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j | | China is one of the most interesting | countries in the world, aside from the | fact that international complications | have now fastened the world’s atten- | tion upon it. Within the next century ithe ancient Empire will probably be come so far modernized as to lose much of the picturesqueness which be- | longs to its antiquity. The traveller | who visits'the Middle Kingdom at the | present time is taken back, in eflect, | many thousands of years in the history | of the world; he sees things as_ they | were ages ago—the manners, customs and queer ways of living that belong to a vanished epoch.

For example,what isthere in{the werld more strange than the famous road to the Ming Tombs—the burial places of the Ming Emperors, who were the last native rulers of China? This family governed the Empire from 1368 to 1644 A. D. and the avenue leading to their private cemetery may fairly me regarded as one of the wonders of the werld, being lined on either side with statuary, the like of which is not to be found anywhere else—a series of col- lesai figures of human beings and ani mals sculptured in grey granite. The avenue, preceeding from one of the gates of Nanking, is amile im length, and ends at a marble gate, which is by far the most stately and beautiful

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structure of its kind in China. | ‘The statues comprise a pair of ele- | phants standing anda pair kneeling, four pairs of civilians and two pairs-of warriors, a pair of horses erect and two lying down; also camels, lions end tigers in pairs. They are arranged at intervals on opposite sides of a pav- ed, but neglected and grass-grown | road, leading from the gat€ to the |tombs. They bear witmess to the glory of adynasty under which China | war far greater and more powerful than 'she is today. Passers-by throw a pebble at each elephant—if it lodges on the back of the sculptured beast, good luck is indicated. The ele- phants is this series are seally admir- able works of arts, with mo suggestion of the grotesque treatmeat so -com- monly exhib.ted in Chinese sculpture.

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HOW REBELS ARE PUNISHED.

About 80,000 rebels were con- demned to death and disposed of by the summary process of decapita- tion at the close of the last great revo- lutionary movement. Wien prisoners in China are to be judically slaughter— ed they are fetched to the killing place and a list of their names is read aloud and compared with tickets attached to the victims. The hands of ihe latter are pinioned, and they are obliged to kneel onthe ground to receive the blow of the executioner, whichis de- livered with a broad-bladed knife like a clever, a single stroke severing the head from the body.

The headless bodies are usually lef:, ther: where they have fallen until nigh: when, if their triends do not remove

them at the public cost.

—the courege of a man resides—and i to seil it, the purchaser imagining that in this way he acquires the quality in question.

In aChinese court the magistrate sits behind a desk, on which are writ- ing materials the officials seal and cups containing tallies, which are thrown down to indicate the number of blows ordered fora culprit. On either side are secretaries, and one or more as- sistants are present with instruments of torture, Inscriptions are hung on the walls, one of which exhorts the judge to be merciful. The accused kneel in front of the tribunal. It is to be feared that there is little justice to be had in Chinese courts, the prisoners having

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authorities take them away and bury! When notori 3

ous robbers are executed, it is a com--|

mon thing to cut out the gall-bladder, ; an organ—according to Chinese beliet |

ssumption.

Q , i no opportunity to plead either person-

ally or through counsel, while the most atrocious tortures are inflicted, | even upon witnesses, to compel confes- | sious, as might be imagined, the goals are horrible. as

One of the most common of crimin- al punishments in China consists in fastening about the neck of the offend- er a square trame made of boards, which hasa hule through the middle | of it for the purpose. ‘This is called a “cangue,” it weighs from twenty to thirty pounds, and the name, residence and crime of the delinquent are written upon it in large characters for the 1n- formation of passers-by. The distress suffered by the wearer is much more severe then would be supposed at first feed himself or even drink a cup of water. He cannot scratch his own nose or drive away the flies, and sometimes his face is smear- ed with sweetened water to attract In- sects. Sleep is almost out of the ques- tion. A soldier is always put on guard over a victim of this ingenious torm of cruelty, who may starve to death or die of thirst if the myrmidon of the law refuses to permit the man’s friends to help him. Women, when condemned to the cangue, are nearly always liak- ed together by twos and threes in a single frame.

SOME DOMESTIC CUSTOMS.

Contrary to the popular suppositien in this country, rice is not the chief iet of the poorer classes in China; it is a luxury from their point of -view, because too costly for every-day -con- They eat much pork, which costs little, for hogs of razor-back breed are plentiful everywhere, and the pig is the domestic anima! par excellence. She sleeps in the living room, recog- nizes her name and displays in her in- telligence the inherited and results of centuries of training. She litters twice a year, and of her offspring the «males are fattened while the females are sold or kept for breeding. The household peker is a pet; she is fed at every meal of the family, foraging for herself .at othertimes in the streets and fields. And it should be rememoered that the pig is decidedly a ¢lean animal when properly kept.

The Rev. Dr. Williams, in his “Middle Kingdon,’’ says thatythe Chinese in the vicinity of Canton, from. whom are recruited nearly all the pig- tailed immigrants to this country and the United St.tes, have a remarkable. appetite tor cats. One trequently sees’ pussies hanging nicely dressed in the butchker’s windows, the meat looking so white and clean as to be almost ap-: petizing. They are kept alive in the shops, too, incages ready for killing.’ Becauee they areso protific and find: so much of their own food, they can, be raised profitably. Cat’s eyesare con-) sidered a great delicacy by the rich,; those of biack cats being regarded as | choicest and commanding the highest price. Ratsand mice are seldom: eaten, except in case of famine; they, are too hard to catch to be cheap.’ But among the Chinese there is anj old joke about an imaginary dish call-; ed “honey and squeak,” made by en-} closing a live mouse in a piece of honeycomb.

Agriculture in China has not pro- grcessed in its methods since the tam- ing of the first water-buffalo for farm- ing purposes—a time so far back as to antedate historical records. The farming tools are ofa most primitive discription, though American hoes and spades are beginning to find a sale in parts of the interior, and al! of the vast quantity of rice grown in the Empire is threshed by beating bunches of the grain-bearing stalks upon a

wooden contrivance that locks like a cross between a ladder and a_ wash- board. ASIATIC AMUSEMENTS. In Chin. fortune telling is a

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chow one finds a whole street filled with their places of business. One can get a different fortune in each. In Chinese cities the professions and arts locate themselves in particular quart- ers: there are streets of curio dealers, of silk merchants, of silversmiths, of Jade polishers, of ink grinders, of fan mikers, etc.

There are only a few actresses in China, female parts on the stage being taken usually by boys, who assume them with a cleverness that is really wonderful, all the little subtleties and refinements of a lady’s dress, carriage and deportment being counterfeited to periection. All imitations in make-up are disdained; the embroidery on the Cresses is of the finest, and no tinsel is employed. Onthe other hand, the acting is altogether artifical. Whena man appears on the stage with a spear in his hand, he is understood to be on herseback; with a banner, he is a com pany of soldieis; with a fan, he is a general, and so on. manent buédings for theatres in the Empire, and the players are mostly merabers of strolling bands who ser- vices may be hired when wanted. <A temporary playhouse big enough to hold 2e@0 people can be run up ina day, consisting merely of framework covered with mats. A play lasts three days usually; the acting in chiefly pant- omime, and the scenery is painted on mats at the back and sides of the stage.

The Chinese are fond of pets of all sorts, and in the cities persons are often seen going about with finches or can- aries, which are allowed to fly about for exercise, being secured to the hand of the owner by a long thread attached to one leg. This is called “giving the bird a chance to breathe.” An ex— tremely small beast of canine persua- sion, known as a “sleeve dog,” is car- ried in the wide sleeve of its proprie- tor. The slant-eyed celestials use chairs, tables and bedsteads quite like our own, but their furniture is very solid, being made to last forever, and the chairs frequently have stone seats.

Of discourse on the subject of Chin- ese oddities there can be no end. The bells in the temples are made exactly on the pattern of great sleigh-bells, though some of them are as much as ‘two feet in diameter. It would never occur to us to wash our tea before brewing the infusion, bnt that is what orientals do, and perhaps they have some good reason for it. But how funny does appear the methed adopt- ed by their candy dealers who go through the streets shaking a number of straws of different lengths in a cy- lindrical bex like an elongated dice box! The straws are kept shaken continually, and presently along comes a boy who wants a piece of taffy. In- stead of paying a copper, as an Amer- ican bey wou'd do, he draws a_ straw from the box. If he pullsa long straw‘ he gets his candy for nothing; if a shortstraw one, he pays double price; and there are imtermediate jengths which split the difference.

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PROPERTY IN CHARLOTSETOV..

‘he proporty on the eart side of Cambera Jand Street, in Charlottetown, formerly owned by the late James Dowling, having

extending back 84 feet. lot well situated and very desirable.

offerei at auction on Friday, the tenth day of August, 1900, at 12 o’cloock,noon, on the premises,

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