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some of the earliest Methodist congre
gations in the United States were
founded upon the same peninsula.
Iteason for Oratefiilnoss.
A little girl but four years old was
observed to be very devout in church
and to be very eager not to miss attend
ing the services. "What do you do
when you are there, I'osie?" asked a
lady friend. "You cannot read and you
must get very tired of such long serv
ices." The little one shook her head
gravely. "I am never tired," she said;
"I have so much to say to Clod." "What
do you say? Do tell me," persisted the
lady. The child climbed on her knee
and whispered, with all her soul in her
eyes: "I cannot go to church too often
1 to thank God I was not born a boy."
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GfiEAT TRAVELERS.
The Chinese in Amerloa Continu
ally on the Oo.
They Are aa Muck at Home In a ThtrA
Class Car aa If Lolling at EaM
Under the Wushhouse
Table.
The Chinese are great travelers. 8c
proficient have the celestials become ir
the use of our l;iiirua;,'o and the knowl
edge of our ways thnt the Southern Pa
cific railroad has funnd it no longer nec
essary to maintain its old Chinese
agency nt Sacramento, and it has Just
been abolished. The Chinese are al
ways on the go. So it sx-ra.-i, at least,
to a writer in the San Francisco Chron
icle. What the emiijant trains would
do, he writes, for a full ci implement of
passengers unless they had a carload or
so of Mongolians it would be difficult
to sajr. When one goes about on the
rail and sees the steady tides of outgo
ing and incoming pagan ho wonders
how they manage to earn money enough
to pay so much railroad fare. Xo one
for a moment will question the truth of
the assertion that in proportion to their
percentage of the population they are
much greater travelers than the white
people of this country, leaving aside aU
consideration of their big journeyn
across the Pacific.
When the San Francisco Chinatown
resident gets money enough together to
take a trip to Los Angeles, Omaha, Chi
cago or New York he generally begins
to think of traveling. It matters not
what he may be doing here; if he thinks
Kansas City needs a new washhouse he
buys a ticket for that town and away
he goes. In tho matter of ticket pur
chasing he has a groat advantage over
white persons. If he is at all shrewd,
and he generally is, he can buy an erhV
grant ticket at a cut rate of from five
to fifteen dollars cheaper than tiny
White man can bnv it. This fact, crrfr-
pusly enough, is wholly diie to the white
man s utter lack of confidence iu him
an oath-observer.
"We can sell a Chinaman a ticket
cheaper than anybody else," says a Cal
ifornia ticket agent the other day, "for
the reason that there is no danger of
anybody in the railroad pool
catching us cutting rates. All tes
timony as to rate-cutting before
the pool commissioner must be
by affidavit, and ns Chinamen's affida
vit are not admissible as evidence, of
course we can always steer clear of a
fine when we cut a rate for theni."
When John travels he invariably car
ries a KtulT.v-looking enrpet suck in his
hand and a lot of nondescript bundles
over his shoulder, generally tied to
gether with a heavy cord or a piece of
hayropo. Where they get all the car
pet sucks Is a mystery. They are cer
tainly not an Asiatic article of luggage,
but they cannot be dissociated from the
idea of Mongolian travel in this country.
Approaching the Oakland ferry, after
buying his ticket up-towu, John casts a
wary eye about him for the poll-tax
gatherer, who i auuts the landing and
keeps close watch over all the newcom
ers as well us outgoers. lie is a very
lucky John if he can manage to run the
gantlet of those keen optics. As soon
as the attack begins the Mongolian
clutches, with mighty grasp the handle
of his carpet sack, for he knows that
this is the first point of advantage which
the seeker for his two dollars will try
to gain. I
The poll-tax man knows the trick of i
loosening the heathen's hold. Having
secured the carpet sack he will not let
it go until the tax has been paid. No
Chinaman was ever known to pay his
poll-tax cheerfully, and this John is no
exception. He shakes his head, jabbers
and raves and tries to convince the tax
man that he has not the slightest notion
in the; world of what he is after. That
dfxlge will not work, however, for it is
an old one and the tax gatherer, sitting
serenely on the stuffy carpet sack, wins
the day, unless John values his two
dollars more than he does his cheap
luggage and flees for the boat; in which
event tho tax man wins a two-bit
"jumper," a pair of wornout overalls,
some mysterious-looking provender and
a pair nt cork-sole d shoes with turned
np toes.
Onee aboard his train John sits be
side a countryman of his, who is sure
to turn out either a cousin or a cousin
of a friend of his. They make a few
remarks about the weather, the state
of the labor market and the chances of
getting rich in a few weeks at the
places whither they are bound. None
of these remarks are of a lively nature.
In fact, John on the rail is the same
stolid, lethargic John that he Is any
where else. lie folds his loosely-draped
arms and takes little heed of anything,
dozing away the long hours on the
train as contentedly as if he was lolling
at ease under the washhouse table. In
fact, a carload of Chinese is as much
like a carload of mummies as it U like
anything.
The nomadic Instinct is so deeply
rooted in tho Mongolian that he feels al
most as much at home while scurrying
around the country as he does under
his own roof tree. The intense desire
to travel Is without any doubt a Tartar
heritage, most of the forces of working
Chinese who have come to this country
I being gathered from the great plains of
;tho eastern part of the empire, where
i the roving Instinct is strong and where
manv tribes are almost constantly on
the jro. Western Cbinn in more a coun
try of homos, und it lias sent us the
quii't merchant, the cifrarmaker and
the steady-frolng sewing machine oper
ator. Even these, however, are great
patrons of the railroad. They have
"cousins" living at Yreka, Yuba or
Yuma that must be visited now and
again, and this keeps them on the mova
for days at a time.
MOTHERS IN FICTION. x
Chiefly Conspicuous by Their Absence and
Not Always Admirable.
A vigorous search has reoontly been
made in novels for the admirable mother
in fiction, and it gave the searchers a
shock that Bhe failed to materialize.
Tho father, the brother, sister, cousins,
aunts and even grandmother, are often
drawn with a loving pencil, but the
mother is always a subordinate char
actor if Introduced at all.
Perhaps because his own mother was
so unsatisfactory Dickens never put one
in a novel of his that deserves to be
mentioned in connection with his be
nign fathors. Here is the list:
Our Mutual Friend" Mrs. Wilfer
(outrageous).
"Domboy and Son" Mrs. Skewton (a
libel on tho sex).
David Copperfleld's mother is an
amiablo fool; Mrs. Stoerforth impossible
and horrible; Mrs. Ileop a mate for her
husband; Mrs. Micawber a caricature.
In "Bleak House" Lady Dedlock a
mother who abandoned her child; Mrs.
Jellyby one who neglected her children
for a hobby.
in "lhe Tale of Two Cities' the
mother dies before the story begins.
Then there is Mrs. Coleman (a crim
inal). Mrs. Mcrdlo and Mrs. Gowan
(worldly), and Mrs. Meagles (nice but
weak-minded in "Little Dorrit"). Dick
sns' mothers are all objoctionable.
' Thackeray's only concession is Mrs.
.Pendennis. Mrs. Edmonds' maternal
qualities are not strong.
- Who does not love the gentle Vicar of
Wakefield and his homely, tender
philosophy? His gentleness 13 illus
trated by his constant excuses for his
nagging wife.
George Eliot ignores mothers. Mrs.
Poyscr is the most successful, but she
jomes of the lower ordor. Mrs. Harleth
and her whole family are ruled by
Gwendoline. Mrs. Tulllver and Mm.
Doano in "The Mill on the Floss" are
almost imbecile. Tho wonder is tbat
they had such remarkable children.
Jane Eyre has two horoughly cruel
and offensive, Lady Ingram and Mrs.
Reed.
Pisistratus' mother in Bulwor
Lytton's novel, "The Caxtons," is a ten
der and loving woman an exception to
the rule. Charles lteade has one re
spectable mother, Mrs. Little ("Put
Yourself In His Place"), but Wilkle Col
lins falls in with the custom very nat
urally. Ouida's mothers are nearly all detest
able. Robert Elsmero ia the one excep
tion. Tho tirosomo hero of that novel
would have done well to have been en
dowed with his mother's intolleot,
chcorf ulnoss and vigor. But interesting
as she is, her maternal influence did.
not go far. Amelie Rives has a cruel
and heartless mother in "The Witness
of the Sun," who sacrifices her son's
happiness to satisfy her selfish passion.
In Mrs. Catherwood's stories the mother
is conspicuously absent. And so on and
so on indefinitely.
WE LOVE MEDICINE.
Doctor Says That Americana Arc
Nation of Drug-Takers.
1 think Americansshould he described
as a nation of medicine takers. The re
turns from the sales of patent medicines
are astonishing, but no general practi
tioner is at all surprised at this, because
he has long since learned that hypo
chondria exists almost universally, and
that medicine taking is the great de
light of an enormous percentage of
mankind, says a physician in the St
Louis Olobe-Democrat-
One great object a doctor should have
in view is to cure with as few doses as
possible, and I believe that ninety-nine
out of one hundred medical students
commence practicing with this idea be
fore them. If their experience is like
mine they have somewhat let down in
their efforts in this direction, and if
they have cnot done so they have cer
tainly offended quite a large number of
patients. ,
There seems little to choose between
the sexes in the matter of a desire to
take medicine regularly, and it is often
impossible to persuade an apparently
rational-minded patient that a cure has
been effected, that no more medicine is
needed and that nothing but good diet
and careful habits are required to build
up the constitution.
A number of doctors save themselves
from falling from graco by prescribing
a harmless tonic after effecting a cure,
but those who pride themselves in dis
posing of cases by aid of a dozen doses
or less seldom attain any great popu-
larity.
The often quoted and much vaunted
Tratli- In f'hinn. nf roivincr & nhvsician
whn0 hi patient ia well and stopping
hig pay during sickness could never be
introduced successfully into this coun
try, because so many people whoarj
nort.ii nii orn nromired to file affi-
daviu that they ar0 dangerously sick,
that no doctor under the China reglm
would ttbie to eftrn hls board.
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