BUND BEGGARS OF CANTON
TIIJiKE are thousands of blind beggars here in Canton, and in going through the city the other day I saw at least 300 of all aaes and sexes. They went in groups of six and eight in single file, and the leader oould see just enough to get along. The others held on to one another's clothes, and all, from decrepit old women to little blind boys, held out little flat, round baskets, and turning up their sightless eyes, asked for alma in pitoous tones. These blind beggars come from the blind asylum in Canton. They go out daily to beg through the city, and they stand in front of the shop until its owner pays them to go away. They barely get more thau the tenth of a cent from a single persou t and inasmuch as the asylum furnishes them but little food they are pale, thin and pitifully ragged. The sackcloth in which the beggar of China is usually clad is of the coarsest coffee sack.
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Waikato Times, Volume 2641, Issue 2641, 15 June 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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173BUND BEGGARS OF CANTON Waikato Times, Volume 2641, Issue 2641, 15 June 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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