Hankow, Apr. 10.
Family affection of the most i tense kind is still to be found in Chinese homes. In a little house outside Hanyang a family named Yi has lived for many years, The! matriarch had reached the age of 80 years, and was lovingly tended by her son of 60. The patriarch; fed over 50 years ago and, though Wie had married and had sons, the chief thought of this market-gardener was for his mother. It is that from his youth on he had never gone to sleep till his gfother assured him that she was settled for the night. At the recent festival he went with his mother and others on the annual visit to the grave of his father some little Way off in the country. As the Party were returning towards dusk they were suddenly stopped by rob-Bers, Some started to run, and the: robbers fired killing the old lady fon the spot. Having taken what} Jittle the party had the villains decamped, "and. then Yi carried home the dead body of his mother. He told his wife that he would wat teh by it all night, and when she woke in the morning he was lying dead by his mother's side, Some days ago a man landed in Hankow who had made the journey from South China to hunt for brother of whom the family had not heard for some time, The brother was not to be found at the place where he was supposed to be, and the stranger wandering on' the streets. was robbed of the $27 he had with him. He tried begging and failed to get enough to keep himself alive. So he hanged him self from n beam in a passageway the day before yesterday, Fortunately a policeman cut him down time and he was handed to the Cantonese Guild, who will send him back to his home, The strange thing' is that he did not seek out the Guild sooner, for it is wende ful how these ' provincial Guilds maintain their old system of charity.
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