Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . Copyri^;Iu, 1913, F. K. Wriglit. GOING TO MARKET Jamaica country roads are gay with women in brightly colored dresses, carrying the products of their little farms to market. Theburden is always borne on the head with the result that peasant women have a graceful and e\en stately carriage. THE GHASTLY STORY OF THE CHINESE 41. A PICTURESQUE INLET OF THE CARIBBEAN thirds were again up and able to work. Then theexaggerated American moral sense, which is so apt .to ignore the customs of other lands and peoples,caused the opium supply to be shut off. Pe


Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . Copyri^;Iu, 1913, F. K. Wriglit. GOING TO MARKET Jamaica country roads are gay with women in brightly colored dresses, carrying the products of their little farms to market. Theburden is always borne on the head with the result that peasant women have a graceful and e\en stately carriage. THE GHASTLY STORY OF THE CHINESE 41. A PICTURESQUE INLET OF THE CARIBBEAN thirds were again up and able to work. Then theexaggerated American moral sense, which is so apt .to ignore the customs of other lands and peoples,caused the opium supply to be shut off. Perhaps thefact that the cost of opium daily per Chinaman was15 cents had something to do with it. At any ratethe whole body of Chinamen were soon sick untodeath and quite ready for it. They made no effortto cling to the lives that had become hateful. Sui-cides were a daily occurrence and in all with Chinese stolidity would sit upon a rockon the oceans bed and wait for the tide to submergethem. Many used their own queues as ropes andhanged themselves. Others persuaded or bribedtheir fellows to shoot them dead. Some thrustsharpened sticks through their throats, or clutchinggreat stones leaped into the river maintaining theirhold until death made the grasp still more starved themselves and others died of merebrooding over their dismal state. In


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