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being the heaviest losers. The British
ha 4 twenty ki lt'd and ninety-three wound
ed. The Chinese troops fled, in what di
rection is not known.
PIRATE YBE'S BIG FORCE.
Man ifirant Pn*n|{* In Appeal to LI
Hang Thnnu.
Hong Kong. July 17.—Lu Yee, the Black
Flag chief, whose forces probably num
bered : 5.000. has obtained permission to en
list 7,000 more.
A significant passage in the appeal pre
•enthd to I-i Hung Chang by the Chinese
merchants and gentry of Canton request
ing him not to leave that city, mentions
that Canton has only provisions for four
months and urges the formation of a com
pany to buy rice abroad and to prepare
to resist foreign invasion and to protect
the frontier.
ALLIES TOOK SIXTY-TWO Gl >'S. j
Ralhrny Will Be Opened From Tnko
to Tien Twin.
Berlin, July 18.—Admiral von Bende
nann, commander of the German squad
ron, in his account of the fighting at Tien
Tsin, July 24, says:
"When the citadel was captured sixty
two guns fell into the hands of the allies."
The German commander also says:
"RegUi&r railway communication be
tween Taku and Tien Tsiri will be opened
on July 28 It was decided to-day that
the senior officers on the station should
have military control of the line until it
could be- handed over to the ordinary au
thorities. The British Admiral wished it
to be handed over at once. The Rus'-.ans
have repaired the line and now occupy it.’’
WASTED TO HOLD EARL LI.
Bnt the Viceroy Dlsregn rried All Pro
tests find Went.
Hong Kong. Tuesday. July 17.—Li Hung
Chang, disregarding all attempts of Eu
ropeans and Chinese to persuade him to
vwnain, left Canton this morning for Pe
kin
Prior to his departure Chinese merchants
end gentry of Canton strongly appealed to
the Viceroy not to leave and presented a
petition setting forth that Canton, so long
the prey to the depredations of robbers
and pirates, had become peaceful during
Li Hung Chang's viceroyalty, but disturb
ances had been repressed with a strong
hand and the people enabled to live with
out being panic-stricken when dogs bark
ed
The petitioners, this paper continued,
learned with trembling that their protector
was proceeding north, and they wept as
at the loss of a parent. The absence of
rebellion and piracy being solely due, to
the presence of Li Hung Chang, the mer
chants were ready to cast themselves be
fore the wheels of his dhariot to prevent
his departure.
LI REACHES HOXi KONG.
Foreigner* Said to Be in Palace of
Prince thing.
Brussels. July 28.—The Belgian consul at
Hong Kong telegraphs that Li Hung
Chang passed through that city to-day
on his way north. Before his departure
the viceroy had a long interview with the
governor of Hong Kong.
The secretary of the legation of Shang
hai telegraphs to-day that, according to
Chinese Information, the. foreigners in Pe
kin have aken refuge in the palace of
Prisce Ching.
OFFICIALS AHE SI SPICIOrS.
Bnt Hope the Report About the Le
irationer* I* True.
Washington, July 18.—Administration
officials and others in Washington are
auspicious of the statements contained in
the Brussels dispatch, saying that the
members of the legations at Pekin were
In Prince Ching s palace. They hope it
3s accurate, but they are disposed to ac
cept it. like much other information com
ing through Chinese sources, with a mark
ed degree of reservation. If correct, it Is
a cause for congratulation, for the Prince
Is well known to be pro-foreign in his
ideas and his influence in Chinese affairs
up to a recent period has ben paramount.
Minister Wu is hopeful that the news is
accurate, placing his reliance on the well
known influence of Prince Ching in Chi
nese affairs.
REBBM.IOX HARD TO STOP.
Caravan of Engineer* Allocked In
Ho San Province.
Paris, July 18.—The French consul at
Hankow telegraphs under date of July 13
that the viceroy admits that he is doubt
ful of his ability to arrest the rebellion in
Ho Nan.
The dispatch adds that a caravan of
English and American engineers and mis
sionaries from Shen Si was attacked near
Slang Viang. A number were wounded,
but it was hoped the caravan would short
ly reach Hankow.
The consul at Shanghai telegraphs under
date of July 9 that the governor of Tche
Xiang, on the vigorous demand of the con
sul, had taken energetic measure* to re
press disorders. A second telegram, dated
July 13, announces troubles in the prov
ince of Ho Nan. Missionaries had been
attacked in the provinces of Tche Xiong
and Manchuria and numbers of mission
aries were Imperilled.
MADE PROPOSALS TO JAPAN.
China Wanted Aid in Wiping On t
Foreign Influence.
London, July 19.-—The Shanghai corre
spondent of lhe Dally Kxpress asserts that
he has ascertained from u unimpeach
able source that when the question of an
alliance between China and Japan was un
der consideration last autumn the Empress
Dowager sent a commissioner to Tokio
with secret proposals to the Mikado.
"These proposals." eays the correspond
ent. “contemplated the conclusion of a se
cret treaty having the object of destroying
til European and American influence in
both China and Japan, the wholesale mas
sacre of foreigners and the division of the
whole of Eastern Asia, from liurmah to
Siberia, between China and Japan. The
special commissioner look a code prepared
by LI Hung Chang and fiheng, for secret
communications between the Empress
Dowager and the Mikado.
"The Japanese Emperor utterly declined
to entertain the proposals."
SAVED PROM ASSASSINATION.
Kang To Wei, Great f'hlneae Re
former la All Iliglit.
San Francisco. July 18.—The Chinese
Empire Reform Association of this city
Dae received this cablegram from Singa
pore to-night:
"Singapore, July 18.—To Chinese Empire
Reforms, San Francisco: Kang Yu Wet
saved from assassination by Sikh guard.
Wire good news to all branches.
“Khoo Seok Wan."
Konk Yu NVel, for whose head the Em
press Dowager of China offered a reward
rf 850,000, has been the Intimate friend and j
tdvlser of Emp.-ror Hwang Hsu and Is ■
tonsldered by the Chinese of the south to j
e the wisest man the empire has pro
luced since the time of Confucius.
This modem sage has been most sue- I
cessful in organization of the Chinese re
form party, and is at present making
Singapore his headquarters, where he en
joys the protection of the British govern
ment. It is claimed by his supporters that
he has a following of at lea*>t 20.000,000
in the southern provinces of China
The above cablegram probably refers to
the attempt made to assassinate Kank
i Yu Wei several days ago. It is an an
swer to an inquiry for particulars.
CENSORSHIP IN GERMANY.
Chinese Legation There I* Being
Carefully \\ a foiled.
Berlin. July 18 —ll is semi-officia!ly an
nounced that Baron ven Buelow. the im
perial minister of foreign affairs, has noti
fied the Chinese legation here that until
’ further notice it cannot bo allowed to send
telegrams in cipher or secret language
: and that telegrams in plain language
. must be submitted for the approval of the
Secretary of State before they can be dis
j patched.
•Inpancße Bench Tnkn.
London. July 18.—A special dispatch
I from Shanghai dated to-day says the dis
i embarkation of 15,000 Japanese troops is
proceeding at Taku
AN ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY.
lllinoln Central Triiln Thrown From
the Track.
Louisville, July 18 -Train No. 102 of the
Illinois Central left the rails near Hill
side, 128 miles from Louisville, at 1:80
o’clock this afternoon and the, road offi
cials are inclined to believe* that it was
the result of another attempt at train i
robbery. Luckily, only the engine and j
mail coach left the track, and as the train '
was not running at a high rate of speed 1
no one was injured.
A sardine can filled with rock* had been j
placed on the track, and when the engine
struck it it ran into the ditch.
John Devlnney was at the throttle, and
after applying the airbrake he Jumped.
The engine was badly damaged, and car.
ried with it the mail car. which fared even
worse. The front end was knocked in
and mail was strewn all over the ground.
The car was pulled to Central City and
sidetracked.
The only damage resulting to the pas
sengers was a shake-up.
CAMPERS NOT HEARD FROM.
Many of Them Probably Drovrned In
the Heavy Flood*.
Austin, Tex., July 18.—Three hundred j
families from Austin, San Antonio, Fort
Worth, Houston and other towns of the
state were comping along the upper
courses of Llano, Guadaloupe, Nueces and
Coloiado rivers when the series of water
spouts occurred in that region two days
ngo. But few of these outing parties have
been heard from since the terrible floods
and fritnds of the missing ones are alairu
ed for their safety. Searching parties
have made every effort to discover the
fate of the campers, but as yet without
success.
Two Lout Their Liven.
Clifton, Ariz.. July 18.—A hand car with
six Mexican employes of the Arizona Cop
per Company, dashed over a trestle on
the twenty-inch narrow gauge railroad
last night, and dropped one hundred feet
to the bottom of a canon. Two of the
men were killed and the others seriously
injured.
Peril'* Qua run tine.
Lima, Peru, July 18, via Galveston, Tex.
—ln consequence of the number of yellow
fever cases reported on various coasting
steamers from Panama, quarantine and
other special precaution* are being en
forced at Callao, the port of Lima. The
mail service is completely deranged.
EaMtiiiiin Wun \cqultted.
Cambridge, Mass.. July 18.—Charles R.
Eastman, the Harvard instructor, charged
with murdering Richard H. Grogan, Jr.,
was to-day discharged by the court.
Thnuk* From Hawaiian*.
Washington, July 18.—The President to
day received a letter from a committe 0
of native Hawaiian citizens, expressing
thanks for "the liberal laws for Hawaii.”
Col. Holiue* for emigre**.
Carthag**, Mo., July 18—Col. J. A.
Holmes of Joplin was nominated dat Carl
Junction by the Congressional Convention
for the Fifttenth Missouri district.
AT THE ENGLISH LEGATION.
I.mly Macdonald's Home In Pt‘k|ii.
Her Chinese Servant*.
From the Now York Tribune.
The English legation Is one of the most
Important In rekin. It stands In the midst
of nearly six acres of land, the fine trees
affording plenty of shade in summer, while
in the skating season the lawn tennis
ground at the club not far off is flooded,
and the members of the legation staff dis
port themselves daily on the lee. untrou
bled by fears of a sudden thaw. The min
ister's own house is built in Chinese fash
ion, having formerly belonged to a native
prince, yet the European furniture and the
thoroughly English air which Cady Mac
donald has contrived to give that one Is
almost beyond the bounds of civilization.
The reception rooms—all on the ground
floor—are large, lofty and handsomely pan
eled with oak, the richly decorated ceil
ings being resplendent with huge green
and gold dragons. Cady Macdonald's bou
doir Is a cosy room, with its deep, low
chairs and sofa, while above the taste
fully draped mantelpiede a mirror reflects
some favorite pictures and Chinese em
broideries, other native curios collected by
her being also In evidence, with many
photographs of friends. A piano Is a con
spicuous object. In short, the house is
completely furnished In English style, na
tive work being merely used for adorn
ment. I,ady Macdonald, it Is said, is ex
ceedingly popular in Pekin, and. despite
the comparatively small European popu
lation (speaking from u soeinl point of
view), she entertains constantly, and has
a succession of visitors from far and neat
staying at the legation. Winter, .however,
Is always Ih. most sociable time with Sir
Claude and Cady Macdonald, as they then
give frequent dinner parties, with men de
cidedly In the majority. Nor are outdoor
amusements unknown In Pekin. Twice a
year raves are held, at which capital sport
is the order.
E'idy Macdonald is present at all social
gatherings, of course, and between these
and the numerous duties associated with
her prominent position she never finds
time hanging heavily on her hands. Nat
urally active, she manages her household
herself. Bhe thinks that the Chinese
make good servants. There are few parts
of the world of which she has not had
at least some slight personal experience,
from the Persian tlulf to West Africa,'
where with characteristic pluck sht ac
companied Sir Claude when he was con
sul general at Old Calabar—a most un
healthy town. Her years at the Hritish le
gation in Pekin are the longest lime she
has resided in any house.
There is one American woman In China
who has no feat's for her safety. it is
Mrs. Annette Thompson Mills, famous as
the founder and teacher of the only school
for deaf mutes In all China. Before her
marriage to Dr. Mills, a missionary phy
sician, Annette Thompson was a teacher in
the deaf mute Institute at Rochester. N.
Y., and when she accompanied her hus
band to China she began to work Imme
diately for the relief of the same class
there.
In the Flowery Kingdom (he deaf mules
were despised and almost disowned by
their families, and were sent out to sit sy
the roadside and beg. Mrs. Mills took sev
eral of these beggars Into her own home
THE MOIiNING NEWS: THURSDAY. JULY 19. 1900,
OVARIAN TROUBLES.
Lydia E. Pinkham’* Vegetable Compofand
Cure* Them -Two Letter* from Women,
‘•Dear Mrs. Pixkham :—I write to
tell you of the good Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound has done
me. I was sick in bed about five weeks.
The right side of my abdomen pained
me and was so swollen and sore that I
could not walk. The
doctor told my hus
band I would have to , j|@S||
undergo an operation.
This I refused to do IVvW
until I had given your 'TwYijtS
medicine a trial. Be- / JSSk '■ m
fore I had taken •• .••'" ,nB
one bottle the Jt*L
swelling be-'M ]■
gan to disap- Jj ’ 1
tinued to use j I
your medicine ——\jJJ 1
until the swelling 7 J l
was entirely gone. If V
When the doctor tf] * _ \
came he was very fScsS—
much surprised to flSy-S-"
see me so much
better.”— Mrs. Makv Smith, Arlington,
lowa.
Dear Mrs. Pixkham:—l was sick for
two years with falling of the womb, and
inflammation of the ovaries and bladder.
I was bloated very badly. My left limb
would swell so I could not step on mv
foot. I had such bearing down pains I
could not straighten up or walk across
the room and such shooting pains would
go through me that I thought I could
not stand it. My mother got me a bottle
of Lydia E. Pinkham s Vegetable Com
pound and told me to trv it.* I took six
bottles and now, thanks to your won
derful medicine, I am a well woman."
—Mas. Elsie Bbya-n, Otisville, Mich.
at Cho Foo and began to teach them what
was possible. Without knowledge of the
Chinese language, she was obliged to use
English in conveying oral lessons for a
time, but soon acquired a sufficient Chi
nese voeabularly to impart instruction in
their own tongue. Her success was so
great that the families of her pupils look
ed upon her with unbounded reverence,
anti new applicants constantly appeared.
She invented a Chinese manual alpha
bet, in addition to teaching use of the vo
cal organs, and trained the native teacher
to assist her The work increased so that,
through contributions from Great Britain.
France and either countries, a large build
ing was erected for the school, with dor
mitories for the pupils and apartments for
Mrs. Mills, now a widow, and her sons.
A stepson, who was born in China, is now
in this country, and says that Mrs. Mills
is so beloved that she would be safe in
the most dangerous outbreak of fanatic
opposition to foreigners.
MEN NVHO WORK IN POISON SHOPS.
Exposed to More Danger* Tlinn Fire
men.
From the New York Post.
A factory for the manufacture of some
of the deadliest poisons known is located
not far from the heart of New* Y'ork city,
and sufficient poison is being made there
now to annihilate the whole population of
the greater city. It is guarded carefully
from all intruders, and no one passes be
yond its portals without a special permit,
and even employes have to be skilled in
their work and the nature of the risk they
take l**fore admittance is granted them.
In this factory is manufactured pure an
hydrous acid, a drug that is never placed
on the mark* t in its pure state, and even
in the chemist’s laboratory it is handled
with all ihe care of a poisonous reptile.
If the fumes of this acid should escape,
the chemist would never live to tell the
tale. The man who discovered it was
killed by inhaling its fumes, and many
another has met n similar death. From
3 to 5 per cent, of this add diluted with
I*7 parts of water forms prussic acid. Even
this poison is so deadly that inhaling its
fumes would mean instant death, and it
is never handled except in the factory or
h few large responsible lalioratories.
Probably next in importance to this acid
is the cyanide of potassium, which is man
ufactured in the same factory, only in an
other part of the building, where a fire
proof and air-tight wall shut.** it off from
the first The fumes of this are not poison
ous, and one can work in the room where
it is manufactured without fear, except
that he must not touch it. The slightest
quantity of ihe poison in its pure state
would kill if swallowed. The fumes of
cyanide of |*>tassiutn have a rather pleas
ant odor, and it is said at the factory that
it has a witching effect on workmen. For
all the world the finished poison looks like
crystallized sugar, and as you gaze on it
and smell the fascinating odor, there is
a strong temptation to taste it. This fasci
nation is probably much like that which
draws a man over a steep precipice. At
any rate, the attraction to taste of the
poison is so well recognized that a work
man is never allowed in the room, alone.
In the mixing-room, where the men toil
before a huge cauldron of molten cyanide,
the scene is like that of some old wifh’s
cave, especially if one knows the nature
of the terrible poison that the men are
brewing.
Nitric acid i* another poison equally
fearful in its results when once liberated.
This j*>bon eats away and through al
most anything, and it can be kept in glass
carboys alone. Break one of thc:-e. and
the factory is doomed. The acid spreads
around and begins to eat into everything
it touches, and incidentally sots every
thing inflammable on fire. No m.in can
collect the acid, and it is almost impossl
ble to pour anything over it 10 cOuntera* t
is effect. As ir burns and spreads around
its fumes become deadly in their effect,
■>nd firemen attempting to put on ihe
flames would suffer therefrom. The
fumes do not kill at once, but if breathed
steadily for i time, they enfeeble nnd
poison the system, so that within twen
ty-four hours and oth conies.
A carboy of i Uric acid was .accidentally
broken erv cal years ago in this factory,
and Ihe arid began to have its way with
out opposition. It soon s'nrtrd the inte
rior of the f i tory on fir*-, tnd it was
eating Its way inro the adjoining room<.
where prussic u< id was stored. Several
of the workmen volunteered to put the
flames out and 10 check the acid In Its
deadly work. They worked for several
hours before they succeeded, and then
they seemed all right, and returned home.
But the next day they were all dead, the
fumes of the add having been Inhaled
and enough of the poi on absorbed to
make death absolute.
The fumes of corrosive sublimate are
as deadly as almost any poison, and In
factories where it is made the greatest
care must he taken to prevent their es
caping. Where it is neccssury for the
men to go Into the room where the fumes
are likely to escape, they are masked
with glass headdress, which enables them
to see. hut not breathe the ntmosphere.
Bure nir Is pumped to them through a
tube, and they are much like flip diver
who explores the sea ho Horn. There are
many other poisons made for commercial
use that are only a little less powerful
than these, but nearly all of them are
diluted when sold on the market. The
danger of using them Is thus minimized,
so ihat one can handle them avlth ease]
of ordinary care is bestowed upon their
proper handling.
- Much More Likely—"ls there anything
about golf in the Old Testament?”
"No. you’ll have to read up In profane
history for that."—ClevtlaT Plain
Dealer.
MELON JAGS IN SLOW6ROOK.
CLD MAN JOHNSON'S EXPERIMENT
STARTS A TOWN BOOM.
I He Rai**n Melons on a W ht*Ly Diet
oml Seem to Like It—Fame of
the Flr*t One Drew Nttention to
Sloishrook. and John*on I* Now
Mayor of the Booming Town.
From the New York Sun.
"You have all seen those jumping beans
the fakirs are selling,” remarked the vis
i king citizens of Slow brook. Now, have
you ever seen watermelons act that way?
Never head of them? Why, the story of
Old Man Johnson’s melons is family his
tory down our way.
"Johnson wasn’t much of a farmer, but
he did know how* to raise melons, and his
melon patch was known to every darkey
for fifty miles around. He took uncom
mon pride in his melons, too, and when
he read in one of the New York papers
about being able to flavor a melon by
drawing one end of a string through the
stem and allowing the other end to
remain in a bottle filled with the desired
flavor, he just chuckled with happiness,
and went down to the station and bought
up all the papers containing the story.
That spring Johnson spent more time and
care than ever on his melon patch, and he
got mighty mysterious about it, too.
"One evennig just about the season that
melons begin to ripen, the crowd around
the postoffh e were startled by most un
earthly cries and yells, and a great big
darky came tearing down the road, run
ning like mad, his eyes sticking out, and
his color about three shades lighter than
natural. We corralled him all right as
he went to dash past, but it was about
forty minutes before w*e could get any
thing but groans from him. We then
learned that he had been out to Johnson’s
melon patch, and, according to his story,
the melons were all alive and tried io
catch him. We thought right off that
Johnson had rigged up some kind of a
* ontrivance to scare off negroes, and as
we were all planters, we started out to
see rhe thing work. We hadn’t gone 100
yards before another scared darkey ramp
dow*n the road, and then another, and an
other. until five had passed us going
about as fast as the Lord ollowed, and
a little extra.
"And them melons! Well, by all the rat
tlers and kings of moccasins, we could
hardly brlieve our eyes. There was a field
of about six acres, just covered with
mashed and broken melons, while in the
renter was the most monstrous big mG n
that ever was. And that melon was going
round like a drunken man; it would go
up on one end. wabble a little and go
over; it would roll two or three times, go
up on the othrr end and repeat the per
formance. That me'on was. as we after
ward found out. 4 feet 9 inches long and
3 feet 6 inches round. It had rolled around
until the ground for half an acre was as
smooth anil hard as a ston®, while the
vine upon which it grew was all twisted
up like a rope and was as big as you arm.
whi’e every other melon in its path was
busted wide rpen. That did look like spir
its, sure, and we just stood and looked
at that thing go bouncing over the ground
for about half an hour.
"Then Harvy, he’s the blacksmith, pro
poses seeing what moved her Well, it
rolled six of us about considerably be
fore we at last got her quiet, and just as
w> were about to cut into tl. up comes
Johnston crying like mad. and threaten
ing to shoot every one of us if we didn’t
let go his big melon. Of course wet let
go. and then watched Johnson. He
wouldn’t have it. though, and was going
to have all kinds of law and buckshot
on us if we didn't move off.
‘‘We smelled a mouse right off when
h p tore about that way, so we pretended
to go home, but after going down the
road ah ut a m>le we fame l ack through
the wrods, and ge'tlng on ihe edge of the
e’earing watched the old man. He must
have expected some such move for he
walked ail around his patch twice before
anything occurred. Then I’m blessed if
the old fellow didn’t bring out a demi
john of whisky and going to a tin pan
half buried in the ground he poured about
a quart into it No sooner had this been
done than that big melon began to topple
toward that pan, and never came to rest
unt 1 one erd was dire tly over it. when
Johnson unwound what looked like a
siring, and let one end go into (he liquo \
“We just couldn’t stand for that, and
out of the woods we rushed, and John
son’s secret was out. The old fellow* had
been growing that melon on a whisky
diet, just as he had read about, and he
had certainly got a whopper.
"He was mad clear through, but we just
laughed and watched that melon. Of
course we told others, and people for
miles around came to see Johnson's mel
on. It brought so many people that John
son built a high fence around it. and
charged 10 cents To see it. The people had
to stay somewh* re, and the hotel had to
build on a four-story addition. Two new*
stores started up, and we got 3k) new su
tlers.
“Then agricultural professors from
Washington and the college's began to
■ ome around, and our women folks took
io pink t as, and began playing go,f.
Things were on the boom, and Johns ,n
had just built anew house, and ha i
money in the bank, when we were all
startled one morning by the* news that
ihe wonderful melon had ceased its gy
rations. And ceased she had; the old man
wept and tore his hair, and fairly soaked
the ground with whisky, but it was no
use. That afternoon wo held a cutting
bee. There were half a dozen professors
anti all kinds of smaller try, and every
one of us had to pay $5.
"Old Johnson couldn’t get up the nerw
to do the cutting, so one of the city dudes
handled the knife. Well, for about an
eighth of an Inch he cut all right, and
then he struck the toughest sort of < ut
iii.g he ever tried to do. That rind was
just like sole leather and about three
inches thick. It took three hours to get
it cut in half, and when it did fall apart,
all inside wiur- the red meat should have
been was a pale amber color, perfectly
transparent and doited all over with little
white sjK)ts. while the seeds weie bright
red. One of the professor chaps said it
looked like a drunkard’s stomach. How
ever that might be, it look and mighty
scary and none of us would last tin
tiling fo. a long time; just tood looking
at it like a lot of fools. At last a fell aw
fiom Washington get up courage, and.
cutting out a ti.ee, tasted it. Well, you
never saw su< h a change conn over a
man in your life. In less than a minute
he was quoting Shakespt are, in three min
u es he was acting like a ship in a storm,
and in five minutes was sleeping off one
■ f the most beautiful jags I ever saw*. One
of ihe chaps i restnt was a revenue man
aid h* wanted to seize ihat melon right
there; said it conflicted with the revenue
law*. That just w< ke up Johnson, and he
told him to produce his old law covering
nr lons, and of course he had him tight
enough th n
"It was agreed that each one present
could have a piece of melon to take away
Work is Easy
when you eat
Grape=Nuts
the fascinating
Brain Food
with him. but that all the seeds should
go to the old man In cutting up the
melon some of the seeds fell on the whisky
soaked ground, and no sooner had they
touched it than each and every one of
them began to do the greatest stunts in
tumbling I ever witnessed. Well, that
just made us all wild for the seeds, but
Johnson bad about all of them In a big
bag. and only about three of us were able
to get any. and no kind of threats, plead
ings or bribes would make, him give up.
With the end of the melon all the city peo
ple began to leave, and the boom kinder
left the town. There was nothing else
talked about for months but Johnston's
melon, and he was elected Mayor and was
pointed out to ail the new drummers who
struck town.
“The incident rather died out until the
next spring, when Johnson built a ten
foot board fence all around a ten-acre lot
and posted it all over with signs about
1 trespasser*. We just knew what that
meant, and it wasn’t three days before
all the boards in the county had been
bought up and on every farm you’d see
a fenced lot, and knew right off what was
behind that fence. That spring there was
c a call for whisky that the price just
doubled and the whole county smelled like
a mash pot.
“The men folks just seemed to disap
pear, and when you did meet with one he
just pulled his hat down and pretended he
didn't see you. It just nearly disrupted
the whole community. Every single one
of them was so afraid that his neighbor
was going to get a little ahead of him
that people who had been friends for
twenty years got so they didn’t speak
and, each blamed the other for trying to
take the bread out of their mouths.
"Farming went to the dogs, and there
wasn't enough raised to feed the chick
ens. An-1 when melon time came you'd
have thought that the people were all
crazy. Something had surely gone wrong,
for every mother’s son of them had just a
field of ordinary every-day watermelons.
They were such a drug on the market
that no one would cart them off, to say
nothing about buying them. All this time
Johnson had kept pretty quiet, but one
day he came into town with half a dozen
big melons. Now, would you believe it?
Every one of those melons when left alone
would roll and tumble around just like
they were possessed. You bet those mel
ons were bought up quicker than scat at
120 each, and for one week the whole town
was melon drunk.
"To sum up the whole affair, Johnson
sterns to be about the only one who can
raise those melons* He has become rich,
and has made the town rich. We have got
a dozen hotels now, but still we are crowd
ed. We are getting people from all over
who want to try a melon spree, and If
the tempcranA* people don’t dig up some
old law covering the case, w*e will all be
millionaires before five years.”
EMPRESS AND LI HI XG CHANG.
How They Met When One Wu* a
Sluve nml the Other u Sailor.
From ihe New York Herald.
Kuan Foy, a scholarly Chinese mer
chant, and one of the most prominent
members of his race in this city, yester
day told the history of the romantic rise
uf the Empress Dowager from the lot of
a slave girl, and of her first meeting w.th
Li Hung Chang while he was a poor sail
or lad on a river boat and she was on her
way in bondage to the imperial city in
which she rose to supreme powtr.
Now, the resident manager of Yu Lung
& Cos., a large importing firm, Kuan Foy.
in his native land of mystery and millions,
was a military otficial. So far as may
be in his own words his story of the Em
press and the statesman is here repeated:
"Tuen, the Dowager Empress of China,
was once a slave. Hf-r story is strange,
and one of the most remarkable featurej
of ii is that Li Hung Chang. China’s
greatest man, was at the same time a
rough, ignorant sailor lad. earning a liv
ing on one of the boats of the Hun-Ho,
and that to the slave girl fell (he chance
• f rewarding him for a very brave deed.
Htrange, indeed, that these two met by
chance while both w*ere in obscuritv
should rise to play tw*o such different and
important parts in w*ha.t promises to be
(he last scene of the drama of the Chinese
Empire or at least of the Manchurian
dynasty. The events of the past year point
w.th certain finger to the end.
‘Tuen, being a girl chi and of a Manchu
:im low grade official, suffered the con
tumely of Chinese females. How’ever, her
feet were not bound, and to this fact, a
sotningly minor circumstance, the great
ihings in Chinese history for the last fif
y years are due. If her feft had been
bound she would never have risen from
slavery to the rule of the empire.
"A rebellion in her father's Yamen dis
trict rendered her family destitute, and
though but eleven years of age she pe
titioned her father to sell her as a slave
so that her brother might be educated ami
her mother fed. Her father consented and
sold her to the then viceroy of his district,
and little Tuen passed away from her
family, never to know them again until
years later her agents sought out her
brother and she took him to live inside
the Imperial city, though she could not
take him within the Purple Forbidden
city. He was made a Manchurian prince
and received great estates.
"Soon offer she was taken into the Vice
roy’s household she heard her master
mention an elaborate tunic he had seen at
court. She listened to his description of
its elaborate embroidery, and twelve
months later her child's hands had finish
ed one which was a duplicate by and
- ription. The Viceroy was astonished and
asked her to name any wish she had and
it should be granted.
"She hesitated, and then, kneeling at his
fc t,begged to b taught to ruad. He told
.'T that it was impossible for a girl to
barn to read. She said It was not her
fuuß that she was born a girl, and that
the gods had been cruel to her. The Vice
roy was so impressed with her request,
however, that he sen 4 for masters to be
-in instructing her. and to his astonish
ment they found she already knew* much
and was well along, self taught. She
mastered Manchu, Mongol and Chinese
nd there are some who say that In the
last ion years she has added English
socket I y.
"The Viceroy was very proud of his
clever little slave, and as she was de
velop ng into a comely damsel he sent
her as a- ompllmentary gift to the Em
peror. She became the favorite slave of
the father of the present Emperor, and
when his mother, the Imperial consort,
died she became the Empress and saw to
his brlncing up, and was regent of the
< mpire following her husband’s death un
til she took the reins of government from
Kwang-Su’fc hands, less than two years
ago.
"While she was on her way to Pekin
occurred the Incident in which LI Hung
Chong figured. The party conveying the
pretty littlf* slave girl In a sedan chair
had occasion to cross the Hun-Ho river
and on* of the young men fell off the
boat He wa drowned, ami Tuen em
plorcd the boatman to save him, offer
ing a ring she wore as a reward. Li
plunged Into the muddy current, and with
n fine muscular effort saved the drown
ing man. gave him the ring, and
many years afterward recognized it on
the hand of an official who came to court.
He had von his way up thiough four
teen degrees of officialdom, und since she
was then Empress regent and she had
found him he wus very quickly advanced
to the first i lares of the land.
"Degraded time and again. It has never
lessened his influence, for his mind and
might are the greatest in the Middle
Kingdom.
"From the day the slave girl Tuen en
tered the walls of the imperial city, a
tract within Pekin about six miles square,
she has never left It up to the present
time, and there are no Chinamen but the
very highest offidnls who have ever seen
her in the last twenty years, for in her
section of the vast enclosure she has liv
ed aJone. exoeput for eunuchs and ladles
In waiting, the latter some 3W in num
ber,”
Most everybody knows
something about
Old Virginia Cheroots
as 300,000,000 of them are being
smoked this year. Ask anybody about
them, if you have never smoked them
yourself. They have made their
own reputation and their own place
in the cigar trade, wholly on their
merits. Three good smokes for five
cents, and no waste !
Three hundred million Old Virginia Cheroots smoked this
year. Ask your own dealer. Price, 3 for 5 cents. 6
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READ THE FOLLOWING TESTIMONIALS
Rowlinski. Pharmacist,
Broughton and Drayton Sts.,
Savannah, Ga.
July 5, 1900.
Columbia Drug Cos.,
Savannah, Ga.:
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truly,
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t
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FROM THE MORNING NEWS. SAVANNAH. GA
The Constitution,
Atlanta. Ga.
Woman’s Department.
Mrs. Wm. King, Editor.
480 Courtland avenue,
Atlanta. Ga., April 26, 1900.
Columbia Drug Cos., Savannah, Ga.:
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