WHAT COOLIES CAN DO.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 78, 22 May 1911, Page 6

WHAT COOLIES CAN DO.

“A Chinese coolie.” said a missionary, “will carry 10711) forty miles a clay over difficult and mountainous roads. His pay will ho 3d per day, and on this ho will live well enough; eggs, for example, costing only id a dozen in inland China, 'there is no porter on earth equal to the Chinese coolie. The coolies who carry SzechCuu tea into Thibet over snow-choked mountain passes 7000 ft above the sea, with loads of 4321 h of compressed tea on their patient backs. Salt, coal, calico,, copper, and tea are carried by coolies thousands of miles. 'The express coolie, with his light load ' of 1071 b, swings along at tho rate of 40 miles a day. The accommodation coolie, with 1601 b, does 00 miles. The various freight coolies, loaded respectively with 2001 b, 30011), and -1001 b, do 20, io, and 10 miles. Every one of these coolies smokos opium. T hate to go against tradition, but opium . smoking does very little harm in Clii'f.. na. Certainly the harm it docs is in- :: ;finitesimal in comparison with the V harm that strong drink docs to us.