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J. C. HEARTSELL, Ed. and Pub.
VOL XIII.
CRUSHED FEET.
Frightful Sufferings Endured by
Little Chinese Girls.
A Freak of Fashion that Tor¬
tures for Many Years.
An English paper quotes from a
writer in the Japan Mail who appears
to have a special knowledge of the
well-known Chinese custom of com¬
pressing the feet of female children
of the belter classes in China. He
hopes that few of his readers have
been so unfortunate as to see the
naked feet of au orthodox Chinese
lady. But many have looked at photo¬
graphs of this terribly-twisted and
distorted member, and the sight must
have suggested thoughts of barbarous
suffering inflicted on a particularly
sensitive part of the human body.
Year by year hundreds of thousands
of little girls throughout the wide
Empire of China are subjected to a
ruthless process which crushes the
bones and wrenches the sinews of
their tender feet, until at last a re¬
volting deformity is produced and the
foot crumpled into a shocking rnous
trosity, becomes almost valueless as a
means of locomotion. The wretched
girl emerges from her period
of feverish torture a mutilated crip¬
ple, condemned to hobble through life
ou feet which preserve no semblance
of nature’s beautiful mechanism,
having become as hideous a3 they are
useless.
At intervals the missionary cries out,
the traveler writes and the charitable
agitate; but the poor little children
never benefit. For them there re¬
mains always the same ruthless bend¬
ing of bones, the same agonizing ap¬
plication of tight ligatures, the same
long months of bitter pain and una¬
vailing tears. Perhaps, he suggests,
it is to this singular contrast between
general refinement and cultivation of
the Chinese on the one hand, and this
callous cruelty on the other, that we
must attribute the periodical appear
appearance of apologists for the ap¬
palling custom.
Some people say that, though the
foot is ultimately deformed, though
the woman is indeed condemned to be
little better than a cripple, yet the
process is not so very painful softer
all. The bones arc soft, they say, in
early youth; the sinews supple.
Twisting, crushing and wrenching aro
operations that may be performed
without much suffering on baby feet,
whereas adults would be maddened by
the torture. To this the writer re¬
plies:
“Let no one talk of the yielding
character of young bones or the pli¬
ability of baby sinews. We have lis¬
tened with our own ears to the cries
of a little girl undergoing the tor¬
turing process. Such agonizing wails
never before fell ou our ears. They
were the shrieks of a child absolutely
wild with suflering. When the liga¬
tures were loosened and the shocking
succession of breathless screams ended
in long-drawn wails of exhaustion and
misery, the listener turned almost sick
with horror and sympathy. Yet a
mother was the deliberate torturer of
the poor baby, and a father callously
listened to its heartbroken cries.
“Think that this fiendish barbarity
is being practised daily and hourly
throughout the length and breadth of
a land containing 300,000,000 inhabi¬
tants. Not alone are the tender bodies
of the poor little girls ruthlessly
racked and tortured, but the purest
sentiment of humanity, the love of
parents for their children, is perpetu¬
ally outraged. Such unnatural cruel¬
ty could be tolerated only in the pres¬
ence of the worst kind of demoraliz¬
ation. How much can survive of the
moral beauty of the paternal relation
when fathers and mothers, in
deference to a mere freak of
fashion, consent to inflict on their
daughters, day by day, torture that
well-nigh maddens the baby brain and
wrings shrieks of excruciating agony
from the little iips? This is one of
those facts that make us marvel when
we hear a great destiny predicted for
the Chinese nation.”
Poker and the Pointer Puppy,
Poker was a large green bird,with a
bright yellow head, and a few scarlet
markings on its wings. Prior to my
friend’s ownership of it, it had bc-
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, CA. MARCH 30, 1893.
longed to some people who had a son
called Harry, to whom the parrot was
very much attached. Its favorite call
was “Harry,” uttered iu all kinds of
endearing tones, It was a clever
talker, and sometime it did a lot of
thinking, at short notice.
It’s owner’s proporty adjoined my
old home, and as the bird was well
known and could fly only a short dis¬
tance, it was allowed full liberty of
both premises. Frequently it would
attempt to cross the street and would
get fast iu the mud, whereupon it
would shout for “Harry” in an irre¬
sistibly comical fashion. The first
passer-by would rescue it and place it
upon the palings, whence it could
climb slowly up to some tree, or work
its way gradually homeward, or into
our inclosure. The boundry paling
was a promenade with Poker, and
frequently, when strolling about the
lawn, I would be startled with the
abrupt query, “Hello! who are you?”
and turn to find the parrot contempla¬
ting me gravely from its perch on the
fence. On going out early one morn
ing I saw my friend shuffling across
the smooth-trimmed lawn. All un¬
wittingly I had let myeely in for a
genuine treat.
A moment later, a pointer puppy,
about half trained, cantered around a
corner of the house, and in a moment
his keen nose winded the bird. Poker
crouched low on the grass, and tho
green leathers blended admirably with
the support; but the puppy’s nose di¬
rected him aright. Slowly, cautiously,
as a veteran of the field, ho drew inch
by inch upon his game, and when liis
nose was about two feet from the par¬
rot’s rounded head, he settled into a
stanch point, with forefoot uplifted,
and tail as rigid as a ramrod. For a
moment they faced each other, 1110
lionless as graven images; then, like
an explosion, came the challenge,
"‘Hello! Who are you? Ilarry 1—
Harry I—Har-r-ryII” the last words
iu a veritable scream of terror.
This was too much for the puppy.
The green thing spake like a man.
Horrors! He gave three wild bounds
sidewise, halted one instant to look at
the frightful thing again, then another
ringing “Ilarry!” put wings to his
feet, and with a whimper of dismay
ho bolted back to his quarters as fast
as his nimble legs could carry him.—
[DomorcBt’s Magazine.
Prevalence of Blindness in Russia.
The people of Russia aro more ter.
ribly afflicted with the infirmity oi
blindness than any other race, sect or
nation on the globe, the proportion
being twenty-one to every 10,000 of
population. In 1886 there was an
official census taken of the blind of
Europe. These statistics show a re¬
markable state of affairs, especially
in European Russia, the Caucasus and
Poland. In the countries named
there was a total of 189,872 persons
who were entirely blind. The whole
of the remainder of Europe (and
mind tiiis includes the thickly popu¬
lated countries of Germany, Franco,
Spain, Holland Belgium,Great Britain,
etc.) only lias a blind population num¬
bering 188,812, while the three Am¬
ericas, North, Central and South,
with their Islands, have less than 23,
000 persons who are totally bereft of
their sight. In the Caucasus tho
women, especially those of country
districts, are more liable to cecity
than men, the proportion being about
twenty-seven to nineteen. In Poland
there are twenty-five blind men for
every fourteen blind women, the
same percentage holding good over
the most of Russia-in-Europe. The
authority from which these facts are
gleaned states that they are actually
many small villages iu the alkali dis¬
tricts near the Asiatic frontier where
the blind predominate! In this
region the alkali dust constantly fills
the air, and those not actually blind
have their eyes more or less diseased.
— [St. Louis Republic.
Getting Even.
Little Johnny—I got even with the
teacher today.
Little Dick-How?
Little Johnny—It was my turn to
speak a piece, an’ so I got up an’ spoke,
“Don’t kill th’ birds, th’ pretty birds,”
an’ I pretended to cry an’ made it
real affectin’—an’ there she sat with
one iu her hat. — [Good News.
Fox, the orator, found liis greatest
pleasure in gambling.
u TELL THE TRUTH ”
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A Missouri Crow-Roost.
“A mile and a half of crows are a goo
many,” said Mr. Charles Jones, “bi
there is a crow-roost down in Southwet
Missouri which covers that area o
ground. made visit Out of curiosity I recentl
a to the roost after nightfall,
and I never heard such a tempest of caw>
before in my life. There were thous
ands of the birds and they kept up an
incessant roar that was really deafening.
but Where they came from no one can say,
evening persons from living four near o’clock by state that every
until dark the
heavens are black with vast flocks com¬
ing from every direction, but that they
left. are early risers, and at daybreak few are
These crows have been making
this spot headquarters for a number
of years, and have become a source
of annoyance to tho farmers of the
redations surrounding country by committing dep¬
upon their wheat fields, and
very often raids are made on the roosts
after dark when thousands are killed.
But this seems to have no effect on them
other than to make the others more wary.
The people of that section are seriously
considering the advisability of asking the
State Legislature to offer a bounty for
crow heads, which they believe would
cither result in their extermination or
cause them to move their headquarters.”
—[St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Oke of the exhibits in the railroad
section at the World’s Fair will be a
of series the of railroad pictures from illustrating the time when the history it
was
two miles of wooden rails, over which a
mule pulled a clap-boarded wagon twice
a day, to these times of thousand mile
runs and record breaking. The Balti
more and Ohio Railroad is having these
pictures city, painted will by Mr. Paul Moran of
this who make a large number
of them in black and white.
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