys and by every loafer that he meets. Ordinarily naughty little boys In i China are punished after the same fashion that bad little boys are pun ished In this country, except that In China stern parents use a atrip of bamboo instead of an apple tree switch, and while the apple tree switch Is goad in its way it has not the wonderfully persuasive effect of the spilt bamboo. The Chinese believe emphatically in the proverb, “Spare the rod and spoil the child,” and several good strong pieces of split bamboo are part of the household furniture in every home which rejoices In a boy. The school teacher, besides having small cakes of India Ink and little wells of water, In lnvariably on his table also has a heavy wooden ruler and a rattan stick. If a boy fails to study as assiduously as he should do, repeating his lessons over and over at the top of his lungs, the teacher will whip the palms of his hands with the wooden ruler. If a boy forgets his lesson aud breaks down In the middle of a recitation the teacher reaches over the desk and vigorously taps the slothful student over the head with the rattan cane. The hundreds of thousands of peo ple who live on the boats in the river at Canton have their own methods of punishment for had hoys. Some of these families seldom go on shore or where it would be possible to secure a good piece of bamboo and the bad boys who think that life on a boat far tway from a bamboo grove would be a perennial delight might be tlisil \uslonlzed when they behold the moth er of a house boat family punishing Jier wicked offspring. She does not wait to pick up a switch. Instead she picks up the offspring himself and un ceremoniously hurls him into the riv er. He comes up gasping and sput tering and tries to crawl back into the boat, but his Irate mother throws him back Into the water. When the moth er thinks the boy has been sufficiently punished she permits him finally to crawl on board. In the homes of Chinese gentlemen, while the bamboo switch is not al lowed to he idle, boys are often pun ished for gambling or smoking opium by being chained to a heavy weight, which they are obliged to drag about with them wherever they go. If lit tle “O Most Delightful One of the Golden Lilies'' see> her sn ail brother, Hop Yooey, smoking opium and run in and says, "Papa, papa, Yooey’s smoking again.” the hair of the vener able parent rises straight tip with hor ror. And a person who has three feet and four inches of hair plastered into a tight braid would be a pleasing thing to see at the moment that very hair on his head was standing straight up. The elder Hop dots not grasp his off spring by the arm and say, "Young man, come with me to the woodshed." but he then and there proceeds to ad minister the split bam 1)00 with great earnestness, and then, if he thinks hli offspring merits additional punish ment, lie carries him into the hous ■ j and ctAins his feet to u heavy iron weight. as an aauiuonai and mum more dreaded punishment the wicked Chi nese youth muy bo refused his share of the pork which Is annually divided by each clan family upon their return from the ancestral graves and which is regarded as a gift from the departed. Sometimes parents get rid of bad sons by simply setting them adrift on the street or by surrendering them to prison. Parents sometimes sell their children and often sons are taken by ■ '.it. One difference between bad boys In China und in America Is that in China sons never get so old but that their parents can whip them. Sometimes In China a man 30 or 40 years old can he seen being soundly thrashed by his irate parents. Thfs would be a terrible thing for the American boy, who, no matter what depths of woe he may he in, looks fondly forward to the time when he shall outgrow the switch just as he outgrows his trousers. There was an article In one of the Hongkong papers last summer about an ageil Chinese woman who looked out of her window and saw one of her elder sons, a man of 35, who had long been married and hail a big family of his own, passing the house reeling drunk. The old iady concluded she i had not been as strict when her son ! was a child as she should have been, j and so she picked up a heavy piece of bamboo, and, rushing out into the street, pounded her big son to her heart's content and until he had prom ised to reform and let alone opium and drink. The filial respect and devotion in- | culcated In Chinese boys f/>m their earliest Infancy would forbSl a Chi nese boy front ever committing such a heinous crime as to raise his hand against his father or mother. The worst crime of which the Chinese can conceive is for a boy to strike one of his parents, and If a young Chinaman should kill his father or mother the law visits the most vondlgn punish ment not only upon him but his neigh bors and friends. In most provinces instances of par ricide have been punished by the im mediate decapitation of the murderer and the dividing of the body into small bits. Then the family home Is seized by the state and the house razed to the ground and the earth un der the house and in the yard is dug up to the deptli of three feet and car i ried aw ay. The nearest neighbors on j both sides of the house where the crime was committed are floggi d or exiled, the principal teacher of the cul prit Is put to death, the district mag istrate of the place Is removed from office and disgraced, and the viceroys of that province the governor of the province, ami the prefect are degraded three degrees In rank, Jn one in stance, In Canton province, a son who beat Ills aged mother was decapitated and nil the students in that district were not allowed to take the great mate examination for three years. 'i lie Chinese hoy has his sports and games to help keep him busy and out of mischief. He llirg kites and plays at shuttlecock, the shuttlecock ticing kicked about from one boy to another and kept in the air as long as pos sible. Chinese boys who, if they were in America would enjoy dog fights, in China amuse themselves by secur ing large, aggressive crickets and ar ranging cricket lights. The boys in China also play at guessing pennies, and buy oranges from the peddlers with the agreement that the one who conn* the nearest to guessing the seeds in th< orange be allowed to eat it wnile the other one pays. Iiut one good friend flip Chinese boy has, no matter how bad he may be, and that is the same friend that the bud American boy has—mother. Chinese mothers weep over their bad sons Just like American mothers do, and inter cede with the fattier to forgive the wickedness of his offspring. So even in far off China the bad boy has his friends, and there as here, no matter how wicked he is or where he Is, the fond, loving mother waits through the night for his return, and murmurs in words that, in spite of the fue|t they are spoken in Chinese, arc ai tender as though uttered in English, "Come home, there’s a light in the win dow for you.” Queer JCinds of "Bread. The Mexicans make bread of the eggs of three kinds of Insects. For this purpose the natives cultivate in the laguno of Chaleo a sort of carex, on which the insects readily deposit their eggs. The eggs, after being sep arated from the bundles of floating carex, are then cleaned and sifted, put into sacks like flour, and sold to the people for making a kind of cake or bread, called "hautle," which forms a tolerably good food, but bus a fishy taste, and is slightly acid. Bread has been made from wood and sawdust. In Kamchatka pine or birch bark, well macerated, pounded and baked, fre quently constitutes the native bread. The Icelander scrapes the Iceland moss off the rocks and grinds it Into fine flour, whin serves both for bread and puddings. In Africa powdered dry lo custs are mixed with flour for bread, and during the Indian famine small stones are said to have been ground and mixed with meal for bread. On the western shores of England a cer tain kind of seaweed (Fhorphyra la clniatai Is gathered, washed, boiled, and then baked with oatmeal flour for bread. Yu-Keng. the Chinese minister to France, lives in a luxurious house near the Arc de Triomphe. He has traveled a great deal in this country and mar ried an American woman. He is CO years old now and has served his coun try since his youth. He fought with distinction under General Gordon in lkfit. and, being descended from an old Mamhu family, rose tapldly at court. No military parade or drill, ex ept i in case of war. riot, Invasion or in tir rection is lawful on election day in ■ New York. vOalKjng Canes for &Somen. Tno newest society fail is the tttrl- ly. Fifteen y« are igo there were 17,. wlth-the-eane. She hm appeared al- OMJ h lam-n annually. UKfsi Aimiiif ]>' III the e.:nt uml , weal. She was mi* | tlU It ii akinfuHv a* In r va ri rt a wing« the h< it let ukr he ' nln gi .» #d I* un ant Hortu#ak aa well aa in l'tan-« and item any in Italr there are atlll t «m fatal rani annual* XOurtd'4 Financial Center, Brooks Adams has written a in which hr sets iorth the theory that th<* financial and political convulsion* of recent years In the wtiforu h -nil I'here are due to the decay of Eng. land’s power. He says the center of ccmmerc ini and financial c ipiema-y has been passing from London n< rocs the Atlantic, and the Hpan'ch wat w.i* only the shock of its arrival In the •’tilted Htatr*. The controlling lower under the new industrial condition* will ciintlii'ie to be held by till* conn* try m> long as we can maintain the a-*t ' tpnrl trad ■ now enjoyed. American nor hlmry will lori-after handle tin coal and iron received and • topped In i n h.it hot of \ I* xun li 11, Baypt with a reduction iii tin c .st per ton f.iitn II *a> l»» ini cents or le» An vi«it w > » nt to tnls romitry to itiidi the | roldi W. tntl the r*»lll is ti*e in trn< tum *f an elevated tram* way ua tki \tneritan plan. M • h, iiiiii t tone 4 at If end gave birth to a n. (fhvf t «s* mplr i> ii rl» i t * a vi* hi who grand ».ia g ItuU ■vet '{*» t, ai > N il a i* *1 »• lie i <*p Mitan pita *tp*' In nllssii acre * tiii,slv4 t *t ■’> *«•***( at t . I] mi hot by math’ tag lb# coneMtlve pi.H I pie |h«) a«r« • i i* te I L *t : II PORTER'S NAME ENDORSED, Suprcivt* C ourt ! plioliU the Secretary of Slute In Hid Drrtiioih LINCOLN, Oct. 22.—The supremo court reversed the order of Judge Holmes of the district court directing Secret try of State Porter to certify to the county clerks the nominations of the populist party. This decision will permit the county clerks to use the prefix, "mid-road,'' put on the sam ple ballots by Secretary Porter. The populist candidates argued through their attorneys that the court had no Jurisdiction to try the issues of the case, but upon this rase nil three judges agreed. Chief Justice Norval, however, dissented from the Judgment of reversal. No opinion was handed down In the case, the decision being simply entered on the court record. (iullty of .%iMurder. WEST POINT. Neb., Oct. 22.—The trial of William Hart In the district court on a charge of attempted mur der was concluded Saturday and the case given to the jury. After be ing out a ehort time they returnol a verdict of guilty. An application for a new trial on the grounds of newly discovered evidence was filed tills morning tand will he passed upon, most probably, tins evening. The crime for which the accused was convicted of a most atrocious one. The woman, Christina Johnson, had for some time been the paramour of the prisoner, H trt, and on her re fusal to continue the illicit relations which had heretofore existed between thorn he deliberately shot at her five times with a revolver, missing her every time, one bullet grazed her neck, Inflicting a slight flesh wound of no Importance, but otherwise she was unscathed. The verdict gives general satisfaction. Cum** to il«* Citllrd. LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. SO.—Below will be found a Hat of cares that will be called fur hearing before the supreme court on November ", 1900: Morris vs. Linton. Douglas; Phila delphia Mortgage & Trust Co. vs. Uuckstaff Pros. Mfg. Co., Lancaster; Philadelphia Mortgage # to Areola. Hum H .. Oft. 1'2. J. !! Rei livery barn burned here an t seven head of horses perished in the flames, while several vehicles ,»nd a quantity of hay and grain were de strojed, lly heroic efforts the fire men saved Mr. Heck's residence and neighboring houses. The loss is $!'. ooo Out. Vfter II ill lit.itrer. I.INI’OI.N, Neb., fiei 22 Attorney General Smyth has been grunted leave to do ket a petition to oust the N»‘ bnt«a Grain Grower* Mutual Hail tts-.o utioii from doing l>u*iio -- in \ br.-ka because It lias failed to secure a permit from Go* state auditor. Wlit vU I mi ill* ii llm il ,\IN*\VC»RTII Nfh.Oi- 23 \« W, ft li ir eluu, tut *>nu»lu) ■ of thi' M i*nc »i l« i* IlmiMii r mi l M i. hlli>' .rninunv Mvu| to ImniiiI »h* i m ;*•> li fruiiiM h. r. t M * ninfulun ii** kiii| f« U ult.ii i’ Ihr * li. • I* 4-0I 1.1 ‘ Mi h ..til m* I util* rVU-VW.W V- •* i . hi ' • I iii.k f.» t.»r i' ' ill him |i (. IlH.' I A I I II . «. i »4 .i * k * m rf •It. 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Tin- offer of n rumple who I at till* low price fa mu ♦*» to •ocurw a H IT} E R AGENT If* cm It town to re prevent ua i nd tuk#- order*. • »ur a*f» lit* make money fart. *>Pcf?5fe"ICftTI0MS Kr"-‘" ?.*4 or Clinch i ladle*Winch HeuI $16^P Hh*’lby m«mli ■*- tui-ln* with forifi d eonnoc* I tl"f ■* |1n ,|| Joint*. Improved i t.iind< r d«*vl •< f<* fni U-n *vnt port and . gfiiYUl ^ J " ‘ .»•*. iWti « I riu il.-lul • .. I...I M ■■■.!« I...I .■ «. .1 f .. 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