The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, July 19, 1900, Page 6, Image 6

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6 REPORT FROM SEYMOUR. Continued from First Page. 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 NOTHING LIKE IT! There is nothin? on earth to equal “Infants' Friend Powder." 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