be repeated from time to
time till the debt is paid. In case the creditor violently seize the
debtor's goods he is liable to eighty blows. In order to the collection of
debts, it is customary for creditors to enter the houses of their debtors
on the first day of the year and pronounce their claims with a loud voice,
and continue there until they are reimbursed. It is said that this teazing
proves a successful method of collecting debts; inasmuch as the debtor,
fearing that something may befall the creditor while in his house, and,
therefore, suspicion fall on him, he is moved to use all possible
endeavors to answer the demand. Women are sold in marriage and the highest
bidder takes them. Their government is patriarchial and despotic. The
emperor is styled Holy Son of Heaven, Sole Governor of the Earth. Their
religion is paganism."

Zell's Encyclopedia gives the following items as true to-day: "Their
husbandry is, to a great extent, nullified by the rude and ill-adapted
implements employed therefor, and also by the smallness of the farms.
Hence, agriculture, as scientifically considered, is but little advanced."
The form of government is strictly patriarchial. The emperor, who bears
the various euphuistic titles of the "Brother of the Sun and Moon."
_Teen-tsye_, or the "Sun of Heaven;" _Ta-hwang-li_, or the "Great
Emperor;" and _Wansuy-yay_, or the "Lord of a Myriad Years," is regarded
as the father of his people, and has unlimited power over all his
subjects. The emperor is spiritual as well as temporal sovereign, and as
high priest of the empire, can alone, with his immediate representatives
and ministers, perform the great religious ceremonies. The bamboo, as the
chief instrument of government, is applied without distinction, to the
highest and lowest Chinese.

The imperial palaces are of great extent, consisting of a series of
courts, with galleries and halls of audience beautifully painted. The
temples differ greatly in form and size. The ordinary temples or
_joss-houses_, consist each of one chamber _containing an idol_. This,
gentle reader, is the store-house of pagan idolatry to which some
unbelievers in Indiana and elsewhere resort for names or titles by which
to designate the houses of Christian worship in our own country. How would
those men like to emigrate to China, where they could have a language that
suits their taste, and a literature and religion about which they have
boasted so much? If Chinese gover