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Show IN HONGKONG-DIN-I- NG WITH CHINESE SWELLDOM The Funny Things One Sees in Smiling Round the World By MARSHALL P. WILDER (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Hongkong is a wonderful city, con- structed on a hillside, with a fine aeries of walks winding in and out about the Peak. When Great Britain grabs a piece of real estate she generally d'splays good taste. Hongkong is as handsome a one as could be found anywhere for i the purpose of showing off a city. In a suburban tramcar in London that I got into the seats were all full !but one very vacant place. Man, very drunk, hanging to a strap, tries to sit down. Another man, not relishing a beery 'Companion, spreads himself all over the seat. 'The jag steadies himself, pulls himself together and asks sobri--etto move up. Sobriety refuses. You're drunk! says sobriety. That's right! replied the jag, 'With some difficulty, Im hlc drunk, but Ill get over it. You're a hie hog, and youll never get over it. The houses and buildings on the Peak were all built from material carried up by coolies, a great number of them women. They receive such pitiful wages that it is cheaper to have them carry it up than to send it up by the tram. When Great Britain and China fell to fighting over the opium trade China got the the worst of it and the English y got Hongkong. They immediately proceeded to reconstruct it according to approved English methods. They even gave it an English name Victoria by which it is known in government circles, but the good old Chinese name is preferred by the masses, even English ship captains who abound in the port giving the royal name the go-bIn methods, customs and sentiment Hongkong is thoroughly English, al- though there are mans to support Americans are ity in Hongkong enough resident Gera very fine club. greatly in the minorand incline to keep to themselves for many reasons. 'Vt-- v To American people who contemplate a visit to the far east a word of warning in regard to Hongkong will ' iiOL'ts amiss, for, while it may not help matters, they would at least in some measure be prepared for the hold-uthey will encounter there. In the first place, no more unwelcome visitor can go to Hongkong than an American, and he is looked upon as fair game. The Hongkong hotel is without exception the worst in the east and charges the most exorbitant prices. The only thing lacking in the makeup of these prices is a black mask and p A pistol. The manager of the hotel, recently a steward on one of the P. & O. steamers, acknowledges that the hotel was a failure until about four years ago, when the opening of the Philippines boomed business for them to the extent that there has not been a vacant room since, yet, in spite of this, American are unwelcome, and are treated with scant courtesy. A feature of the towm are the sedan chairs. There are no horses, with the An Electric Trolley. exception of polo ponies that are never driven, driving being impossible up and down the dizzy slopes of the Peak. It is just as much out of the question for rikashas, so they are only used in the level part of the city along the water front. There is also an electric trolley that runs through this part of the town. The chairs, however, reign supreme on the mountain. They are very comfortable, for the most part like rattan armchairs, with carrying poles laid on the shoulders of two, or four, stout coolies. It is really very pleasant to go swaying along, up and down steia as easily as on the sloping path. We were so fortunate as to see something of the minor social life of the Chinese through the courtesy of Mr. Thomas McAran of Ilonekong. who introduced me to Mr. Wei Yuk, a prominent and wealthy banker and one of the two Chinese members of the English board of governors of Hong-koncMr. McAran very kindly took t i me to call on the banker, and that evening a coolie brought a beautifully engraved invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Wei Yuk requesting the pleasure of Mr. and Mrs. M. P. W.s companj at dinner the next evening. Of course we accepted, as It was a rare opportunity to see the real thing in Chinese swelldom. It was a beautiful affair, and I look upon it as one of the most interesting episodes I have the pleasure of remembering. Of course we put on our best bib and tucker, and were carried in chairs on coolies shoulders up the steep Peak the fashionable residential part of the city to Mr. Wei Yuks handsome marble residence (to say palace would be no misnomer) which is called Brae-sidThe explanation for this name is that Mr. Wei Yuk learned his English (which be speaks exquisitely) in Edinburgh, at whose university he was graduated, being the first Chinese child ever sent out of China to be educated. His house was very English in its appointments, and there were truly Chinese apartments, but we saw only the drawing room and dining room, which were very English indeed. There were present, beside the host and hostess, their two daughters, two sons, a niece, Mrs. Wei Yuk's brother and brother-in-law- , and a few English and Americans. Mrs., Wei Yuk spoke no English, but was very gracious and charming and entirely without the reserve I expected to find in a native Chinese. Mr. McAran told me she was an example of the very highest type of Chinese lady. She was a large woman, tall and stout, and her feet, about four inches long and two wide, were encased in little satin shoes of a color that ladies would call cerise, and embroidered and sewn announced The farce is ended, Cicely, with a high nose, a3 she seated I herself in the auto beside me. don't propose to be made a laughingstock by a mere man. On me, considered I, because of my recent attentions to the Other Girl; but I sheathed my reply in a glittering generality. No girl would, I observed, with outward ostentation and an inward cringe. And the sooner he realizes it, she pursued, as we shot Into the highShe shrugged meaningroad, "well! ly, regarding me with wrath-blaceyes from between two pink chiffon g k curtains. That veil, I hastened to observe, Is about the most becoming thing I ever Baw you we ,r She cut me off with an Icy stare. I took refuge in a smile, and lost myself Jn contemplation of Cicelys dimple. An ominous pause ensued, broken only by the swift hum of wheels over the hard clay road. To the right an endless chain of buttercups gleamed gold in the dapple sunlight; on the left was a sharp, sterile declivity. We skimmed dizzily past, around a narrow curve, down, down, and up again to level ground before Cicely broke the silence. I might as well tell you, she announced, the light of battle in her eye, that I have accepted Jack Ransdale. The devil you have! I exclaimed with unconscious profanity, putting on brakes so precipitately as to jeopardise both our lives. It its sudden, isnt it? I queried, apologetically. Oh, not so awfully, she responded, airily, with a rush of crimson to her Bun-gol- d curls. ' d closely-wri- tten a . LEAGUE I Umpires and President! of Club 8tructed to Prohibit Wagering of Any Kind. MANAGER OF ATHLETICS A' WOFN i DER IN DIGGING UP Betting will not be allowed on the l PHENOMS.grounds of league. pregl dent F. R. Carson halt also instructed his staff of umpires and presidents ol local organizations controlling the the oh. was DYGERt OFbravado would permit. My IS DISCOVERER clubs. It is up to the latter to have viously on the decline; Cicelys went police on the grounds-- , to prevent any up like a see-saOh, I don't know, said she, with Nick Carter, Pitcher, One of the Latest kind of wagering. President Carson is unusually ea shrug. I did' not care about havSensations of Philadelphia Amer" nthusiastic over the Othertatters. to hair fanned my opening of the seing lean Leaguers Connie- Evidently ason, and in an Interview states that wise, I rather enjoyed it. Able to Secure Man He-- Wants the Central is now the Yes, I assented, lamely; yes, of leading B class When He Needs Him. In his inter-viecourse. league in the ; - country; President Carson predicts the think wed better be turning winConnie Mack is a sure enough' greatest baseball year in the history round, she' suggested presently, in a ner. The t late. of the league. tone; its When it comes to digging up bush I am .in a position to understand gray dusk already obscured, her feathe league phenoms, you must hand, tures. the conditions that; go to make up a successfuf season "he says. Each I suppose we had, L agreed, sav. hero medal to Connie Mack needs- ai man to; When year I have added tt my store of agely, for Ive work to do before anstrengthen his team, it seems he other moon. and' the experience him and nine she questioned; politely, knows just where to get Work? that I 'have gained has been invaluable. times out of ten he delivers.. but uninterestedly. This season I am confident every club Connie Mack discovered Jimmy circuit wilUmake money. There "With Ransdale, yes,' I. muttered, oirthe in the Hudson River league and Is not a dead city- ihthe grimly. league, all the to New Orleans for a years weak ones She called the world In a sent-hibfeen eliminated. Jack! having the into him AS the little inarticulate whisper of alarm. seasoning before bringing are men of big. league. And well she might have. much ex, eriencep and as they are Jack Coombs was discovered, by backed' by men who have Exactly, I went on. in a relentless per.ty of of Maine.-JackI mean to grind, him to pulp the old fox ih the wildk voice. the fans on the circuit can money, home Is in Kennebunk,' Me., make this very night. up their minds that they will She stared at me a moment' with wherever that happens to be, and the see a gTeat battle for the pennant. wonderful eyes; then she laughed out- only pitching he had ever done great faith in joining Mack was for Colby uniWhile I am while the Other of umpires: and he says he right. versity. Girl and I are choosing our weapons, would not make an even exchange When Monte Cross showed' that he with the American association. she said, quickly; but her voice broke The to drop out of the irt the league this curiously under its veneer of badin- was about ready games opening majors, Mack started to hunt around age. were patronized by 10,000 per- i He secured Nicholls-froCicely! I cried, with sudden intui- for a shortstop. all towns with the exception of sons, the Southern league, carried him Terre Haute Im sorry upon my word, I tion, being favored with ideal ki never meant a word of it. The whole i year and then made him a regular,, weather. The attendance was the J minor thing was. a humbug; see I am tear- allowing Cross to become ai largest for an opening date since the f manager. league The is in two! letter fact the ing formation- of the league seven years When Rube Waddell' was- sold by She broke in upon my incoherence ago. with a little tremor of laughter. Mack to the SL Louis, team, critics the that over all the country figured looks' as good as ever "Dont, she said; send it to me, pitching staff of the Athletics would instead. The slim manager evl- - j I eyed her with a dawning suspicion. be weak. what he was doing knew dently Are you sure you did' not know all when he made the sale for the Athalong? I demanded. Know what?" She drew back with letics look better than- ever. is playing- fine bail, harmony flushing cheeks. Why, that It was meant for you reigns supreme and the pitchers better than ever. alt the timet I exclaimed; ingenuMack figured tbat Rube' Vickers ously. Cicely studied me solemnly for a was due to deliver this year,, and it Rube' second, then buried her nose in my looks as if the dope informi has been up showing was. great road deserted at this lapel. The ind gives every indication- of becomspot. Dear Dick! she whispered; ing a regular. Bender, Plank, and But but Ransdale? I questioned; Dygert are slowly rounding and several of the heaving reanxiously. Youre going to make sausage out cruits look mighty classy. The latest Mack find' is Pitcher of him, arent she asked, you? Nick Carter, no relation to the- fam-naively. Im afraid my gory Intentions will' jus- dime novel detective. The mem- not avail me my hearts desire now, bers of the Phillies, however, to- testify that his assortment I remarked with great bitterness of soul. I began to shift in my seat, and of curves- is more perplexing than putting on a pretty stiff speed, just any case the original Nick worked' on-Carter was used in the managed to elude a I was piqued with someone when first game of the city series at PhilaI wrote that letter accepting Jack," delphia and made good with a vengeance. The Phillies were ahnt out, she breathed in my ear. It getting only two hits, the first one But, I objected, strenuously, in the seventh inning, doesnt help me out, does It. Nick Carter is a Mg husky chap Cicely crimped up her lips into a and has great speed, good curves I rosebud. dont believe Jacqueminot and an excellent spitter. He wa3 youre a bit glad, she pouted. That I am not, I cried, indfgnant-ly- , with Syracuse in the New York State if you mean that you have prom- league last year and his work made Hopke, the popular third baseman of a big hit with the tall manager of ised yourself to Ransdale! I associat American the Indianapolis She lifted the corners of her eye the Athletics. Mack evidently kept saJ to me for a second, with the gold o him under cover in the south, for he tion team, has shown so far this of- his- last her hair and the pink of her veil blow- received less advance notices than son that he has lost none ter- any of Macks twirlers. Carter, how- years cleverness at covering the ing ravishlngly against her poppy-reHeagain around base. third ever, made" good right off the reel ritory cheeks. third I havent mailed it yes, said she. with a vengeance and now he has all gives promise of being t the fans In quiet Philly whispering sacker of the American association. his name. WHAT IS WASHINGTON PIE? C03B HAS EYE ON BALL It 13 true that the other managers Difference of Opinion as to What pick up star players in the different leagues, but no manager manages to Detroits Great Slugger- Gets, Whirk Really Constitutes It. f get players as cheaply as Mack and wind Start Thie Year, to as them small salaries. It Almost every one has heard of sign Washington pie, but there seems to be 3eems as if Mack had scouts everyTyrus Cobb, champion- batter of the j no agreement of opinion as to what where, for he picks up Btars that no American league and' one of the fast- j member of the pie family rightly bears other manager ever heard of. est runners that ever tried to steal j Catcher Smith, who received Car- a base, has started out this season the name of the Father of His Counter in his debut game, is said to be with a Last year, after j try. good record. j Washington .pie? says the man a great catcher, lie was dug up by the Tigers won the- championship of from Way Down East, wnieh is be- Mack in the Southern league and 13 their league, they were defeated in I yond Boston, repeating your question. m improvement over Mike Powers. straight games by the Cubs for the Cobb There are worlds championship honors. Why, sure, I know it. three layers of spongy cake, with two PITTSBURG TO TAX PIRATES was a rank failure as a batsman in j j that series, and his slump was the talk layers of jelly or strawberry preserves in between and white frosting City May Impose Assessment of $75 of the baseball world. There has f on the top. been much speculation as to whether Per Game. Its bully, too, and I wish I could get it here. he would round to his last summer's But thats not Washington pie, inMayor George W. Guthrie of Pitts- form in this years race and that terrupts the voman from the west, burg, Pa., has refused to accept an anquestion has been anthats simply layer cake. Washington nual pass from the Pittsburg Baseball swered by Cobb himself by his per- j , pie, though, is something like cake. club and refused to allow any of the formance tn the opening game at ChBut there are only two la. ers of city employes to take a pass. icago, when he made a home run, r As a peculiar coincident to his acand a single. cake, and in between is a creamy fillThe young right fielder of the Tigers ing made of eggs and milk and sugar tion Common Councilman Hugh FerAnd you put guson at a meeting of that body introand- a little flavoring. will be even a stronger man this year 'on the an duced ordinance which top. than he was last, according to the wise sugar powdered provides Thats Boston cream pie, chorus that for all professional baseball men in baseball, for his experience last f two persons from Boston Itself, who games played within the city limits a fall will be a good lesson for him, and j speak with the assurance that betrayi tax of $75 shall be paid. Inasmuch as also his experience all through a hard I ; And whats more, we :he Pittsburg team plays 70 games at season like the Tigers went through with their habitat. never heard of Washington pie. Do some, this means that the Pittsburg last year should fit him better tee j you think it fitting to name a pie Baseball club will have to pay a total his work and help him make a finer after an Important historical figure? Df $5,250 for the season if the record. is Tve been making Washington pie Cobb is no accidental player. passes. Up to the present for years, interposes mildly a wom- lime it has paid $150 a year and the a natural batter and an exceedingly an who lives in Brooklyn and isnt city of Allegheny, where the games fast man on the bases. He has just ashamed of it, and my Washington lie played did not make any special enough of the daring about him to pie is a pie and not a cate. I grind effort to collect, as each councilman take a chance when there is one, and with his speed he will get way mor apples into a pulp and mix the pulp was provided with a pass. This year, because of the consolida-;Iooften than he will be caught when yith sherry, and use that as a filling for an ordinary open face pie. The of the two cities, the games are trying to steal. like being played In Pittsburg. completed article looks much Under the leadership ef a manage 1 Barney im ; pumpkin pie, and its the toothsomest Dreyfuss, president of the Pittsburg like Jennings, Cobb Is bound thing I know. club, did not send passes to the prove greatly again this year, and I Now what is Washington pie? of the greater city for the sea- should lead the American league both j son. In a statement he issued re- in batting and base stealing. The Art of Pleasing Them. cently, In refusing to issue passes, The chief thing is to give your husA fan in New York who is handy j Dreyfuss said: band what he wants, says a woman The club must adhere to the policy with his language works, nicknamed learned in the ways of pleasing men, it has Garland Stahl, Bent Axle, the other mapped out or close its game. whether you think he ought to have day, after viewing the big fellows it or not. A sick man or even a Wiggs a Contract Jumper. curved shins. Bent Axle, however, $ 4 man who thinks you are Jimmy Wiggs, the former Detroit is there when It comes to a showdown ,,5 the most wonderful woman in the pitcher, has been refused einstate-UM-nt in setfilching sack3, and he is already world is better than a healthy, sober by the national commission and ting the pace for the league in that man who never comes home or has has been a contract valuable department of diamond proclaimed j ' " ture. nothing to say when be does. jumper. i I matter-of-fac- -- - baseball-- knowledge Dy-ge- rt - i eight-manager- s be-for- e President-Carson-ha- hia-staf- sea-so- - . - The-tea- - - turned toward her with a forlorn, Its all a jest, a huge joke, hope. I suggested, feebly, but hopefully despite my rising ire. retorted Cicely, Well, hardly, drawing herself up. Then, remarked I, glacially, pride Material Carried Up. rallying to my assistance, were In with seed pearls. I will endeavor to for mutual congratulations. make my description of the rest of her Cicely gave a start, holding tremucostume Intelligible to my lady read- lously to the cloudy pink streamers flying beneath her dimpled chin. ers, that is: She wore as a principal garment a Then: Really! she exclaimed, gushbrocade, ingly, how lovely!" long jacket of If you dont believe it, I babbled beautifully embroidered about the edges, over wide trousers of black on, in a quite overdone effort to consatin with an embroidered blue band vince, read that. I produced a at the hem. Her jacket was fastened sheet of note paper from with buttons of carved pink coral my inside pocket and thrust it into that' would have made an American her little gloved paw. I watched her girl jump out of her shoes to possess. excitedly as she scanned the endearHer headdress was the usual black ing contents. In a moment she resatin cap worn by Chinese married turned it to me with a disdainful little women of every class, Marie Stuart in gesture. she sniffed, contemptushape, without a crown, just a band, Maudlin, curving to fit the head, her beautiful ously, mere drivel. Angel and your hair neatly coiled round and round. devoted slave. Ugh! A ripple of This cap is generally ornamented with silent scorn flitted over her face. Her jade and pearls. Our hostess had the poise was enviable, to say the least; usual ornaments, but beautifully though her lips were not so red as becarved and set with whole pearls. Be- fore. side these there was pinned in front a Spleen getting the rein of me at this diamond sunburst much bigger than I skimmed a couple of miles juncture, the ladys little fist, and atop of the in twice as many minutes. rising sun an enormous emerald Suddenly I felt the clutch of terrilarger than a nickel, surrounded by fied fingers on my biceps. You are diamonds. Her earrings were dia- mad! she cried, white as death. mond solitaries as big as marrowfat At the next turn I slotved down a peas, with long pendants of jade. Her trifle, allowing momentary breathing cirwith were covered hands rings cles of pearls and diamonds. In short, space. By the way, began Cicely, calm rethe lady was what one might call an stored, you seem quite confident that Oriental flashlight. She regarded Her married daughter and little she will accept you. me, for all her demureness, with un11 were in both old years daughter concealed triumph In her flashing pink brocade, with gorgeous pearl eyes. ornaments and earrings. Can you doubt my assurance after Her niece was In white brocade, those lines? I asked her, inreading with ornaments of diamonds and jade. differently. is one of the few Her brother-in-laScarcely. But you haven't told me millionaires in China, and made his yet who she who the lucky girl is? fortune in flour. Her brother, a very she queried with elaborate unconmuch Europeanized Chinaman, being cern. a graduate of Oxford, had just re1 winced under the dainty Inflection turned from England, where he had of but retorted, sententlously: satire, been since a child. He was truly The girl I love. British clothes, accent, and all; even Oh! She smiled; her brows went his cue cut off. He carried on a condelicate black arcs. into up U3 our and versation between hostess, Another horrible silence held us In interpreting for the trio. Then, the idiot in me rushing to grip. The table was beautifully decorated. I pleaded: utterance, Dearest, dont a were of center Instead piece, there him! My voice was flimsy, marry two dozen or more small silver vases (I presume), for scattered over the table, filled with my eyes ridiculous me to a most incisive treated Cicely flowers. The service was certainly all that could be desired, a Ohlnese serv- stare. You are beside yourself, she deant in blue linen gown standing befrigidly, giving her attention livered, hind every chair. to the whirling landscape. was modified The dinner Chinese, On we sped like fury, one, two and very good; with very few excepmiles. I was beside myself. three were most tions the dishes palatable to western taste, and several, such as Cicely sat very still, her lips comroast beef and fruit salad, were dis- pressed and colorless, her loosened hair blowing in a cloud of tangled gdld tinctly European. You don't white face. It was a novel and interesting af- aeross her kill yourself and and me, to want fair and the glimpse at Chinese family do you? I heard indistinctly, above life, an opportunity much appreciated the noise of the machine and the by us. shriek of the wind in our ears. I a bettikg BUSH-LEAGU- of Fish. Eyes of Deep-SeFew people know that when deep-sefish are taken from the water thei eyes pop from their heads, said E. B. Wynn of Mobile. This is due to being relieved cf the tremendous water pressure and coming in contact with air. On the gulf coast, where thousands of fish are caught daily, one can see hundreds and hundreds of deep-wate- r fish with eyes hanging from their sockets." to stop IS THE CENTRAL PICKING NEW MEN temples. I tried to get at her eyes; but only two glistening rows of jetty fringe across the pink line of her cheeks greeted my agonized glance. Suddenly she laughed and tossed her head, shaking down a whole cataract plum-colore- outsort MACK FORTUNATE Life isnt worth living, I hurled back, brutally, and shot erbssways of a curve. After a breathless minute I turned and looked Into Cicelys eyes. They were wide, brave, but miserable. Compunction seized me. Im a contemptible brute, I apolIve ogized, bursting with contrition. 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