Show EXCITED CELESTIALS 4 a 3Iad Mongolians Want the lights and Liver of Jim lung For ways that are dark And tricks that are vain The Heathen Chinee is peculiar HERALD reader will doubtless i rememoer that not long ago a I Chinaman sailing under the euphonious eupho-nious soubriquet of Jim Lung and purporting to speak for the entire resident Chinese population of the town asked the City Council by petition to select a spot of ground in the suburbs where the washhouses wash-houses of his people might be permitted per-mitted to flourish under their own vine and fig tree with none to molest mo-lest or smell the effluvia It may also be called to mind that this petition pe-tition among other things attempted attemp-ted to give a scientific analysis of the ingredients of common soap to prove that wh3n exposed to the elements in the form of wish house refuse there was nothing so deadly and wound up with the modest request re-quest inasmuch as those more immediately im-mediately interested were entirely willing and for the general health of the peoplethat the Chinese be required to prosecute the soap and water portion of their business in a locality remote from the haunts of menThe men-The sentiment of this petition was universally applauded as it bad for its object the abolishment of one of the greatest nuisances from a sanitary standpoint with which the city is afflicted and all citizens congratulated each other in the assurance that an evil which if allowed to continue threatened to breed a psstilsLce in the very air j a was to be speedily peaceably and effectually abated and that too by and with the consent of the evil breeders themselves The committee commit-tee who reported on the subject in sympathy with the general impulse and recognizing the necessity of a regular washhouse exodus recommended recom-mended that a suitable place be chosen at once Two or three weeks then elapsed and the public had no more than cast the subject into the wastebasket waste-basket of forgetfulness so to speak than it was surprised one bright Wednesday morning to read in THE HERALD that another petition on the same subject had been submitted sub-mitted to the Council the nature of which could not be considered con-sidered to be in the strictest harmony with its more acceptable accept-able predecessor In brief in this second manifesto all the coppercolored menials of soapsuds and opium within the commonwealth common-wealth proclaimed to the public in general and Mr Lung in particular that the impression relative to their being united in a common desire to emigrate to the environs aud thereto there-to prosecute their washee washee to use the suggestive and rythmic parlance of one ef the petitioners was all boshee boshee Furthermore Further-more they went on to say that so far from being in sympathy with the move they were diametrically and allee timey samey opposed to the idea and concluded with the gentle insinuation that if Jim Lung and his coagitators desired to be consigned to the solitude of the Jordan Jor-dan swam ps they were not aware that any of them would ofier any serious objections The committee in reporting upon the latter communication com-munication stated that no new circumstances cir-cumstances or conditions to their knowledge had arisen since the former for-mer report and therefore reaffirmed their previous determination that the Chinese must go It has taken all the time intervening inter-vening between the acceptance of this final report on Tuesday evening even-ing last until yesterday ior the Chinamen to ascertain that they had been sat down upon but immediately im-mediately the intimation came to them Jack Fong the leader of the opposition party and head signer of the remonstrance to the removal immediately drooped his washboard wash-board rolled down his flowing sleeves and went over to the Giddy Hall to shee about it Jack runs a wash house a couple of doors east of the rhea re and from a weather beaten sign which is fastened over his front door the passerby may learn if he chooses to look that his is a Good Laundry Laun-dry He has been in Utah as long perhaps as any other China man here and has made and lost a number of small fortunes in the various mining camps in the mountains moun-tains surrounding this valley He is quite literary in his tastes al shaving I s-having a shop full of Chinese news pipers some of which are published I in California and others hailing clear from the land of his nativity He can aso read and write a little English and is often called to act as i Interpreter in police court trials wherein his brother heathens are concerned By reason of these varied and versatile accomplishments accomplish-ments Jack wields considerable influence in-fluence among his fellow Celestials which very naturally puffs him up with pride to the extent that he wears riveted overalls and sits in the firat circle at the theatre When Jack appeared yesterday morning about 7 oclock at the City Hall he had a pale anxious look upon his Mongolian ccuntenauce and a much worn badly soiled SEMIWEEKLY SEMI-WEEKLY HERALD clasped tightly in his clenched but quivering hand He waited till the man who is let out of jail long enough to clean up I the offices had made four fires and lLio ULUU LJQU uJuuo VI4A UAU I then presenting the paper to him in a husky voice demanded an explanation ex-planation The utility roan was unable un-able to give the requisite satisfaction being a deaf and dumb Danishman and so the irate son of Shemtor was it Ham or maybe Japhet returned re-turned to his wash tub and took his revenge out on anoblivious gen tlemans linen Later in the day Jack found sufficient suffi-cient of a crowd of police court idlers disengaged to give him a hearing and so clearing his throat and looking as homely as a pile of adobes he produted the tattered remnant of a newspaper and asked what it meant Upon being told that the City Council stated in the paper that all the Chinamen must vacate and there was no help for it Jack fell to execrating the cause of all the trouble viz his fellow countryman Jim Lung and intimated intim-ated in the course of his remarks which however were heated ana should be taken with allowance that certain white Mellicin men bad given Jim Lung money to sign that first petition to the City Council Coun-cil that Jim was a bad character and smoked opium all the time that he never did any work but had recently had plenty of money and none of the other Cinnamon knew where he got it He said further that the Chinamen were all very angry at Jim Lung held meetings every night and some of them had threatened to kill Jim Lung The question now arises if the statement of Jack Fong is correct what possible inducement could there be for any Mellican man to offer a Chinaman money to sign a petition for the removal of washhouses wash-houses from the center of the c ty One of two things is certain a man who would take the trouble to do Such a thing is either a great phil anthrophist or an arrant rogue |