The East Huron Gazette, 1893-03-09, Page 7A Remarkable OrientaI Experience.
A THRILLING STORY OF CHINESE TREACHERY.
by the guide's name had been dis-
CHAPTER VL covered was, in the end, simplicity
Tientsin, 1st July.—I arrived here yester- itself. The guide having made inquiries
day and am now the west of Mr. Bpnsel, a , throughout Tientsin regarding his master
German gentleman, to whom Mr. James aubse quest to his disappearance, it was thus
Dicey furnished me with a letter of intro- clearly recollected by certain of his friends
duction. He is a gentleman with whom, that he had done so, and from this,'so soon
from the first moment of meeting, I felt as those now inquiring upon the matter
friendly ; and having the assurance of my came upon these men, it was at once and
Shanghai friends that f could trust Bial to easily established as a fact that the man for; Chinese call by the name Chin-chin-wa.
the uttermost, it was not long ere he was whose return to Tientsin I now wait was the He is a tall man, dressed in the clothing
in possession of all that. I, myself, knew re- guide of William Norris. f of his adopted laud ; and what was strange
garding the quest upon which I am bent. l y what means the two became separated j est to me, he bore himself like a king
Mr. Bonsel's advice to one is sound and a year ago 1 can not as yet tell. Mr. Bonsel . amongst the crowd thatcrushed round when
good, and I have declared to follow his has suggested several ways in which it was i he landed, as though seeminely conscious
that his English blood gave him a higher
right than was that of his adopted fellows ;
and ;,his after, I believe, some seventeen
years of solitude in Formosa, which do not
seen in any way to have impaired his
knowledge as to how to treat his fellows.
Very seldom have I seen a crowd so
excited. The arrival of this extraordinary
man, and, as it were, the glory of his bear-
ing, seemed to influence one and all. I
myself caught the fever; and a feeling
came over me that if ever I looked upon a
man who was a king by nature's right I
looked upon him now.
Will you leave the matter in my hands,
to do as I judge best ? 1 have consulted
James upon the subject ; and had it not
been for your express desire that we should
do nothing until hearing from you, I
should have already approached this An-
glo•Chinee. I should like to sound him to
ascertain if he can and will really be of any
use to you ; we can trust him, I am certain.
If you doubt this, remember that he has
suffered penal servitude at the hands of his
countrymen, and consider whether it is not
more than likely that the old English blood
rose to the top during those years. Though
he is a Chinamen still to all appearances,
we can not see his heart.
In what capacity I shall put the matter
before hien, as I propose to do with your
permission, I am very doubtful. If he did
in the end prove useful, could you offer a
reward ? I do not know but that he may
be a poor man unless the Government have
taken him up.
Now•if, as you have conjectured, Norris
-
is confined in the palace grounds in Pe-
kin, this seems to me the truest and in-
deed the only means to ascertain the
truth. Let me, as your ambassador, ap-
proach this man Chin-chin-wa, and you may
rely I shall do my utmost to get him to
agree with my views ; and if he does So—
well, I feel that you will have a powerful
ally.
Believe me to be, yours faithfully,
FREDERICK DICEY.
way to the Northern Court, in all proba-
bility to report himself and have his free-
dom ratified. Whether this comes any-
where near the truth or not, however, I can
not say. I hasten to write to you at once, in
order to catch the steamer, which will take
my letter in a few hours' time from now, to
ask you if you have any objection to my see-
ing this man, with a view to inquiring if he
will endeavor to assist you as far as lies in
his rower when he reaches Pekin (if he
ultim' tely intends going to the capital), for
I feel confident that if there is one roan in
the whole world who can be of use to you
it is this man, whom, from mere seeing, I
have taken a liking to, and whom the
suggestions that I should make further in- 1 osaible for him to have missed his guide,
gniries in Tientsin before I proceed to land all are more or less pfobnhle ; but the
Pekin. ' truth we can only ascertain when the guide
He remembers, he says, having heard himself returns, and how far this guide will
something, some eight- or nine months ago, be useful to me is questionable.
of the strange disappearance of an English- I Will the irritation of the delay he now
man in Pekin ; but he can have made no I causes me by his absence be recompensed
friends in Tientsin, for no one knew even by the information he has to give me ? It
is extremely doubtful to my mind, for the
man has himself long ago given up the
search, and the story he has to tell must
bear but indirectly upon the imprisonment
of William Norris.
I have written to acquaint my Shanghai
friends of the annoying delay, which I yet
feel it a necessity to bear, and I have asked
them to write me, on the chance of the let-
ter still reaching me here before I leave, to
inform me whether either of them is ac-
quainted with my host's Chinese friend in
Pekin, Shan-min-yuen, and, if so, to what
hie name, and the story appeared to have
been of Chinese origin, and therefore was
treated :is s.fable by the little colony.
Mr. Bonsel has accordingly set inquiries
en foot to discover, in the first place, with
whom this story had origin, and his Chinese
boy, who seems a reliable fellow, has in-
stituted a system of search amongst his fel-
lows which I have hopes may he productive
of some information within the next
few days, though in the mean time
my patience is sorely tried for I long
to proceed to Pekin, to be on the
spot, to be near this man, though I may
fail at first to find him; for (if he be still extent I may rely upon him, taking into
alive) I can conjecture to myself the terrible account the fact that I shall naturally be
nature of the prolonged suffering he must somewhat reticent with a Chinese.
have endured in a solitary and apparently I think it extremely probable that, al
endless captivity, and my very presence, as thoughneither of the Diceys may have
seeking him, must surely, ay some hidden met this man, they may at some time
means, communicate with him and give have heard of him ; and as my host must
him hope. be in a sense prejudiced regarding his
Every step which I take, bringing me friend, I should like an outside opinion,
nearer tomy destination, seems to call to however vague, upon the man whose
life within me renewed desire for haste in a guest I now understand I am likely to be-
waythat I cannot explain. come when I arrive in Pekin. If I am his
Tientsin is auiet town,and the settle• guest, and if, as I understand, he is well ac -
meat I ant inclined to lik, whilst all who quainted with the English language,it will be
live here are upon that footing of friendship an extremely awkward and difficult matter,
which immediately arises from a tempor- indeed, to keep my own counsel as to the
ary exile in a sinall remote town. the true reason of my journey ; and I should
But it is too quiet for me in my present prefer, unless, I can learn that this China -
state of disturbed nervous excitement. man differs greatly from such of his race as
Were danger before me, 1 should be cool I have so far observed—and this is, indeed,
and calm. It is the looking forward to a very narrow circle—to abstain from ac -
what may come that is the trying point. ceptance of either his aid or hospitality.
I have been to -day in the native city la classes As y yet
the have
seen Chinese,soI higher of the er
city so vast as to change my opinion entirely beingsoprejudicedChin against t at I mayhemes a nation
ot Tientsin. I had fancieddmit it a small place: but, otitstanding all that I may say to
I found myself indeed mistaken.
It has been with considerable trouble' myself on this score, it must, I fear, remain
that I have procured an equipage of any an impossible thing for me to conquer my
kind. What I have ultimately procured is natural dislike for the race.
a dilapidated jinricksha, from which I have Bonsel has, in -his own mind, quite fixed
frequently to dismount, owing to the state the matter. What is to be done without
of the roads, down which, wherever there Chinese aid? Go to the Legislation ? Of what
is a slope, a stream of water appears to be use in a city like Pekin. Well, perhaps he
occasionally in the habit of coursing,— is right. Possibly it may require the au -
though all is now as dry as in the desert. thority of a Chinese dignitary to unlock the
Many of the streets and roads are some- gates of William Norris's prison.
what of the nature of dry rivulet beds filled I am not quite sure, only I should prefer,
by the summer dust, and along these pro- in such ease, to use this man as my tool, he
gression is by no means of the most pleasant obeying my directions, not I his ; and if I
order. am his guest, I scarcely see that the right of
Mr. Bonsel made a further suggestion to hospitality would admit of my treating him
me, namely,that in order to lose no tithe, he thus, even granting the possibility of my
should write to a friend of his -in Pekin, a intellect's being severely sharp enough to
Chinaman of,I believe,high rank,who was at battle with his.
one time closely connected in some business True, the circumstances are exceptional ;
or trade with my German friend. His pro- but there is mach to be considered at every
posal was that he should write to this man move from this time forth.
to set on foot an inquiry in Pekin, in order Tientsin, 5th July. —I was somewhat
that no time should be lost when I reach surprised to receive a letter to -day from
that city, and so that 1 should already find Frederick Dicey ; and as this letter seems
matters in train upon my arrival there. to me likely, in no inconsiderable degree, to
This man, he tells me, is likely to be of .influence my future actions, I have decided
the greatest possible assistance to me, and to copy it into my diary intact as follows :
if anything is to be done it will be done, so MY DEAR SIR :
mil host says, through his Chinese friend. Since you left Shanghai, my brother and
Strange as it may seem, I am unwilling I have object req e t litthought
tof f North d You
ur
to agree in this sentiment. It may be thatig
I feel that I am working, or intend to work, would be almost amused if you knew how
against the Chinese race as a whole, regard- we have talked over the matter (our interest
ung one and all as enemy; or it may be that 1 is so great in your doings) until itis almost
have a certain dislike to trust in a man whom threadbare. But I am not writing to you
1 have -nett yet seen, and who, be it remem- now to tell you of this alone, but to put
tiered, belongs to a race for which I have before you something which I think it pos-
already conceived a deep hatred ;' or. again Bible may alter your plans in some degree ;
that I consider in some way that the matter and as my brother James is of the same
must be prosecuted by myself, and not by opinion as myself, I shall write you 'Fury
those to whom my instructions may be fully upon the subject.
conveyed. The second day from that on which you
I have succeeded, not without difficulty, left Bund t Sahanghai,
ai, I happenedpto mpas along
in convincing my host that it is best that found, to all mseidday, anhad
the nativeu pop -
abeyance,
thise
hshould the meane time remain int ulation of Shanghai had congregated in one.
hbeyane, and whilst agreeing with him that place, lining the frontage to the river, and
hisin friendimay, whaI rof h the utmokinst
and here and there impeding the traffic . upon
obtain his tpeome,
al aid, fobof him that oras- the Band. I could not make it out. The
einstance present me, I have informed o for only conclusion as explaining the crowd
the tamewheremy search must be confined heart which 1 could come to was that some very
Tientsin, I trust with all my a in the Government was eisona
something may arise from what is being high p g
done amongst the Chinese. If William Nor- about to arrive.
ris had a guide, as seems but probable, this Of course you know a Chinese crop i .is
guide is sorely to be found ; and if he had like every other crowd, it simply grows
no guide, then surely his boatmen, or his upon itself ; and I have little doubt that,
carters, or some others who accompanied in the present case, only one-tenth of the
him from Tientsin to Pekin, may now be in crowd knew why and wherefore of the ex -
Tientsin. citement.
I can not think that he has been kidnap- A number of my friends, whom I shortly
ped, as it were, by the men with whom he met, appeared as ignorant of the cause of
set out for the capital ; for then no one had the disturbance as I was, but somewhat
ever heard of him, and as it is there has fortunately, perhaps, I came across Jen -
been a whisper of his disappearance, and kin's boy, and got something out of him as
this whisper has had origin with some of - to what it all meant. I am afraid I tire
the Chinese. you by a very Iong rigmarole, but you must
And yet,' strangely enough, this boy of excuse my doing so. I am coming to the
my German host has been engaged for some point very soon, and think it better to err
hours in search, and as yet there is no on the side of fullness, rather than the
result. I am too impatient I should recol- - opposite•
sect that I may have to remain for days in It seems that they were expecting the
Tientsin without coming any nearer to the arrival , of a steamship from Hong Kong,
point at issue than I now am. bearing, amongst other passengers, a man
Tientsin, July3d.—The search has result- : who has, so I was informed, just been re-
ed in something tangible at length. A trace leased from exile ; and the event is so ex -
of W _:firm Norris has been found—a trace traorhave rorty a one (that this man should
have
which, I hope, may lead to something more, been pardoned), ; that- the news has
now that we have got so far in the matter' spread in some way, and. this ; was the rea-
Mr. Bonsel's boy has, by some means, sur- Bononfthey's boy could only give mea poor
ceeded in discovering -the man who acted idea of the =matter ; bat I. - investigated
as guide to say,Wibe Nottris- a year ago; further at -a later hour, and was myself im_
that is to be has discovered' his; p,elied by curiosity to join the crowd, when
flame, for the : guide is at present away I succeeded in catching . a glimpse of this
elsefrom Tientsin ; possibly at Pekin, possibly extraordinary man. I called him extraord-
that he
ere, no ` one knows. - It is believed inary, not only from the fact that I was
for the has gone with kingentlenien. bound somewhat impressed by - his appearance,
for the Legation in Pekin, but upon -this -but also that, from what I have 'gathered,
Boint some dou#ithas bean expressed and ,his ease is.indeerlasingular:one and almost
-an any ease, even supposing that I was as-
; beyond credence. • '
muted that such was= -the ease,,it would be
T 1 ok at him one twonld at ance ud e
but:- as it_.we �_ eking af€tr the-namoeedle o o j � g
the ha to follow him vaguely in,• blies to lie Chinese; but- (arid this is w• here
hl - yIr tele curious •part comes in):he •is not a- China-:
the hope o€ dseo_ver'mg him now. man, but of English birth, and :'merely a
To -e certainty, were I do so, we should naturalized CEinese.
pass each other on the -road; for I -tinder- I=, indeed, but little of his story.
d there are many ways of trausit� be - He mine. o Ohina: as el� bo, , °was adopted i
e `tal and its: rt ,d -it i b hinama n .- Can n
t{�¢e$gth...capi _ , Ro _� . is not .soit•e strange -way ya.0 m Canton,
to ,
at all, a likely thing 'that tinand= I should : and from that Bonet to . rise "in his
meet.upon the road. s adopted and,.till-at length the ; oyernment
*MUM' f I reached Pekin: he -ight_love: of Pekin scovered iris'_ in and, banished
re urlted Tientsin' ; and as it has laniv' be- ; liar #or ever to the {land° of `Verniers = and
aome= rmttero_e tmost nportance that 1
iihoiri. -
` . ilia" 1 -am now tied down
� 1��.
toremainainTientsinf`or so fares;1can eery,
aikwaiuwited period of toile
Ir
ingioate that thea meat?. , where
-
I trust this may still be in time to catch
you ab Tientsin.
To,
Herbert Vanscombe, Esq.,
cat L. Bonsel, Esq.,
Tientsin.
Per S.S. "VicroRra."
My firstfeeling upon concluding the perusal
of this letter was that Frederick Dicey had
taken the whole affair too much to heart,
and, whilst pondering ,continuously upon
my object in coming to China he had,
very naturally, so I thought, become in-
flamed with the desire to assist me as far as
possible ; and hence, upon the arrival of
this Chinaman in Shanghai, be had, by
some mental process, connected this man's
life with my own ! and therefore_written me
as he had done.
Then I began to think over the matter.
It was evident from the concluding para-
graph of the letter- before me, where he
said, " This seems to me the truest and in-
deed the only means to ascertain the truth,"
that neither of the brothers could know.
t'iat my host was in any way likely to in-
troduce me to his Chinese friend in Pekin.
Therefore, in alt probability they could give
me little or no information about him ; and
so my letter crossing that which I had now
received, was practically of no use. -
To go to Shan-nim-yuen, as Bonsel urges
me to do, becomes, the more distasteful to
me the more I think upon the subject ; so
in the end I came gradually. to think that
possibly this strange man, this exile, who is
an Englishman born, so it seems, may be of
use to me.
I have accordingly written to a rederi,k
Dicey that he should, as he proposes, see
this man ; and if from a personal interview
5 he judges that Chin-chin-wa may be of ser-
vice, then I leave the matter in his hands
to do as he may think best.
At the same time I cannot but feel that
the man he talks to will not be by any
means of a philanthropical character, and
remuneration from me may have no influence
upon him, if, as this letter which I have re-
ceived just suggests, he is maintained by
Government support. -
It comes virtually to be a question in my
own mind as to whether 'I should take
Bonsel's friend, whom he so highly speaks
of, or choose rather to trust to my Shanghai
friends for that advice and assistance which
I, as an Englishman, must sooner or later
require, mei foresee, when in Pekin.
I have taken my stand by Dicey's man, if
the fates so will it. He . is an Englishman
—not a Chinaman to the core—perhaps that
has chiefly influenced me. We shall see, in
the long run, whether:1 have 'been right or
wrong. I feel as though I had made the
testing throw :to-day—for I have come to
that point when my every act must lead to-
ward the decision which I earnestly hope
may end in life, not death, for William
N orris.
The Diceys strike me as careful men. I
feel that their action can scarcely prejudice
or endanger my success.
(TO BE - CONTINUED.)
A CONSERVATIVE VICTORY.
The Liberals Beaten in IIuddei sdeld, Which
They Won Last Time.
The - Conservatives have won a signal
victory by capturing Huddersfield, which
has gone Liberal in 1885, in 1886, and in
1892. The contest was for the seat made
vacant by the death of the late William
Sommers, Liberal. It was bitterly con-
tested, and largely on the home rule issue,
Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett having de-
dared in a speech in, behalf of the
Conservative candidate, Sir Joseph Cros-
land, that any legialative body in Ireland
would be controlled by those who 'in the
past had threatened vengeance upon Ulster
loyalists, and' had threatened to tax British
imports and establish Roman Catholicism,
Crosland- was elected by 7,068 votes
to -7,033 'for Woodhead,-LiberaL= `At the
late general eleetioSumniers, Liberal, had
7,098 votes to 6,837 for Crosland. =
'In order that they may have no -colour -
ALLTREWORLD OVER.
The extensive premises of Messrs. Cantrell
& Cochran, thewell-known mineral water
manufacturers, Nassau Place, Dublin, were
completely destroyed by fire on Saturday
night. The damage was very considerable.
British soldiers• will wear seamless socks
in future because they insure greater march-
ing efficiency. The old style of seamed socks
chafed the skin and made the soldiers foot-
sore ; the seamless socks do not. 'fenders
for the supply of 900,000 pairs, a year's
estimated requirements have been invited
by Government.
On Saturday morning (telegraphs a Rhyl
correspondent) the Rev. Thomas Mrrgan,
vicar of Dyserth, a country parish lying
some few miles from Rhyl, died at the
vicarage. The story of his, death is a sad
one. About ten days ago the rev. gentle-
man was driving into Ethyl, when, owing to
the ice -noun 1 state of the streets, the horse
slipped, and he was thrown violently to
the ground.
At Hereford on Saturday three men were
remanded on bail charged with causing the
death of Wm. Prosser, a labourer. It is
alleged that they chased deceased across
the country in a partially dressed condition
on Thursday night, and left him hanging
by his clothes to some paling. Prosser was
found dead next morning. " The outrage
was the result of a drunken freak.
A Tralee correspondent states that the
Dingle mail car was on Sunday evening set
upon about eight miles from Tralee, and
that the driver and Capt. De Moleyns,
eldest son of Lord Vestry, were struck by
stones. They jumped off and seized two of
their assailants, but were set upon by the
crowd, and had to get away as best they
could, and in the melee Captain De Moleyns
had his sword and scabbard taken from
At Bolton, on Monday, ten privates in
the 2d Volunteer Battalion of the North
Lancashire Regiment were brought before
the magistrates as a result of an important
action on the part of the regimental offi-
cers. The defendants had by non-attend-
ance at drill and inspection failed to become
efficient, and lost the regiment close upon
£20 in capitation grant. After leaving the
regiment they were traced, and were now
mulcted in 35s each and costs, or a 'week's
imprisonment.
Wm. Edwin Burns, warrant officer in
charge of Her Majesty's war cruiser Thetis,
at Chatham, was- tried by court-martial at
Sheerness cn Tuesday for being drunk and
unfit for duty on January 2nd. Prisoner
pleaded guilty. His certificates were very
satisfactory, except for a previous convic-
tion for a similar offence in 1888. The
court-martial, considering the previous con-
viction, sentenced the prisoner to be dis-
missed from the service.
The monomaniac who, in 1839, stopped
Queen Victoria while she was riding on
horseback in Hyde Park and proposed
marriage to her has recently died in Bedlam
the celebrated insane asylum in London. He
seemed to be perfectly sound on every other
subject, was well educated, and wrote very
sensible memoirs relating to insane asylums
and the reforms which might be made in
hem. He was 81 years old. -
Leading London papers state that they
are authorized to deny statements recently
circulated alleging that Mn Ruskin is in a
weak mental condition, and that he suffers
from delusions that his life is threatened.
Ruslr:in is in better health at present than
for some years past, both mentally and bod-
ily. He no longer works, but he walks
every day, and takes a great interest in
everything around him.
Two sisters named Emma and Fanny
Taylor were on the ice in Holme Fen,
Hunts, on Tuesday, when the ice broke, and
both were drowned. An inquest was held
on Wednesday, when a verdict of accidental
death was returned. The girls were aged
12 and 13 years respectively. The ice gave
way on the river Browney, at Lanchester,
near Durham, yesterday, and a girl named
Thompson, age3 nine, daughter of a rate
collector, was drowned.
The management of Messrs. Bolckow &
Vaughan's Eston Works suddenly decided
on Tuesday to restart the rail mill. The
orders in hand are sufficient to last at least
for a fortnight. The officials state that in
order to keep the Eaton establishment go-
ing they have produced more than they
needed, and were compelled to close through
lack of oilers. General satisfaction is ex-
pressed that the works have only stood two
days. -
An inquest was held on Tuesday after-
noon at Deptford, by Mr. Carttar, on the
body of Estella Lucy Clark, aged 35, of 48
Brockley Road, headmistres of Mulvin
Road Infants' Board School, Azerley.
Whilst in the attitude of prayer, by her
bed side, she had an epileptic fit, and slip-
ped with her neck across an iron bar of the
bedstead, thus causing suffocation. After
evidence had been given the jury returned
a verdict that deceased was accidentally
suffocated.
Researches among the records possessed
by the Romney Town Council have unearth-
ed a document of great interest. This is n
less than the Charter of Pardons granted by
King Henry VI. to those implicated in Jack
Cade's rebellion, which was more serious in
extent in Kent and Sussex than it was else
where. Another very interestiug document
among the records is the account of the ac-
cession to the Crown of Edward, Earl of
March, 1460.
Mr. James Lynhan, provision merchant
of Macclesfield,having a dog which showed
vicious propensities, took a doul3Pe-ba-rrell
ed gun on Tuesday evening and attempted
to destroy the animal. Be fired one barrel,
but only slightly wounded the dog, which
turned upon him and bit him. Mr. Lvnhan
i then struck the creature with the butt -end
Iof the weapon, forgetting that the second
barrell was undischarged, and in so doing
the charge was exploded and the bullet
lodged in Mr. Lynhan's stomach. He
lingered for three hours- and then expired.
The Rev. James Boston aged 56, residing
at 26 Plimpton Road, Willesden, committed
suicide on Saturday morning by shooting
himself with a revolver. A-•repor-t of fire-
arms alarmed the inmates of his house,
and upon a search being made the rev.
gentleman was found lying in a pool of blood
in the bathroom with a bullet wound in
the right temple, and the revolver lying by
his side. No cause can be assigned for the
deed.
Teetotalers in England have been making
a great fuss over the fact that Dr. Wielo-
bycki, President of a temperance society
there, recently celebrated his hundredth
birthday. 'The other side is making a
showing'of centenarians in various parts of
the country who have always, and consist-
ently 'used ,both beer and tobacco. One
Man of 105 "years; another of 103, and
• blind mea in their service, the directors of `another of 101,.who have been temperate
im thinexile he #res -now been:released ,Railway
. - . ". , _ ,
the North-Eastern Railway Com p _n Eng.; drinkers. and smokers,; are lately particular-
Lela
articular-
a skort stay in -'Hong �$ong, lies _ _ y lay, � ,
have decided that_all-their servants- holdin ized `Thie-suggestion is made that teeto-
�.;_hither r - g
w what lila intentions now responsible positions shall undergo .the. 'milers :make a fuse over such an event
e•muat�;upon his sight test Asamfnation. _ .-;
beeanse it is so unusual.
TOLD BY A TIGER SLAYER
Thinks noMore °Minns man Eaters than
a Canadian Roy of Shooting Wood-
chneifs.
For years Frank Leyburn has been known
as the tiger slayer of Amoy. There is not
a village along the coast of China, no mat-
ter how remote from the great centres of
AUSTRALIAN MOBOTONT.
vast Stretches of Grass and Gnat trees or
the Journey From Melbourne to fuss'
A correspondent of the London Ti -m's,
writing from Brisbane, says : The first im-
pression that is gained efAuea:ala+i in the
population, to which his tame has not ex- long train journey from Melbourne to Brie -
tended. With him the killing of the great brae is one of extraordinary m::uotouy. I
man eaters who infest the jungles is looked am told that this is partly due to the cit•
upon as a pastime, and he has shot them cul.stance that the railway line has been
under almost all imaginable circum• laid through a poor belt of country, and
stances. partly to the accident of passing the ieast
He arrived in Vancouver on the steamer interesting portion of the landscape. How -
Empress of Japan en route for London, and ever it comes about, the effect produced is
it was early in the forenoon that he strode of a scarcely broken tract of grass and gum
into the C. P. R. Hotel. He wrote his trees. From Melbourne to Sydney, from
name in big bold letters across the page of Sydney to the Queensland border, grass and
the register, and lost no time in plunging
into a bathtub. Later he emerged from his
seclusion, looking ruddy and muscular. He
looked more like the ordinary globe-trotter
than a slayer of tigers whose name is known
throughout the Orient. In appearance he
is tall and robust, with closely trimmed is like the last. Hundreds of miles are left
white beard and keen gray eyes. A long behind, and there is nothing to show that
loose -fitting sack coat of gray tweed was the end of the journey is any nearer.
buttoned about him, and a brown derby The river and forest scenery of Tasmania,
hat was tilted back far enough upon his with its farms and orchards, its hedgerows
head to show that he is growing slightly
bald. His feet were incased in shoes of
russet leather, and he carried in his hand a
heavy cane, which he clung to tenaciously
as he strode rapidly along.
Oh, yes," he said in a gruff tone when
asked -about his experiences as a tiger hunt-
er. " I have bagged a good many of the
beasts in my day, but there is nothing re-
markable about that, With us, don't you
know, it is merely a pastime, and we hunt
the tigers for the sport there is in it. Why
bless my soul, I can see no reason why any
one should care to hear about tiger hunting.
With us it is ordinary sport, just as deer
stalking is in America.
"After all," he continued, as he grasped
his cane more firmly and planted his feet
very wide apart," the tigers of China are
not nearly as ferocious as those of India,
but they give a good lot of trouble to the
natives at times. When one of them gets
a taste of human blood he at once becomes
ferocious, and is never satisfied with any.
other diet. They become transformed into
what are known as man eaters, and they
hunt human beings as a cat does mice.
"Take a big man eater, for instance, and
he is pretty sure to make his lair in a jungle
close to a native village, avoiding the larger
towns, and always on the alert to make a
victim of some luckless human being who
may fall in his way. it is his habit to lurk
about the outskirts of the settlement, con-
cealed in the edges of the jungle, and
await his opportunity to seize a victim.
Moonlight nights snit him best. At such
a time he is extremely vigilant. He prowls
about until he sees some belated straggler
in the streets. This is the opportunity for
which he has waited for hours, perhaps for
days. _ There is the flash of a heavy body in
the moonlight, a cry of terror, a brief strug-
gle, and the man eater is off for his lair in
the jungle, bearing the helpless body of a
human being in his massive jaws. Months
later, it may be, the bores are found in the
dense•undergrowtli. e
" When I went to China twenty years
ago I had already some experience in hunt-
ing big game, and I wanted to kill a tiger.
One day while in the counting house of our
firm at Antoy two natives came in in an ex-
cited frame of mind to tell that a man had
been carried off from a neighboring village
the -night before by a man eater. This was
just the opportunity I had been waiting for.
Taking out a heavy express rifle which I
had brought with me, I took the two natives
to act as guides and started out. On reach-
ing the village I found everything in an up-
roar. The natives who are timid, were
paralyzed with fear, and scarcely dared to
venture out of their houses unless in the
middle of the day.
" I had already learned something about
the habits of the man eater and knew just
how to go at it. Froin inquiry among the
natives I ascertained the exact location of
the hir of the tiger, and for a small com-
pensation I succeeded in securing the ser-
vices of a coolie to guide me to the place.
",-tarting late in the afternoon, we made
our way slowly through the jungle, and just
about dusk reached the spot. Now, the
night is the best time to bac a man eater,
for he is then asleep, and may be shot be-
fore he is aroused. Knowing this, I had
brought with me a bull's-eye lantern. Be-
fore night had set in fully I got everything
in readiness, and waited until it grew pitch
dark. Having in the mean time located the
exact position of the lair. I left my guide,
who by this time was almost terror stricken,
behind me, and on my hands and knees
crept through the jungle. By the cautious
use of my lantern I found the lair. Turn-
ing on -the light, I was a little startled to
discover the huge beast curled up and sound
asleep. His head was resting on his paws
and squarely facing me. As I prepared to
level my rifle at him he stirred uneasily.
Turning the light full upon him, he raised
his head, but before he was thoroughly
aroused I sent a ball from my rifle crashing
through his brain. By good fortune I had
struck him squarely between the eyes.
There was a feast of rejoicing in the village
when I returned with the skin.
gum trees stretch on every side. Day after
day the eyes open on the same uuvaried
tints of gray and green : night after night
stars shine upou the same spreading masses
of foliage grown dusky in the absence of
the sun, One acre is like another, one mile
"Just before I left China on my present
trip I struck a man eater who proved to be
a tough customer. He was an old fellow
and had a record of about twenty victims.
They sent for me and I went after him. I
had with me a double-barrelled rifle of large
calibre. I found no _ difficulty in tracing
him to his lair, but he gave me a narrow call
before I succeeded in finishing him: The
trouble was that when I found him he was
awake and ferocious, apparently from the
effects of hunger. I had shot so many that
I thought nothing of it and gave my tiger
one barrel out of my gun. Most unaccount-
ably I missed him clean, and his eyes fairly
blazed. Lashing the ground with his tail,
he sprang toward me like a flash. As he
was in the air I let go with the other barrel
and struck him in the left shoulder, the
heavy ball penetrating to his heart, He fell
at my feet, and so close was he that before
he died I could feel his hot breath upon me.
It was the most narrow escape that I ever
had.. When measured the tiger was found
to be almost twelve feet in length, and his
claws were one and three- uarter inches in
length. I bad the latter ounted and dis-
tributed them among my riends. -
" I could tell you a gr at many stories if
I had the time, but they have grown old to
me and would be of no interest to the pub-
lic," and the tiger slayer hastened away to
his dinner.
•
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Some extraordinary scenes were witness-
ed in Birmingham on Monday Morning.
The Public Works Committee had offered
work to 200 men. but long before the time
appointed for them to be set on fully 3000
applicants were waiting outside the Cor-
poration wharf. Some riotous conduct fol-
lowed. A number of Anarchists from Wal-
sall attempted uo address the mob, but they
were maltreated, and their stands and
Met attire destroyed. - - -
of sweetbrier and yellow gorse, and the
familiar English aspect of its gardens, fade
in the distance like a dream. The tropical
vegetation of the north has not yet become
a reality. Between the two the immense
extent of gum tree stretches indefinitely,
blotting out the conception of anything but
its own lightly timbered pasture. It has
not even the gloom and impressiveness
which we associate in England with the
name of forest land, for the trees are thinly
scattered, their long leaves hang 7ertically
from the branches, and sunlight filters
through with sufficient force to promote the
growth of the tussocked grass beneath. Tlie
whole would be indescribably common-
place, but that the vastness becomes at last
by its own force impressive.
Here, again, you feel, as you feel in
Africa, the immense size of the physical
problem. The areas are so wide, the dis-
tances to be got over are so great, that even
the preliminary network of civilization,
which the train you are travelling in and
the towns you have stopped at represent,
contains subjects for marvel, and the first
sensation of weariness is lost in admiration
for the patience and the energy that have,
as it were, lassoed the wilderness and
brought its resources within the limits of
the empire. In the wood clearings on either
side of the train, where the practice of
"ring -barking" to kill the trees is in ex-
tensive use, there stand patches of timber
from which the bark and leaves have drop-
ped, and of which the dead white trunks
and branches are waiting only to be felled.
Sometimes an entire hillside will be white
with such a ghostly forest. The habit is
not to fell them at the level of the ground,
but at heights varying, according to con-
venience, from 1foot -to 2 or 3 above the
root.
Grass spaces in which the stumps still re•
main form a constant feature of the land-
scape. Standing in uneven rows, or scat-
tered, as they often are, in sparse isolation
through the grass, the stumps have some-
thing of the limited irregularity of tomb-
stones. In certain lights, when the wood
grows white as marble and their shadows
lengthen over the herbage, it is almost im-
possible to escape from the comparison.
Wherever the eye turns it is met by these
forerunners of civilized occupation. At first
the effect is scarcely less monotonous than
that of the living foliage. By degrees the tinge
of melancholy which they give to the land-
scape comes to have its own significance.
These lifeless trees and sylvan graveyards
represent nothing less than the death and
burial of primeval Australia.
The occasional black man of low type,
with narrow forehead, thick lips and tufted
hair, who presents himself at wayside sta-
tions to beg, belongs to their order. He is
dying, too, with the virgin woods. The
pathos which is inseparable from the pass-
ing away of anything which has existed
hangs round them both. Both serve per-
petually to remind you that a continent is
undergoing one of the great silent crises of
history. But while they claim the homage
of a certain sympathy, the thoughts which
bo th suggest are of the future rather than
the past. The journey brings you face to
face with the situation with which young
Australia has had to deal. If you had any
doubts upon the subject before yotastarted,
you do not reach the end without the con-
viction that young Australia is infinitely
more interesting than anything which it has
had occasion to displace.
The portion of the continent which has
fallen to young Australia to develop within
the present limits of Queensland is about
three times the size of France, and is so dis-
tributed in shape that the distance from
the capital to the furthest point is not
far short of the distance between London
and Gibraltar. With existing means of com-
munication, the time which it takes to go
from one to the other is only one day less
than the time required for the journey
from London to South Africa. There is a
northern and a central as well as a southern
line of rail, but the railways all run paral-
lel to each other and at right angles at the
coast, carrying each the traffic of the inter-
ior to its own port, with distances of sever-
al hundred miles between lines. There is
no overland connection, and in order to
reach the northern part of the colony it is
necessary to take ship at Brisbane and go
up the coast by sea.
Chinese Railroa,d Officer
The Chinese officials on the railway are th_
nominally responsible parties, and they aro
Chinese officials, a term which to any one
who has lived long in China suets up nearly
all that can be said about them. The rail-
way in all its parts and stages is to them a
strange and inscrutable thing, whose mys-
teries they are slower to learn than their
uneducated fellow -countrymen, owing to
their minds being already saturated with a
kind of lore which has no points of contact
with the novelties introduced by the trouble-
some foreign devils. They detest the whole
undertaking, which does not even provide
such means of enrichment as any purely na-
tive work would do. Custom renders it de-
rogatory to them to handle any implement
heavier than a hair pencil, and what is nec-
essary to be done by officiaia is simply in-
trusted to their servants.
At the head office things are scarcely bet-
ter. The Directors are men who have been
forced into an unwelcome position, who
have no feeling- for the substantial success
of the railway, and no appreciation, of work-
manlike excellence, but who are always
ready to listen to any dilettante who can
talk superficially of velvet and varnish dad
show from illustrated advertisements in -
what ' respect the Chinese trains come
short ot some ideal Brighton express or Phil-
adelphia flier, especially when theli.,
gentleman i
foreign g ema.n h rets at the profuse mub.
rication which railway promotion . demands-
in other countries and witch is Italy cam.-
patihie with lavish cosi -
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