There are certainly times when the Chinese method of dealing out justice excites admiration. The simplicity with which the magi trate at Tachienlu has dealt with profiteering charcoal dealers something that the West may well envy. Charcoal, our Tachienlu correspondent tells us, was for various reasons scarce and consequently dear. Then certain. un: scrupulous dealers cornered and made it still dearer, a veritable calamity in those cold regions. Thereupon the magistrate cornered the dealers and dealt them "several much resounding thwagks behind," after which he fixed the price at what apparently it ought to be,
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