A Glimpse Of China. "Caste."

These Chinese toil and yet they do not starve, And they obey, and yet they are not slaves. It is the "free-born" fuddled Englishmen That grovel rotting in their living graves. These Chinese do not fawn with servile lips; They lift up equal eyes that ask and scan. Their degradation has escaped at least That choicest curse of all—the gentleman!