Show TRUE STORY OF AH GOO t Mystery Concerning Her Disappearance Disappear-ance Is Cleared Up t WILL BE A MISSIONARY + GOES TO SAN FRANCISCO TO BE EDUCATED t When Her Course Is finished There She Will Go to the Land of Her Birth and labor With Her Own People In the Cause of Christianity Christi-anity + t The cloud cf mystery that has en vcM > ed the disappearance of coquettish Ah Goo th belle of all Chinatown has been dispehod All Goo is today in tile Womans Hl cue Home She will soon 3ea e fr San Francisco to be educated for missionarj work There is a pathetic i side to the story of how sne got there what she is du ing there uid where she is gOing hen she leaves 1 is withal a plain simple little history hidi shall 0 recorded hlst licit hut it shows that in the heart of I the gay little woman beats a desire to lead a better life to get away flora her sinstained surroundings and by example and precept to induce others to do likewise lkewisE As there is a beginning to all srcries so there is a beginning to this latest begnnln chanter In fie life of Ah Goo Some weeks ago the ladies of the Womans Rescue Home were somewhat astonished aston-ished at ipceiving a call from Ah Goo Hhe frankly stated to them in her ht frnkl ouaint pigeonEnglish that she wished to uailt do something for her people Phe nd Hved In squalor and wretchedness in depe joints in gambling houses where < onre ran its repellant course unbridled and unchecked lired of Her Life The day tame when Ah Goo sickened rf such thine1 Her husband Charlie San Francisco Boy had gone out to Noone vias left to watch over or are for the young wie She had friends it is true but they were rionds o r vhom Ah Goo had tired Days and nights she spent in thought and at last her determination was made fche ashed the omans Rescue Home to receive her knowing tint the rooc women in charge of that institution draw no color line and make no race distinction distncton their principles the ladies received Ah Goo When she announced her wish to become a missionary and labor among the men and women of laor hP ovrn country the Rescue Home authorities decided to give her all the aid in their power The girl freely confessed con-fessed her ignorance of the method of teaching about what she called the Christian God Me saee him she Chrstan ire no know how to teach liim Here was the first difficulty out the ladies set about overcoming i In the meanwhile Chinatown was fairly sizzling with gossip and curiosity about Ah Goos disappearance The girl had said nothing to any of hPr people about her newmade plans She lad Quiet dropped out of iheir lives and their circle and hoped she would promptly be forgotten Instead had Ah Goo been a princess of the Celestial realm there couldnt have bead more ream of tongues ever her passing Stones sensational salacious i sorrowful sorrow-ful and significant were circulated bout her Ah Goo Spirited Awa Tew had more than a grain of truth in a mass of falsehood The l cue Home women bee alarmed They feared that Ah Goo might be loated there and kidnaped Concluding to take no chances they removed her to the home of a prominent woman outside out-side of the city and determined to keep her there until the excitement This had in a measure died out Goo course was adopted Yesterday Ah was brought bac to the Home There she is today and there she will remain for an indefinite period The ladies hate decided to let Ah Goo become a missionary To this end they will a soon a funds are secured where she send her to San Francisco will be placed in the Methodist Missionary Mis-sionary Training school She will stav there until she has acquired a sufficient knowledge of the methods of teaching Christianitv to mae her services valuable val-uable in the Chinese mission field Then she will take ship for the land of her birth and Plum Alley and Salt Lakes Chinatown ill know her no more forever for-ever Such In brief is the story of the ds appearance of Ah Goo over which Chinatown has wondered for nine days hat Charlie Boy will do or say when he hears of i is a matter of supreme su-preme indifference to the Rescue home women and 1 is said to Ah Goo her telf Chancy may rave when he comes back from the coast he may lash him hei < with his pigtail and swear Chinese oaths but if her present determination holds good he will never again clasp Ah Goo to his bosom and call her his own clear little wire The Rescue Home Side One of the Rescue home ladies whoa who-a been much interested in Ah Goo i < ud yesterday that she could not un eer = tand why such a hubbub was bin red up oer her dropping out The jirl is over 21 years old she continued and is a perfectlj free agent She has a right to come and go as she pleases and nobody can say nay to her She chose to come to us and we Irk her in The Rescue home was not l > aiH and is not maintained for the Umation of fallen white women 11ne We take in all classes colors dud conditions of girls and there was no reason for us to draw the line in this case Ah Goo professed a desire to reform and to help others to refoim She said she had embraced the Chris Tian religion and we are going to do 1 we can to speed her in the work bne wishes to undertake There wouldnt have been any ne cesfcity for or any attempt at concealment conceal-ment if the Chinese population hadnt raised such agrgv We feared an attempt at-tempt might 0 made to steal Ah Goo away from us and E we sent her out of the cty to the house of a friend for I n day or two She js j back now though und will stay until we get enough mosey lo end her in the care of some i > oti > to IK fcflectad later to San Francisco Fran-Cisco I wouldnt do to send her by herself for she might be spirited away Ko I w on t tell you here we concealed con-cealed All Goo when the excitement was at its height I I did it might r deprive as of the opportunity to use the same place again should the occasion oc-casion arise I think Ah Goo is sincere In her de r sir to lead a better life She seems t anxious to learn enough to become a t inlesionarj and evinces great enthu biasm over her prospect for working f among tim people of ner native land t Ah Goo came to us entirely of her own I free will She is not now being detained de-tained against her will and never hash i storj has-h n That is all there fs to the A Life of Romance Ah Goo has led a life of romance stranger than fiction if the story of i one acquaintance is true It seems that she Is the woman who created so tat r much trouble for a steamboat captain lR running his boat Into San Francisco ficn the arrival of the little woman aThat place the authorities refused to allow her t land and she was C transferred from the ocean steamer to the coaster and went up to Victoria where she again was refused a landing land-ing by the Canadian officers In the meantime her friends in San Francisco ttutercd a protest stating that she was the wife of a Chinese merchant and I as such should allowed to land By this time the boat had returned from the north and was ready for another trip before the n ate was settled and when he sailed Ah Goo went along This was kept up for three or four trips but at last the Chinamen won the day and she landed Shortly after this she was sent to Denver where Roy I bought her |