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CHINESE AND THEIR WAYS
IN THE PHILIPPINES.
The Celestials Are Very Numerous in the
islands at the Present Time.
Kept Down by the Spaninrds, They Have Increased of l.nte—They Are
of Divers tirades. Coolies. Petty Mcrelianti, Manufacturers nud
Gamblers) llesides. There Are Some "Chinos” of Wealth, Posi
tion and Respectability, Thou grit on the Whole They Arc
a Bad Lot—Hatred Between Them and the Filipinos.
The Latter Act ns "Chambermaids” in the Ho
tels, While the Chinos ”Do the Waiting.”
Their Presence In the Islands Pre
sents n Grave Problem.
(Copyright, IJHH), by Muriel Bailey.)
Washington* July 27.—The Chinese of
the Philippine Islands are very numerous.
ICever a ship voyages from the southern
coast of China to anchor in the pleasant
harbor cf Manila that does not bring from
llong Kong. Amoy or Canton, a cargo
cl Chinamen. Canton iL only too glad to
si are a goodly number from its three
millions and Amoy would willingly ship
ell of her laboring class, while the Eng
lish in Hong Kong are quite eager to give
t:rm away. If the Spaniards had not de
barred Chinese women altogether and re
fused admittance to any Chinamen who
had not held former residence in the Phil
ippines, the islands would be overrun with
these people. They are the plague, they
can live anywhere and they are by no
means easy to get rid of.
In spite of the strict Spanish laws de
barring Chinese they overran the Philip
pines repeatedly, often through bribing
the Spanish officials, and it was necessary
10 find ways of disposing of the surplus
Chinese population several times during
the Spanish occupaiion.
But for the two years previous to the
r upatlon of Manila by the Americans,
the Chinese did not approve of .he i-lands
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CHINESE COBBLER IN MANILA.
as a place of residence. Indeed, they re
turn* and to their own overcrowded land in
great numbers. Conditions were such that
t; ey were prevented from trading:, gjmb
ling was at a low ebb and their lives were
in danger from bo h Spanish and Filipiro
armies. But no sooner had the Ameri
. ans planted the S'.ars and Stripes over
the places wi*i*re the red and yellow had
been, then the Chinese crowded the ships J
aid demanded admission and protection i
under the emblem of the free. Some of
the ships that took that two and a ha f |
days’ journey across the turbulent China j
s a, separart ng the China coast and the
3‘hilippines, bore cargoes of such ill con
ditioned creatures and such quantities of
garlic that it would have caused a whale
to groan with the agcny of seasickness.
Most of those who arrived in the early
Ftages of our occupation got in and began
to spre.id These were chi-flv of two
trades—the petty merchants and "coolie”
or laboring class.
The Chinese consul at this time was
very unpopular. His fellow countrymen
complained that he extorted money from
them and he was recalled and another
Font in his place. The successor arrived
with one of his wives and a retinue of
servants and took possesison of the consu
late at 24 Calle Rosario. The house has
been fitted up with a near approach to
actual comfort. The walls are hung with
pictures of his relatives. His ancestors
grin inanely or gaze in solemn dignity
from shelf and cabinet. Beautifully carved
ebony tables and straight backed chairs
of teak and rosewood fill the rooms. He
has one son with him. and they drive the
finest teams that could be purchased. Ev
idently his splendor has awed his compa
triots, for there are no more loud mur
murs of dissatisfaction and they now’ pay
the ten dollars each, which he charges
them for registration, without a protest.
TliroiiftM of Chinese.
At present the merchants crowd the
Calle Rosario, they dominate lnaipo. On
the former their little dry goods shops are
filled with brilliant hued calicoes. Cotton
goods are always their speciality, but they
vary the monotony with silks of the
cheapest grades and ill shaped, Chinese
made shoes. In each of these shops sits
the w’ily "Chino," (so called by the island
ers.) waiting, and wot to the unwary in
dividual who stops to examine the stock,
for he iwll be coaxed with smiles and :e
--luctant reduction in price to purchase
something and he will always be sorry.
The lnaipo merchants are manufacturers
on a small scale as well as merchants.
Wicker chairs and tables, and steamer
chairs and baskets of bamboo and wicker
are favorite Chinese products in Manila
and there are one or two comparatively
good sized furniture establishments in that
district owned by Chinamen. They also
manufacture the famous camphor wood
chests in the shops on the Calle San Fer
nando.
But the reasoning faculties of the
Chinaman are so very peculiar that only
those who do not care, or do not know
will purchase any of his w’ares. They will
fall to pieces or they will be made of
*ome material other than represented or
they will be found wanting somewhere or
somehow’. Even if it would be to his ad
vantage to be honest, with you, the China
man will sell you on false pretenses if
he tn. The alleged camphor wood chests
sr< never camphor wood, although it Is
ns cheap ns any wood such chests could
he made of. The "Vhlno" does not rea-
For > that by cheating you he does not al
v-v enrich himself.
The Chinese "coolie," poor, wretched
"lid despised, has one good quality. He
will work, and that is something you
knot say of the native. On the hot
' ' days, while 4he Filipino ,*lts on his
h®* '■> in the shadow’ of a wall or a droop
ing banana tree, drowsily smoking a eig
arotte or soundly sleeping the hours away,
th** <’hino w’orks on. Bare-headed —bare.
t. altogether saving for very short
and scant blue cotton breeches which ha
impelled to wear, he saws lumber,
° the buffalo carts and works from
f1 ■ ‘glit until dark at all kinds of the
hardest labor.
’ * labor. He Is used as a pack nni-
In md carries weights, by jnf’ans of the
■ ' '• pole over hia shoulder, that seem
hr. sslbte. I have seen pianos. hug°
J’; <ng boxes, trunks, furniture of oil
kin I*. heavy lumber and stoves, fastened
i0 ’he center of a bunboo pole and eor
rie 1 by two coolios. And the poles, rest
ing on tht shoulders, seemed to bs cut
ting through flesh and bone and making
great, dingy red marks.
Chinese (irecd.
Yet the greed for money which causes
the merchant to take every unfair ad
vantage of any with whom he has busi
ness dealings, is exaggerated to a fearful
extent in this lowest class of the Chinese
nation. Personal safety, -freedom, their
wives and children, anything and every
thing they will barter for money.
During the troubles in the islands, the
coolies were hired by the American army
as litter bearers and to do the unskilled
and heaviest labor connected with moving
camp, and repairing the damage the Fili
pino succeeded in doing. They also fol
lowed the camps and hung about endeav
oring to sell their wares. Many of them
were killed, but as fast as one fell an
other took his place. So long as they
were paid their few cents each day the
risk did not matter. At all times dur
ing the war, the "Chino,” with his pack
of goods on his back, pursued his way
through city and country districts and he
oftentimes disappeared mysteriously.
But the "Chino” has not one whit of
courage in his mnke-up. Greed is his sin
gle characteristic. His other characteris
tics comes in natural sequence. Often I
have seen a Filipino strike a China twice
as large as himself and the latter would
slink away with a meaningless grin and
take to his heels if the Filipino followed
him.
The Chinese Intermarry with the Fili
pino women to a large extent. There own
women are not allowed in the country
and the lower class of native women pre
fer them as lords and masters to their own
countrymen. It is very common for a Fil
ipino man to be deserted for a Chinaman.
The former lets the woman support him
and the latter supports her. Asa conse
quence the traces of Chinese blood are
very noticeable in the general population
of the islands.
Nevertheless, the race prejudice is very
strong. The Chinese and Filipino hate
one another with a cordiality’ that is
amazing. The Filipino is a. natural agri
culturist, while the Chino is a trader;
therefore, in any’ business transaction the
Chino will gain advantage over the native
and the native takes a great pleasure in
murdering him sooner or later. Even in
the native courts a Chino’s life was not
valued at more than 60 cents, Mexican,
and under the old regime, save when the
Chinamen w r ere killed at wholesale so that
the highways were actually littered with
their remains, or w'hen dead Chinamen had
influential friends, the bloody demonstra
tions were not noticed at all. A street or
alley’, too short and dark for distinction
by name, which rune for a short block
east from the Calle Rosario, and is in
habited by Chinese, almost exclusively, is
considered one of the most dangerous
throughfares in the city. Pedestrians take
to the middle of the road in passing it.
and it used to boast of a murder almost
nightly’.
Chinese Gambling.
Every district inhabited by Chinese is
a nest of gambling dens. During the
Spanish days gambling was licensed, and
the raids which the Americans have made
in these places of vice have surprised the
unworthy proprietors very disagreeably.
The licensed cockpits were many of them
owned by Chinamen and the referee at a
cock fight is always a Chinaman or a Chi
nese mestizo.
Before Spain's departure Chinese mer
chants held entire possession of the
opium trade, but since then it has become
unprofitable on account of the excessive
duty and the opium merchants have re
turned to China, or undertaken other
things, outwardly at least.
During the troublesome times of the re
bellion against the American forces in
the islands, the Chinese might be said to
have been “on the fence." Those within
our lines were apparently friendly. The
wealthier class said and did nothing. The
petty merchants opened their shops cau
tiously whenever the streets were clear,
and the peddlers and coolies made what
money they could out of the army. There
were crowds of followers, too, who loot
ed houses and stole everything not guard
ed by a gun. After a time it was discov
ered that these Chinese followers had
picked up empty shplls and sold them to
Insurgents. Following that discovery
neither native nor Chinaman were al
lowed to approach within a certain dis
tance of the rear of our army unless
they were workmen in the charge of a
guard.-
Thelnsut gents also made extensive use
of coolie labor. The trenches which they
occupied were dug by Chinamen, some
of the petty officers In the Insurgents' ar
my were of the Chinese persuasion, and
Aguinaldo's chief advisor and an able
one, too—was a Chinaman. Obedient to
his mastering passions, the Chino serves
wehere he can gain the most. He is
rarely troubled by eonsclentious scruples
either 111 these Islands, or in his own
country.
>ot Confined to Manila.
The Chinese have not confined them
se ves to residence in Manila, but have
spread both north and south and east and
west throughout the I’Wlilppines. To be
sure, the natives in Ihe country districts
have promptly depended with them, but
around the towns they have been toler
ated because they will work, and a cer
tain amount of labor is necessary in eplte
of the lndiff*r*nce of the native. In the
northern portion of Luzon—the pert hor
d r ng on I-Ingayen Gulf, with Dagspore
as its larg’ st city—the population Is more
than one half Chinese The people are
nearer the Chinese in physical propirllons
H nd their language—or dialsct—differs
from the Tagal This is explained by old
residents In the island, who say that some
years ago -here was an uprising against
the Chinese In and shout Manila, and
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. JULY 29, 1900.
Yes, Good Things
will sell. In proof of
J which we assert that
each year,as the months
roll around, the sales
show a handsome in
crease over the corre
spending months of
' previous year.
POLDCROty)
p|H CROW
I'ryel rye
B.Kirk&Chi is the favorite. The
Jj qualify is there.
H. B. KIRK & CO.,
Sole Bottlers. New York.
S. GUCKENHEIWER’S SONS,
Distributors, Savannah, Ga.
that a few Chinese escaped and, landing
from a small boat on the ccast. final.y
intermarried wirh the native women and
founded the city which is now the term
inus of the Manila-Dagupan Railway. But
these fellows were the strongest in their
denunciation of Americans, and the most
eager to light, moreover they held out
well, for they have only surrendered in
the last month or so.
The Chinese coolies live about as wrell
as the lower class of natives. A dozen
sleep in one room or twenty if the room
is large enough. They are not clean. Once
in a wnile you wilt see them wetting their
feet because the sun and hot stones have
blistered them. Their heads are bare, no
matter how intense the sun’s rays are.
They live cn pork and nee and stale fish
and are more or less diseased in body on
account of their food and their ways of
living.
The Chinese cemetery, n very short
distance from the famous La Lonea
Church, was used by the insurgents on
Feb. 5, 1899, in an attempt to drive back
the Pennsylvania and Montana regiments.
It stands on a hillside. Long white
mounds are made of white washed clay
and cement and the deed body in its box
is put in, head downward, and the end
of the mound sealed tightly. These
mounds made excellent barricades against
the troops advancing up the hill.
The merchant class is far inferior in
numbers to the coolie class, and besides
merchants and coolies there ore in Manila
numbers of hotel servants and body ser
vants whose “pi&eon” or duty keeps them
in good surroundings and more cleanly
than the average. When the table boys
arrived at the Hotel de Oriente from Hong
Kong, however, they were unmanageable
to such an extent that a battle occurred
in the dining room one night after dinner
wdth table knives for weapon®, and the
Chinese table boys and the Filipino bed
room boys as opposing armies. Results
might have been wierdly disastrous, but
the knives were dull, as usual. Only one
Filipino died the next day from hie
wounds and no Chinaman was killed.
The next night when the manager of the
hotel tried to discuss affairs with the
Chinese steward the latter pushed him
down the stairs. The manager could not
save himself, but grabbed the Chinaman
and the two rolled comfortably to the
bottom, the Chino biting, scratching and
yelling like a fiend.
Well-to-Do Filipino Chinamen.
And again, besides these classes there
are some very wealthy and influential
men, married comfortably to Filipino wo
mpn, living with their families in as great
a luxury as the islands affords, lawabid
ing and respectable individuals, who boast
as good a social position as anyone in the
country, and who are mentally the equals
and morally the superiors of many in the
communities in which they live. Some of
them have sent their children abroad to he
educated. They are Roman Catholics in
religion and are said to be very strict in
their observances. One of the wealthiest
men in the country is Oserior of Cavite,
w’hose son was shot by the Spaniards a*
an example to the Filipinos. Osarios is
worth several millions which he made in
the ownership of cockpits. He is ambi
tious. He offered a million dollars as a
dowry to any American officer of good
standing who would marry one of his
daughters. Down to the beginning of
the year the offer had not been taken al
though one of the girls was an accomplish
ed musician and the other decorated the
whole house with paintings of most
alarming birds, beasts and blossoms.
Tuason, who owns race horses, both Aus
tralian and native, second to none in the
islands, was formerly a Cantonese and
there are many others who, in spite of
prejudices, have made their place and hold
it.
Asa usual thing the Chinese mestizo
men, of the wealthy class, wear the civi
lized dress of the European and the
daughters follow the style of their moth
ers, but some of them—the woman folk of
Senor Tuason, chief among others—follow
os closely as they can, the fashions that
Paris sets.
It is strange to watch them all in the
hours* for driving on the Luneta in the
evening; the Chinese consul with his
prancing black ponies and his pretty Vic
toria, his coachman and footman in liv
ery and sitting at the proper angle, the
Chinese of position with their wives and
daughters, the petty merchants in a guile*
or calesa with one horse, and passing
through it all a drove of coolies urged and
herded by an overseer. Muriel Bailey.
P. P. P, a wonderful medicine; It gives
an appetite; it invigorates and strength
ens. P. P. P. cures rheumatism and all
pains in the side, back and shoulders,
knees, hips, wrists and Joints. P. P. p.
cures syphilis in all its various stages,
old ulcers, sores and kidney complaint. P.
P. P. cures cotarrah, ecwraa, erysipelas,
all skin diseases and mercurial poisoning,
p. P. P. cures dyspepsia, chronic female
complaints and broken-down constitution
and loss of manhood. P. P. P.._ the best
blood purifier of the age, has made more
permanent cures than all other blood rem
edies. Lippman Bros., sole proprietors,
Savannah, Ga—ad
A Receiving; Teller.
A receiving teller et a good bank as id
that he was about to get sick. He felt
tired all time; Bleep did not refresh
him' felt as if he ought to take vacation.
A pharmacist put him on Graybeard and
two bottles completely overhauled him
and made him about as good aa new.
Get Graybeard at all drug stores. Gray
beard pills ere treasures—3so the box.
Respess Drug Cos.. Proprietors.—ad.
Cider.
We have a nice line of cider In bottles,
pure and genuine, from the celebrated
establishment of Mott & Cos., of New
The Russet Cider and the Crab Apple
Cider are very good. Lippman Bros., cor
ner Congress and Barnard streets, Sa
vannah, Ga.—ad.
American Whiskies.
Lippman Brothers carry In stock tha
most noted brands.
Antediluvian is a celebrated whiskey,
bottled by Osborne of New York, ana are
safe In saying It Is one of the best
whiskies in the city.
The Peoria Kye Whiskey, bottle In bond
by Clark Bros, of Peoria. HI., 1# also s
fine wiuekey.
The Perries* wh.skey, bottled In bond at
Hendersonville. Ky., being under the su
pervision of the United States government,
insuring purity snd strength.
Uppman Bros, are wholesale druggtets.
but they Intend to retail thtss One whis
kies ad,
Canal and Donal
and Taig.
By SKI MAS MneMWCS.
Author of "Through the Turf Smoke,”
"In Chimney Corners," Etc.
Copyright, 1900, by Soumas MncManus.
Once there were three brothers, named
Conal. Donal and Taig. ami they fell out
regarding which of them owned a Held of
land. One of them had as good a claim
to it as the other, and the claims of all of
them were so equal that none of the
Judges ever they went before could decide
in favor of one more than the other.
At length they went to one judge who
was very wise indeed, and had a groat
name, and every one of them stated his
case to him.
He sat on the bench and heard Conal’s
case and Ponal’s case and Taig’s case, all
through, with very great patience.
When the three of them had flnished he
said he would take a day and a night to
think it all over, and on the day after
when they w’ere all called into court again,
the Judge said that he had weighed the
evidence on all sides, with all the deliber
ation it was possible to give it. and he de
cided that one of them hadn't the shadow
of a shade of a claim more than the oth
er. so that he found himself facing the
greatest puzzle he had ever faced in his
life.
"But," says he, "no puzzle puzzles me
<r
cr; . * AtvvVaxA,
BY DRIVING A NAIL EVERY TIME IIE LIFTS HIS FOOT.
long. I’ll very soon decide which of you
will get the field. You seem to me to ho
three pretty lazy looking fellows, and I’ll
give the field to whichever of the three of
you is- the laziest.”
"Well, at that rate,” says Conal, "it’s
me gets the field, for I’m the laziest man
of the lot.”
"How lazy are you?” says the Judge.
"Well,” says Conal, "if I was lying in
Ihe middle of the road and there was n
regiment of troopers coming galloping
down it. Id sooner let them ride over me
than take the bother of getting up and
going to the one side.”
"Well, well," says the Judge, says he.
"you are a lazy man surely, and I doubt
if Donal or Taig can be as lazy as that."
"Oh. faith,” aays Donal, "I’m just ev
ery bit as lazy.”
"Are you?" says the Judge, "how lazy
are you?”
“Well,” says Donal. "if I was sitting
right close to a big fire and you piled on
it all the turf in a townland and all the
wood in a barony, sooner than have to
move. I’d sit there till the boiling mar
row' would run/ out of my hones.”
"Well,” Bays the Judge, "you’re a pret-
wfcj
f/n*'
SOONER LET THEM RIDE OVER ME, THAN TAKE THE BOTHER
OK GETTING UP.
ty lazy man, Donal, and I doubt if Taig
Is as lazy as either of you."
"Indeed then,” aaya Taig, "I’m every
bit as lazy."
"How ran that be?" says the Judge.
"Well," says Taig, “if I was lying on
the broad of my back In the middle of the
floor and looking up al the rafters, and if
soot drops were falling as thick as hail
stones from the rafters into my oiten eye,
I would let them drop there for the length
of the lee-long day, sooner than, have the
bother of closing the eye."
“■Well.” says the Judge, "that’a very
wonderful entirely," and says he, "I’m
in as great a quandary as before, for I
see you're the thr e laziest men that ever
were known since the world begun, and
which of you Is the laziest it certainly
beats me to ta.v.”
"O, I II tell you what I’ll do,” says the
Judg , "l'U give the field to the .o'.des, man
of you."
"Then," says Conal. "It's me gets the
field."
"How is that," say* the Judge; "how old
are you?"
"Well, I'm that old," says Conal, "that
when J was 21 years of age I got a ship
load of awls, and never iost nor broke one
of them. 1 wore out the laet of them yes
terday mending my shoes."
"Well, well,” says the Judge, rays he,
"you're sur“ly an old man, and 1 doubt
very much that Ccnal and Taig can touch
up to you."
“Can’t I," says Conal, "take care of
that.”
"Why,” said tha Judge, "how old art
gou?"
“When I was 21 years of age,” says
Donal. I got a shipload of needles, and
yesterday 1 w r out the last of them
mending my clothes.”
* Well, well, well,” says the Judge, says
he. "you’re two very very old men. to he
sure, and I’m afraid poor Taig is out of
his chance, anyhow.”
"Take care of that.’’ says Taig.
"Why,” -aid the Judge, "How old are
you. Taig?”
Says Taig "When 1 was 21 years cf ape
I got a ship load of razors, and yester
day I had the last of them worn to a
stump shoving myself.”
"Well," says the Judge, says he, *T ve
often heard toll of old turn.” he says, "hut
anything as old as what you three art'
rover was known sine' Methusalem’a cat
and id. The life of your ages," he says. T
n* ve r heard toll of, and whli h of you is
the o’dest tha surely brats me to decide,
and I am in a quandary again.”
"But 1 11 tell you what I’ll do,” says the
Judge, says he, “I’ll give the Held to
whichever of you minds the longest.”
"Well, if that’s it.’’ says Conal. "It’s
m gets the held, for l mind the time
whin if an an tramped on 4: >at lie Isn’t
to gl\ e it a kick to con ole it.”
"Well. well, well.” says the Juldge,
"that must be a long mind entirely ; and
I’m afraid, Conal. you have the field.”
"Not so quick,” says Donal, says he.
"for I mind the time when woman
wouldn’t speak an ill word of her best
friend.”
. "Well, well, well.” says the Judge,
“your memory, Donal, must certainly he
n very wonderful one, if you can mind
that time.”
"Taig," says the Judge, says he, "I’m
afraid your momorv can’t compare with
Conal and Donnl’s.”
"Can’t it.” says Taig, sayw he. "take
care of that, for I miml the time when you
wouldn't find nine liars in n crowd of ten
men.”
"O, O, O,” says the Judge, says he,
"that memory of yours, Taig. must he a
wonderful one.” Says he: “Such memo
ries as you three men have were never
known before, and which of you hns the
greatest memory beats me to say.”
"But I’ll tell you what I’ll do now,"
says lie: "I’ll give the Held to whichever
of you has the keenest sight.”
"Then," says Conal, says he, "It’s me
gets the field. Because,” says he, "if
there was * fly perched on the top of
yon mountain, ten miles away, I could
tell you every time he blinks.”
"You have wonderful sight, Conal,”
snvs the Ju<Vge, says he, "and I am afraid
you've got the field.”
"Take care,” says Donal, says he, "but
I’ve got as good. For I could tell you
whether it was a moat In his eye that
mode him blink or not."
"Ah, ha, ha,” says the Judge, says he,
"this is wonderful sight surely. Taig."
says he, "I pity you, for you have no
chance for the field now.”
"Have I not” says Taig. "I could tell
you from here whether that fly was In
good health or not by counting his heart
beats.”
"Weil, well, well," gaysthejudge, says
he, "I'm in as great a quandary as ever.
You are three of the most wonderful men
that ever i mot, and no mistake.”
"Hut I'll tell you what i’ll do," says he,
"I'll give the field to the supplest man
of you."
" i tank you/' aa> i Conal. "Than the
field Is mine.”
"Why so?" says the Judge.
"Because." rays Conal, says he. "If you
filled that Held with hares, and put a dog
into the middle of them, and then tie one
of my legs up my back. ! would not let
one of the hares get out."
“Then, Conal.” says the Judge, says he,
"I think the field Is yours."
"By the llevc of your Judgeship, not
yet," rays Dona!."
"Why, Donal,” says the Judge, says he,
"surely you are not as suppie as that?"
"Am not I?" says Donal. "Do you see
that old castle over there without door,
or window, or roof In it, and the wind
blowing in and out through it like an
iron gate?”
"I do," says the Judge. "What about
that?''
"Well," says Done!, says he, "If on the
'stormiest day of the year, you had that
ensile filled with feathers I would no*
let a feather be lost or go fen yards from
the rastle until I would have caught and
put It In again.”
"Well, surely,” says the Judge, says
he, "you are a supple man, Donal, and
no mistake."
"Taig,” says he, "there* a no chance
for you now.”
‘‘Don’t be too sure,” says Taig, says
he.
"Why,” says the Judge, "you couldn’t
surely do anything to equal them things.
Tnlg ?”
Says Taig. says he: "I can shoe the
swiftest race horse In the land, when he
is galloping Ht his topmost speed, by
driving a. nail every time he lifts hU
foot.”
"Well, well, well,” says the Judge, says
he, "surely you are the three most won
derful men that ever 1 did meet. The
likes of you never were known before,
and T suppose the likes of you will never
be on the earth again.”
“There is only one other trial,” snvs
he, “and if this doesn’t deside, I’ll have
to give it up. I’ll give the field.” says
he "to the cleverest man amongst you."
"Then,” says Conal, says he. "you may
as well give it to me at once."
"Why? Are you that clever, Conal?"
says he Judge, says h<\
"I am that clever,” says Conal. "T am
that clever, that I would make a skinfit
suit of clothes for a man without any
more measurement than to tell me the
color of his hair.”
"Then, boys," says the Judge, says he,
"I think the case is decided.”
"Not so quick, my friend,” says Donal,
"not so quick.”
"Why, Donal,” says the Judge, says he,
"you are surely not cleverer than that?”
’ \m not 1?" says Donal.
"Why,” says the Judge, pays he, "what
can you do. Donal?”
"Why," soys Donal. says he, "I would
make a skintlt suit for a man and give
me no more measurement than let me
hear him cough.”
"Well, well well,” says the Judge, says
he, "the cleverness of you two boys boats
all I over heard of.”
"Taig.” says ho; "poor Taig. whatever
chance either of them two may have for
tho Held, I’m very, very sorry for you,
for you have no chance."
"Don’t be so very sure of that." says
Taig. says he
"Why." says the Judge, says he, "sure
ly, Taig, you can’t be as clever ns either
of them. How clever are you, Taig?"
"Well,” says Taig. says he, "if 1 was
a Judge, and too stupid to decide n ease
that came up before me. I’d he that
clever that I’d look wise and give some
derision."
"Taig,” says the Judge, says he. "I’ve
gone into this case and deliberated on It.
and by all the laws of right and justic*'.
I find and decide that you get the field. ’’
Woo Beneath
the Yellow Flag.
By PIUXCE T. WOOD*.
All Richmond had surrendered to Gen
eral Humidity end his torrid solar army.
The excessive heat had driven all, but
those to whom fate had been unkind, to
shelter from the fiery lances of old Hoi.
Toward evening the invader, relenting,
withdrew his main body and permitted a
cooling breeze to relieve the sweltering
populace.
At Grey Manse the members of tbe fam
ily had sought comfort in the cooler air
on the wide, vine bowered piazza and the
serving people might be found seeking the
same solace in the grove back of the c*ook
house. The evening papers were filled
w r lth accounts of victims of the invader’*
fury and told of th© hospitals filled with
persons "overcome by the heat.” But
Madam Grey and her daughter, Janet,
were more concerned about the dispatches
from Mexico. "Yellow Jack” was raging
along the Gulf qpast. The latest news
reported that the villages along the Tula
river had been almost wiped out of exist
ence. The tom|>orar.v hospitals flying the
"yellow flag" at Panuco were overcrowd
ed. Physicians were not plenty and were
overworked; nurses, there were none, but
the natives. Tho newspaper correspond
ent wrote that no news had been received
for two weeks from the outlying planta
tions and that it was feared that the
planters had succumbed to the yellow
plague.
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As Janet Grey read the dispatches to her
mother her face whitened and ill tlie*
tightening lines about her mouth Madam
Grey thought she read the birth of some
new resolve which no opposition could
weaken. Mother gnd daughter sat silent
ly and sadly, hand In hand as the (shad
ows of evening deepened; neither spoke,
it was a long, long communion of souls.
When the moon peeped In among the vine
leaves it found them still there, hand lit
hand. Then as the soft moonlight illum
ined the younger woman's face, and in Hint
pale light there teemed something almost
divine tn the Inspiration that shone from
within the being of her sweet Southern
beauty, she broke the silence: "Mother I
must go to him."
The mother's answer came softly, re
signedly, but with no reproach: "At once,
love. Poor Jack!" Then two pairs of
bands beeamo as one and the pale moon
peeping between the leaves wondered at
two women weeping in each others arms.
Next morning among the passengers on
the fast express (lying swiftly south
ward was a young woman who
might be 25, and whose sweet and
face contrasted strangely with the air of
eager Impatience which enveloped her.
A Gladstone grip at her feet bore the ini
tials "J. O." Sixty miles an hour seemed
slow to Janet.
Five years before Janet Grey, nn only
daughter, had been n student In the New
York’ training ochool for nurses. Not
because she heeded a profession, she told
herself, but because she wished to be ah'.o
to be useful. Jt was a hobby, a firmly
rooted hobby, of a young woman who was
to he some day owner of some of the
finest land in Virginia. So when Jack
Masters, a childhood playmate and the
son of an old family friend, sought her
love and twice asked her to become his
wife, she, though she was very fond of
him, hod twice put him off and had re
fused to consider matrimony as a serious
possibility unlll after she had won h-*r
dlplom tas h trained nurse Furthermore,
she had hinted to Jack that she was not
sui e of his ronsloney and that she had
doubts about his business ability: for.
It was common property that, though
Jack had inherited a most desirable es
tate, the young gentleman had not done
all that might ha expected of him os a
landed proprietor, and that Misters' Hall
was not the hall of the old time. Whether
Jack was at fault or not we are not pre
pared to say. It Is sufficient to know that
Madam Grey had enlisted tinder his stand
ard and I)fed fought nobly for him; but
Janet remained llrin In her resolve, ns
she usually did. ®he said that if he was
of the same mind when she had completed
her four years training aa a nurse ho
might again seek to win her. She would
hear no more on the subject until then
and that, although she hoped that they
would remain good friends, tie must con
sider the subject of love and marriage i
under a great taboo.
In a IU of what he considered righteous
Indignation at this decree. Jack sold out
Masters' llall, purr-ha <-d a coffee planta
tion near the hanks of the Tula river In
Mexico and had taken himself off. Before
his departure he had broken talxso and
had again sought to win Miss Urey from
her resolution, but she remained obdurate.
He left vowing to prove himself a man of
business and that he would return In five
years and would then carry her off
whether she would or not. Five years,
because that time was needed to put his
new purchase In the best paying condition,
also u year longer than Janet's taboo be
cause the young man sought to outdo her
in the mutter of obstinacy. Homehow he
felt sure that Janet loved him. at any rate
she loved no one else.
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always sent his love and respects to
"Mother Grey.” but never once showed
any dls|ositlon lo again break taboo. For
some reason this was not all to the liking
of Mb Janet She had discovered soon
after he loft for Mexico that she did love
him and that prof* sion was not Just what
>he wmted most, after all; but she was
too proud to say so and she completed her
course and became a full fledged sister of
the Red Gross in due time. Early in the
lifth year something had happened. Some
thing geerned to pull strangely at Janet’a
heart string Letters came, but Irregu
larly from Mexico and during the last ten
month- no letters were received from Mas
ters. Two of her own letters remained un
answered and a third had been returned
to bet* by the post office. A letter sent to
the Mexican postmaster brought no reply
nml now tlitsdn uiful yellow fever plague
hud stricken the land where Masters’ plan
tation was located. Was he still there?
Was he in need. sick, or in distress? She
reproached herself for allowing him to
go away Did she for once doubt him and
wonder if the silence meant he had for
gotten her? If so. she had dismissed the
thought at once as unworthy.
Now, as she was speeding swiftly over
the rails toward Mexico, she pondered
over these things. Did she, would he,
think it unwomanly of herself to seek
him unasked? She would not believe that,
for had nj4 her own mother agreed that
she must go nt once. Door Jack, was
he suffering alone out there among
strangers? Was he still alive? If pray
ers are answered surely hers would be,
and da\ and iiiyht she prayed that ho
might find Jack, her own Jack, and that
she find him alive. A long, end Journey
full of hopes and fears, misgivings, doubt*
and fatigue; but all things have nn end.
A final change to u si .11-11 Re branch
road, then the yellow flag and the an
nouncement that passengers were not per
mitted to enter the fever district. A has
ty consultation with i cringlngly polite*
official, and a pass to go on as she wa
,i train nurse. Then the dirty station at
Pan lira, Almost at her Journey’s end—
what would she find? A sense of her own
littleness and helplessness came upon her
for a moment, then was gone again.
Did the dirty little hoy with donkey
cart know where Senor Masters’ planta
tion was? His name was Plppo, he* knew
the plantation, but surely the beautiful
senoritu would not wish to go there. They
said Senor Master* was dead of the fever,
ho would not wish to disappoint The seno
rita, but he had no wish to go to the
plantation. A few silver coins, an ap
peal from two wet, soul-touching eye
and Plppo thought he might drive her
noar the plantation, where ehe might
walk to it if she must. It was useless
to go through, for was not the plantation
des rr*d? Had not Father Antonio, the
priest, said a week ago that the senor
was dying? That was after he had been
taken homo to his plantation to die. Yea.
hi. would t:ikp hor near h* plantation
nml would wait one llttl* hour for hor,
maylw two.
Was her journry In vain after till did
she fool that she had lost him? Her heart
could not he read In her fane, and though,
the eyes shone through tear*, one could
see hope dead there God la good, surely
He will not let me tie too late, she mur
mured.
If her heart wa beinß torn during that
long dusty ride, her fuce ttnve no warn
ing of it. From Tlppo she learned that
Senor Masters had been Iffiprlsoneo foP
nearly ten month* on a false charge; that
he had contracted the fever in t>r!*on. Tin*
real offender had been discovered and had
confessed anil the fienor was set free.
Father Antonio had been kind to tha
Senor, for the Senor had been good to tha
cdiureh ur.d ihe )>oor. II" would not let
an Innocent man die tn prison and had
l iken him home to the plantation to ole.
There a faithful servant had cared for
him, but II week ago the Fattier had said
the Bettor <Valid not live, as his case was
hopele r Surely the Senor was dead, but
he had not seen the priest since. Senor
was a good man and tiad been kind lo
Hippo. Ptppo's heart was sore for the
beautiful sanorltn who hud come so far to
find the Senor. Janet still honed.
mh** left Plppo at the entrance to tha
plantation and hurried to the house. The
place seemed deserted. Then the aound
of a darkey’s voice, u. real Virginia dar
key, singing "Oh! Carry me back to ol
Virginny, to ole Vtrginny shore,” came
softly from somewhere above. Hope grew
stronger and Janet hurried In the direc
tion of the singer.
The sound of footsteps silenced thi
voice and then sh- heard: "De L.iwd be
praised. He done .the de massa. De an
gel babe tome. Peter he hearn her a'
cornin' an’ de angel's Missy Janet in tie
flesh, sure as dis nigger habe prayed for
liar."
It was Peter, good old garrulous Peterl
.She knew Jack was alive now and In an
other moment she was kneeling by her
lover * bedside., The sick man recognized
her. She was there, he was to weak then
to know or tart how, she was there, her
soft, tool hand on his forhead, tljat wa
enough. That night he slept quietly while
jan< t and the faithful negro watched ovar
him. The fever was broken.
It was not genuine yellow Jack, but *
kindred malarial fever. He had called for
her In hi delirious moments and had
begged Peter to talk about her and lng
the old Virginia songs when, the fever left
him for n time.
Janet nursed hlm,ba--k 1o convalescence
with the aid of good Father Antonio and
the faithful Peter. Then the good prleat
married them and with Pet< r they re
turned to R 1 hmond. Health and strength
returned In full measure thanks to tho
skillful nursing of trained nurse Janet.
The sule of the Mexican plantation real
ized sufficient to again seat Jack Mas
ters In the old family home and bring It
back to something of the old time splen
dor.
Olii Peter now guard* the little Mas
ters and often tells them the story of
“how tie good I.tiwd sent an angel Into
the wlldernes down ill Mexico un' dono
saved de Massa." The children like tho
story better than any In their Htory book*
anti make Peter tell It to them again and
again.
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