A case exemplifying to whst an extreme extent filial piety is practised in China wag seen the other day in the City of Canton. Two brothers had lost their mother, and were without the means of affording her what to to them seemed a decent burial. In ths’r extremity they agreed to the scheme of sells mg either or both themselves to whomsoever might be willing to buy them for slaves. Fol thia purpose they put on th. gsrb of mourners, wearing the coarsest clothes, ana with unshaven heads, having on their backs Xalipa of paper stating their names, age, dis. tressed circumstances, Ac., they paraded the streets, offering themselves to the first maa who might wish to buy them, leaving It te the purshaser to take the choice of the two brothers. Unfortunately for them, though they went afoot for several days, there WM not a single bidder,
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 299, 16 May 1889, Page 2
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149Untitled Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 299, 16 May 1889, Page 2
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