The account which we publish today of the unfortunate experience of two Chinese good Samaritans in an up country district recalls to mind that no occupation is more pleasing to petty officials anywhere near Shanghai than that of Samariganizing the Settlement. As in the instance to which we have alluded. every little community is desirous of having nothing to do with inconvenient imports. A body, for instance, may be washed ashore in. side of an official's particular cir-cult, and as there is no coroner's fee to be reaped but only expense to be incurred in its burial, it is occasionally washed away again If the current is flowing strongly in the direction of Shanghai so much the better, for there is every chance that the foreign authorities will find it, dispose of it, and that it will come back no more. For occasionally such things do persist in returning in the most inconveni lent way. One corpse, which had been poled away from a yamen not so very many miles from here, was especially bad, it returned no fewer than three times. The policeman or soldier on duty at the water's edge always launched it on its career again, but without avail. and finally li speration he towed it out into the er, tied a stone round it, and so finally relieved himself of what was becoming a nightmare. Undoubtedly practices such as that referred to give the local police forces more work than would ordinarily fall to their lot and they must appear at times wondrous Samariten-like to their fellows elsewhere.
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