Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1875 — A Chinese Philosopher. [ARTICLE]

A Chinese Philosopher.

Che-Foo-Tsin was a philosopher, as his sayings indicate: 1 should like to see a world peopled with men alone, just to see what kind of creatures they would bepbine, but I never expect to. There could be but one man in it at a time.- He would have eaten all the rest. * I should like, too, to see a world peopled with women alone, but I never shall —1 would not dare go near it. I have some ambition to be a perfect man—but not till after I am dead and in another state of existence, for it is a sad thing to have no character among one’s fellows. . _ I wish I had ingenuity enough to steal without being caught, because it is pleasant to acquire reputation and respect in the world. 1 am told that our breath poisons the air, and that the trees have to keep it pure by sucking the poison out- It seems to me that a great many people are pul into the world for nothing but to make hard work for trees. I do not understand it. There is an awful catastrophe that I am in dread of. I am afraid that we shall learn, some day, to read one another’s thoughts. Tnat will be the end of society and of marriage. We shall have to live alone after that. We knew a man once who did not like to have his name in tne newspapers. I have not seen him sincol was a boy. I think he is dead. When I was young I had thoughts of marriage, and I began to look for a Wife whom all womea would speak well of; but 1 never found her. I have wasted my time.. There was a place set apart in heaven for good wives whp could judge a wicked thing as harshly when a man did it as

when a woman did it; but it has never been occupied, I believe. I foolishly applied myself once to the study pf the law. It is fortunate that I gave the study up, for I should have been sorry to lose all sense of justice. Since my eyes became dim and I do n<jt read any more I find myself growing daily in wisdom. I dreamed last night that I had three friends. How crazy we are in our sleep!