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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 ’'••.~ ~ ' " ' j ■'. ■■■ V A ■ ■ . Jter*" '>l? gjf *3 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. a t ..... ... —a .1 tl. a .11m .. I. / i ili/i.* % 11 r* r 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. letters passed to and fro frequently during the first four yeara. Young Mailer* wrote all about coftcc MUNYON’S GUARANTEE. Itrong Antrtlona as to Jw Wkt| tLo Remedies Will J • t&fuayca gnarsntMt that hit Rheum* turn Cv* will cur* nearly *ll caac* of rheuma ttam la a few hour*) that hi* Dyspepsia CXir* will cure Indigestion and *ll stomach troubles) that hi* Kidney Cur* will cor* UO per ce*t, of *ll case* of kidney trouble: that hi* Ca tarrh Cur* will our* catarrh no matter how 1 ur af*ndlng; that hi* Utadirbe CUr* will cure any kjad of headache la a faw minute*; that • Ms Cold Cur* will quickly break up any km of oold and no on through the entire list o# r*mrilM At all drugglata, 25 cente a rial. If you need ntdlcnl adrlo* write Prof. Viunjoß, 1505 Arch at. P din. It la abaolutaly free. plantations and tales of the country. He 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. A llellclona Smoke. The Herbert Spencer Is on e'egant elger and Is truly u delightful enjoyment ta Innate ihe lur.-.ea of this ftna tobacco; It la exhilarating and delicious. See that the name of Herbert Sper.cer Is on every wrapper of every cigar, with out which none are genuine. The Herbert Spencer cigar* are “only sold by Ihe box of 60, Concha* at (3.50, and Perfecto*. MOO at Llppcnan Bros., whole salt: druggists, Barnard and Congress streets, of thi* city.—ad. ■♦ , , i To (lie Mountains, In Ihe nick of time. 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