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Show Braved Death for Small Sum. A meek heathen "Chink" routed a gang of robbers at Brooklyn, N. Y., recently. Jow Chang, the hero, is a placid "washee-washee" type of Oriental Orien-tal without much fight n him, but when two holdup men went after his cash register in his Brooklyn chop suey restaurant early in the morning the spirit of his honorable ancestors called him valiantly to battle. When the robbers ordered him to hold up his hands, Chong obeyed with a whimper whim-per of fear, but as one of the men started for the cash register Chang's meekness vanished. With a squeal of rage he seized a carving knife and leaped to the defence of his exchequer. Slashing right and left Jow had one of the men on the floor bleeding like a slaughtered pig. The other, badly cut, ran into the street, but seeing a policeman coming, raised his revolver revol-ver to his temple and shot himself. He may die. Jow was badly bruised in the fight, but the policeman found him tenderly counting the money in the cash register. It was all there tl.37. |