Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — Chinese Officials. [ARTICLE]

Chinese Officials.

A Chinese mandarin is not expected to have any friendshii's or intimacies outside of liis office, and he cannot encourage visitors within its precincts without laving himself open to a charge of favoritism or comiption. If the inhabitants of a district wish to show their appreciation of an official's administration and testify to his probity, the most effective way in which they can do so is to wait upon him at one of the city gates as he makes his farewell exit, and beg the gift of his official boots, which are thenceforward preserved in some temple as public property.