Missionary Visitor, The (1912) . es. The president has also begunto get rid of a lot of the hangers-onabout the various departments atPeking, thus saving a lot of moneyto be employed in more useful old department of agriculture hasrecently been relieved of about 700 ofthis kind and the old department offinance of nearly 1,000. This certainlyshows one of two things: either thegovernment has been handing out alot of money to useless men, or thesemen are unqualified and they are to bereplaced by men of the new regime. At this writing the Crumpackers,the Hiltons and Anna Hutchison areat
Missionary Visitor, The (1912) . es. The president has also begunto get rid of a lot of the hangers-onabout the various departments atPeking, thus saving a lot of moneyto be employed in more useful old department of agriculture hasrecently been relieved of about 700 ofthis kind and the old department offinance of nearly 1,000. This certainlyshows one of two things: either thegovernment has been handing out alot of money to useless men, or thesemen are unqualified and they are to bereplaced by men of the new regime. At this writing the Crumpackers,the Hiltons and Anna Hutchison areat Ping Ting Chou. The rest of theparty are at a summer resort nearTientsin, and will stay there till afterthe hot weather. Brother and SisterHilton will soon go to their new stationat Liao Chou. The hot weather is up-on us now and we must keep in fromthe hot sun in the middle of the dayfor at least two weeks. Ping Ting Chou, Shansi, China. 2*0 The Missionary Visitor August1912 THE CHINESE, A BURDEN-BEARING PEOPLE Anna M. Hutchison. NE of the things thathave impressed usupon coming intouch with the Chi-nese and their cus-toms is the fact thatthese people are re-markable as burden-bearers. They have scarce-ly any horses andbut few beasts of burden, the donkeybeing the principal one. In the interiorthe ox is frequently used for plowing,but even in this, it is no unusual thingto see the Chinaman himself, or two orthree of them, pulling a plow. As we came in touch with Chineselife in the city of Tientsin we foundthat not only was the Chinaman him-self the burden-bearer in conveyingmerchandise from place to place, butalso in conveying the people. Theevening we landed we were borne tothe hotel in rickishas drawn by China-men, there being no other means of conveyance available, and our baggagewas transferred in the same way on atruck. Many times since then have oursympathies been aroused in behalf ofthe poor coolie, as we saw able-bodiedmen thus drawn by them, they keepingup a steady tro
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