SUNDAY, DECEMBER (4, 1907.
HIE MORNING , A5T0RIAN, ASTORIA. OREGON.
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Without Making up your mind to bo
com one of my pleated customers. Good
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Carl E. Franseen,
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The Astoria Tailor,
179 nth St.
A.
Phono Mala 3711
A TRIP TO OLD CHINA
Astoria Chinese Boy Tells
- New Experiences.
of
Sutti made to order,
pattirna to telect from,
to data.
Hundred of
Every one up
Special Reduction
ON
Japanese Goods
MANY BOATS WERE AT CANTON
Novel Slihts and Scenes That Art Con
dsely Told by Flfteen-Year-Old
Chinese Boy, One of Astoria's School
Pupils, Tong Chan Sing. 1 f ;
The following article was tho subject
of a coMVMMillltm read by long mnn
Sing. Chlneie pupil of the Hhlvely
school and a member of Mr. Barry'
cImi t the exercise given on Friday
laiti
On December 27. 11KM). I left here for
Chine, flrt to Portland and then to Set
tle remaining there for about tlx or
oven hours, and took the train to Van-
AT
Yokohama
Bazar
All kind of Japanese good. Including
China wares, baskets, silk handkerchiefs,
bras wares, fane, toys, bamboo furni
tures, etc, etc Soma goods at half pries,
020 Commercial Street
with a sign attached to a long bamboo
about 60 or 60 .i't sticking up Into the
alr. 4
, We stayed there over night and in the
morning, alxmt 0 o'clock, we oan hardly
li'ip becaun the people era going to
work, Mwn, 'Women, end children walking
through the street in their wooden hoe.
Click, cluck, all morning, Bo we get up
ami ate our breakfasts in a hurry in
order to Kt time to visit the great gard
en of Yokohama. It l a large one and
Iium many flower with a temple in the
middle and presently now we leave here
and k luck to the wharf to our sUamer.
S left here to Kolm and then to Kag
ntiukl. We stayed only 3 hour in each
of these cltletj they are much like Yoko
limnu, and fiVm Shanghai it takes two
days , Our steamer is anchored at the
month of the river and we are taken
to the city by the steam boat, and it
take 1 hour from the month of the river
to the city of Shanghai. It i a large
city but they apeak altogether different
from u.
We m large f lie market and Hotel
and Opuln house. This city ha build
litgft about 4 or 5 atone high,
It lia nice clean road ai,d large park,
Sow we take a walk to one of the large
puck. We meet a man tanding at the
gate we tell hint to get a cup of tea
MARRIAGECONTRACT
Discovery of Document in Tomb
of Pharoah. ...
MARRIED 'WOMEN HONORED
Holiday Greetings
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Una of Diamonds, Watcoea, Clocks, Jewelry, Solid Silver and plated
ware, Cut Glasi. Umbrellas, and Gold and Silver novelties. I have
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way until you want them,
, ' J, H. SEYMOUR
rn StoTe of Qunlty, 4m Commercial St, Astoria, Or.
f ) I . I lift I. a a H.
ooliver on Hie nmiuigm i . . , u, . ttnd wl)en
riveJ at Vancouver. W walked to ll ' J. , nh
k where our teamer lay and the next
A
12 o'clock we etarted for
Victoria, where we arrived on the morn-
ln of Jan. Int. Mil. About noon time
we ateamed out Into the ocean.
we reach It, the tea it all ready for u.
After we are through we meet a gard
. . . . . 1
nr and tiien n anowa u uinereui
place and difereut flower. After we
are through here we will go back to
ona of the largo ilk market and buy
School Shoes
' FOR
BOYS
The Billy Buster Steel Bot
torn Shoes .
' Tho Shoe
with a Sole
that Don't
Wear Out
Our hti Helf Is nmondcrj It U made . . t . ... re vaiu8Ble nd
of tcelj It I nearly 600 ft, long and I MW m otl((,r k Kow lt
It 1 o wide that it would "l a on u. () l,(0(lt tinm for u g0 4 to the
.treet. H l a high a a ix vory t .. 1. ,,. t(lke an j,our tf&9 bock to
houe and iC ha a many room a a vcel. Hoon we are ready
larte hotel; It lw Ha parlor and kit- , w Mii 0lt t0 tb
cheni, illeep room'a and bathroom' chjna t ,$ a r01gh QM to0j but
and it contain a butchers uop, a "" , we many fiihing junks on our
ry, a coriK-nter hop and all ori I wa 1 On the 21t. morning we arrive
machinery. t jfong Kong and the sailor hoot off
. When we co through the workniiop 01 firecracker to abow that we are
the baement the engineer how u ttie f , Kon j Mw many traj
ureal machine which by meana of toaut . . . . , jow11 tj,e river,
. . ... . . t !- I " " CT
nolM)lely but tea.lily force mo imp ,teamcr I anchored in the middle
on over one of the longMl ocean rouiea . t, . . 1 Mir
In the world. He tell u that nil en- (lM.M nomina out to briiur u a bore
glue are a trong a 10.000 hore and ()r bogj-age h put up from the bold
there are 32 Chinese people wno are 01 M(, w g0 around u (i)le it i0 t)l8t we
vlded in gang of eight. Kacb gang L8 ing It to the shore with us on the
work for ix honr. in auoiu 0 10 0 Uamo atenmer.
1 1 a 1..-.1T.. I
.Uy we get eiic ana ean Aftor w! 8r4f on ,nore j MW many
iret tip from our bed. I he 'waiter inug u. .im , .fa holdina lonff pole
in our food every day for alwut 4 day Ul(y (fe ,0 wry our baggage at a low
and now w can up and wain arounu, 1 (i)t ,0(1JJ ai8UnWi
and the Captain tell u w will meet lrolg Km)8 it m citjr strolled
u in a littla while, anu we wan ana . Knuland. Xearlv everv hour there I
the Empre of China coming toward I i(1 Wln t(Mmer coming in and going
the temer plng by u. and that U 0(t A, l WM W4ikig to the Hotel
the flwt lemer we meet after being U MW, pule aolUnir fruiU, veget-
11 day out in the ocean. A few J? able, fiaba, bookw.etc. out In the atreet
later we are near Japan, which wcy (Kjr hoUj i$ 5 toriea high. And a we
uall the land of the forest and flower. Wk thr0ujh the street we ace people
Xow wo are In Japan. We team in the ,ong v1litej yellow, or Blue
Day of Yedda and we ee many begger clolb M wound their hfads they are
boat, and a net attached to the end of ,IinUu p,,,,;,,. 1 itBved here 1 week
long bamboo. I dropped a nickie to ttnJ uw mflny uecr tj,ing4 1 1 never
the bag but it m!ed it and dropped ww before one thinjthat caught my
into the river and the father dived w attention wa five to ten blind ladie
for it in a moment he came up wan tne walkinK in a tring one leading and the
nlckle In his hand. We till (team In reitt f0ottjng gn)i they j,ad a bell tied
until we e the city of Yokohama and to 0)ie parl of the My M to notefy
many war veel and tuhuig junx arc tjle pc0ple that they arc blind. After
lying In the bay. We tay here 24 hour ,lH!nJi)g fc w0ck 1Iong Kmlg we talie
a steam boat to Canton, We only stay
4 hour at Canton and then take a Hat
boat home to our home which 'was called
Stii Chue about 27 miles from Canton.
At Canton I saw forests of moats they
are flat boat going in and out through
the oouuties. These boats have a small
cannon in front and back to protect
Remarkable Document Discloses Hitherto
Unknown Facts Regarding Exalted
Position Held by Gentler Sex in Period
Three Centuries Before Christ.
TOLEDO, 0., Dec. 21.-A marriage
contract over 2000 year old, discovered
In a tomb near Cairo, Egypt, and now in
the collection of the Museum of Art,
Toledo, Ohio, ha, it U announced today,
been deciphered by the Egyptologiita at
the t'nivertity of Stnusburg, Germany,
and found to be from a hUtoric taod
point one of tho most important docU'
ment brought to light in recent year,
George W. Steven, director of the To
ledo Museum, (ays:
"The papyrua determines two matters
of great importance. It etabllhea the
period of an Egyptian Pharaoab, whose
time of reign hat been hitherto unknown,
and give ua documentary evidence of
the exalted financial position accorded
to married women In Egypt three een
turies before Christ- position almost
undreamed of and unhoped for by the
moat enthusiastic new women of these
modern daya. ' The lost Pharaoh whose
period of reign ia established, is Khab
baaba, and the time 341 B. C
"From the translation it ia established
that in case the wife repudiated the
husband, she allowed him to tako back
half hi dower. This 1 the reverse of
modern customs, especially In European
countries, where the' wife is expected to
contribute the dot or dower. The Egyp
tlan husband not only received nothing
from the bride, but had to put up a
bonus to make himself a matrimonial
possibility. The document shows that
in case of a separation be was allowed
by, his wife to take but one-third of the
monies they should have acquired to
gether during the time they were mar
rfed."
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and when we go on shore we must meet
jinrikish as first we are searched at a
little house near the wharf for opuin,
and tobacco, and then we take a jinrlk
Uh a ride through the city. What a
beautiful city I but the torc are low.
v- went Into a teahouse, we had to
take off our hoe before we could tep
in side. What a funny lookiug table them Jrom the pirttte which often rob
about one foot long high ana we the 'freight carrie and there are many
to lit on the floor. 1 looxeu arouna ana jbipaloh boat on the rivers. It Is said
saw bamboo walls to dlvido each room. L tl 1earl iver Southern China at
After we are through we want (town tl cit of Cant0, there are 300.000
the main street and see children Hying I I)(.o,i0 Uviitir in boats. Amona the queer
Kites all over and we asked a man why
they are flying kitea every where, He
said, "Today. 1 the children's Flying
Kite Day." We passed many theater
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See the bargains in .
, our big
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upstairs.
If your money is in
the bank
"give us your Jcheck.
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boats I saw on the lVaii river are those
devoted to the raising of geese and duck
by keeping them in baskets of
chuff in rooms heated with charcoal to
a temperature equal to that which they
would have' If fowls were sitting upon
them. After they are raised they are
brought to the markets to sell.
In tlie day time they are let out to
the marsh field to be fed and in the
night they are brought back to the boat.
Now we sailed all night up the Si river
and the next morning iwe are in Sal
Chue. I stayed here for one year and
two months I went to a ehina school to
learn and read and write. The boys
must learn to read , and write,
and be must commit to memory many
thousands of verses during bis school
life. At about the age of 17 and 18 he
is ready to take his first publie exami
nation and he goes to the capital of the
district in which he lives. He finds
thousands of other boys there. The gov
ernment officials are in charge of the
examination. , At a firing of a oannon
the boys go into the great hall and sit
down at the tables to write essays and
poems. The examination lasts three days
and it is so strict that only two or three
students in a hundred are able to pass.
After passing this test, there is an
other examination at the capital of the
province and the student who are suc
cessful there have a right to go to
,') ' "V '
l'ekln to be examined for a still higher
rank.
If a boy commits a crime his father,
his elder brother, and ,hi teacher are
sometime punished as twell aa himself;
for ' of the children it is said that
if they bad been tought properly they
would not have broken the laws. All
cities and villages have jails and the
punishments connected with them are
among the most cruel of the world. For
small offenses the criminal must wear
about hi neck a frame of heavy boards
called Damn-ear. The frame is about
three feet square or about the size of
the top of an ordinary kitchen table. It
it made in pieces so that it can be
open and made to fit a man' neck in
the hole in the center.
The common gap is about 25 pounds,
but there are many made of iron, which
weigh as much aa 90 pounds. You would
find that the frame extended out so far Z
1 j ....1. h.i. .... I.,, I
ucjuuu juur uvi& iuai jwu ;nuuw
to relv unon others to feed you. You
could not lie down with such a frame fas
tened abut your neck and if a fly or a
bee happened to light on your face you
could dislodge it by shaking your
head. Upon the ops of ihe gar, on each
side of the hole, are pasted strips of
paper describing the crime committed by
the wearer, the people stop and read
them as the criminal passes through
the street. : The worst crimes that can
be committed I find are those by chil
dren against parent. The punishment
for striking parents in China ia death,
and if a son kills his father or mother,
ha ii condemned to execution by a slow
process known by the people as "Ling
cha." This ia the very worst punish
ment as the criminal die by inches.
Theae laws have been recently changed.
And opium is forbidden to come into
China. , V
After spending a year in the country,
we returned to Hong Kong and stayed
for fire days; and then, saying good
bye to our friends, we sailed back to our
good old home in America, and arrived
in Astoria in the middle of June, 1902.
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Deo. 17, 1907, Shively School, Astoria,
Oregon, U. S. A.
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